We do so many keep believing such trash. before we bombed Iran America was supposed to be the least advanced nation for drone warfare. After day one everyone saw we actually are the top.
We have known about mining the straights for decades and we are supposed to believe we stayed blind to the capacity to manage it.
Not buying it.
Ground penetrating radar.
Metal detectors
Underwater drones with mini torpedoes.
Drag the half-sunken Iran Naval ships back and forth.
Huge fishing nets dragged by trawlers.
Neodymium magnets , picks up 2500 pounds, sells for less than $10 on TEMU. Took me 30 minutes to pry mine off a steel I-beam.
There are all kinds of methods to find and remove underwater mines, IMHO.