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Three months after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to US-Israeli airstrikes, a patchwork coalition—anchored by the UK and France, and now joined by the landlocked Czech Republic offering passive radar technology—is attempting to restore freedom of navigation through the waterway that carried 20 million barrels of oil per day before the crisis. But with 1,600 ships still stranded, oil prices up 75% year-over-year, and negotiations between Washington and Tehran yielding competing claims about what has been agreed, the gap between the coalition's rhetorical ambitions and operational reality remains wide.