July 14, 2026 20:57
How to end the Strait of Hormuz crisis
A vessel at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, July 14, 2026. (Reuters)
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More than four months after Israel and the US launched their war against Iran and nearly a month after Donald Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding meant to end it, the Strait of Hormuz — not the nuclear file that supposedly justified the conflict in the first place — has become the fault line on which the entire ceasefire now teeters. There is a bitter irony buried in that fact. When the war began in late February, the strait was open.
July 14, 2026 20:57
How to end the Strait of Hormuz crisis
A vessel at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, July 14, 2026. (Reuters)
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