President Donald Trump has broken Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. Navy cleared mines from the strategic waterway and opened additional shipping routes in what American officials are calling a “watershed moment.”
The move has sharply diminished Tehran’s leverage over global energy markets while Washington simultaneously chokes off the regime’s own oil revenue.
The announcement followed a months-long U.S. operation that has fundamentally altered the balance of power over the waterway through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas shipments passed before the war began.
U.S. officials described the…
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