{"id":186928,"date":"2026-07-02T02:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/186928\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T02:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:30:44","slug":"renewed-oil-flows-give-us-leverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/186928\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewed oil flows give US leverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The recent surge in commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz could give the US additional leverage in talks with Iran, analysts said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More than 10 million barrels of oil are flowing through the waterway daily, a US official told Bloomberg, adding that the jump underscores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-01\/us-sees-10-million-barrels-via-hormuz-sapping-iran-oil-leverage?srnd=homepage-americas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Tehran\u2019s limited ability;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Tehran\u2019s limited ability&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Tehran\u2019s limited ability<\/a> to control traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The future of Hormuz is hanging over indirect talks in Qatar this week \u2014 US officials are making the case that Iran would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/07\/01\/iran-talks-doha-tolls-strait-hormuz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:gain more from a nuclear deal;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;gain more from a nuclear deal&quot;}\" class=\"link \">gain more from a nuclear deal<\/a> than tolls in the strait. Tehran could also benefit economically from open oil flows: Iran\u2019s chief negotiator said the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/01\/iran-us-mou-negotiation-war-oil-exports-strait-of-hormuz-.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:didn\u2019t export a single barrel of oil;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;didn\u2019t export a single barrel of oil&quot;}\" class=\"link \">didn\u2019t export a single barrel of oil<\/a> during the US blockade, but has shipped 40 million since it was lifted.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"US monthly oil exports, barrels per day\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"739\" height=\"678\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6078f180b5cf2a4f5497277c1925ce47.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>US monthly oil exports, barrels per day<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/jd-capelouto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:J.D. Capelouto;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;J.D. Capelouto&quot;}\" class=\"link \">J.D. Capelouto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent surge in commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz could give the US additional leverage in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[7133,102,29539,34,101],"class_list":["post-186928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-commercial-shipping","tag-hormuz","tag-indirect-talks","tag-iran","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116848035442861987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186928","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=186928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}