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How Hormuz Tensions Push Up Oil Prices and Rattle the World Economy

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The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most dangerous pressure poin ts. A narrow waterway off Iran’s coast through which about 20 percent of global oil and liquefied natural gas exports must pass. Whenever regional tensions spike, this chokepoint becomes a direct transmission belt between war risk in the Gulf and p

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The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most dangerous pressure poin ts. A narrow waterway off Iran’s coast through which about 20 percent of global oil and liquefied natural gas exports must pass. Whenever regional tensions spike, this chokepoint becomes a direct transmission belt between war risk in the Gulf and p

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