It’s a hot summer day, and fisherman are unloading their catch at the docks. One proudly holds many newborn sharks caught in his traps. He tells that shark sandwiches are a local delicacy. Another rides away with two enormous fish draped across his motorcycle.
In many ways, this appears to be a typical fishing port, yet the docks are located in Bandar Abbas, an Iranian city on the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important shipping lanes and a significant focus point in the US-Israeli conflict with Iran.
This is the first time international media have been to the Iranian side of the strait since the fighting started. When the US and Israel initiated operations on February 28, the Iranian regime replied by bombing Israel and neighboring Gulf states that hosted US soldiers, transforming geography into one of its most powerful tools. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) began firing on commercial ships attempting to travel through the strait without permission, essentially closing the waterway.
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