PNN – The US Defense Intelligence Agency believes that Iran can keep the Strait of Hormuz closed for weeks.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, CNN news website, citing informed officials, wrote that Iran could keep the Strait of Hormuz closed for weeks.
According to the report, a recent internal assessment from the US Defense Intelligence Agency, which has been circulating in the Pentagon in recent weeks, has determined that Iran could potentially keep the crossing closed for anywhere from one to six months.
White House and Pentagon officials insisted that the assessment, especially the longer time frame that some see as a worst-case scenario, had not been seriously considered, CNN reported.