BBC News keeps referring to shipping "crossing" ( or not) the Strait of Hormuz. But surely to cross a strait is to travel from one side to another, as from Dover to Calais? The current problem is with ships passing through the strait, not crossing from Iran to the Arab states on the other side.
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