Closing Strait of Hormuz not so easy for Iran, say analysts

WASHINGTON, Dec 29 — Iran’s navy chief boasts that closing the Strait of Hormuz to oil traffic would be “easier than drinking a glass of water.” Hardly, US analysts say. Iran’s navy does not have the size for a sustained physical blockade of the Strait, but does have mine-laying and missile capability to wreak some havoc, analysts said. “It ...