•Vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas in southern Iran A British maritime agency said today that unknown projectiles struck three ships in the Strait of Hormuz the previous day. A crude oil tanker, LNG tanker and a third vessel had each “been struck by an unknown projectile”, the United Kingdom Maritime […]
•An oil tanker of CPC Corporation docked at Keelung Port Asian stocks mostly fell and oil prices extended gains today as hopes for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz fade amid expectations the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates again next month. Hopes for an easing of Middle East tensions were dashed at the […]
•Vessels anchored in Bandar Abbas along the Strait of Hormuz US President Donald Trump yesterday rejected a truce deal proposed by Iran that Tehran said could have reopened the Strait of Hormuz to shipping within a week. The waterway is key to the world’s energy supply and is now central to the conflict between the […]
•Vessels anchored in Bandar Abbas along the Strait of Hormuz Iran has submitted a proposal to the United States to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days, its foreign minister told media outlets in New York. “If certain conditions are met, the strait will be open within seven days, and […]
•Donald Trump US President Donald Trump threatened yesterday to hit Iran “hard” after the two foes traded fire for the first time in weeks, as his Treasury secretary vowed to keep up a pressure campaign aimed at hobbling Tehran’s economy. After six months of war, the foes remain at an impasse, with Iran keeping the […]
•Trump and US fighter jets The United States said yesterday it had carried out air strikes on Iranian rocket launchers on a small island in the Strait of Hormuz, its first attacks on Iran since late July. “Earlier today, US forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces were observed […]...
•Boats anchored off Oman’s northern Musandam Peninsula near the Strait of Hormuz Iran and Oman are negotiating the opening of a temporary shipping corridor and the clearance of mines in the blockaded Strait of Hormuz, which both nations border. They have yet to agree on the conditions for the waterway’s reopening as the Middle East […]...
•Donald Trump President Donald Trump today threatened to bomb Oman if it “gets in the way” of a US deal with Iran on the Strait of Hormuz and called for Iran to surrender. “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them,” Trump told Fox News journalist Trey Yingst, referring to […]
•US President Donald Trump President Donald Trump has said the United States could take control of the strategically important Strait of Hormuz after what he described as the defeat of Iran. Trump made the remark yesterday during a political rally at a police academy in New York State, where he told supporters that he would […]
•Strait of Hormuz Nigeria’s crude oil production fell by four per cent month-on-month in July despite the country maintaining its run of exceeding its Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) quota, latest data from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has shown. The decline came as operational challeng...

