Chokepoint Data · the Strait of Hormuz crisis

Iran's military orders complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz

2026-06-11 · policy · major

Iran's military ordered the complete closure of the strait early on Thursday June 11 in response to several days of US strikes, including reported explosions in Bandar Abbas and on Qeshm Island that CENTCOM called a proportional response to attacks on US forces. The order ended a period in which Iran had selectively allowed some ships to pass, reportedly for tolls as high as $2m per ship.

Brent next close -3.0% · +7 days -17.1% · transits 2.7 → 3.1 per day · reaction near an ordinary day (83.5th percentile)

Attribution caveat: 2 other major event(s) sit inside this one's ±7-day window (2026-06-14 US and Iran reach framework deal to end war and reopen Hormuz; 2026-06-17 Trump and Pezeshkian sign Islamabad Memorandum ending war and blockades), so the reaction is not cleanly separable.

Sources

Al Jazeera

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