IRGC spokesperson says military confrontations take place in the Strait of Hormuz every 24 hours, but the US has not responded for some time, Al Mayadeen reports

The operative distinction is between harassment-level incidents, which have tended to move crude and product prices only briefly, and an actual closure or mining scenario, which has never materialised even at the peaks of past tensions and would trigger a different order of response. The concrete transmission channel when such rhetoric gains traction is the freight and insurance complex: war-risk premia, tanker rates and re-routing costs around the Gulf react well before any physical shortfall, as does the prompt end of the crude curve via timespreads rather than outright length. The framing here, claiming regular confrontations and an absence of US response, reads as domestic-audience bravado rather than escalation, but it raises the value of any corroborating incident reports, seizure activity or changes in US naval posture in the area. Worth watching is whether commercial shipping behaviour, insurance quotes or official US confirmation follows; absent those, episodes of this kind have tended to fade from price within sessions.