Shipping, blockades and military incidents in the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint for a fifth of the world’s oil, and what they mean for energy markets.
Trump rules out Iran strikes before Nov. 3, Houthi missiles kill three Saudis at Riyadh airport, and tanker attacks spread beyond Hormuz.
Tanker strikes, missiles at Gulf bases, Houthi attacks and stalled talks on the Strait of Hormuz: a dated timeline of September’s U.S.–Iran war.
Rubio and Gerapetritis unveil arms sales, Strykers and a Florida Guard link in Athens; Greece offers conditional naval help in the Strait of Hormuz.
Tehran says it fixed safe Hormuz corridors with Muscat, while an IRGC adviser vows to shut ‘illegal routes’ and CENTCOM calls the closure claim false.
Houthi strikes kill three at Saudi airports as the coalition hits 82 targets, a tanker is struck off Qatar, and Washington weighs new Iran strike options.
UKMTO logs nine attacks so far in October, half of September’s total, as Gulf-to-China tanker rates hit a record $1.3 million a day.
Yemen’s Red Sea coast offensive stalls near Dhubab as Houthi missiles and drones reach Saudi airports, and a Hormuz tanker attack injures 12 crew.
IRGC turns a tanker back in the Strait of Hormuz, Yemen’s Taiz road fight intensifies, and Israel digs in east of Gaza’s Yellow Line.
Yemen opens a campaign to retake Houthi territory as another Hormuz tanker is struck and Israel’s strike on Hamas’s top Gaza official stays unresolved.
UKMTO cites a third-party report of an unknown projectile strike and fire; crew safe, ship unnamed, as US-Iran talks stay deadlocked.
Treasury’s Operation Economic Outcast hits Iran Khodro, SAIPA and state rail firms as Washington squeezes land logistics after the maritime blockade.
Theodore Roosevelt and Makin Island MEU leave San Diego; officials say three carriers and two amphibious groups may mass near Iran by late November.
After Tehran says it received a U.S. reply on Hormuz, Trump warns he could ‘blow them up’; aides push nuclear limits as Pezeshkian seeks a win-win deal.
Araghchi took Washington’s answer to Iran’s cabinet; a briefed official says both sides agree on the steps of the seven-day plan but not their order.
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz says Trump rejected Iran’s Hormuz reopen plan because Tehran wanted sanctions relief before nuclear negotiations.
Iran proposed a seven-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restart nuclear talks if the U.S. lifts its blockade, per AP and Al Jazeera.
Iranian hardliners filed an impeachment motion against FM Abbas Araghchi over his UNGA contacts with Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
Saudi Arabia restarted its East-West crude pipeline at reduced rates after a drone shutdown, reopening a path for Aramco to resume tanker loadings at Yanbu.
At the UN, Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian rejected Trump’s “annihilate” threat, held up a photo of Ayatollah Khamenei and refused to reopen Hormuz on U.S. terms.
Trump said envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held three hours of talks with Iran’s Abbas Araghchi at the UN; Tehran says its Hormuz terms still stand.
A senior Iranian official told Reuters Tehran can reopen Hormuz within seven days if the U.S. lifts its blockade, and Pezeshkian will not meet Trump.
Aramco has sold about 60 million barrels for ship-to-ship loading at Oman’s Sohar port, a workaround after pipeline damage choked Yanbu exports.
Iran’s Mohsen Rezaei rejected talks with the U.S. unless Tehran’s conditions are met first, hours after Trump said he is open to a deal with Iran.
TankerTrackers imagery shows supertankers moving both ways through Hormuz by day, a fragile recovery as Iran lists 77 vessels for penalties.
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