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Saudi-backed forces aligned with Yemen's government have taken ground near the strait, according to military sources and regional reporting — a development with immediate consequences for one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
Tehran has tied the reopening of the waterway to unspecified conditions, keeping the closure in place and leaving one of the world's most important oil chokepoints under a condition nobody outside Iran can evaluate.
Axios reported the claim, with Al-Monitor and Times of Israel carrying an Iran–Oman agreement to clear them. The maritime agencies that would confirm it have not.
NOT SCRIPTED assembled the Congressional Research Service, the IEA, the EIA and the FAO's trade data into a single exposure map — and found that the most useful number for India is also the least commonly quoted.
Al Jazeera and Gulf News reported separate UKMTO-sourced accounts of a projectile strike on commercial shipping. Neither identified the attacker.
One of the two fell inside UAE territorial waters, according to the same report. No casualty account has been published.
Reuters, Seatrade Maritime and Al Arabiya reported on the same incident in different registers. NOT SCRIPTED has written an independent summary; the original reports are worth reading in full.
Bloomberg reported the strike on Saturday; CNBC reported that tankers near Oman were coming under fire the same day. Neither identified who fired, and no casualty account was published.
ALPA India has written to the civil aviation ministry and the DGCA seeking a halt to services to the UAE until a joint threat assessment is done. The risk list it gives is worth reading on its own terms.
About 1.15 billion barrels of supply went missing during three and a half months of war, and OECD emergency stocks are at their lowest since 1990. Reopening a strait is not the same as restoring a market.
