Eddie Fishman
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first heard Jun 2026
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Oh, for sure.
I mean, because it's like the key...
maritime choke point.
Yes.
Although I think one of the suppositions that military planners, strategists had for many years was that for Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz, they would have to use these sea mines, right?
There's sort of the floating mines that just blow up if you hit them.
They've got thousands of them.
And the sort of the logic was, well, sea mines don't discriminate if you're a tanker carrying Saudi oil versus Iranian oil.
Right, yeah, they don't discriminate.
And so this would be just as bad for Iran as it would be for all the other countries in the Gulf because Iran also depends on the Strait of Hormuz to sell its own oil.
So everyone was like, well, maybe they wouldn't do this because it would be like economically suicidal for them.
But what they did in February and March of this year, after the U.S.
and Israel struck Iran, they didn't use sea mines.
They just used these drones and missiles that cost like $20,000, $30,000 a pop.
They struck like a dozen or so ships, not even that many.
And just for scale, before the war, you had like 150 ships going through the strait on a daily basis.
All they struck was like a dozen ships.
And that was enough then to get like the crews of these ships to be like, hell no, I'm not sailing through that strait.
And this is at a cost of less than a couple hundred thousand dollars if you add it up.
And so what they did was they completely confounded expectations.
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