Iran Won't Give Up Its Leverage Over Hormuz

Threats to close the Strait of Hormuz were a decades-long Iranian bluff. Trump's war changed all that.

A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer near the Strait of Hormuz, April 11, 2026. (Photo via U.S. Central Command)

Ben Soodavar

Ben Soodavar is a lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.