Strait of Hormuz could become ‘kill box’ for US sailors if Trump sends deadly warships to battle Iranian drones to troubled waterway
The Strait of Hormuz could turn into a deadly ‘kill box’ zone for the US Navy if Donald Trump decides to send American warships into the troubled waterway.
Sending U.S. sailors into the bottleneck is likely to turn them into easy targets for devastating Iranian drone and missile attacks, according to the Navy. Wall Street Magazine reported.
At least 13 Americans have been killed in the war with Iran, which was triggered by joint U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Feb. 28 after the regime killed former Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In the following days, tensions in the Gulf region reached boiling point as Iran launched attacks against US Army and Marine bases and Israel continued to bomb Tehran.
The Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most strategically important trade routes, has now become the focal point of international conflict; because the current disruptions are causing chaos in global markets, namely oil and gas.
About 3,000 ships pass through the corridor every month, but since the start of the war with Iran many large cargo ships have been attacked and looted while passing through the Persian Gulf.
Trump, who had previously been optimistic about how he planned to reopen the gateway, called on U.S. allies to help restore the trade route to normal.
‘The USA will also coordinate with these countries to ensure that everything goes quickly, smoothly and well. “This was always supposed to be a team effort and now it will be,” he posted over the weekend.
Aerial view of the coast of Iran and the island of Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz. It is one of the world’s most strategically important trade routes and has become a focal point of international conflict.
Smoke billows from a cargo ship after a failed attempt to pass through the waterway off the coast of Dubai on March 12
Trump listed Japan, South Korea, Britain, China, France and other countries among the countries he hopes will help the United States secure the waterway.
Downing Street said Keir Starmer and Trump discussed “the importance of reopening the Strait of Hormuz to end the disruption to global shipping that is driving up costs around the world” in a phone call on Sunday evening.
Energy Minister Chris Wright said: NBC News He said he expected China to be a ‘constructive partner’ in reopening the causeway.
The Navy successfully escorted a merchant ship via a now-deleted X outpost on March 10, Wright said.
However, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that the Navy could not provide escorts to ships that wanted to pass through the Bosphorus due to the high risk.
Officials stated that they were not instructed to provide escorts and warned that the passageway could become a ‘death box’ for US warships and commercial ships.
The fight over the Bosphorus has come to the fore from time to time due to speculation about the whereabouts of Iran’s injured new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei (56), who replaced his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the assassination on February 28.
Kuwaiti media reported that Iran’s injured new religious leader Mojtaba Khamenei was taken to Moscow for emergency leg surgery.
Due to his injuries, he had to fly to Russia for an operation ‘proposed by Putin himself’
It was stated in a series of reports that some observers, including Trump, suggested that he fell into a coma and died after the airstrike.
It seems that Khamenei is unaware of both the existence of a war and that he is the new leader of the country.
Due to his injuries, he had to fly to Russia for an operation “proposed by Putin himself,” according to news outlet Al-Jarida.
The mission to sneak the new Ayatollah out of the country was intended to be top secret and involved him boarding a Russian military plane.
He later went to one of Putin’s presidential palaces, where he underwent a ‘successful’ surgery.
The report has not yet been confirmed, but Al-Jarida claims to have received this information from “a high-level source close to Iran’s new religious leader.”
It is unclear whether Mojtaba was injured in the airstrikes that resulted in the death of his 86-year-old father.
A separate source told The Sun via secret messages sent to a dissident in exile in London: ‘One or two of his legs have been amputated. His liver or stomach was also ruptured. Looks like he’s in a coma too.’
The source, who asked not to be named due to fear for his life, said the new Religious Leader is under the supervision of Mohammad Reza Zafarghandi, Iran’s Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education and one of the country’s leading trauma surgeons.
