RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇮🇷🇺🇦 Ukraine found Iran’s own chokepoint and put a drone through it Iran has spent five months teaching the world you don’t need a navy to strangle a waterway, just enough menace to make crews refuse to sail. Hormuz, then Bab el-Mandeb. Denial at the narrow point is the whole doctrine. Then Ukraine flew a thousand kilometers to the Caspian and hit the barges feeding Russia’s Shahed lines. Moscow builds those drones under license and still needs Tehran’s shipments, because Iran handed over most of the blueprint while keeping back a few parts nobody else makes. Leverage by design, and it travels through a narrow stretch of water. Tehran’s response, that this

🇮🇷🇺🇦 Ukraine found Iran’s own chokepoint and put a drone through it

Iran has spent five months teaching the world you don’t need a navy to strangle a waterway, just enough menace to make crews refuse to sail.

Hormuz, then Bab el-Mandeb.

Denial at the narrow point is the whole doctrine.

Then Ukraine flew a thousand kilometers to the Caspian and hit the barges feeding Russia’s Shahed lines.

Moscow builds those drones under license and still needs Tehran’s shipments, because Iran handed over most of the blueprint while keeping back a few parts nobody else makes.

Leverage by design, and it travels through a narrow stretch of water.

Tehran’s response, that this cannot go unanswered, mostly advertises the trap.

Ukraine sits beyond its missiles, outside its blockades, untouchable by every method Iran spent the year perfecting.

Source: Reuters, ABC / Writer: Daniel

— @MarioNawfal Jul 28, 2026