Iran’s swashbucking speedboat smugglers are latest victim of sanctions squeeze

Throughout the years of western-led sanctions, daring young men piloting lightning-fast speedboats have helped to keep Iran’s economy afloat by plying the Strait of Hormuz to Oman’s Musandam peninsula and the United Arab Emirates–until now. The free-fall of the Iranian rial has hollowed out the trade, not to mention patrols by Iran’s notoriously corrupt naval-borne police.