Strait Of Hormuz Is A Ground Reality Not Hollywood, Strategies Needs To Be Realigned.

Tehran; April 2026: Zohreh Kharazmi, associate professor at the University of Tehran, says Iranian forces will fight back against any US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. “This is not the first time”, she said, pointing to 1953, when the UK responded to the nationalisation of Iranian oil by Mohammed Mossadegh, Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister, similarly. He was subsequently overthrown in a CIA and MI6-backed coup. “This kind of imperial show of power, trying to dictate to others, is something very familiar to Iranians”, Kharazmi said.

Iran’s control over the strait, she added, carried a deeper significance. Similar to Egypt’s decision to nationalise the Suez Canal in 1956 to break the UK and France’s control over the waterway, Iran’s assertion of control over Hormuz “gives a sense of honour that Iran has made a sovereign decision over its own territorial waters”, she said. Kharazmi noted that Iranians have fought against the US military in the air and on the ground. “The naval dimension is no exception”, she said, adding that reaching naval vessels may be easier than targeting an F-35. Kharazmi also raised the possibility of Chinese intervention, saying Beijing “may choose to escort its ships”, which “would put the United States and China in direct confrontation”. Iran has also threatened to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen.

“If this blockade becomes a contest between the resilience of the Islamic Republic and the resilience of global markets, it will not take long to see who is losing”, she said. “Technically, they cannot control the situation. With Hollywood-style strategies, they cannot prevail in this battleground”.

On the otherside, Democratic Senator Patty Murray have said that Trump’s ‘costly foreign war’ driving inflation that he had promised to reverse. In a post on X, Murray said one of the major factors causing “surging” inflation in the US is “Trump starting a costly foreign war that no one asked for. He promised to lower inflation, to lower prices; he not only broke those promises, he’s actively doing the OPPOSITE” wrote Murray. She has further lambasted at the Donald Trump’s regime:

Iranians in the capital Tehran say they are demoralised after marathon peace talks in Islamabad ended with no deal with the US.

“I was really hoping they would make an agreement and reach a conclusion. It’s been almost 45 days now since the war started, and I can see the stress in people, the bad situation they are in”, 30 years old Mahsa said. While adding further, that on the night Trump threatened to attack Iranian infrastructure, she stayed awake until 03:00 hours. “Really, no one slept that night. This is not a good situation for the country. This is not what our country deserves”, she said.

Nahid, a 60 years old in the Iranian capital, said she feels “nothing but despair and hopeless” after the failed talks. “I would like a way for the people of Iran to be happy, anything that makes the people of Iran happy. I don’t like this feeling of uncertainty”.

Suvro Sanyal – Team Maverick.