The scary part is opening the strait doesn't mean the danger is actually gone. We still have to worry about undetected mines and iran just laying more down again soon.
The U.S. Central Command released a fresh operational update from Admiral Brad Cooper confirming that forces have cleared an international shipping lane of mines and declared the Strait of Hormuz open for transit. Cooper noted that over recent months, U.S. forces assisted nearly 1,500 vessels moving through the strait while those ships carried nearly 750 million barrels of crude oil destined for g