That\u2019s because Iran still clearly intends to attack ships that try to transit without going through the Iran-approved route near the Iranian coastline, said Torbjorn Soltvedt, principal Middle East analyst at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis initiative alone isn\u2019t something that looks like it\u2019s going to open the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d he said. Shipping and insurance companies \u201cstill have to wait and see how this plays out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taking the northern route involves going through vetting by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and payment, in at least some cases. The U.S.-guided \u201cProject Freedom\u201d route goes through territorial waters of Oman to the south.<\/p>\n
Reopening the strait \u201ccan really only be done through either an agreement between the United States or Iran,\u201d or if the U.S. significantly diminishes Iran\u2019s ability to attack using drones, missiles and small boats, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s because Iran still clearly intends to attack ships that try to transit without going through the Iran-approved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[467,38,34,196,215],"class_list":{"0":"post-98814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-congress","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-war","12":"tag-israel-iran-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116522283438649465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98814","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=98814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}