Gunboat diplomacy ramps up in Hormuz Strait, endangering shaky ceasefire

While the U.S., Iran and Israel person mostly halted the barrage of missile, weaponry and drone strikes that defined the archetypal period of the war, a tit-for-tat conflict is escalating astatine sea.  The U.S. subject and Iran some seized tankers successful planetary waters this week, and Tehran struck vessels successful the Strait of Hormuz. President…