Iranian Foreign Ministry says security will not return to the Strait of Hormuz as long as the US blockade and economic war against Iran continue, Al Jazeera reports

Statements of this kind from Iranian officials sit within a long pattern of Hormuz rhetoric, in which the strait is invoked as leverage rather than closed outright; actual disruption has historically been confined to tanker seizures and harassment episodes, since a full closure cuts off Iran's own export lifeline and has never been sustained. The framing here ties security to sanctions relief, which is the standard negotiating posture and signals no immediate escalation beyond the existing standoff. The transmission channel that matters for crude is not the headline itself but any physical corroboration: war-risk insurance premia, freight rates on the Gulf-to-Asia run, and tanker tracking, all of which have tended to reprice ahead of flat price when rhetoric has turned kinetic in past episodes. The distinction worth drawing is between a headline bid that fades within sessions, the usual sequence for verbal escalation, and one underwritten by actual interference with shipping, which has historically carried a more durable geopolitical premium. The follow-ons are whether US or Iranian military posture in the Gulf changes, and whether the sanctions track shows any movement that would soften the linkage the ministry is making.