Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2014 Iraqi economic expert Ziyad Al-Hashemi stated on Saturday, August 22, 2026, that international crude buyers have successfully expanded oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz independently, making Tehran\u2019s recent exceptional passage permits redundant.<\/p>\n
According to Al-Hashemi\u2019s analysis, published on social media and reported by regional news platforms, maritime tracking indicators show that commercial operators adapted to regional security risks days before official Iranian clearances were publicized. Consequently, he described Tehran\u2019s formal approval as a late public-relations gesture aimed at courting the Iraqi public rather than a decisive logistical breakthrough.<\/p>\n
Maritime Analytics & Key Operational Metrics<\/p>\n
1 to 2 Million BPD Flowing: Energy market and maritime analytics from Vortexa confirm that seaborne crude volumes traversing the Strait of Hormuz averaged between 1 million and 2 million barrels per day (bpd) over the past 10 days, primarily originating from Iraq and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
Regional Total Reaching 3M BPD: Adding daily crude and fuel consignments from Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, total maritime throughput across the waterway reached approximately 3 million bpd.<\/p>\n
Adoption of \u201cDark Sailings\u201d: Energy trading firms and shipping lines adapted by deploying smaller tankers and executing \u201cdark sailings\u201d\u2014turning off or minimizing Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponders\u2014to obscure vessel positions and reduce targeting risks during transit.<\/p>\n
Declining Maritime Attacks: Despite an increase in passing tanker traffic, maritime incidents and Iranian interdictions declined notably over the same period, signaling either altered strategic calculations regarding the Strait of Hormuz or diminished operational capacity to sustain maritime disruption.<\/p>\n
Diminished Strategic Value of Permits: Because international buyers and shipping syndicates had already established functional transit routines, Al-Hashemi noted that Tehran\u2019s publicized approvals arrived after navigational flows had already stabilized.<\/p>\n
The analysis follows recent diplomatic and security discussions held in Baghdad between Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Iraqi officials, during which Tehran agreed to grant exceptional passage permits to designated Iraqi crude tankers navigating the chokepoint.<\/p>\n
While state-level agreements sought to address maritime concerns, real-time energy flow tracking indicates that commercial charterers and global energy buyers utilized operational workarounds and alternative navigation protocols to maintain southern crude flows out of Basra\u2019s offshore terminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2014 Iraqi economic expert Ziyad Al-Hashemi stated on Saturday, August 22, 2026, that international crude buyers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[1711,5277,71827,154,71828,94,71829,71830,71831],"class_list":["post-261182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-baghdad","tag-basra","tag-basra-oil-exports-strait-of-hormuz-security","tag-energy","tag-iran-strait-of-hormuz-tanker-passage-permits","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-saudi-oil-tankers-vortexa-data","tag-vortexa-iraq-crude-tankers-dark-sailings","tag-ziyad-al-hashemi-strait-of-hormuz-iraqi-oil-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117144708923344464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261182","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=261182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}