00:20The world's most important oil choke point just slammed shut again.
00:25Hours after a container ship was hit near the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military launched
00:31over 140 strikes on Iran.
00:34And Iran's answer?
00:36Shut the strait down until further notice.
00:39This is the third round of strikes in a single week, and the ceasefire everyone thought would
00:45hold just collapsed.
00:47Saturday night, a Cyprus-flagged container ship, the GFS Galaxy, is moving through the
00:54Strait when Iran's Revolutionary Guard opens fire, claiming the ship used an unauthorized
01:00route.
01:01The vessel takes serious engine room damage.
01:04One crew member is still missing.
01:07Within hours, CENCOM confirms it.
01:10American forces have struck roughly 140 Iranian targets.
01:15Their message was blunt.
01:16Iran made a poor choice.
01:18Now they pay.
01:19Here's why this isn't just another headline.
01:23Before this conflict, one-fifth of the entire world's traded oil and gas passed through this
01:30strait.
01:31It's barely 21 miles wide at its narrowest point.
01:34Choke it off, and you choke off the global economy.
01:38That's exactly what happened earlier this year.
01:41Oil spiked to $120 a barrel.
01:45Prices have cooled since, but Iran just pulled the pin again.
01:50This wasn't supposed to happen.
01:52Hours earlier, Iran's foreign minister sat down with Oman to talk about guaranteeing
01:58safe passage through the strait.
02:00Oman even said both sides agreed to keep talking.
02:04But instead of standing down, Iran's Revolutionary Guard fired warning shots and declared the waterway
02:11closed, blowing up the exact negotiation that was meant to save the ceasefire.
02:17And it's not just Hormuz.
02:20Iran's new supreme leader broke his silence with a vow of revenge for his father's killing.
02:26Trump fired back on social media, warning a thousand missiles were locked and loaded,
02:32with thousands more ready if Iran acted on threats against him.
02:36Add strikes hitting Jordan, sirens in Bahrain, an intercepted missile over Qatar, and you've
02:43got a region on the edge of a much wider war.
02:46So now the question is simple.
02:48Does this fragile truce survive the weekend, or are we watching the real war restart in real
02:55time?
02:56Because right now, the world's oil lifeline is closed, missiles are being promised on camera,
03:02and both sides are accusing the other of breaking the deal first.
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