Gregg Carlstrom

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496 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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But the Iranians read something more into that language.

They think that also confers a right to administer traffic through the strait.

So to decide which vessels can move and when.

And obviously, the Americans disagree with that.

So for weeks, they have been helping to escort tankers through the southern route of Hormuz, which goes through Oman's territorial water.

waters doesn't cross Iranian waters and therefore the Iranians have no say over what happens there.

Iran quite unhappy with that because it thinks it erodes what it believes to be its right to control traffic.

It depends on who you ask, right?

The Iranians say that it is now shut altogether.

They made that announcement a few days ago.

Donald Trump continues to insist that actually the strait is open.

But what's relevant here is not what the Iranians or the Americans say, it's what ship owners and insurers think.

Do they believe that it's actually safe to transit through hormones?

And after a string of

Of Iranian attacks over the past eight or nine days, it's very clear that most ship owners do not consider the strait safe.

So we've seen a significant drop in traffic.

If you go back to about 10 days ago, you had 30, 40, even 50 ships transiting on some days.

Whereas on July 12th, just 11 vessels transited the strait, and traffic has remained at

At that very low level ever since.

So very few ships willing to use Hormuz.

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