The Strait of Hormuz remains open to all shipping except vessels linked to “Iran’s enemies”, Iranian media reports published on Sunday quoted Iran’s representative to the U.N. maritime agency as saying.
Ali Mousavi’s comments came from an interview published on Friday by Chinese news agency Xinhua, before U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to target Iranian power plants if the strait was not “fully open” within 48 hours.
The threat of Iranian attacks during the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has kept most ships from getting through the narrow strait, the conduit for around a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies, threatening a global energy shock.
Non Western aligned vessels are getting through albeit slowly. Several Asian countries have received deliveries of liquid petroleum gas and China is still getting oil. In fact Iran has said they will let oil tankers through if the oil is purchased in yuan (to undermine the petrodollar).
Reportedly there is a secure channel between the island of Qeshm and Larak that they are using to get these ships through.