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Browsing: Strait of Hormuz
Pakistan faces deepening LNG shortages after Hormuz closure, forcing blackouts and fertilizer plant shutdowns while negotiating limited cargo passage.
Washington expands economic penalties against Tehran, leaving global energy markets dependent on Beijing’s willingness to enforce trade restrictions.
Postwar Iran seeks a regional role, but Gulf states stay divided over ties while militias and economic tensions complicate cooperation.
A prolonged Iran war is redrawing Gulf security, fracturing alliances, and forcing hard choices about oil, defense, and diplomacy.
Oil markets keep betting the Strait of Hormuz reopens soon. That wager explains lower wartime prices and violent volatility.
Military force cannot substitute for political settlement, as the Iran campaign risks becoming another long open-ended U.S. deployment.
Iran builds land and Caspian alternatives as Hormuz oil traffic collapses, keeping imports moving despite rising costs and economic strain.
War-risk premiums now price tankers out of Hormuz, cutting transits and exposing Pakistan while Gwadar gains strategic value.
Washington’s naval blockade and sanctions squeeze Iran as Hormuz oil traffic collapses and stalled diplomacy leaves no clear off-ramp.