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Traveling Through a Closed Strait of Hormuz with Graeme Wood

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March 17, 2026

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The Strait of Hormuz is a crucial crossing for the world’s oil supply—and Iran’s closure of the passage amid U.S. and Israeli strikes has snarled shipping traffic. Graeme Wood chartered a boat to see the unusually quiet strait first-hand:

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