Iran boasts 'really easy' to close Hormuz Strait
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TEHRAN: Iran would find it "really easy" to close the world's most important oil transit channel, the Strait of Hormuz at the Gulf's entrance, but would not do so right now, Iran's navy chief said yesterday. "Shutting the strait for Iran's armed forces is really easy - or as we say (in Iran) easier than drinking a glass of water," Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said in an interview with Iran's Press TV. "But today, we don't need (to shut) the strait...
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