Iran’s steps could include blocking the Strait of Hormuz, quitting a nuclear treaty and launching attacks on Israeli tourists
As Israel pounds Iran with air strikes targeting military facilities and its nuclear sites, officials in Tehran have proposed a variety of steps the Islamic republic could take outside launching retaliatory missile barrages.
Those proposals mirror those previously floated by Iran in confrontations with either Israel or the United States in the last few decades. They included disrupting maritime shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, potentially leaving the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and other attacks by militants.
Here’s a look at what those options could mean – both to Iran and the wider Middle East.
The Strait of Hormuz is the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, through which some 20 per cent of all oil traded globally passes.
