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Sea mines deployed via rocket allow a land-based force to deny passage through a narrow waterway without entering the lane itself, and a cleared chokepoint stays secure only as long as that launch window stays closed.
forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island after Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel were observed preparing to launch rockets carrying sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz's main shipping lane, a U.S.
The action is the first known U.S. military strike in Iran since President Trump paused a two-week military campaign in the strait in late July, and comes one week after U.S.
forces finished clearing all mines from the lane. The threat geometry of rocket-deployed mines is what makes Larak Island tactically significant.
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