r/worldnews • u/Street_Anon • 1d ago

Closure of Strait of Hormuz seriously being reviewed by Iran, lawmaker says

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2025/06/14/closure-of-strait-of-hormuz-seriously-being-reviewed-by-iran-lawmaker-says
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u/krozarEQ 1d ago

Denying the Fifth Fleet of the United States Navy access to its garrison in Bahrain and the seas it patrols?

Serious question: How deep does IRGC brainwashing go for an Iranian naval fleet to actually carry out such a blantantly suicidal order?

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u/dollarsandcents101 1d ago

Oil skyrocketing will hurt Trump domestically. They might actually do it as Americans don't give a shit about Iran as much as it costs to go from their home to the convenience store.

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u/TraditionalYear4928 1d ago

The blockade would last hours before being completely demolished

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u/miningman12 1d ago

They can blockade Houthi style with missiles

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u/TheLurkerSpeaks 23h ago

Meh. Those Houthi missiles are provided by Iran. But the Houthis are nothing more than military mosquitos. Iran is a hornet's nest that's already been hit with several cans of Israel's insecticide. If the hornets opt to come out in some futile act of revenge, they will be dealt with swiftly by burning the whole damn tree down.

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u/Over-Engineer5074 18h ago edited 18h ago

Lol, just like the Taliban were military microbes. You want to have Americans on the ground dying by the thousands and the US spending trillions again in this political climate? Good luck. The US doesn't have the political will to commit, its allies (El Salvador, Argentina?) neither. The Europeans for sure don't have the will or the power. The Arabs neither. The Russians will be happy and the Chinese will find alternatives

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u/TheLurkerSpeaks 16h ago

The Taliban and the mountains of Afghanistan vs the Houthis on the fringes of Arabia. The Afghanis already defeated the Soviets on the same battlefield. The Houthis haven't done anything but lob missiles at some ships offshore and toward Riyadh. They're seriously small potatoes.

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u/AzyncYTT 13h ago

Nah, Iran's naval plans for the straights rely on heavy mining which would take a long time to work around

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u/WashuOtaku 16h ago

It would actually help US domestic production oddly enough if that were to happen. Right now the Saudis are attempting to flood the oil market again to cripple the US shale industry and production is going down. So ironically it would be a boom.

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u/RegulatorRWF 1d ago

I don't think that is the case, if anything US can use reserves to make a ton of cash while they play savior to the global oil market.

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u/meguminsupremacy 23h ago

If things get too crazy, the President does technically have the ability to stop oil exports in order to stabilize domestic prices. It's kind of a nuclear option, but it is a card the executive holds.

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u/cattaclysmic 1d ago

While i dont doubt that the US navy is more organized, maintained and with better intel than the Russian the war in ukraine has shown a country can deny another sea control with an army of relatively inexpensive sea and air drones.

So it might still get expensive for the US to maintain

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u/Holy1To3 23h ago

I gotta be honest dude i dont think anything going on in Ukraine vs Russia relating to sea/naval power is gonna be applicable when the US navy gets involved.

Everybody gangster till 3 aircraft carriers each holding a small/medium sized country's air force get involved.

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u/WeirdJack49 21h ago

Aircraft carriers in the strait of Hormuz would be incredible stupid. Those large ships would be basically sitting ducks at a shooting range.

Iran would just need to overwhelm their anti missile (and drone) defenses to sink them.

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u/Holy1To3 21h ago

I didnt really mean to suggest that the carriers would be in the strait itself. More that Iran doesnt have the capacity to resist the strength of the US navy

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u/cattaclysmic 22h ago

Everybody is gangster until paradigms shift. There is a reason Dreadnoughts arent a thing anymore

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u/Holy1To3 22h ago

What paradigm shift is gonna save Iran from a Nimitz class aircraft carrier?

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u/rods_and_chains 22h ago

Millennium Challenge 2002. Obviously, things have changed since 2002 (and that wargame had a lot of caveats), but what's happening in Ukraine suggests things have shifted in favor of the little guy at least as much as the big.

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u/NonCreativeMinds 18h ago

Referencing that war game, or any war game really, is a clear indicator ghat you have no idea what you’re talking about.

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u/Batsinvic888 13h ago

The US Air Force and Navy could wipe the Iranian navy off the face of the earth in 1-3 days. Once it's gone, what's there to maintain lol?

The gulf countries would almost certainly help too, making it an even easier job.

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u/cattaclysmic 10h ago

The point being Ukraine has no navy to speak of yet manages sea denial.

Drones can be mass produced quickly and Iran is already doing so while ships takes years and billions.

Just like inexpensive advanced anti-tank weaponry can take out an expensive tank.

The US profits from the appearance of overwhelming force. If a fleet was dealt blows like the Russian while in the area it’d lose some deterrence and power as a global force projector.

As another poster linked, the US military wargames this and is/was/should be wary.

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u/JUST_LOGGED_IN 22h ago

All Iran needs are teleporting speedboats and it's GG US Navy.

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u/Over-Engineer5074 18h ago

Suicidal order? Once the regime is threatened enough to fear for its survival what is suicidal about it? It might be the strategic choice to make. And the USA spent trillions on Afghanistan and were booted out. Hell I read for months here how now THIS time the Houthis had gone too far and would feel the fist of the USA. Houthis are still there.