Trump Declares Iran Victory Hours After a Tanker Is Hit in the Strait
The administration says mission accomplished; a same-week tanker strike and the UN's own maritime watchdog say the strait Trump claims to have won is still not open.
Yosef Stern
Bureau: Jerusalem
Qatar Presses Iran on Navigation as Tehran Drafts Hormuz Conditions
MSM reads Thursday's meeting as diplomatic progress, but the shipping industry reads Iran's 'conditions list' language as a live threat to reopening the strait, not a resolution of one.
Oil Falls on Hormuz Diplomacy While Actual Traffic Stays Thin
Traders are pricing the Iran-Oman framework as resolution, but the tanker count behind the framework has not moved to match the mood.