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.
