By Tom Sharpe*
All eyes watching the Iran war are still, rightly, on the Strait of Hormuz.Tehran has controlled it since March 1, only allowing a handful of chosen ships to pass via a newly laid out shipping route through Iranian territorial waters. Decades of maritime understanding have been rewritten overnight. Now the US has imposed its own blockade and will interdict, by force if necessary, the few ships that the “Tehran tollbooth” has permitted to pass.
