What Life Is Like by the Strait of Hormuz Right Now
Foreign Policy · Stefanie Glinski, Mohammad Mohsenifar ·
The war has left its mark on the port city of Bandar Abbas.
The war has left its mark on the port city of Bandar Abbas.
BANDAR ABBAS, Iran—Along Iran’s main highway south, debris lies scattered across the road, while bridges and tunnels are damaged or destroyed. Half-buried in the dirt, a broken road sign points toward Bandar Abbas, Iran’s main port city and the gateway to the Strait of Hormuz.
“The war has never stopped here,” said Khaleh Zeynab, 51, a food vendor working alongside Bandar Abbas’s corniche. She gestures toward the beach and the strait. “My son Reza is out there fighting. He’s been working on a ship since the beginning of the war. I know he could be killed at any moment, and that scares me, but he’s a soldier. If he doesn’t do his job, somebody else has to. We have to defend our country.”
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