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Five LPG carriers, each Indian flagged and bound for India, are anchored northbound disconnected Dubai-Ras Al Khaimah, conscionable southwest of the Strait of Hormuz, arsenic per vessel tracker websites.
Appearing to clump unneurotic truthful they tin unit retired of the strait, these ships transportation much than 1.7 lakh tonnes of LPG — equivalent to astir six days of India’s existent import requirements. But they were not moving connected a time Iran seemed to clamp down connected immoderate vessel question crossed the strait aft earlier saying it would o.k. ships of affable countries to walk through.
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On Friday (March 27, 2026), Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said that they had turned backmost 3 ships trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz, adding the way was closed to vessels travelling to and from ports linked to its “enemies”. “This morning, pursuing the lies of the corrupt U.S. President claiming that the Strait of Hormuz was open, 3 instrumentality ships of antithetic nationalities... were turned backmost aft a informing from the IRGC Navy,” the Guards said connected their Sepah News website. A full of 26 ships person been approved by Iran to transit the strait recently, utilizing a way astir Larak Island conscionable disconnected the country’s coast, dubbed the “Tehran toll booth” by starring shipping diary Lloyd’s List. Most were Greek- and Chinese-owned, arsenic good arsenic different Indian-, Pakistani- and Syrian-owned vessels.
Iran had antecedently announced that ships of India and immoderate different countries — Russia, Iraq, Pakistan, China and Thailand — tin walk the strait. However, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi had said that the U.S., Israel and immoderate Gulf States progressive successful the existent warfare volition not beryllium allowed to walk done the strait.
(With inputs from AFP)
