The leverage of closing the Strait of Hormuz

"The Strait of Hormuz doesn’t belong to the US, nor to any of the tyrants and aggressive powers of the world. Rather, it belongs to the nations of this region. If our own interests are endangered, what justification is there for preserving those of the US and Western countries?"

The martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution (may God be pleased with him), in a Friday prayer sermon, 1983