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The United States commands the Gulf and cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It can strike Iran daily, blockade its ports and sail warships beside the tankers, and the ships still will not go, because whether a captain sails is a judgement about danger and not about the navy at his side. Closing the
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For a month Washington told the world that no nation may charge for passage through the Strait of Hormuz. The week its war with Iran reopened, it named itself the strait's Guardian and claimed a fifth of every cargo crossing the water. The toll lasted days before Washington let it lapse, and the lap
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Iran spent this month being handed a way out of the Hormuz crisis, and it refused. The offer on the table dropped the tolls Iran wanted gone and preserved an Iranian say over its own waters, then Iran rejected it and fired missiles at the Gulf states that brokered it. The refusal reveals what the st