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About 6 million to 8 million barrels a day of crude are now moving through the Strait of Hormuz, roughly half prewar levels, according to trader estimates reported by Bloomberg. Trump said 24 tankers crossed overnight with U.S. military help and that U.S. forces had "taken out two" mine-laying boats; Brent rose about 0.5% to $87.36.
A U.S. defense official in Europe and a NATO official told AP that American forces in Europe face a "beyond critical" shortage of advanced interceptors, especially Patriots, after stocks were moved to the Middle East to counter Iranian missiles and drones.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group is expected to leave San Diego in the coming weeks for a deployment of more than seven months, relieving the USS George Washington, which recently replaced the USS Abraham Lincoln in the region, U.S. Naval Institute News and CNN reported.
Lebanon's National News Agency reported overnight air strikes on al-Qantara in Marjayoun, tank shelling of Mansouri south of Tyre, demolition blasts on the outskirts of Srebbine in Bint Jbeil and artillery fire near Haddatha early on Wednesday.
Preliminary Kpler data showed five commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Aug 25, against a 10-day average of 15 and four on Aug 24: two LPG tankers and a bitumen tanker left the Gulf and two empty product tankers entered. Before the war more than 100 vessels crossed daily, Al Jazeera noted.
Brent crude fell 3.8% to $87.14 a barrel by midday Tuesday, heading for a second daily decline after 13 gains in 14 days despite the new U.S. sanctions on Iran, AP reported; it had traded at $90.04 early in the day.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told foreign counterparts that Washington does not plan new offensive strikes on Iran for now and will focus on economic pressure and moving oil through the Strait of Hormuz, Axios and Israel's Channel 12 reported, citing sources; he did not rule out force if Iran attacks first.
Local authorities reported a tanker was hit by an unknown projectile near Khasab at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, starting a fire that was put out; the crew were safe and there was no pollution, UKMTO said in warning 121-26, issued on Aug 27.
After talks in Tehran between Foreign Ministers Abbas Araghchi and Badr Albusaidi, Iran and Oman said they had discussed a phased framework including a temporary joint navigation corridor through the Strait of Hormuz and a joint mine-clearing project, with technical talks to continue on a permanent corridor. Albusaidi said he hoped they would "soon announce" the corridor.
Field Marshal Asim Munir and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday morning to discuss preventing escalation, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and "the steps needed by both sides" to restore the June Islamabad memorandum; Naqvi called the talks "very positive and productive." Iran's Tasnim agency said Pakistan would relay Tehran's conditions to Washington.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Channel 14 in a phone interview that "Iran tried to kill one of my sons," without saying which son or giving details. He spoke while defending an agreement to keep Shin Bet protection for his family after the Oct. 27 election.
A tanker was struck by an unknown projectile 63 nautical miles west of Yanbu in the northern Red Sea, starting a fire on its main deck, UKMTO said; all crew were safe and no pollution was reported. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree later said the group hit the Saudi oil tanker Amzan with a ballistic missile.
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Israeli warplanes struck a house in the al-Deir neighbourhood of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, and Israeli forces shelled the area around the Ali al-Taher ridge and the heights of Doha Kfar Remman, Lebanon's National News Agency said; casualties were unclear. The same area had been hit by overnight air strikes and shelling the night before.
The Financial Times reported, citing two people close to Iran's leadership, that Iranian forces had assessed striking U.S. assets in Europe if Trump escalated, naming Bulgaria's Bezmer air base, used by U.S. refueling aircraft, as well as Cyprus and undersea cables in Hormuz. A NATO official said the alliance is 'prepared to address any threat,' noting it intercepted Iranian ballistic missiles heading to Turkey four times earlier this year.
The UAE Defense Ministry said its air defenses detected two ballistic missiles launched from Iran that were 'targeting maritime navigation,' one falling outside and one inside UAE territorial waters, with no damage or casualties reported. Iran's foreign ministry called the accusation 'baseless' and warned of 'false-flag operations.'
MarineTraffic and Kpler counted 95 crossings of the Strait of Hormuz in the week to Aug. 16, down 19.5 percent, falling from 19 on Aug. 11 to three on Aug. 16; 51 used Iran's designated route and 44 other routes. Kpler counted five commodity vessels on Saturday and none on Sunday, against 31 the previous weekend, while Bab el-Mandeb transits rose to 254 from 238.
