Who prevents the resumption of ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz? One wonders about it, even if until recently Everyone believed that blocking maritime transits in the Iran was in retaliation for the incursions of the forces U.S. and Israeli military operations on Iranian territory last February 28. The majority of attacks on ships that have occurred since then in the area of Hormuz have been attributed Iranian forces, and mainly the Guards Corps of the Islamic Revolution, and over a month ago from the headquarters of the of the armed forces in Tehran had come the announcement of the blockade of the Narrow. Blockade that the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs on Friday had declared temporarily suspended after the announcement of the ten-day truce between Israel and Lebanon ( of 17 April 2026).

Over a month ago, US President Donald Trump had called for the formation of a coalition of international forces to establish a safe corridor in the Strait of Hormuz through to transit the commercial ships still blocked in the region. In recent days, Trump had said that a truce with the Iran would only be possible if Tehran restored complete freedom of safe navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.

After the subsequent announcement of the blockade of maritime traffic by and for Iranian ports issued by the US Central Command, after The attack by American naval forces on the Iranian container ship Touska that has sparked protests from Tehran ( of 14 and 20 April 2026), and after the failure to resume negotiations for a truce scheduled to begin today in Islamabad, in these hours Trump has categorically stated that he was the one who closed the Strait of Hormuz, placing it under the total US control, stressing that in the absence of this blockade would never reach an agreement with Iran. Trump has stated that Tehran declares that it wants the closure of the Strait simply to "save face" and also says that Tehran would actually like the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the blockade of which would cost Iran 500 million dollars a day and would be causing financial collapse of the nation.

Meanwhile, today at the British United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has received notification of an incident that has occurred 15 nautical miles north-east of Oman, with the commander of a container ship, which announced that the ship was approached by an armed boat of the Guards Corps of the Islamic revolution that has made no attempt to contact via VHF and who opened fire on the container holder causing serious damage to the bridge. The captain of the ship specified that there were no fires or damage and that the entire crew is unharmed.

It is therefore uncertain who is currently blocking the Strait of Hormuz and those who really want it reopened to navigation, The only certainty is that the area has never been as in These hours are the focal point of the crisis, with Tehran using Hormuz as a tool to induce the US to mitigate its conditions for a more or less lasting truce, although aware that the its closure causes damage to the Iranian economy, and with Washington which uses it as a tool to push Tehran to accept the aware that the use of additional forces to would require significant resources and would risk dragging the United States into a war from which It would be difficult to get out.