72 Ships Transit Hormuz Daily as US Strips Iran of Strategic Leverage

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright confirmed that roughly 72 ships carrying 20 million barrels of oil transited the Strait of Hormuz in a single day, declaring that the Trump administration has neutralised Iran's ability to close the critical waterway — even if current peace talks collapse. This erosion of Iranian leverage is prophetically significant: Scripture identifies a revived, powerful Persia (modern Iran) as a key end-times actor in the coalition that invades Israel in Ezekiel 38, yet geopolitical dominance requires the economic and military strength to project threat — strength that is now visibly diminishing. Ezekiel 38:5 names Persia among the nations that ride against Israel, but God Himself declares He will turn them back — and the stripping of Iran's greatest strategic asset may be an early fulfilment of that divine dismantling.