Iran is reportedly weighing blocking a key commercial choke point known as the Strait of Hormuz, a move that could ...

Iran's threat to block the world's most vital oil transit point has raised fears of major global economic consequences.

Iran last disrupted traffic in the Persian Gulf in April last year when it seized an Israel-linked container ship near the ...

Leir Professor of the Economics of the Middle East in the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, reflects on the internal and external pressures shaping Iran’s future — from ...

Naval forces in the Middle East warned that ships, especially U.S.-linked ones, could be at heightened risk after the U.S.

Experts have raised fears of an economic shock as one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas passes through the Strait ...

A decade ago, the rest of the Middle East had nearly as much economic reason to fear Iran as it did militarily.

Iran may close the vital maritime route, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil supply is shipped every day.

Just 24 miles wide at its narrowest point, the Strait of Hormuz is a crucial waterway through which millions of barrels of ...

Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane handling 20% of global petroleum demand, in response to U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.