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Hormuz Ship Traffic Climbs 27 Percent Despite the Blockade War

A line of loaded oil tankers steaming single file through a narrow desert strait at first light
TL;DR

CENTCOM insists the strait stays open while Tehran withholds permits, and CNN counts 103 hulls in and 89 out; traffic both sides deny is quietly repricing their absolutes.

MSM Perspective

CNN's live war blog logs the UKMTO tally hour by hour while CENTCOM repeats that the strait remains open to all vessel traffic.

X Perspective

Shipping accounts trade AIS screenshots arguing whether the rise is southern-Omani routing or sanctions-evasion convoys moving under cover of dark.

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The Wire — August 22