{"id":72161,"date":"2026-03-25T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/as-iran-keeps-the-strait-of-hormuz-locked-down-its-borrowing-from-ukraines-playbook\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:00:09","slug":"as-iran-keeps-the-strait-of-hormuz-locked-down-its-borrowing-from-ukraines-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/as-iran-keeps-the-strait-of-hormuz-locked-down-its-borrowing-from-ukraines-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"As Iran keeps the Strait of Hormuz locked down, it&#8217;s borrowing from Ukraine&#8217;s playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Dubai <\/em>\u2013 After President Trump <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-says-postpone-strikes-iran-nuclear-power-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">backed off his threat<\/a><\/span> to &#8220;obliterate&#8221; Iran&#8217;s energy infrastructure if it refused to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping lane remains effectively closed to vessels not granted explicit permission by Tehran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the U.S. and its allies weigh how to get oil and other critical supplies moving through the strait again, there&#8217;s a growing question: Even with <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/2nd-marine-expeditionary-unit-2200-marines-3-warships-middle-east-as-iran-war-continues\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">thousands more<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/u-s-deploy-82nd-airborne-iran-middle-east\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">U.S. forces<\/a><\/span> heading for the region, can <em>any <\/em>military force do the job?<\/p>\n<p>The four-year war still raging in Ukraine suggests the answer may be, no.<\/p>\n<p>When Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine&#8217;s military presence on the Black Sea was dwarfed by Russia&#8217;s, but Kyiv managed to push back one of the world&#8217;s most powerful fleets.<\/p>\n<p>Using exploding sea and aerial drones and missiles launched from land, Ukrainian forces have damaged or destroyed numerous Russian ships and forced others away from key areas in the sea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In April 2022, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/moskva-ship-sink-russia-ukraine-us-intelligence\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ukraine sank the flagship<\/a><\/span> of Russia&#8217;s formidable Black Sea Fleet, the missile cruiser Moskva, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/moskva-ship-sinking-russian-flagship-neptune-missiles\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">using Ukrainian-made missiles<\/a><\/span>. Since then, Ukraine has launched a number of devastating attacks on Russian ships, often using much cheaper drones.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ukraine doesn&#8217;t really have a navy,&#8221; Yaroslav Trofimov, a Ukrainian-Italian author, Middle East expert and chief foreign-affairs correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, told CBS News. Nonetheless, he said, Ukraine has &#8220;been able to prevent the Russian Black Sea Fleet from even entering the western half of the Black Sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Ukraine&#8217;s disruption of Russian activity has not stopped at its warships. According to U.N. data, Moscow&#8217;s grain exports fell by more than half at one point as its ports on the Black Sea were effectively shut down for months.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine did not take control of the Black Sea, but it made parts of it too dangerous for Russia to use.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has said repeatedly that Iran&#8217;s navy is &#8220;gone,&#8221; destroyed in the war, but\u00a0 Iran appears to be taking a page right out of Ukraine&#8217;s playbook when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even before the current conflict, U.S. military officials <a href=\"https:\/\/oceannews.com\/featured-stories\/the-us-navy-the-hybrid-fleet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had acknowledged<\/a> what the war in the Persian Gulf has made painfully clear: In modern asymmetrical warfare, large, expensive ships can be big targets for cheap, unmanned weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Or as Trofimov put it as he spoke with CBS News in his current home in Dubai, modern naval warfare is increasingly &#8220;dominated by unmanned systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran is learning lessons of the war in Ukraine very carefully,&#8221; said Trofimov, who covered the Ukraine war extensively.<\/p>\n<p>Those systems includes small drones that can be difficult to intercept, digitally or with conventional weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t have a huge warhead,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But it&#8217;s big enough to blind a ship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In past conflicts, including the &#8220;Tanker War&#8221; of 1987-88 when Iran laid sea mines to block traffic, the U.S. Navy escorted tankers through the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>That might not work today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Physically going along with tankers is not really that useful if you&#8217;re dealing with drones,&#8221; Trofimov told CBS News. &#8220;A drone \u2026 is just a flying mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has not yet attempted to escort any ships through the Strait of Hormuz during the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/iran-war-trump-israel-tehran-mocks-us-warns-against-ground-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">current conflict.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/01\/63de1a8d-6786-4077-9a85-0a8f0c1c9994\/thumbnail\/620x620\/8a47e8ff6f7e640a2c84c162239965bf\/gettyimages-2263545776.jpg#\" alt=\"Strait of Hormuz map \" height=\"620\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/01\/63de1a8d-6786-4077-9a85-0a8f0c1c9994\/thumbnail\/620x620\/8a47e8ff6f7e640a2c84c162239965bf\/gettyimages-2263545776.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/01\/63de1a8d-6786-4077-9a85-0a8f0c1c9994\/thumbnail\/1240x1240\/c8d458efaf3ee8247ff3f284c0fa31f7\/gettyimages-2263545776.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">The Strait of Hormuz is a crucial passageway for oil shipments from Gulf states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Bedirhan Demirel\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the meantime, Iran has floated demands that would effectively give it full control over the strait \u2014 turning it into a private &#8220;toll booth&#8221; for the Islamic Republic regime, Trofimov said, something the U.S. and its Gulf allies are unlikely to accept.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Sea and the Strait of Hormuz are very different bodies of water, but the pattern is starting to look familiar: A vastly outgunned power using cheap tools and asymmetric tactics to thwart and frustrate a much better-equipped adversary \u2014 and not even needing to win outright, but just raise the risk level of any movement in the war zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The U.S. and Israel say they&#8217;ve struck more than 20,000 Iranian targets since the war began. And in narrow military terms, Iran appears to be losing. But as the strait&#8217;s closure keeps global fuel prices elevated, it&#8217;s having a ripple effect, pushing up the cost of consumer goods around the world, and Iran appears to be winning economically.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/iran-strait-of-hormuz-ukraines-black-sea\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai \u2013 After President Trump backed off his threat to &#8220;obliterate&#8221; Iran&#8217;s energy infrastructure if it refused to reopen the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1528,400],"class_list":["post-72161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-iran","tag-ukraine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>As Iran keeps the Strait of Hormuz locked down, it&#039;s borrowing from Ukraine&#039;s playbook - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Trump says Iran&amp;#039;s navy is &amp;quot;gone,&amp;quot; so how does it still have a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz? 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