https://hormuz.net/tags/marco-rubio/ Recent content in Marco Rubio on Hormuz.net Hugo en-us Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hormuz.net/rubio-is-right-the-strait-of-hormuz-is-irans-economic-nuclear-weapon/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hormuz.net/rubio-is-right-the-strait-of-hormuz-is-irans-economic-nuclear-weapon/ <p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently put it bluntly: the Strait of Hormuz is &ldquo;basically the equivalent of an economic nuclear weapon that Iran is trying to use against the world.&rdquo; He wasn&rsquo;t being hyperbolic. He was being precise.</p> <p>Iran has spent years bragging about its ability to choke the strait — the narrow waterway through which roughly 20 percent of the world&rsquo;s traded oil passes. Every tanker carrying Saudi, Emirati, Kuwaiti, or Iraqi crude to Asia and Europe transits those 21 miles. Iran sits on one shore. The threat is structural, permanent, and deliberate.</p>