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CENTCOM chief described as a long-standing hawk and reported to have been in Israel pushing for escalation.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Centcom's chief flew to a carrier with reported food, water and mental-health problems. The endurance limit, not the diplomacy, is what energy and shipping risk should be priced against.
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Iran pushed its trade onto land routes after the blockade closed its southern ports. Those corridors are clearing cargo at four times the sea freight cost and weeks of delay, and total non-oil trade is falling.
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Adm. Brad Cooper says the US military supported the transit of a billion barrels of oil in two months, about 16 million a day, and that Iran exported none, while monitors put Hormuz traffic well below prewar.
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Six months into a war that has been formally under ceasefire since June, the US says it struck Iranian oil tankers and Tehran's chief negotiator promises heavier retaliation, which changes what a charterer has to underwrite.
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Treasury promises restrictions "never seen" and the Pentagon says the blockade can run indefinitely, while a record carrier deployment and 45 lost Reapers show what holding the line costs.
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