Middle East

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Hormuz "Deserted" As Iran Expands Area Of Control; Hundreds Of Ships Cluster Near Dubai
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/hormuz ... ster-dubai

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The Iran War Has Trapped 20K Sailors. This Is Who They Call for Help. | WSJ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vgLlZUpTJCA

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Saudi Arabia Secretly Launched Attacks On Iran At Height Of Epic Fury
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... -epic-fury

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Rare Footage Shows Ships Sitting Idle in Strait of Hormuz at Sunrise
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ2NumwQWmQ

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Satellite Imagery Appears To Show Damage At US Airbase In Kuwait After Iranian Attack
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... ian-attack

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Every Gulf State Wants to Bypass Hormuz. Most of Them Can't.

Three months in, Gulf states are scrambling for alternative export routes — pipelines, ports, trucking corridors, even a century-old Ottoman railway. Most won't get built.

Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, remain fully trapped behind Hormuz.

Qatar and Kuwait won't route through Saudi Arabia
How Oman is emerging as the Gulf's unexpected logistics winner

ADNOC's CEO says oil flows won't normalize until early 2027

The stakes are enormous. Alternative routes are costlier, lower-capacity and vulnerable, to Iranian attack — as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline already proved.

Regional rivalry is colliding with regional ambition.

Source: RANE Worldview

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Hormuz Normalization Begins As Saudi Supertankers Exit And A Flood Of Persian Gulf Oil Heads For Asia
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/hormuz ... heads-asia

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Iran-Oman joint statement on the future of the Strait of Hormuz. Note the wording about “services” and “costs”
https://x.com/JavierBlas/status/2069408176579989518

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"Navigation Extremely Limited": Top Shipper Warns IRGC Mines Complicate Hormuz Normalization
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... ate-hormuz

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Tehran Declares Hormuz Closed, But Ships Are Still Transiting
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... transiting