Subject: Re: About Iran’s Navy “At the Bottom of the Sea”
Okay, so a couple of guys with their Mercury outboards, then.

Hey, if that's all you need to get the job done, then that's all you need. That's part of why, despite the decades of war planning, no one figured out how to "solve" the Strait of Hormuz problem. It doesn't take much to close it to civilian transport, and because it takes very little to close it there's no practical way to defend against that.

Except...keep the blockade going until Iran is using every last 50-gallon drum and tupperware container they have to store the oil they're not shipping anywhere.

Yep. And keep it going even after that, if the regime decides to push past that point. Their strategy is that they can endure the pain for far longer than the U.S. and its allies can. Given how much U.S. voters love paying high gas prices (up to $4.18 today, probably much higher on Memorial Day if things don't break), I'm not sure that's a bad strategy for them.