{"id":37547,"date":"2026-03-26T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/37547\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:59:12","slug":"irans-gift-to-the-world-10-oil-tankers-through-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/37547\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Gift To the World: 10 Oil Tankers Through Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">President Donald Trump said Thursday that Iran allowed 10 oil tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz, describing the move as a \u201cpresent\u201d and a sign of progress in ongoing negotiations. The comment, made during a Cabinet meeting, offers the clearest indication yet of what the administration had been hinting at earlier this week\u2014some limited easing at the world\u2019s most critical oil chokepoint.<\/p>\n<p>The details are scant. The White House has not confirmed specifics on the vessels, their cargo, or whether additional transits are expected. Trump suggested the ships were foreign-flagged, possibly Pakistani, and framed the move as a goodwill gesture from Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>The market will take it for what it is: incremental and highly conditional.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Roughnecks-Riches-Start-Up-American-Fracking\/dp\/B0FCDBHGSW\" class=\"charts_banner_clicked charts_banner_add_view\" data-banner_id=\"38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"not_lightbox\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/book.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flows through the Strait of Hormuz have been restricted for weeks, with Iran effectively controlling passage and allowing select cargoes through at its discretion. The result has been a sharp dislocation between paper and physical markets, with Brent trading at $108 per barrel while physical barrels struggle to move.<\/p>\n<p>Ten tankers does not fix that, but it\u2019s a start.<\/p>\n<p>At normal operating levels, the Strait handles roughly a fifth of global oil flows. Letting a small number of vessels through may ease some immediate pressure\u2014particularly for buyers in Asia\u2014but it does not restore anything close to normal trade.<\/p>\n<p>But it does reinforce the point that access to the Strait is now a lever.<\/p>\n<p>Iran appears willing to modulate flows, not reopen them outright. That keeps pressure on the global system while signaling just enough flexibility to <a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/Iran-Defiant-as-US-Pushes-Deal-to-End-Expanding-Conflict.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">keep negotiations alive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, every barrel moving through Hormuz right now is doing so on someone\u2019s terms.<\/p>\n<p>By Julianne Geiger for Oilprice.com<\/p>\n<p>More Top Reads From Oilprice.com<a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Latest-Energy-News\/World-News\/Trump-EPA-Set-to-Scrap-Landmark-Emissions-Policy.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Latest-Energy-News\/World-News\/The-Iran-War-Has-Upended-Global-LNG-Markets.html\" data-embargo=\"1774512000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said Thursday that Iran allowed 10 oil tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz, describing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[102,196,213,261,523,101,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-37547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-hormuz","9":"tag-iran-war","10":"tag-oil","11":"tag-oil-prices","12":"tag-oil-transit","13":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","14":"tag-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116297018034866315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37547","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=37547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}