Archive

2026

Aug 15 Trump Says He Will Declare the Strait of Hormuz US Territory. There Is No Mechanism to Do It
Aug 12 AI Vessel Screening Now Flags Sanctioned Tankers Before OFAC Does, but Hormuz Exposed the Limits
Aug 9 Venice Was the Original Chokepoint Power, and Its Collapse Is a Warning for Hormuz
Aug 7 The US Munitions Shortage Is Why Iran Will Sign With Oman and Not With Washington
Jul 23 US-Iran War Enters Escalation Phase as Strait of Hormuz Deal Collapses
Jul 19 Iraq and Syria Sign Deal to Rebuild Kirkuk-Baniyas Pipeline as Hormuz Alternative
Jul 13 Trump's 20% Hormuz Toll Is an Accidental Tariff on Qatari LNG, and Doha Will Read It as Deliberate
Jul 8 US Revokes Iran's Oil License, Resumes Strikes as Trump's Hormuz Deal Unravels
Jul 7 How Washington Is Building Its Way Around the Strait of Hormuz
Jul 3 Trump Says 'Permanently Toll-Free,' Iran Says 'Service Fees': The Hormuz MOU Is Already Cracking
Jun 26 US Names Iran for Hormuz Drone Strike on the Ever Lovely, Then Does Nothing
Jun 25 Oman's Southern Hormuz Corridor Pulls Tankers Off Iran's Tolled Northern Route
Jun 19 Trump Got His Unconditional Surrender From Iran. The Surrender Was His.
Jun 19 Hormuz Reopens and Brent Breaks $79: The War Premium Unwinds Before the Inflation Data Shows It
Jun 12 Trump Declares a Settlement With Iran — Tehran's Record Says the Denial Is the Deal
Jun 10 Trump Says U.S. Will Launch New Attacks on Iran Later Today
Jun 7 Iran Isn't Seizing the Initiative. It's Managing Decline.
May 30 Washington Makes the Toll the Crime
May 28 Iran Fires on a Tanker While Its Diplomats Were in Doha
May 26 The Strikes That Happened During the Ceasefire
May 24 The Iran MOU and the Gulf: Tehran Banks a Strategic Win Before the Ink Dries
May 10 Iran Moves Toward Open Extortion in the Strait of Hormuz
May 10 Bulk Carrier Struck by Projectile Off Qatar Coast as Gulf Shipping Crisis Deepens
May 9 China Funds Nearly Half of Iran's Government Budget Through Oil Purchases
May 9 CENTCOM Releases Footage of Tanker Interdiction at the Strait of Hormuz
May 8 Why Saudi Arabia Killed Project Freedom
May 8 The CIA's Quiet Verdict on the Hormuz Blockade
May 8 A 'Love Tap' in the Strait: U.S. Destroyers Transit Under Fire, Ceasefire Holds in Name
May 7 Saudi Arabia Vetoed Project Freedom. The White House Had No Answer.
May 6 Iran Won by Reading the Calendar
May 6 Iran Declares Victory as Trump Halts Hormuz Operation
May 4 Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline at Full Capacity: The Strait Becomes Optional
May 4 Project Freedom and the Strait of Hormuz: A Humanitarian Gesture with Military Teeth
May 4 Iran Still Does Not Get It
May 3 U.S. Sanctions Tighten Grip on Iran-China Oil Trade
May 3 The Iran Conflict Is Not Just a War. It Is an Inflection Point.
May 3 Iran's Three-Stage Proposal Is Not a Peace Plan. It's a Stall.
