Explainer: The corridor that closed behind them

Iran says nothing has changed at Hormuz. The map says the route shipping built to avoid the problem has just been brought inside it.

Iran says nothing has changed at Hormuz. The map says otherwise and the route shipping built to avoid the problem has just been brought inside it.

For eleven weeks, the southern corridor hugging the Omani coast was commercial shipping’s answer to the Strait of Hormuz.

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