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But don’t you see the pickle we’re in? Iran has no incentive now to not just launch 1000 dollar drones from pickup trucks whenever they want to keep the straight closed. Barring regime change or boots on the ground a trillion dollar military CAN’T stop that.
Long-term, they can be blockaded, including their oil exports.
This whole thing is a mess (which is why no previous admin went there). But it's a bigger mess for IR.