Iran Grants Chinese Vessels Hormuz Transit Rights, Fars Reports
⚓ HORMUZ — The blockade has a carve-out, and it's shaped exactly like Beijing's leverage. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: If confirmed, this fractures the blockade's universal logic: Hormuz isn't closed, it's selectively closed. China gets passage; everyone else doesn't. Xi just left the summit with "great" atmospherics and a concrete prize. Washington's coalition partners — UAE, Japan, South Korea — now face a two-tier strait. Tehran is pricing Beijing's non-pressure at market rate.
