the Strait of Hormuz Archives

July 27, 2026 9:05 AM

Global shares, bonds bounce as oil skid offers inflation relief

Share markets rallied in Asia on Monday as a pause in fighting in the Gulf dragged oil prices sharply lower, easing inflation risks and boosting bonds ahead of a packed week of central bank meetings and corporate earnings. Iran said on Sunday it wou...

July 23, 2026 10:22 AM

‘Defence doctrine clear: eye for an eye’: Iran vows decisive response against ‘any aggression’

Iran on Wednesday warned that any aggression against the country, including attacks on its infrastructure, would be met with a "powerful and decisive response," as tensions with the United States continued to escalate over the Strait of Hormuz and th...

July 21, 2026 4:51 PM

Iranian forces target Bahrain and Kuwait after US hits Iran’s south

U.S. forces bombed targets in southern Iran overnight after President Donald Trump said Tehran would pay dearly for the deaths of American soldiers, while Iran targeted U.S. sites in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan and a tanker was hit in the Strait of Ho...

July 16, 2026 3:31 PM

Fewer vessels travel through Hormuz after US resumes blockade

Fewer vessels travelled through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the first day after the U.S. reimposed its naval blockade on Iranian ports with both countries escalating strikes across the Gulf, shipping data showed. Nine vessels crossed the stra...

July 16, 2026 1:53 PM

Iran warns Strait of Hormuz is a ‘red line’ and will resist until the end

Iran said on Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz was an inviolable "red line", warning that if U.S. President Donald Trump carried out his threat to attack Iran's infrastructure, it would strike all infrastructure across the Gulf region. The U.S. lau...

July 15, 2026 2:57 PM

After Hormuz, Iran turns to Red Sea gateway as new pressure point

Having choked off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is now signaling it could play its most dangerous card yet: using Yemen's Houthi allies to shut the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, opening a new front against Washington and putting...

July 9, 2026 10:40 AM

How Iran’s ‘golden weapon’ of Hormuz became a bigger priority than its long-disputed nuclear programme

Control over the Strait of Hormuz has become a "golden weapon" to Iran, for which it is willing to risk new escalations with the United States, and is a bigger priority than a nuclear programme for which it accepted decades of sanctions. So central ...

July 9, 2026 9:22 AM

US military carries out fresh strikes on Iran, prompting Iran attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain

The U.S. military said on Wednesday it launched fresh strikes on Iran to keep the Strait of Hormuz open to shipping, triggering Iranian attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain in the latest escalation to derail efforts to end the war. The latest round of atta...

July 1, 2026 3:36 PM

Iran insists on keeping control over Hormuz : report

Iran is determined to win international recognition of its control over the Strait of Hormuz and ability to levy fees on ships entering or leaving the Gulf even if it has to do so by force, Reuters reported citing two senior Iranian sources . Under...

June 30, 2026 9:11 AM

US and Iran negotiators head to Doha, but meeting uncertain

Iranian and U.S. negotiating teams were due in Doha this week, but Iran said on Monday no meeting had been scheduled as weekend missile fire from both sides tested the interim ceasefire to end the four-month-old war. U.S. President Donald Trump is s...