The US intelligence community long ago gamed out all the risks surrounding a conflict with Iran, including the possibility Iran would close the Straits of Hormuz.
If the Trump administration and Hegseth are surprised now, it's because they've never listened to, and sidelined, the experts.
@petergleick US administration under Trump actively went against the advice of the Pentagon, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, State Department Intel and Research and National Security Agency, before this war kicked off.
Trump is effectively suiciding America for Israel and ignoring his own intelligence analysts, and he's doing that on behalf of religious extremists both in his administration and Netanyahu's.
Welcome to what future historians will call #ww3