AP reported that the Austrian and Greek foreign ministers spoke with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi after separate contacts with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The State Department said Iran was discussed but denied asking either country to carry messages, so the contacts do not amount to formal mediation.
Yemen's government said three Houthi ballistic missiles hit the small food-carrying cargo ship Tihamah near Bab el-Mandeb, killing four crew, three Pakistanis and one Indonesian, and that a second strike hit rescuers, killing two of them. Pakistan's foreign minister confirmed three Pakistani deaths and one injured.
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UKMTO said a tanker hit by an unknown projectile about 11 nautical miles northeast of Limah, Oman, suffered engine-room damage and was not under command, with no casualties. Bloomberg, citing security firms and ship tracking, identified it as the LNG carrier GasLog Shanghai, loaded with Qatari cargo; the next day UKMTO reported a large splash and explosion near another tanker northwest of Khasab.
The New York Times reported, citing Iranian and Iraqi officials, that Iran turned down a U.S. ceasefire proposal delivered by Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi during his July 23 visit to Tehran, because it did not settle control of the Strait of Hormuz. Iraq's prime minister's office called the report 'completely baseless,' and Iranian authorities did not confirm it.
UKMTO said a tanker was struck by a projectile and caught fire about 70 nautical miles from Al Shuqaiq, Saudi Arabia, with no casualties. The Houthis said they hit the Saudi tankers Encelia and Layla for breaking the maritime embargo they declared on July 20, and Saudi state media confirmed the Encelia, owned by a Saudi company, was hit and set on fire at the bow, with its crew safe.
Mediators proposed a 10-day ceasefire between the United States and Iran that could put the June Islamabad memorandum back on track, according to reports cited by ING and Reuters. Iran's interior minister, Eskandar Momeni, carrying a letter from President Pezeshkian, met Pakistan's army chief Asim Munir and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad the same day, and Pakistani officials expected Tehran's reply.
Brent futures rose about 3% to above $90 a barrel in Monday trading in Asia, a one-month high, as nightly U.S. strikes and Iranian retaliation kept Hormuz shipping at a trickle.
Brent crude rose 4.6% on Friday to about $88 a barrel, 16% above the previous week's roughly $76, and U.S. crude rose 4.5% to $82.49, as fighting kept Hormuz largely shut and raised fears for the Red Sea route.
Comparing Sentinel-2 satellite images from July 7 and July 12 showed new impact scars inside the Bushehr nuclear power plant complex and another apparent strike site at nearby support facilities, after Iranian officials had said the plant itself was not damaged.
Six ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, July 12, the lowest in five weeks, according to Kpler data, including the tanker Humanity carrying 2 million barrels of Iranian oil; traffic slowed to a two-month low the following day. The U.S. Energy Department told CNBC that 8.5 million barrels of oil still transited on Sunday.
After Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi's talks in Muscat, Oman said the two countries would continue technical and political talks on navigation under international law. Sources told Al Jazeera that Oman again proposed two separately controlled routes, one through Iranian and one through Omani waters, while Iran insisted on a single management involving both countries.
U.S. officials said Washington wanted Iran to issue a public statement that vessels would no longer be fired on and that all channels of the Strait of Hormuz would stay open, and that its nuclear demands, including delivery of Iran's nuclear material, must be met for any deal. A U.S. official said Iran had blamed the recent attacks on ships on an errant part of its system, an explanation Washington rejected.
Israel's public broadcaster reported that the government ordered the army to refrain from 'sensitive operations' in southern Lebanon after American pressure, and that the army was expected to begin withdrawing from 'pilot' areas the following week, when Israeli-Lebanese talks were due in Rome.
Qatari negotiators travelled to Iran to shore up the memorandum, and Pakistan's prime minister spoke with President Pezeshkian, a day after Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi discussed Hormuz with his Omani and Turkish counterparts. A U.S. official said Washington had held off on strikes on Thursday to give de-escalation a chance, while Iran's chief negotiator Ghalibaf said Iran would never surrender and was ready for 'all-out defense'.