Can Iran’s ‘Asian Friends’ Reopen Hormuz?

For a fortnight beginning August 30, Tehran gets to feel wanted – first in Bishkek, at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, then in New Delhi at the BRICS summit, Iran’s leadership will sit among presidents and prime ministers who need something from Tehran just as much as Tehran needs something from them: a reopened Strait of Hormuz. On whose terms? It is tempting, and not entirely wrong, to read this as their shared necessity of sorts.