Jim Walsh

Two reasons.

One, it need only attack a ship here and a ship there to remind those who want to ship oil or other goods in the Strait that they're at risk if they do so.

They don't have to attack every ship.

They just have to attack a couple, one here and one there.

And I would say the second reason is that it offers them a way to achieve a sort of tit-for-tat response to the U.S.

seizure of the two ships done by the U.S.

ships engaged in the naval blockade.

Two reasons.

One, it need only attack a ship here and a ship there to remind those who want to ship oil or other goods in the strait that they're at risk if they do so.

They don't have to attack every ship.

They just have to attack a couple.

one here and one there.

And I would say the second reason is that it offers them a way to achieve a sort of tit-for-tat response to the U.S.

seizure of the two ships done by the U.S.

Iran can close the strait.

Yes, yes, they can.

And plus, the U.S.

can blockade Iran.

Yes, that's also true, simultaneously true.

But neither action undoes the other side's action.