Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz crisis, global oil supply disruption, maritime security risk, US naval blockade Iran, oil tanker shipping routes escalated sharply after Iran announced it has once again closed the strategic waterway in response to what it described as a continued US naval blockade of its ports. The move has raised serious concerns across the Middle East shipping crisis, energy market volatility, international maritime trade, oil transit chokepoint, tanker security threat, as nearly 20 percent of the world’s traded oil flows through this narrow corridor.