The US regime, by insisting and encouraging the vessels to violate the regulations and cross the mined passage, imposes huge costs on the US taxpayers and its regional allies by forcing them to pay insurance claims for the damaged vessels. Had Washington exercised even a modicum of caution, it could have avoided these heavy losses and its humiliating electoral defeat by releasing Iran's frozen funds, which amount to less than half the costs incurred so far. Attempts to break the law in the Strait of Hormuz will only bring the United States more financial losses and even greater political defeats.