The Strait of Hormuz was still largely devoid of shipping traffic in the hours following the announcement of a US-Iran peace deal, as analysts warned it remained uncertain how and when normal operations along the waterway would be restored.<\/p>\n
The only vessel moving in the strait on Monday morning was broadcasting its status as a patrol ship, according to data from vessel tracking platform MarineTraffic, as hundreds of commercial ships remained stranded in the region.<\/p>\n
The United States and Iran confirmed plans to end<\/a> their nearly four-month-long hostilities on Monday morning Hong Kong time, with US President Donald Trump posting on social media shortly after that the Strait of Hormuz would reopen after an official signing ceremony for the agreement is held on Friday.Analysts, however, cautioned that uncertainty lingered over the practicalities of reopening the strategic waterway<\/a>, which was used to transport about one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil and gas before the war.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are still many unclear aspects surrounding the agreement \u2013 and the agreement itself appears somewhat fragile,\u201d said Xu Muyu, a senior crude oil analyst at trade intelligence firm Kpler.<\/p>\n She noted that potential disruptions could emerge before the scheduled signing on Friday, and that details regarding the practical implementation of the deal remained unclear, such as whether Washington would first need to lift its blockade and release frozen Iranian assets before the waterway could reopen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Strait of Hormuz was still largely devoid of shipping traffic in the hours following the announcement of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[38,4331,102,6210,3673,34,6457,15808,39,101,51,25833,1705,50543],"class_list":["post-160295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-donald-trump","tag-hong-kong","tag-hormuz","tag-international-energy-agency","tag-international-maritime-organisation","tag-iran","tag-kpler","tag-marinetraffic","tag-persian-gulf","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-united-states","tag-us-iran-peace-deal","tag-washington","tag-xu-muyu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116752149572069920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}