A Weakened Iran Hits Back by Strangling the Vital Strait of Hormuz

The threats to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz are complicating President Trump’s calculations about how and when to end the war.An oil tanker anchored in Muscat, Oman, on Thursday. Iran has throttled traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil was passing before the war began.