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Ten vessels were attacked in a week, the most since the war began in February, while a tanker was hit by a grenade off Saudi Arabia and Tehran claims a mine blast it has not proved.
Oct 18, 2026
CENTCOM named the five crude carriers it disabled after two missile attacks on one of its warships. Iran answered at Al-Azraq, where Jordan says it intercepted eighteen of twenty missiles, and claimed strikes on ten ships. Brent closed at 101 dollars.
Sep 10, 2026
A Truth Social post promises a pause until 3 November, but the blockade stays, Tehran calls the talks pointless and tankers are being hit outside the strait. Brent held above $100.
Oct 9, 2026
Mohsen Rezaei says any ship entering a zone that starts at the American blockade line will be put on an Iranian sanctions list. The same day Aramco's Jizan refinery took a second strike in a month, Brent passed 97 dollars, and flydubai cut its schedule.
Sep 8, 2026
With Hormuz reduced to a trickle, Saudi exports go out through the Red Sea. On Thursday the Houthis took Mocha, eighty kilometres from Bab al-Mandeb, after the heaviest fighting since the 2022 truce. Hours later four projectiles hit two ships off Khasab.
Sep 12, 2026
Oman's Salalah meeting was meant to draw the corridor maps and settle a toll. Saudi Arabia objected to language fixing a new status quo, Bahrain called it appeasement, and it was postponed. Hours earlier an Iranian cargo ship burned off Qeshm with one dead.
Sep 15, 2026
Smoke rose from a fuel depot by King Khalid airport and the coalition said nobody was hurt. Bisha, Taif, Farasan and Yanbu were targeted the same morning. Trump says he would meet Pezeshkian in New York; Iran says it knows of a planned attack.
Sep 22, 2026
The 1,200-kilometre line to Yanbu carried the crude that could no longer leave through the Gulf. Riyadh chose not to hit back at Iraq, flew more than 300 strikes on Yemen instead, and took dozens of missiles at Khamis Mushait. Brent is near 108.
Sep 15, 2026
With the East-West pipeline still shut, no Saudi crude has left the Red Sea since 11 September and Europe's late-September cargoes are being cancelled. The coalition called the Mecca drone a red line. An American drone killed the crews of two IRGC boats.
Sep 17, 2026
American strikes on Revolutionary Guard sites drew missile and drone retaliation aimed at American assets in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq. Iranian officials report at least eleven dead, including five at a wedding in the south.
Sep 2, 2026
Tehran says Washington accepted only some of its seven conditions, mediators in Qatar and Pakistan are still in play, and the drone strike off Sohar shows how little the talks have changed at sea.
Oct 13, 2026
