Does it make sense to block a strait that has already been blocked for six weeks? That seemingly contradictory question takes on a very different hue in the ever-complicated mind of U.S. President Donald Trump, who on Monday carried out the threat he had voiced just hours earlier. A new gambit that has baffled analysts and investors. The Strait of Hormuz would have — indeed, according to the Pentagon, already has — a double lock: that of Tehran, aware that it is its greatest defence against U.S. and Israeli aggression; and that of Washington, for now a strategy as vague as it is potentially destabilising. A bold move that is difficult to put into practice.

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