Georgi Kantchev
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Middle East oil exports rebound as Iran’s chokehold on Hormuz breaks down | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. DUBAI—Iran’s ability to choke off oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz—and use that as leverage in talks with the U.S.—is breaking down, raising the risk it will resort to military escalation to bolster its position. The erosion of Iran’s position comes as the U.S. Navy and Gulf oil producers have become better at fending off or evading Iranian attacks, allowing more tankers to cross the strait. Iran, by contras
Saudi Arabia spent months trying to bypass Hormuz. Now there’s no way around it. | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. DUBAI—Saudi Arabia spent months rerouting oil across the desert to circumvent the Strait of Hormuz. Now, with its Red Sea bypass route disrupted by attacks, the world’s oil kingpin is having to return to the waterway it was trying to avoid in the first place. Saudi Aramco, the country’s state-controlled oil giant, is loading more oil onto tankers in the Persian Gulf and then taking its chances sending them through t
What is Saudi Arabia’s east-west pipeline and Why is it rocking oil markets? | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Saudi Arabia is racing to repair a critical oil pipeline shut down by drone attacks last week. The disruption threatens to remove another major source of crude from global markets. The kingdom is trying to resume partial operations on the pipeline within days, though repairing damaged pumping stations and fully restoring capacity could take as long as six to eight weeks, according to people familiar with the matter.
With close calls on US warships, Iran shows new appetite for escalation | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Iran is increasingly trying to escalate its conflict with the U.S. as it seeks to break a stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz that is strangling its economy. At least three times in the past week, Iranian forces have launched missiles at American warships, including an aircraft carrier, taking direct aim at the U.S. Navy in a way it hasn’t done since the start of the war. Iran also fired a large missile salvo at U.S.
Mine warfare with Iran hampers US efforts to win control of Hormuz | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The U.S. decision to strike Iran for the first time in a month shows Washington’s determination to win its cat-and-mouse contest for control over the Strait of Hormuz even at the risk of an escalation that could turn the conflict back into a hot war. American forces said they hit Iranian launch sites that were preparing to fire rockets used to deploy naval mines in the narrow waters of the strait. In return, Tehran
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