How will they close it? I confess ignorance concerning the tactics used in the Straits of Hormuz and how that is retaliation against Israel.
There are a variety of ways Iran could block the Straits of Hormuz:
— Sinking ships in the narrow in and outs of Hormuz.
— Submarines
— Missiles
— Mines/minefields
— Etc.
Just early this year, I did an in-depth paper for an academic conference on international terrorism in the Horn of Africa region and postulated that the Straits of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb could be blocked by terrorists, extremist militants, pirates by sinking inbound or outbound shipping traffic via simply sinking 1-2 supertankers or VLCC (very large crude carriers). Hence why the Straits of Hormuz, as with Bab-el-Mandeb, are listed or known as ‘chokepoints’.