Just wondering aloud, mind drifting on today's ride. Given how fanatical the Iranian Republic Guard is, what if they put a reasonably well armed IRG force on one of their "shadow fleet tankers" and sent it out of the Strait? Iran would warn off the US over the radio "do not approach our tanker or you will be fired on ..." but US would send in it's helicopter anyway ignoring the warnings and a few marines who'd abseil down probably all be dead before they got to the deck.
Trūmp can't understand ... But it worked in Venezuela ...