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EUROPE HAS scarcely recovered from the effects of its last energy crisis, caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The American and Israeli assault on Iran now confronts it with a new one.

Yet the strait has become the focus of the war. Iran has imposed a de facto closure by threatening commercial ships and attacking a few of them. That has blocked roughly 15% of the world’s oil supply, ...