Maintenance in progress

us strikes expanded to abu musa and the greater and lesser tunb islands, three iranian-held positions that sit at the entrance to the strait of hormuz, through which a large share of the world's oil moves. in parallel, iranian revolutionary guard representatives in yemen reportedly instructed houthi allies to close the bab el-mandeb strait if the us hits iran's power network. targeting and threatening two separate maritime chokepoints in the same week is structurally rare — it shifts the conflict from territory to the arteries of global trade.

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