How Iran’s Islands Strengthen Its Maintain on the Strait of Hormuz – Foxton News

<!–>Mr. Trump threatened last week to invade Iran’s main oil export hub, Kharg Island, and “obliterate” its facilities if Iran does not allow shipping to resume through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has essentially closed it off since coming under attack by the United States and Israel a month ago.–>

<!–>U.S. officials say the president is also weighing whether to seize islands that lie in and near the strait in a bid to open the waterway, which in ordinary times carries a major portion of the world’s oil and gas.–>