Inside the U.S.–Israel–Saudi Plan to Cut Iran Out of Global Oil

Whatever officially occurs next in the on-again/off-again negotiations towards a peace deal between the U. S.

and Iran, unofficially Tehran knows that it has established de facto control over both the world’s two key maritime energy transit routes -- the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait -- for at least as long as the Islamic regime remains in place in Iran.