That's it? That's the big idea to open the strait? Something tells me the Iranian government really won't care about their little fledgling already sanctioned airline getting even more sanctioned. They have leverage over the entire world right now and their Houthis just blew up the only other way for oil to get out of the middle east.
Bold to think that other countries will take kindly to the US claiming jurisdiction over international travel.
Like when the world freaked out when Iran messed with international shipping?
The US abusing their place within global dependency chains has to start having negative effects on the US, right?
Not like the US has precedent killing planeloads of Iranian passengers or anything like that.