Iran Tried to Sink a U.S. Aircraft Carrie
For years, transits through the Strait of Hormuz had followed a tense but predictable script:
surveillance, shadowing vessels, radio warnings, and the occasional fast boat probing too close for comfort.
It was a choreography of deterrence, where both sides understood the rules even as they tested the edges.
But in a single violent moment, that script was torn in half. What had begun as a “routine” passage through one of the most volatile waterways on Earth transformed into open confrontation.
