Hormuz, Iran’s dangerous card

Modern war rarely begins with a single shot. It begins with signals. In the Persian Gulf, one of those signals was Iran’s recent temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Through this narrow 24-mile corridor passes roughly a quarter of the world’s oil and a third of its liquefied natural gas.

Controlling it — even for a few days — can influence markets, political decisions and military calculations.

The attack launched by the United States together with Israel now opens a scenario in which geography itself becomes a weapon once again.

Iran has already responded with missiles toward Israel, but its real leverage may lie not in the sky, but at sea.