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Iran closes Hormuz again in response to US blockade

  • Mercados: Crude oil, Freight, Oil products
  • 18/04/26

Tehran has reimposed restrictions over shipping passing through the strait of Hormuz in response to the continued US naval blockade of Iranian ports, Iran's military leadership announced on Saturday.

"Following previous agreements reached in negotiations, the Islamic Republic of Iran, in good faith, agreed to the managed passage of a limited number of oil tankers and commercial vessels through the strait of Hormuz," Lieutenant Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Military Headquarters – the country's highest operational military command – said, according to Iran's Fars news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. "But unfortunately, the Americans, with their history of repeated breaches of promise, continue to engage in banditry and maritime piracy under the guise of a so-called blockade. For this reason, the strategic strait of Hormuz is under the strict management and control of Iran's Armed Forces."

Zolfaqari added that "as long as the US does not agree to the complete freedom of navigation for vessels from their origin in Iran to their destination and from the destination back to their origin in Iran, the situation in the strait of Hormuz will remain tightly controlled and in its previous state."

Tehran had announced on Friday that it was reopening the strait to shipping, until the 22 April expiry of its ceasefire deal with the US, in response to the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Lebanon. But the speaker of the Iranian parliament had warned later Friday that Tehran would reimpose the previous restrictions on passage if the US continued with the naval blockade of Iranian ports it began on 13 April.

Some tankers have been able to move through the strait during the brief period of reopening – two crude tankers, a VLCC and an Aframax, were able to transit earlier Saturday, according to data from trade analytics platform Vortexa, after two products tankers carrying naphtha were able to pass through the strait overnight, according to data from Vortexa and Kpler.


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