Iran has reportedly shut down the Strait of Hormuz in response to a joint attack by the United States and Israel.
Several tanker owners, oil majors and trading houses have suspended crude oil, fuel and liquefied natural gas shipments and Tehran said it had closed navigation, trading sources told Reuters.
"Our ships will stay put for several days," one top executive at a major trading desk said.
Satellite images from tanker trackers showed vessels piling up next to big ports, such as Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, and not moving through Hormuz.
Multiple vessels in the area received VHF transmission from Iran's Revolutionary Guards that "no ship is allowed to pass the Strait of Hormuz", an official with the EU naval mission Aspides told Reuters.
Iran closes Strait of Hormuz after US-Israel strikes, reports say
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Oil majors and trading houses say they have suspended crude oil, fuel and liquefied natural gas shipments
THIS WAR WAS ABOUT REGIME CHANGE ALL ALONG
The nuclear negotiations were done for theatre and to buy time
Twitter: Peter Girnus 🦅
> I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right… — Peter Girnus 🦅 (@gothburz) February 28, 2026 [https://twitter.com/gothburz/status/2027852172923154714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]
TwitterNot much on Google about this.
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Footnote (2 days later - 1 March 2026)
Something has changed with Al Jazeera since their Gaza reportage. There is no condemnation of USA in general and Donald Trump in particular in relation to the unprovoked attack on the Islamic Republic and the decapitation strike that murdered the head of state of a sovereign country.
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