Protecting the Strait of Hormuz: Iran’s Primary Sea Mines Facility Hit by Israeli Air Strike

The campaign to prevent Iran closing the critical Strait of Hormuz sea lane continues with an air raid on the country’s “primary” sea mine facility at Yazd, Israel has said.

An Israel Defence Force (IDF) statement says the country struck Iran’s “primary facility for the productions of missiles and sea mines” at Yazd overnight.

Per the Israeli intelligence assessment the purpose of the facility was twofold. On one hand it was a factory where mines were researched and built, where “most of the missiles and naval mines are developed by the Iranian navy forces”. On the other, it was also used for storage of missiles and mines.

Ending Iran’s ability to hold the world economy to ransom through its ability to close the Strait, and choke off a considerable fraction of the earth’s daily crude oil consumption, is evidently a critical goal for the present conflict. To that end, degrading