Key Highlights
- And this makes this passage the world's most important energy chokepoint - 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, with the actual shipping lane just six miles across in each direction.
- Iran sits on its northern shore, and Oman on the other.
- And since Saturday, the tankers that normally transit it have mostly stopped moving. Not because Iran has formally closed the Strait.
- Not yet (thankfully).
- But because the insurance companies that cover those ships have pulled their coverage.
