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at least eight commercial vessels reversed course or rerouted near the musandam peninsula as iran asserted control over the strait of hormuz, despite a ceasefire framework signed in qatar in june. a cma cgm container ship struck by a missile in may is now assessed as possibly unsalvageable, and the carrier is halting gulf shipments. shipping behavior contradicting a formal negotiation window is the market telling you what the paper does not.

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iran asserted control over vessel routing through the strait of hormuz and threatened passage fees, then a container ship ran aground after ignoring iran's approved route. shipping has since resumed via an oman-side corridor under a ceasefire framework, but iranian revolutionary guard vessels remain active nearby, meaning the world's most important oil chokepoint is now operating under contested rules rather than open transit. 93%
iran fired at least two missiles at commercial ships crossing the strait of hormuz on july 7, striking a qatari lng carrier near the omani coast and a second tanker that caught fire. this broke a memorandum of understanding signed less than three weeks earlier, and coincided with the expiry of a one-week us-iran agreement. 92%
the us navy disabled its third commercial vessel in the iran blockade, firing two hellfire missiles into the engine room of the container ship vela nova after repeated ignored warnings; totals stand at 59 vessels redirected, 3 disabled, 2 boarded. traffic through the strait of hormuz has fallen to about six ships per day with brent crude near $90. kinetic force applied to civilian merchant shipping as routine enforcement is a category of event that normally appears only in declared war. 92%
iran is treating control of the strait of hormuz as an explicit economic weapon, and hundreds of cargo ships and oil tankers are now reported stuck inside the persian gulf for months following military attacks. crews describe missing pay and food shortages. the unusual part is duration: chokepoint incidents are normally measured in days, not months of stranded hulls with a humanitarian dimension aboard. 92%
at least five vessels aborted strait of hormuz transits with sharp u-turns and others rerouted toward the oman coast, while iran reportedly maintains minefields and refuses a demining commitment agreed in a june 17 memorandum. a cargo vessel was attacked near hodeidah despite the ceasefire. the friction persists structurally even though india rolled back its emergency gas curbs as lng shipments resumed. 92%
shipping through the strait of hormuz has resumed after the us-iran ceasefire but vessel traffic remains far below normal, and a comoros-flagged container ship linked to an iranian business network ran aground in the chokepoint, with iran blaming the us. roughly a fifth of the world's oil and gas passes through this narrow waterway, so the gap between 'reopened' and 'trusted' is itself measurable — operators are voting with absent ships. 92%

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