Iran has demonstrated both the capability and willingness to target commercial shipping passing through the strait unless conducted under rules Tehran prescribes. Does the Strait of Hormuz remain an international waterway, or does Iran acquire the ability to determine who passes through it and under what conditions? Before the war, approximately 23 million barrels of energy products per day passed through the Strait of Hormuz. Not unprecedentedWorkers lay a section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline near the Sangachal terminal near Baku, on August 11, 2003. New destination: redundancyIran's strategy ultimately depends on the assumption that the world has no practical alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.