Kpler says about 40% of Gulf crude now leaves without crossing Hormuz, up from 17% before the war, as exports regain prewar levels. Iran's own exports are blockaded to almost nothing, and it can still strike the onshore oil assets that now carry more of the flow.
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Mohsen Paknejad has left Iran's oil ministry days after a newspaper alleged that a trust set up on his watch owed the state oil company nearly $2bn. He goes with inflation at 85% and a US naval blockade keeping Iran from selling the oil that funds most of its government.
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Iran's rial fell past 2.5 million to the dollar in Tehran trading after the country loaded no oil at its terminals in September, a first since 1979. The currency has lost 40% of its value this year while money for oil shipped before the blockade is still coming in.
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Iran says it has an official US reply to its proposal to end the war, and the rial has passed 2.5 million to the dollar, a record low. Tehran's price for reopening the Strait of Hormuz is cash, and a currency falling this fast makes each week of talks more expensive for Tehran.
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Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days only if oil sanctions and the US naval blockade end, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said. With Donald Trump rejecting the offer, budgets set this quarter are safer treating the disruption as the base case.
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Iran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the US lifts its port blockade, frees frozen assets and waives oil sanctions. Tehran pitched the speed as help for Trump in November's midterms, and his own reply so far is a map calling the waterway the 'Trump Strait'.
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Traders betting on lasting inflation pushed the 10-year Treasury yield to 5.145% on Thursday, its highest since the 2007 financial crisis. Oil back above $105 keeps that bet alive, and AXA's chief economist names two more pressures, tech-sector borrowing and US debt, that would survive a truce.
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The September 12 sit-down in New Delhi was the first between the two governments since the February 28 conflict began. Cryptobriefing puts Hormuz navigation at the centre of it. The August 19 trade suspension is still in force.
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International oil prices have passed $100 while the US Navy narrows its Hormuz escort windows to two a day, and the overland pipeline that was the alternative to the strait is offline after a drone attack.
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The assembly opened in New York on the 22nd and the U.S.-China summit is set for the 24th, so a confirmed Zelenskyy meeting, staff-vetted trade talks with Beijing and an Iran meeting that is still only a possibility all sit inside the same gap.
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At the UN General Assembly he said he may annihilate the Islamic Republic if no deal comes soon, and hours later confirmed that US and Iranian officials had met.
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UK Maritime Trade Operations reported a vessel alight after a projectile strike in the Strait of Hormuz. The tradeable version of that news is a contract on no ships transiting the strait by the end of September.
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The East-West pipeline had been carrying more than double the Red Sea export volume it moved before the Iran war, and on Friday Saudi Arabia stopped it. Riyadh says it will not retaliate, and Trump says the Houthis called.
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Pezeshkian, speaking days after the weekend's exchange of fire, says Iran will reciprocate immediately if Washington returns to the June memorandum. Restoring it means restarting a 60-day clock that has already run out.
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Brent at $92 reads as a supply story, but the harder move is a 30-year Treasury at 5.278%, and what sits between them is a peace deal Washington keeps declining and 65 billion Venezuelan barrels it wants to own.
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The UAE says it shot down an Iranian drone the day after the first US-Iran exchange of fire in a month, and crude is back above $90, about a quarter above its pre-war level. Fuel assumptions written during the quiet now need redoing.
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Goldman puts regional export flow at 15 to 16 million barrels a day, so the defended Omani corridor is carrying roughly two-thirds of it. That is what an eroding chokepoint premium looks like in volumes rather than in quotes.
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Mohsen Rezaei took over Iran's Supreme National Security Council in the August decrees and says continued economic war ends oil exports from the Persian Gulf. The collateral is mostly other producers' cargo, and the supreme leader who would sign any deal has not been seen in 182 days.
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Tehran's new security chief says any country backing Washington's Monday package is committing an act of war. The strait authority now naming ships for fines is itself under U.S. sanctions.
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Pezeshkian and Ghalibaf say the war must end. The IRGC says fight to the end, and it used the 60-day talks lull to prepare for more combat.
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