Iranian parliament votes to close the Strait of Hormuz

[JojoFatsani]

I can’t imagine their navy would hold up to the opposing air power for very long

[viraptor]

Strong navy is not needed. This is an extremely asymmetric problem - one explosion can take out the whole tanker. (Or at least disable it for a long and costly time) And nobody can stop all the relatively cheap attacks, regardless how much power they have.