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“Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority announced on Saturday that it would blacklist any shipping charterer company which orders crews to use routes it considers to be unauthorised.”

“The essential closure of the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted oil and gas flows from the Gulf nations, which depend on energy exports to finance their budgets.”

“Iran responded by attacking Israel and US bases in the Gulf and Arab Gulf allies of the US - as well as blocking the Strait of Hormuz.”

“The first U.S. official said Iran is engaged in a “go for broke” strategy, banking that it can absorb economic ruin longer than the U.S. can sustain a failing war and an expensive and difficult Naval blockade and escort program in the Strait of Hormuz, while…”

“Baku delivered 46.4% of Israel’s crude oil in 2025 — 94,000 barrels daily through Ceyhan — even as Ankara banned official trade, while SOCAR acquired a 10% stake in the Tamar gas field.”

“The people thinking through how AI shows up in hospitals and schools and small businesses, your bank account, they weren't there today.”

“…ollowed up his assertion with a 1,200 word description (excluding maps and charts) of how the operation that he describes as "the Hormuz shuttle" got stood up and is now running massive quantities of oil out of the Arabian/Persian Gulf to an oil-thirsty…”

“Firstly, about the longevity of the economic pressures caused by the Iran War, and then about how to sustain a modest but notable uptick in economic spirits, through yet more global turbulence.”

“Some oil tankers have made their way through the strait, but LNG tankers are a more troublesome target, according to Robin Mills, a non-resident fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and CEO of Qamar Energy.”

“He said his government was considering expanding the operations of a naval unit deployed in the Gulf of Aden to protect South Korean vessels and oil shipping routes.”

““The operational strategy does not aim to eradicate the dollar overnight,” the Indian commentator Navroop Singh explained, “but to construct a parallel, non-dollar pipeline through which bilateral commerce, especially in strategic commodities like oil, gas,…”

“When President Donald Trump launched his war against Iran in late February, energy analysts issued dire warnings that oil prices could more than double during a protracted conflict and urged investors and motorists to buckle up for a bumpy ride.”

“According to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the UAE is the primary back door through which sanctioned Iranian goods, dollars, and oil revenues flow into the global economy.”

“Saudi Arabia has used the East-West pipeline to export oil from its Red Sea ports as an alternative to ports in the Persian Gulf since Iran started attacking ships and infrastructure around the Strait of Hormuz early in the war.”

“Iran and the Gulf share the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil flows.”

“"The stakes around oil and the straits have changed," he added, appearing to refer to Iran's claimed control over vital shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz and its influence, through its Houthi allies in Yemen, ."No talks until Iran's conditions are met.”