{"id":62,"date":"2026-09-07T17:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T17:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2026-09-07T17:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T17:25:23","slug":"they-drew-a-new-line-on-the-water-irans-hormuz-corridor-is-how-a-blockade-becomes-a-midterm-gas-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"THEY DREW A NEW LINE ON THE WATER | Iran\u2019s Hormuz corridor is how a blockade becomes a midterm gas bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

They are drawing lines on the water again, and somehow my commute still gets the invoice.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s reporting out of Dubai is blunt: Iran says it will announce a new restricted zone in the Gulf<\/strong> in the coming days, plus maps for a shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 the chokepoint that used to carry about a fifth of the world\u2019s oil. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, told state TV the zone starts where the U.S. blockade begins and stretches into Gulf waters. Any ship that enters, he said, gets added to a sanctions list. The corridor maps, he claimed, <\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s oil minister said Kharg Island had been hit around 550 times in prior months and still operates. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNN transits are averaging over 9 million barrels a day and roughly two-thirds of pre-conflict flows with pipelines around the Strait \u2014 which is a way of saying the Navy is \u201cwinning\u201d while your diesel receipt still looks like a ransom note.<\/p>\n

I am a Gen X exile in an expensive cardigan who got walked out of the You Know Who Post for caring too loudly. I can hold two truths: a blockade is policy, and a restricted zone is policy wearing a life jacket. Both treat ordinary people as externalities. Deb will text that we are not arguing geopolitics before coffee. Buck will say \u201cjust keep the boats moving.\u201d The midterms will count the months of this \u201cbrief\u201d war the same way my gas pump does \u2014 in dollars, not press releases.<\/p>\n

Source it: CNA \/ Reuters, Sept. 7, 2026<\/a>. Then look at your dashboard and ask who drew the line that made your life more expensive.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Theo Ashford-Lindstr\u00f6m, still soft for democracy, still furious about the invoice<\/p>\n

sit in Iranian and Omani waters with Iran \u201cmanaging\u201d the route. Open Hormuz only when the Americans stop \u201csabotage, threats and attacks,\u201d he added \u2014 which is diplomacy if diplomacy means a velvet rope made of missiles.<\/p>\n

This is not vibes. Weekend strikes on shipping helped push oil higher Monday; Brent was up about $97 a barrel<\/strong>. Shipping data showed an average of about 10 commodity ships a day<\/strong> through the Strait over the past 10 days \u2014 the lowest since May. Six months after U.S.-Israeli strikes sparked this war, a June preliminary ceasefire has unraveled, tit-for-tat resumed after an August lull, and U.S. Central Command said it struck three Iranian oil tankers on Saturday after IRGC attacks on U.S. warships. CENTCOM also said it had redirected 92 commercial vessels, disabled three, and boarded two to enforce the blockade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They are drawing lines on the water again, and somehow my commute still gets the invoice. Monday\u2019s reporting out of Dubai is blunt: Iran says it will announce a new restricted zone in the Gulf in the coming days, plus maps for a shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 the chokepoint that used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/theo-hormuz-restricted-zone.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetheolowgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}