Bazz. Exactly! And completely agree!

We need these things gone and the material [and the current world's stockpile of nuclear waste], used in them, burned up for peaceful purpose power, in MSR thorium.
#1/To eliminate them from all our military arsenals and reduce the half-life to just 300 years!
#2/ And then produce a new material that is far less toxic and eminently suitable as long-life space batteries That stabilise in around a decade and burn up with reentry!
Cheers, Alan B.

The silly thing is that neither the US, Iran or the UN controls the
Strait of Hormuz, it is all under the control of the Insurance Companies.

Already they have a risk charge on premiums, and they can just close it
with an email.

Interesting observation, Bazz! And demonstrates beyond question why we must end forever our absolutely asinine dependence on foreign oil!

We need to accept and embrace nuclear power, because we can use this CARBON FREE power to power the nation and most if not all, our transport options, with the safest, cleanest, most affordable energy on earth, and get our ow carbon emission down by a much as 90%?

All while massively turbocharging the economy, wealth and job creation opportunities!

As for coal? Well, a fully resuscitated steel industry on steroids, thanks to the world's cheapest energy, MSR thorium, will ensure we mine as much coal as now, if not more, just that it'll be metallurgical rather than thermal.

Moreover, the energy sales that keep our economy barely afloat could be transmitted directly via undersea cables with the world's strongest material, superconductor, graphene! And in that way, remove the carbon footprint of that transfer and all of the shipping costs and much of the risks, which are not unsubstantial!

Yes, I know it'll cost billions for all of the above! And we can earn all those billions by becoming a safe repository for the world's nuclear waste stockpile! And once we have those agreements, signed sealed and ratified!? Use that material as a huge free fuel resource in MSR! And basically create an energy paradigm that's absolutely safe, virtually free and will serve us for centuries!

It's the current cost of energy that's the real roadblock on jobs and wealth creation here in Oz! Making it more affordable is the key to quite massive economic recovery and economic opportunity, the other is genuine tax reform! Which I've laid out, chapter and verse in former comment!
Alan B.

We could just harvest our own oil.

We have heaps of the stuff in central Oz, just requires fracking, & we can have all we want, without being ripped off by Asian refineries, or subject to interdiction of the tankers we depend on.

There are a lot of stages between doing nothing and total war. Punitive strikes against symbolic targets such as their navy or airforce could send an adequate message, as did the strikes against Libya initiated by Reagan in the 80s.

How much of Iran's belligerence is inherited from their old Persian
Empire memory.
After all the whole Middle East was part of the Persian Empire.