Gulf States Fast-Track Pipeline and Port Projects to Bypass Hormuz

🏭 GULF — The region is quietly building around a strait it can't afford to need. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Gulf states accelerating bypass infrastructure signals they've internalized Hormuz closure as structural, not temporary. Every pipeline commissioned reduces Iranian leverage — and Pezeshkian's negotiating floor. If Saudi and UAE export capacity routes around the strait, the corridor deal Tehran is demanding becomes less valuable to buy. Hardliners lose their primary economic weapon without firing a shot.