Why did Iran’s leadership respond to Trump’s lies by closing the Strait of Hormuz?

Has the peace and cease-fire deal collapsed? Where do the origins of Iranian power lie?

Abdel Bari Atwan

The Iranian leadership’s reclosure of the Strait of Hormuz, preventing oil tankers and commercial ships from entering, and the Revolutionary Guard’s boats firing on two of them in protest of the American navy’s blockade of Iranian ports, all indicate, individually or collectively, the strength and resilience of the Iranian stance in the face of American arrogance and, at the same time, readiness to confront all the political and military repercussions of this courageous
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