“Washington and Tehran have been locked in the most dangerous round of fighting since a fragile truce ended almost six weeks of open conflict in April, as the U.S. seeks to stop Iran from asserting control over the Strait of Hormuz,” the Financial Times reports.“Yet while the conflict has worsened, it remains far smaller in scope than the war that began in February, in which Israel was also a combatant and hundreds of attacks on buildings in Iran killed dozens of senior political and military figures, alongside thousands of others.”“This time, the two countries appear to be trying to calibrate their escalation of the conflict, while striking selected sites that signal how each is willing to raise the stakes as they battle to control the strait.”