Gregg Carlstrom
"For the first time on record, Iran has gone about seven weeks without shipping meaningful crude exports through the Strait of Hormuz." So in operational terms, the blockade is working. But throttling oil exports is a means, not an end. The question is when/if it compels a change in Iranian behavior, and the answer, needless to say, is unclear. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/blockade-succeeds-where-sanctions-failed-iran-oil-exports-stall-2026-09-01/