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26 October
7:59 pm

Iran knows that it can stop the Strait of Hormuz and clog up the pipeline for oil and energy and diesel around the world, and that's an advantage they didn't even know they had before

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John Hickenlooper, at Colorado U.S. Senate General Election Debate (Colorado Sun)

7:59 pm
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Why we checked itAsserts that the current conflict revealed to Iran a strategic capability (blocking the Strait of Hormuz) it was previously unaware of — a specific geopolitical claim about Iran's strategic knowledge that is verifiable against military and geopolitical analysis
What we foundIran has explicitly and repeatedly understood its ability to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz for over 50 years; the claim that this is an advantage Iran 'didn't even know they had before' is directly contradicted by multiple independent primary and secondary sources.
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