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Iran-Qatar Shipping Route Reopens After Five-Month War Suspension

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Iran-Qatar Shipping Route Reopens After Five-Month War Suspension

🚢 GULF — Qatar-Iran sea lane back; Doha talks resume the same week. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Five months closed; reopening days before July 9 is a signal, not logistics. Both sides are creating economic facts before the MoU forces hard choices on Hormuz. For Washington, each restored lane deepens Iran's commercial grip. Qatar hosts a US base and is now Tehran's reopened trade partner — its mediation neutrality just got structurally harder to sustain.

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