May 2 Talks Stall, Coalition Pitch Lands Flat: Hormuz at the 48-Hour Mark
Apr 28 The Mine Is the Hormuz Weapon Iran Will Actually Use
Apr 28 Rubio Is Right: The Strait of Hormuz Is Iran's Economic Nuclear Weapon
Apr 28 Graham: Iran's Strait Offer Reveals the Game, Not a Path to Peace
Apr 28 After Leaving OPEC, UAE's Fujairah Pipeline Could Break the High-Price Grip
Apr 27 Two Iranian Navies, One Coastline
Apr 27 The Swarm Boat Illusion
Apr 27 The Pipelines That Make Hormuz Optional
Apr 27 The Mine Is the Hormuz Weapon Iran Will Actually Use
Apr 27 The Closure Iran Cannot Afford
Apr 27 Tehran's Hormuz Offer Returns Trump to Square One
Apr 27 Iran Outsourced Its Maritime Threat, and Lost Control
Apr 27 After Khamenei, the Strait Question Reopens
Apr 26 War Risk Premiums: How the Insurance Market Prices Hormuz
Apr 26 Twenty-One Miles: The Physical Geography of the World's Most Important Waterway
Apr 26 Transit Passage: The Legal Architecture That Iran Disputes and the World Depends On
Apr 26 The Unmanned Strait: How Autonomous Systems Are Reshaping Gulf Naval Operations
Apr 26 The Traffic: What Actually Moves Through Hormuz Every Day
Apr 26 The Tanker Wars: What the 1980s Gulf Conflict Taught the World About Strait Vulnerability
Apr 26 The Nuclear Variable: How Iran's Weapons Program Connects to Hormuz Stability
Apr 26 The North Field: Qatar's Gas and the LNG Dimension of Hormuz
Apr 26 The Moscow-Tehran Axis: How the Russia-Iran Partnership Reaches the Gulf
Apr 26 The IRGC's Naval Doctrine Is Built Around One Assumption: Hormuz Is Worth More Closed Than Open
Apr 26 The Fifth Fleet's Problem: Defending a Strait It Cannot Fully Control
Apr 26 The Détente and Its Limits: What the Saudi-Iranian Normalization Means for the Strait
Apr 26 The Cost of Protection: What It Actually Takes to Escort Shipping Through a Contested Strait
Apr 26 The Closure Scenario: What Happens to Global Energy in Week One, Month One, Month Three
Apr 26 The Bypass Routes: Why Pipeline Alternatives to Hormuz Have Never Been Enough
Apr 26 The Anti-Ship Arsenal: Iran's Missile Program and the Surface Threat to Gulf Shipping
Apr 26 Spare Capacity: The Gulf's Hidden Buffer and What a Strait Crisis Would Do to It
Apr 26 South Korea: The Most Hormuz-Exposed Economy You Have Never Heard Discussed
Apr 26 Shale's Gift and Its Limits: How American Oil Independence Changed — and Didn't Change — the Hormuz Commitment
Apr 26 Price Formation: How Hormuz Risk Gets Embedded in the Cost of Oil
Apr 26 Peak Demand and the Strait: What the Energy Transition Does to Hormuz's Strategic Weight
Apr 26 Pakistan's Gulf Equation: The Nuclear-Armed Neighbor That Both Sides Court
Apr 26 Oman's Geometry: The Sultanate That Borders Both Sides of the Chokepoint
Apr 26 Kuwait's Position: The Gulf State That Remembers What Closure Actually Costs
Apr 26 Japan's Existential Dependence: The Country That Cannot Afford a Single Month of Closure
Apr 26 Israel's Indirect Stake: How Hormuz Stability Connects to the Eastern Mediterranean
Apr 26 Iraq: The Country Most Trapped by the Strait It Cannot Influence
Apr 26 Iran's Own Arithmetic: What a Closure Would Cost the Country That Controls the Threat
Apr 26 India's Stake: The Arabian Sea Economy and Its Dependence on Strait Transit
Apr 26 Fujairah: The Port That Exists Because of What Lies Upstream
Apr 26 From Hormuz to Bab-el-Mandeb: How Houthi Strategy Extended the Chokepoint Problem
Apr 26 Europe's New Hormuz Problem: How the Russia Break Created Gulf Gas Dependence
Apr 26 Drone Warfare Comes to the Gulf: How Unmanned Systems Are Changing the Tanker Threat
Apr 26 Dark Tankers: How Iran Moves Oil and Why It Matters for Strait Security
Apr 26 China's Hormuz Problem: The Strategic Exposure Beijing Cannot Hedge Away
Apr 26 Below the Surface: Iran's Submarine Fleet and the Underwater Dimension of Hormuz
Apr 26 Bahrain: The Island That Holds the Architecture Together
Apr 26 Aramco's Exposure: Saudi Arabia's Oil Infrastructure and the Strait It Partly Controls
Apr 26 After Khamenei: How Iranian Succession Will Shape the Strait
Apr 26 Abu Musa and the Tunbs: The Occupied Islands That Sit at the Strait's Entrance