“I’m not that familiar with the geography but if Iran holds the Straits of Hormuz, do they control a great deal of the oil flow to the rest of the world?”
At first glance, it looks like Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar are reliant on this route...maybe Iraq has a pipeline that goes some other way, but it looks like a lot of oil must go through there.
If we had a president, they’d have fired the “warning” shot into the hull amidships and said, “Oops...Sorry...Our calibrations were off...”