{"id":2491,"date":"2026-03-25T20:52:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:52:04","slug":"as-iran-keeps-the-strait-of-hormuz-locked-down-its-borrowing-from-ukraines-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=2491","title":{"rendered":"As Iran keeps the Strait of Hormuz locked down, it&#8217;s borrowing from Ukraine&#8217;s playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Dubai <\/em>\u2013 After President Trump <span class=\"link\">backed off his threat<\/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\">thousands more<\/span> <span class=\"link\">U.S. forces<\/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\">Ukraine sank the flagship<\/span> of Russia&#8217;s formidable Black Sea Fleet, the missile cruiser Moskva, <span class=\"link\">using Ukrainian-made missiles<\/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 had acknowledged 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\">current conflict.<\/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 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. 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