Iran Closed Strait of Hormuz After Trump Joined Israel's Attack, Disrupting 20% of Global Oil
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Sep 10
Iran Closed Strait of Hormuz After Trump Joined Israel's Attack, Disrupting 20% of Global Oil
3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Sep 10
Summary
Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz after Donald Trump joined Israel in attacking Iran, triggering major disruption in global energy markets.
Gulf allies had already seen a serious risk that Tehran would retaliate by blocking the chokepoint, but the report says Trump appeared to lack a counter-strategy when Iran carried out that threat.
The closure is presented as a strategic failure of intelligence imagination—an inability to connect warnings to likely consequences—echoing the report's broader review of post-9/11 intelligence lessons.
Twenty-five years after 9/11 killed 2,977 people, the analysis argues Western agencies share information far better, yet still struggle to turn intelligence into sound strategic decisions on Iran, Iraq, Russia and China.