Iran threatens to block more vital seaways as Trump orders renewed Iran blockade
The wave of strikes lasted seven hours, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.‘End of America’s evils’The IRGC said on Wednesday (July 15, 2026) that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until what it described as “the end of America’s evils”. Before the war began in February, about a fifth of global oil and gas shipments passed through Hormuz each day.The Guards said they had targeted what they described as command-and-control, logistics, fuel and military equipment facilities belonging to the U.S.
- ▪The wave of strikes lasted seven hours, the U.S.
- ▪Central Command said in a statement.‘End of America’s evils’The IRGC said on Wednesday (July 15, 2026) that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until what it described as “the end of America’s evils”.
- ▪Before the war began in February, about a fifth of global oil and gas shipments passed through Hormuz each day.The Guards said they had targeted what they described as command-and-control, logistics, fuel and military equipment facilities
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close “all other export corridors that benefit the U.S. and its allies”, Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. reimposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports.“Regional energy exports are either shared by all, or denied to all,” the IRGC said in a statement carried by Iran’s IRNA state news agency on Wednesday (July 15, 2026). U.S. strikes Iran for third day, will reimpose blockadeAnalysts have said Iran has been signalling it may use its Houthi allies in Yemen to shut the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea, opening a new front against Washington and putting two of the world’s most vital energy arteries at risk.The narrow gateway links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, through which Saudi oil…
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