Pressure on Iran is escalating, with the Strait at the heart of the confrontation.

Pressure on Iran is escalating, with the Strait at the heart of the confrontation. The U.S. economic pressure campaign on Iran has entered a more intense phase, with avenues for circumventing sanctions tightening and Tehran's ability to export oil and convert revenues into liquidity diminishing, amid varying assessments of Washington's goals between extracting political concessions and potentially leading to internal changes that could result in regime change.