There are dozens of sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz that will require months to remove once operations begin, the Italian ...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a map puporting to show a "danger zone" littered with sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Negotiations on reopening the critical global shipping passage ...

The narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea has become the epicenter of a technological revolution in naval warfare. The Strait of Hormuz, through which nearly 30% of the ...

In the Middle Eastern theater, Iran exercises strategic control over the Strait of Hormuz through the employment of Unmanned ...

May 10, 2026: Iran has been unable to open the Strait of Hormuz to additional shipping traffic because it cannot locate all of the mines it laid in the waterway and lacks the capability to remove them ...

The US is ramping up its minesweeping operations in the Strait of Hormuz — after US officials reportedly found that Iran had dropped more mines in the narrow oil chokepoint, which has been effectively ...

Takaya Soga, CEO of Japan’s NYK Line, said shipping would only resume at much lower volumes because of the capacity ...

Tensions in the world’s most critical oil shipping lane reached a dangerous new level on May 25, 2026, when U.S. forces conducted targeted strikes against Iranian military assets in southern Iran. The ...

Iran placed sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz during the cease-fire that began April 7, according to information released by the Pentagon. The regime dropped additional mines in the strategic waterway ...

That could potentially hold up tens of millions of barrels of oil, in addition to the oil supply from the Gulf already blocked since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on February 28.