Florida Conservative

The Strait of Hormuz remains legally open but commercially constricted. This week, Iran moved beyond threatening ships in general and began identifying specific vessels it claims violated Iranian transit rules—an effort to transform temporary wartime coercion into a lasting system of permissions, penalties and selective access.

ssue No. 6 of State of the Strait examines how Tehran is tying the reopening of Hormuz to the wider postwar settlement, even as shipping contracts, oil prices rise, and the international system searches for ways around Iranian coercion.