Iran Restores Access to 30 of 33 Hormuz Missile Sites as Stalemate Threatens US Warships
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Updated · Fox News · May 13
Iran Restores Access to 30 of 33 Hormuz Missile Sites as Stalemate Threatens US Warships
8 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 13
U.S. intelligence officials say Iran has restored operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, reviving a direct threat to American warships and oil tankers in the narrow waterway.
The move hardens a months-long standoff in which Iran keeps its grip on Hormuz while the Trump administration tightens an embargo on Iranian ports and vessels, leaving both sides locked in dueling blockades.
Trump called Tehran’s latest counterproposal "garbage" and said the ceasefire is on "life support," while Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf warned its forces are ready to answer any aggression.
Hormuz carries about one-fifth of global oil traffic, and Trump says Iran is charging "friendly" ships 100% to pass while blocking others, helping keep energy prices elevated.
The confrontation is also growing costlier and wider: a Pentagon official put the Iran war’s price at about $29 billion, even as the diplomatic deadlock spills into U.S. ties with China.
If experts say Iran is not weeks from a bomb, what is the unstated goal of the costly US intervention?
With US missile stockpiles critically low, how has the strategic balance in the Indo-Pacific now shifted?
In this 'gray zone' between war and peace, who is truly winning the economic and strategic endurance test?