United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations reported on August 5 that a vessel's crew heard two explosions while passing through Omani territorial waters. [1] Thursday's ISW file treated that note as evidence Iran still uses force to consolidate control of the strait. [1] Friday produced no new advisory that cancelled the sound.

The paper's Thursday feature recorded that UKMTO reported explosions in Omani territorial waters. Friday's completed record still hangs those explosions over the same water Tehran's diagrams assign to outbound traffic. A deal that sells an Omani exit is selling a lane where a crew already heard two blasts.

ISW wrote that Iran has repeatedly targeted vessels using the Omani route because that traffic undermines a claim of full control. [1] Lloyd's Wednesday brief said that since August 1 two ships on the Omani bypass have been struck, with at least one additional attempt, and that about a quarter of confirmed non-Iranian-linked traffic still uses that channel. [2]

UKMTO notes are not attributions. They are what a crew heard. The paper will not invent a missile type or a hull name the advisory did not publish. It will print two explosions, Omani territorial waters, and the date on the note. [1]

A reader who only watches Baghaei's coordinates will think the Omani side is the safe half. A reader who only watches UKMTO will not send a second cohort onto that half. Thursday's industry sources already said the whole page is not feasible. [3] The explosions are why the page has a body count even before it has a tariff.

Aden was Wednesday's sound. Omani territorial water is Thursday's, still hanging Friday. [1] Moving the report west is not a correction. It is a second geography. A temporary outbound lane that runs through the second geography is a temporary lane through a place a crew already heard blasts. ISW's line that Iran punishes the workaround is the analytical sentence. [1] UKMTO's two explosions are the empirical one.

Lloyd's said extensive dark activity makes it hard to quantify total traffic via Oman's coastline. [2] About a quarter of confirmed non-Iranian-linked traffic still uses that channel. [2] Friday's deal desks still sell that channel as the safe half. The note still hangs over it.

Trump sold an agreement that could be soon. Soon does not erase two explosions a crew already heard. [1] The paper will keep the UKMTO date and the Omani water. It will not attribute a shooter the advisory did not name. Friday's hold is the sound, not a verdict.

Industry sources already said the whole page is not feasible. [3] Explosions in the outbound half are why a map is not a lane. Deal desks that sell a safe Omani exit are selling past the note.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem