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  "description": "The state that closed the Strait of Hormuz in March 2026 and signed the June memorandum that reopened it.",
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    {
      "slug": "strait-of-hormuz-oil-flows",
      "title": "Hormuz Disrupted: The Closure, the Reopening That Did Not Hold, and $114 Oil",
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/strait-of-hormuz-oil-flows",
      "json": "https://whatledto.com/events/strait-of-hormuz-oil-flows.json",
      "role": "Closed the Strait of Hormuz, was linked by US authorities to renewed shipping attacks, and imposed or backed measures affecting vessel access and transit insurance.",
      "entries": 6,
      "updated_at": "2026-10-16T02:10:55.460976+00:00"
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      "title": "Around the Strait: The Pipelines Gulf Oil Uses When Hormuz Is Shut",
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      "json": "https://whatledto.com/events/middle-east-oil-export-routes.json",
      "role": "Built the Goreh-Jask route to export outside Hormuz, but the route has only a reported first cargo and no established continuing use in the timeline.",
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      "updated_at": "2026-10-14T14:58:27.422452+00:00"
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      "id": 2174,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/middle-east-oil-export-routes#n2174",
      "date": "2026-10-12",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Tankers and a ship-to-ship anchorage near Sohar are reported targeted",
      "summary": "Al Jazeera reported that multiple vessels were targeted overnight on Sunday into Monday, among them two outbound tankers and one at anchorage off the Omani port of Sohar, where ship-to-ship transfers are said to be taking place. No official advisory confirms the incident. Sohar anchorage is one of the transfer points the bypass route on this page depends on.",
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          "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/12/iran-sets-crosshairs-on-us-uae-oil-shuttle-out-of-strait-of-hormuz",
          "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
          "published": "2026-10-12",
          "quote": "Multiple vessels were targeted overnight Sunday to Monday, including two outbound tankers and one in anchorage near Oman’s port city of Sohar, where ship-to-ship transfers are allegedly being conducted."
        }
      ]
    },
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      "id": 1960,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/strait-of-hormuz-oil-flows#n1960",
      "date": "2026-07-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "OFAC action includes more than 50 people, entities and vessels",
      "summary": "OFAC said its action included more than 50 individuals, entities, and vessels connected to Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani and the Iranian regime. Treasury published the action on 14 July.",
      "type": "regulatory",
      "entities": [
        "U.S. Department of the Treasury",
        "Office of Foreign Assets Control",
        "Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani",
        "Iran"
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        "iran"
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      "sources": [
        {
          "url": "https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0562",
          "outlet": "U.S. Treasury OFAC",
          "published": "2026-07-14",
          "quote": "Today’s action includes more than 50 individuals, entities, and vessels that enable Shamkhani and the Iranian regime to continue profiting while the Iranian people remain burdened under the economic yoke imposed by their government."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "timeline": "strait-of-hormuz-oil-flows",
      "id": 1959,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/strait-of-hormuz-oil-flows#n1959",
      "date": "2026-07-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "CENTCOM resumes blockade of traffic at Iranian ports",
      "summary": "U.S. Central Command said it would resume blockading maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports. It set the restart for 4 p.m. Eastern Time on 14 July.",
      "type": "response",
      "entities": [
        "U.S. Central Command",
        "Iran"
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        "iran"
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          "url": "https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PUBLIC-RELEASES/Article/4542098/us-forces-to-resume-naval-blockade-against-iran/",
          "outlet": "CENTCOM",
          "published": "2026-07-13",
          "quote": "At the Commander in Chief's direction, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces will resume blockading maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports on July 14 at 4 p.m. ET."
        }
      ]
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      "id": 1958,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/strait-of-hormuz-oil-flows#n1958",
      "date": "2026-07-10",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "OFAC acts after Iran resumes attacks on shipping",
      "summary": "OFAC took action against Iranian financial facilitator Ali Ansari. Treasury said the action followed Iran's resumption of attacks on international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.",
      "type": "regulatory",
      "entities": [
        "U.S. Department of the Treasury",
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          "url": "https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0558",
          "outlet": "U.S. Treasury OFAC",
          "published": "2026-07-10",
          "quote": "Today, following Iran’s resumption of attacks on international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against Iranian financial facilitator Ali Ansari"
        }
      ]
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      "id": 1945,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/strait-of-hormuz-oil-flows#n1945",
      "date": "2026-07-07",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "After a June 18 memorandum between Washington and Tehran, traffic resumes and EIA cuts its price forecast by $14",
      "summary": "EIA raised its global production forecast, citing increased shipping through the Strait of Hormuz after a memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran on June 18 to end the conflict and reopen the strait. It expected crude production and trade flows back near pre-conflict levels by the end of 2026 and most shut-in production online by the first quarter of 2027. The 2026 Brent forecast fell to $82 a barrel from $96, and the 2027 forecast to $65.",
      "type": "report",
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        "Iran"
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        {
          "url": "https://www.eia.gov/pressroom/releases/press590.php",
          "outlet": "U.S. Energy Information Administration",
          "published": "2026-07-07",
          "quote": "Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has increased following the June 18 memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran to end a months-long conflict and reopen the strait."
        }
      ]
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      "id": 1954,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/strait-of-hormuz-oil-flows#n1954",
      "date": "2026-04-13",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Maritime restrictions begin affecting Iranian ports and coasts",
      "summary": "Maritime access restrictions affecting Iranian ports and coastal areas took effect at 1400 UTC on 13 April 2026. UKMTO said the restrictions included locations along the Arabian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Arabian Sea east of the Strait of Hormuz.",
      "type": "regulatory",
      "entities": [
        "UK Maritime Trade Operations",
        "Iran"
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        "iran"
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        {
          "url": "https://www.ukmto.org/-/media/ukmto/products/20260413_ukmto_advisory_035-26.pdf",
          "outlet": "UKMTO",
          "published": "2026-04-13",
          "quote": "UKMTO have been informed that, effective from 1400 UTC on 13 April 2026, maritime access restrictions are being enforced affecting Iranian ports and coastal areas, including locations along the Arabian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea east of the Strait of Hormuz."
        }
      ]
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      "id": 1951,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/strait-of-hormuz-oil-flows#n1951",
      "date": "2026-03-02",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz",
      "summary": "Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on 2 March. EIA said the closure preceded an increase in tanker prices.",
      "type": "other",
      "entities": [
        "Iran",
        "U.S. Energy Information Administration"
      ],
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        "us-energy-information-administration"
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        {
          "url": "https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67386",
          "outlet": "EIA",
          "published": "2026-03-26",
          "quote": "The price increase followed Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz on March 2."
        }
      ]
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      "id": 1967,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/middle-east-oil-export-routes#n1967",
      "date": "2026-02",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "Iran built its own way around the strait and has never used it",
      "summary": "The Goreh-Jask pipeline and the Jask terminal on the Gulf of Oman were inaugurated in 2021 to give Iran an export route outside the strait it periodically threatens to close, with a reported capacity of a million barrels a day. A single test cargo left Jask in late 2024 and nothing since. The IEA does not count it as a viable export option, which is the asymmetry underneath the whole story — the country closing the strait has no working bypass of its own, while the two countries it blocks do.",
      "type": "report",
      "entities": [
        "International Energy Agency",
        "Iran"
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        "iran"
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        {
          "url": "https://www.iea.org/about/oil-security-and-emergency-response/strait-of-hormuz",
          "outlet": "International Energy Agency",
          "published": "2026-02",
          "quote": "A test load was exported from Jask in late 2024, but no further oil has been exported from Jask since then."
        }
      ]
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      "id": 1971,
      "url": "https://whatledto.com/events/middle-east-oil-export-routes#n1971",
      "date": "2024-09-30",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Iran exported its first crude cargo from Jask Oil Terminal",
      "summary": "MEES reported that Iran exported its first crude oil cargo from Jask Oil Terminal outside the Strait of Hormuz. The report identified the shipment as the terminal's first crude export cargo.",
      "type": "shipment",
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          "url": "https://www.mees.com/2024/10/25/news-in-brief/irans-jask-terminal-exports-first-cargo/d12d48c0-92d3-11ef-a43d-150b7932de10",
          "outlet": "MEES",
          "published": "2024-10-25",
          "quote": "Vessel tracking data from Kpler show that Iran has exported the first crude oil cargo from its Jask oil terminal located outside the Strait of Hormuz."
        }
      ]
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