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A Tale of 2 Straits: Global Shippers Prefer Washington’s Version Over Tehran’s

Increasing ‘dark transit’ traffic undermines Iran’s claim it controls Hormuz, but an Aug. 18 missile attack undermines U.S. assurances of safe passage.

A U.S. Navy minesweeping helicopter leads the way for the 12th U.S. reflagged Kuwaiti tanker convoy on Oct. 22, 1987. Norbert Schiller/AFP via Getty Images

John Haughey
Reporter
8/20/2026|Updated: 8/20/2026


With the Aug. 17 expiration of the 60-day memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran, there’s little indication either side is backing down from dueling narratives about who controls access to the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.

It remains a tale of two straits.

Tehran maintains that the 104-mile-long waterway is closed to ships unless they enter and exit the Gulf through the Iranian Unilateral Scheme, or northern route, that previously was exclusively used for inbound traffic.

Global shippers refute any Iranian claim of sovereignty and Washington maintains that ships are moving through the United Nations’ authorized southern route along the Omani coast, which was formerly designed for outbound traffic into the Gulf of Oman, under the protection of U.S. Navy destroyers.

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