Iran doesn’t need a navy to choke the world’s oil lifeline — just a swarm of ‘mosquito’ boats

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ISLAMABAD — While President Trump said the US has “defeated the Iranian navy,” pointing to waves of strikes that wiped out warships, submarines and key military sites since late February, Tehran was still able to force closed the Strait of Hormuz . That’s because in the narrow, oil-choked waters of the Strait of Hormuz, the war was never really about big ships. It’s about the swarm, experts tell The Post. Iran’s so-called “mosquito fleet” — thousands of small, fast-attack boats paired with

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