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iran declared the strait of hormuz formally closed to all international shipping after strikes on vessels, including a cyprus-flagged ship with an indian crew member still missing. container carriers are now rerouting 42% of vessels, and the uae was revealed to be running a covert fleet of tankers with tracking disabled to move nearly half its crude through the strait. a fifth of the world's oil passes through this waterway; a formal, open-ended closure is a different category of event than harassment.

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iran's revolutionary guard navy announced the strait of hormuz is closed until further notice following reported us strikes on iran, with a vessel struck for ignoring navigation orders. roughly a fifth of global oil passes through this waterway; an open-ended closure declaration backed by force is a structural break, not a threat. gulf states were also reportedly hit, widening the event beyond a bilateral exchange. 96%
iran announced the strait of hormuz closed on june 22, citing ceasefire violations after israeli strikes in lebanon. daily vessel transits dropped from 35 to 12 in one day, with five of eight inbound ships running dark ais. the strait handles roughly 20% of global seaborne oil; a single-day transit collapse of this magnitude is structurally unusual regardless of whether the closure holds. 96%
iran's irgc announced the strait of hormuz closed on june 21 while us centcom and commercial satellite tracking simultaneously documented 55+ merchant vessels crossing and 6 million barrels of oil in transit. three india-linked supertankers were tracked in the gulf of oman at the time of the announcement. the contradiction between the official closure claim and real-time shipping data is consistent with an information warfare operation designed to generate market and diplomatic uncertainty without physically interdicting traffic — at least not yet. 95%
the strait of hormuz remains largely closed to very large crude carriers despite ceasefire optimism, forcing charterers to reroute oil through oman and the red sea while iranian patrol activity continues. this is an unusual persistence of disruption in one of the world's most critical oil chokepoints even after diplomatic de-escalation signals. 95%
iran announced a second closure of the strait of hormuz, citing us and israeli violations of an interim peace deal. shipping data shows vessel traffic through the strait collapsed to five ships on sunday, against a normal baseline orders of magnitude higher. the strait carries roughly 20% of global seaborne oil; a sustained closure would restructure energy markets and global logistics in ways that take months to unwind. 95%
over 1,200 cargo vessels carrying $125 billion in goods remained stranded following a 100-plus-day closure of the strait of hormuz, the world's most critical oil and gas chokepoint. after an interim iran-us deal, iran declared the strait closed again citing israeli strikes in lebanon, while the us claimed it remained open — creating hour-to-hour navigability uncertainty. oman separately designated two emergency corridors to facilitate vessel departures, and the imo announced evacuation of more than 11,000 stranded sailors. the simultaneous scale of commercial disruption, state contradictions, and humanitarian logistics is structurally without modern precedent for a single maritime passage. 95%

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