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Iran is perfectly willing to swear off trying to restart their nuclear weapons programs, and always has been. They've insisted all the time that they're only pursuing energy programs. What they're not willing to do is abandon all enrichment.
And they've been lying this entire time.
There are mines in part of the strait - not all of it.
That's the thing with mines. You have to find them as they tend to move around somewhat. The Navy is going to clear a navigation channel wide enough for ships to pass through.
The civilian traffic won't enter the strait if there's drones or missiles no matter what, because they won't be able to afford the insurance.
And yet, some are going through anyway. The US government is quietly insuring the tankers, btw.
Not really. I was talking about civilian tanker and cargo traffic, not the Navy. The Navy wants mines cleared so it can traverse the strait while hugging the Oman coast, to reduce the risk from shoreline attacks from Iran. Civilian tankers and cargo ships don't care - they're not getting insurance to go in no matter where within the strait they travel.
The Navy isn't clearing the strait just for their own travel. No - they're clearing it for tanker and commercial movement.
