Three ways to improve security along the Middle East’s risky energy routes (Robin Mills, Brookings)

“If the Americans and their regional allies want to pass through the Strait of Hormuz and threaten us, we will not allow any entry,” said deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami, last Wednesday. Iran has a long history of making threats against this critical waterway, through which some 17 million barrels of oil exports pass daily, though it has not carried them out. But multiple regional security threats highlight threats to energy transitfrom and through the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)—and demand new thinking about solutions.

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