What is the Strait of Hormuz and why is it important?

Iran, Hormuz Boots, the world’s busiest oil billing channel, is very important for US to revenge US nuclear facilities for their nuclear facilities.

Through this narrow shipping strip in the Gulf, about 20% of global oil and gas flow. Constracter will lead to deep results for the global economy, will result in international trade violator and increase oil prices.

The cost of goods and services in the world also exaggerates and hit the world’s largest economies, including China, India and Japan from the highest importers of crude oil.

Hormuz Strait is one of the most important traffic in the world and is the most important oil transit point.

Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), by the north and southern to, (UAE), in the entrance and exit, only 50 km (31 miles) belong to the corridor and the south.

The throat is deep enough for the world’s largest crude oil tankers and is used by large oil and gas producers in the Middle East – and their customers.

In the first half of 2023, the US Energy Information Office (EIA), which is about $ 600 billion in annual energy trade ($ 448 billion ($ 448 billion) passed through the throat of oil.

This oil is not only Iran, but also Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia and UAE.

Former head of the British intelligence agency Mi6, Sir Alex Cavan, BBC’s worst work scenario in the Iran-Israeli conflict was surrounded by the Strait of Hormuz.

“The closure of the throat would be an impressive economic problem, which will be in price,” he said.

According to Bader al-Saif, the associate professor of Kuwait University specializing in the geopolitical field of the Arabian Peninsula.

“This would lead to direct results in world markets, because you will consider an upto an uptiture in oil prices (and) you will see that you will react very frustrating to what happens in stock exchanges (and

Of course, the economies would harm the energy exports to the exports to the Gulf countries.

For example, Saudi Arabia, for example, uses the throat to export 6 million barrels of crude oil a day – more than any neighboring country – analysts.

Iran, compared to the international energy agency, compared to 1.7 million barrels of exports a day. Iran exported $ 67 billion in the fiscal year in late 2025 – the highest oil revenues in the last decade – according to the Central Bank of Iran.

Asia would also be difficult. In 2022, 82% of crude oil and condensate (usually low-density of low-density in natural gas) were closed for Asian countries for Asian countries.

Only China is estimated that 90% of Iran’s oil exported to the global market.

To do this, any violations can increase fuel and production costs at a time when China has to trust production and exports. This is not just an internal problem, or rising production costs can eventually cause inflation in the world.

The speech can also affect the other major economy between the largest importers after China. Half of India passes through 60% of the import of India’s crude oil and natural gas. It is reported that South Korea’s three-year-old is 60% of crude oil through the Strait and Japan.

The United Nations rules allow countries to apply to 12 sea miles (13.8 miles) from the coast.

This means that in its narrow point, the Strait of Hormuz and his shipping strips lie in the territorial waters of Iran and Oman.

If Iran breaks 3,000 or so many ships passing through the throat every month, the experts can use the experts using fast attack ships and submarines.

Iran’s regular fleet and the Islamic Revolutionary Protective Corps (IRGC) Navy can attack foreign warships and trade ships.

However, large warships, in turn, can turn easy targets for US airstrikes.

Iran’s rapid ships are often armed with ship missiles and operate a number of surface ships, semi-submarines and submarines.

Experts say Iran can temporarily close the throat, but many are equally convinced that the United States and their allies can quickly reset the flow of sea transport by military means.

The US did it before.

In the late 1980s, during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, he saw the “Tanker War”, which attacked neutral ships, which attacked neutral ships.

Kuwait tankers carrying the Iraqi oil were particularly sensitive, and as a result, American warships began to accompany them through the Gulf of the Gulf of the largest sea caravan since World War II.

Iran has never threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz in former conflicts.

Perhaps the closest call was during the tanker war in the late 1980s – but even passed through the Strait of Hormuz and never violated.

If Iran presents the threat, this time may be different.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims that the closure of the Strait of the Strait of Iran will be “economic suicide” and China, Tehran’s ally, called to intervene.

“I recommend the Chinese government to call it in Beijing (Iran) because they depend on the Strait of Hormuz on their oil,” said Rubio said in a meeting with Fox.

“We maintain our choices to deal with this, but other countries should look at this. The economy of other countries would hurt something worse than ourselves.”

Although China has not yet responded, Beijing can receive diplomatic weight to welcome any rise in oil prices or traffic violations or to refuse to surrender their diplomatic weight.

Energy analyst Vandana Hari said that Iran is “to lose a lot to earn a lot.”

“In the Iranian Gulf turns oil and gas to the enemy and calls the pus of China’s main market, violating the traffic in the throat,” Hari BBC said.

The sustainable threat of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led to the development of alternative export routes from oil exporters over the years for years.

According to an EIA report, Saudi Arabia activated the 1,200-kilometer-long line of 1,200 km long as the barrel of 5 m a day.

In 2019, Saudi Arabia considered the natural gas pipeline to carry crude oil.

The United Arab Emirates closed the domestic oil fields to the port of Fujaira via a pipeline with a pipeline with a pipeline with a pipeline with a daily capacity of 1.5 million barrels.

In July 2021, Iran opened the Goreh-Jask Pipeline, designed to move to the bay of crude oil. This pipeline can now carry about 350,000 barrels per day – although the reports are not yet Iran.

The EIA estimates that these alternative roads can collect 3.5 million barrels of oil per day – about 15% of crude oil passing through the throat.