After oil increasingly left the Gulf, Iran is trying to regain its stranglehold on shipping
The navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed on Saturday that a supertanker carrying crude oil suffered a massive explosion after striking a naval mine while attempting to leave the Strait of Hormuz through a route Tehran hadn’t authorized.
September was the first month that Iran loaded no crude onto tankers since maritime data tracking service Kpler began monitoring Iranian exports in 2013.
The Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s strategic red line,” said the head of the IRGC, Ahmed Vahidi, in a post on X.
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