Combat in the Persian Gulf is once again tenuously paused, but it escalated over the weekend, after last Thursday when Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces conducted a drone strike against the Ever Lovely, a container vessel that was attempting to pass through the Hormuz Strait.
The weekend’s fighting is a timely reminder. The strait (a narrow international shipping channel that 20 percent of global sea trade, including vital energy commerce, passes through) has been kept open since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1979 revolution by one thing and one thing alone: American power. There are no international law restraints to which the Iranian regime is or will agree to be bound.
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