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Coverage · August · 2026 · Energy · 79 articles

Trump's Hormuz brinkmanship turns up the heat on Iran's leverage

Trump rules out a nuclear strike on Iran and ties Venezuelan crude to US refiners, in one tight 31 August window

Trump's 'failed nation' framing of Iran lands as Polymarket prices talks at 15%

Gas Spikes, Stocks Slide: Iran Strike Reverberates Through European Energy Markets

US strikes Iranian launchers on Larak Island, oil jumps over 1% as Hormuz risk returns to the tape

US strikes Iranian launchers near Hormuz as drone-down claim and tanker corridor question collide

US strikes Iranian launchers on Larak Island, oil ticks up

Trump says Venezuelan crude will refill a drawn-down U.S. strategic reserve

US strike on Larak launchers tests an already contested strait

Stubb says Russia won't test NATO. Europe's central bankers aren't sure they can count on that.

Iran widens Hormuz framing to a Gaza conditional, as Polymarket traders hold

Forty percent at Hormuz: How a sanctions squeeze is rewiring Iran’s oil-corridor calculus

Venezuela hands Washington a 65-billion-barrel key: what is actually in the Trump–Caracas oil deal

Hormuz deal slips further as Trump pulls MOU and Tehran sets its terms

Tehran sets conditions on Hormuz; Trump pulls the MoU, and oil traders price the standoff

Trump scraps Iran MOU as White House convenes refiners over fuel-price pressure

Qatar's Tehran shuttle: two Iranian messages in one afternoon

Allied caution revives doubts over Hormuz clearance as Trump claims full detonation

Iran says Hormuz stays shut until U.S. lifts blockade; Tehran and Oman claim a revenue-sharing deal

Trump sends Saudi civil-nuclear pact to Congress, with Israel recognition in the package

Trump sends 30-year US-Saudi nuclear accord to Congress, with Israel recognition

Trump claims Strait of Hormuz has been demined; Iran says closure stays until the war ends

Hormuz corridor plan and Iran's oil condition sit inside the same PressTV post

The Strait of Hormuz is not open until shipping can trust it

Trump says Strait of Hormuz is clear of mines; Tehran keeps its silence

Trump says US Navy has cleared Hormuz mines; Space Force now 'monitoring every square inch'

Ontario's Ford puts electricity and critical minerals on the table in Trump tariff war

Trump's 'economic D-Day' on Iran lands with Beijing in the crosshairs

Bessent's economic war on Iran: a Treasury campaign whose rhetoric runs ahead of the policy text

Tehran names 45 tankers in Hormuz as Friday US-Iran accord looms

Bessent's 'economic D-Day' frame sets the US-Iran fight on a financial battlefield

Iran's parliament moves to charge Hormuz transit as US readies new economic measures

Hormuz becomes a toll booth: Tehran weaponises the strait one tanker at a time

Telegraph report says Iran-linked hackers took a small UK power plant offline for four days

Trump signals harder line on Iran as Iran claims weapons output has doubled

Washington widens Iran squeeze, asks Beijing and Europe to choose a side

South Korea's nuclear arithmetic: 80 to 120 warheads, and a widening gap with Washington

Trump pulls envoys from Iran talks as Hormuz standoff hardens

'Trump declares Hormuz ''open,'' Iran says otherwise: a duelling-claim day

Trump calls Hormuz "open," Iran says it stays shut: the most-watched waterway in the world is in two places at once

'Hormuz stays shut: Iran says blockade must lift before any deal, and Hormuz''s

Brent back above $91 as the 60-day US-Iran deal window lapses and Trump rejects an extension

Hormuz stays sealed until sanctions lift and blockade ends, Ghalibaf says

Ankara courts the Iran track: what Erdogan's Trump call does, and what it doesn't

Oman–Iran Hormuz deal priced at 60% on Polymarket; US-Iran track sits at 12%, Trump threat lands

Oman in the crossfire: a Hormuz deal takes shape as Trump floats bombing and territory

Wright plans refiner meetings on fuel output, then tells reporters the US 'gets' 8-9 million b/d through Hormuz

Tehran signals Hormuz shift as traders price one-in-three odds on a deal

India bets on chips and reactors, not just cockroaches

Modi's 80th-Independence-Day pitch: a Fortune-500 target and a growth framing led by energy

Bessent's blockade warning meets strain aboard the Abraham Lincoln

Two ADNOC tankers struck in the Strait of Hormuz: what the UAE has said, and what is still unset

Hormuz standoff lands on the UK rebound and the inventory question

Tehran claims control of Hormuz as vessel traffic sinks to three-month lows

Hormuz stays shut: Iran's counter-message after Trump's reopening claim

Iran sets conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz as US estimates 600,000 bpd disruption

Trump declares Strait of Hormuz open and "100%" controlled; wire, naval advisories and the Geneva track remain the test

Trump's Iran 'compensation' demand recasts the war ledger

Hormuz is back in the frame, and the market just opened a prediction ticker

Hormuz blockade stretches past five months as traders abandon an August-deal

Polymarket puts a Hormuz deal this month at 22% as Iran's IRGC sets conditions

Hormuz stays shut: Tehran's demands recast the bargaining around Iran's nuclear file

ADNOC tanker hit as Iran sets terms for any Hormuz reopening

Hormuz deal "close" but Tehran holds the terms, UAE missile strike shows

A missile, a deal, and a chokepoint: the Strait of Hormuz enters its negotiating phase

Washington signals Hormuz deal 'soon' as Gulf states sign parallel Sunni defence pact

Four US Tech Giants Now Carry $1.46 Trillion in Physical Assets. The Energy Bill Comes With It.

Hormuz traffic near standstill as Trump talks up a quick end and Iran moves to block US and Israeli tonnage

Rezaei declares no second corridor in the Strait of Hormuz, warns US forces of 'serious dangers and casualties' if blockade continues

Iran's parliamentary committee reviews Hormuz draft targeting US and Israeli shipping

Tehran and Muscat align on Hormuz corridor as Trump's 'deal today' claim meets Iranian denial

Strait of Hormuz deal: what 5 August's whiplash tells us about Washington's Iran gamble

Hormuz deal claim meets a strike: the gap between Trump's announcement and the water

Iran's top advisor declares US 'defeated' in 'Trump's third war' as Hormuz

Trump sets Oman-mediated Hormuz deadline, Tehran's transit-fee claim rejected

Trump's Hormuz deadline lands as Iran publicly denies any active deal track

Tehran plays the chokepoint: Hormuz reopens to friends, stays shut to the rest

Trump cancels Iran strike, cites Gulf states' appeal as Hormuz and nuclear talks reset

Trump claims a deal, Tehran says no: the Strait of Hormuz claim-counterclaim in real time