Here in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s mosquito fleet renders Trump blockade futile

You can hear them before you see them, a distant sputter of engines carrying across the seemingly empty waters of the Strait of Hormuz.
Then, out of the haze, they appear. Speedboats – dozens at first, then hundreds – bouncing over the swell, each carrying no more than two or three men, their faces wrapped in scarves against the spray.
For the next two hours, they stream past at a relentless pace, churning across the narrowest stretch of the strait where our boat bobs on the waves.
The constant traffic offe