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In this bonus deep-dive episode of Epic Fury: The US-Iran War Podcast, we explain everything you need to know about the Strait of Hormuz and why it sits at the very centre of the US-Iran conflict of 2026.

Twenty percent of the world's oil passes through a channel just twenty-one miles wide. Since Operation Epic Fury began on February 28, 2026, commercial shipping through the strait has effectively collapsed. Oil prices have surged above eighty-five dollars a barrel. Six of the world's largest shipping companies have suspended transits. Lloyd's of London has declared the Persian Gulf a war risk zone. And Iran is using the threat of closure as its most powerful remaining weapon against the United States and the global economy.

In this episode we cover: why the Strait of Hormuz is the single most important energy choke point on earth, how Iran has spent forty years building its military strategy around controlling it, what the IRGC Navy's asymmetric warfare doctrine actually means in practice, which countries are most exposed to a prolonged closure, why the pipeline alternatives fall dangerously short, what the Tanker War of the 1980s tells us about the current crisis, and why the strait will be central to any deal that eventually ends this war.

If you want to understand what is really at stake in the Iran war beyond the daily strike counts, this is the episode to listen to.

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