How Iran Is Holding the Strait of Hormuz Hostage
The Wall Street Journal·2026-03-17 13:43
Iran has spent years developing weapons that could threaten the entire global economy. And now that the country is at war, it has started to use them. The conflict has all but frozen commercial shipping.And at the heart of the crisis is a narrow waterway that Iran is holding hostage. The straight of Hormuz is the choke point leading into and out of the Persian Gulf and it's bordered by Iran's coastline. And as the world is seeing, they are exercising sheer desperation in the straits of Harmuz.>> Even though ...