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News & Current Events Apr 17, 2026 at 11:40 PM

Video shows ships turning away from the Strait of Hormuz as confusion persists over whether sea lane is really open

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Video shows ships turning away from Strait of Hormuz as confusion persists over whether sea lane is really open
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Video shows ships turning away from Strait of Hormuz as confusion persists over whether sea lane is really open
The Strait of Hormuz remained effectively closed despite Iran's declaration Friday that it is open, maritime freight and oil analysts told CNBC.
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MachineSpirited7085 Apr 17, 2026 +400
the stait is CLOPENED
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planetarybum Apr 17, 2026 +99
Nah, it's definitely OPENOSED.
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Marijuana_Miler Apr 17, 2026 +46
Everyone heading for the exiterance.
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Chris_HitTheOver Apr 18, 2026 +18
Please keep your ships and tankers inout of the strait at all times. Thank you.
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redditobserverone Apr 18, 2026 +4
Reese’s Peace. You got blockade in my Strait! You got Strait in my Blockade!
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1corn Apr 18, 2026 +4
It's very obviously NOPENED.
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kilapitottpalacsinta Apr 18, 2026 +1
Could it be OPSEDN?
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MysteriousCoerul Apr 17, 2026 +6
Now it's just a picture of a skeleton.
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Capexist Apr 18, 2026 +6
Lmfao
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periodicallyBalzed Apr 18, 2026 +3
Clopen is also when you work the closing shift and then the opening shift the next day.
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TomBong_Jovi Apr 18, 2026 +2
Oh I love Hunchback of Notre Dame
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duaneap Apr 18, 2026 +3
That portmanteau is reserved for the most miserable shift in the service industry, thank you very much.
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tropango Apr 18, 2026 +2
Fun fact, in mathematics a set can be both open and closed at the same time.
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SoCalKate926 Apr 18, 2026 +2
I appreciate you, Math Nerd. 🤓
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plumbbbob Apr 18, 2026 +1
I didn't know bronies were involved at all
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justlurkshere Apr 18, 2026 +1
The GOP doesn't like the word "straight" and the Strait is now confusingly "closeted".
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flavorfox Apr 18, 2026 +1
It’s UNCLOSed
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BishSlapDiplomacy Apr 18, 2026 +1
I laughed way too hard at this.
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montigoo Apr 18, 2026 +1
Schrödinger's strait
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Twisbi Apr 17, 2026 +107
Iran says closed again https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5837279-iran-us-blockade-strait/
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Luigino9876 Apr 18, 2026 +35
Meanwhile markets alredy priced in the end of war. Everything is gucci better than before.
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KIERKEGAARDthe7th Apr 18, 2026 +8
Are they just gullible? Have they just not figured out that Trump is making stuff up and shouldn’t be trusted? Why does *anyone* in the markets even listen to the guy? If I were them I’d be betting on the opposite of everything he says, I’d be a billionaire by the end of the day. 
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Luke_Bavarious Apr 18, 2026 +10
I'm not even sure it's humans making the decisions, it could all just be bots reacting to news.
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All_Fiction Apr 18, 2026 +1
It doesn't matter to them. As long as the line goes up, everything is gucci.
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randomcatinfo Apr 18, 2026 +5
The markets seem so detached from reality now. 20 years ago you could get a feeling for where the markets would go depending on international news, now it seems less consistent.
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BYoungNY Apr 18, 2026 +2
Probably all based in AI now. AI is really good at taking in a ton of information and making decisions on the fly based off of mathematical probability. What AI is bad at is ever thinking that that data could be falsely manipulated by bad actors.
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LewisDftw Apr 17, 2026 +63
I can't say I've ever felt like being a merchant sailor. But especially now must be awful.
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emeraldoasis Apr 18, 2026 +14
Imagine being the college kid thinking it would be cool to ride a cargo ship for c****.
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sammmuel Apr 19, 2026 +1
I live in a town close to where they train ship officers and engineers. When it began, a bunch of students were interning on the ships and they were stuck there. When they came back, they said they found it cool and exhilarating although a bit scary. Says a lot about the kind of person who is interested in such careers!
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ouath Apr 17, 2026 +130
Schrödinger Strait
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Force_Hammer Apr 18, 2026 +34
It was both funny and sad watching that video and seeing those ship markers turn around. "I can do this, I can do this... actually, nope I'm out'
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bonyponyride Apr 18, 2026 +42
It's Aladeen!
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hawkseye17 Apr 18, 2026 +15
Do you want the Aladeen news, or the Aladeen news?
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FuckedTaxpayer Apr 18, 2026 +11
The good news is the Strait is ….. Aladeen! The bad news, well, the Straight is Aladeen… 😳
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tupisac Apr 18, 2026 +1
😃 😟 😃 😟
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WittyCry4374 Apr 18, 2026 +33
For the sake of the world, please involve professional mediators, and not friends, sons-in-law, and fawning field marshalls!
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DevonGr Apr 18, 2026 +12
Spoken like someone that isn't profiting from this absolute cluster f***
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redditobserverone Apr 18, 2026 +3
When you need World Peace in a hurry, call JD & the Realtors. We guarantee ceasefires in 21-hours or less or your peace back!
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moofunk Apr 18, 2026 +20
Rabbit season, duck season, rabbit season, duck season...
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EducationalCicada Apr 17, 2026 +21
Trump will end up wishing the guys who went up in smoke in the opening decapitation strike were still alive.
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mekta_satak_oz Apr 18, 2026 +4
It doesn't matter if it's open or not at this point, no will provide insurance. The companies have also been spooked by Houthi threats to the Suez canal so they're all on the way around the cape of good hope. Shipping maps show huge groups of tankers and cargo ships at anchor either side of the straight, that alone will take weeks or even months to clear.
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sailing_by_the_lee Apr 18, 2026 +4
It isn't confusing at all if you have internalized the fact that Trump lies constantly and reflexively. Trump says what he *wants* to be true, not was is *actually* true. So, it's simple. Never believe anything he says until it has been confirmed by an independent source.
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Agent0fChaoZ Apr 18, 2026 +4
This has to be one of the most confusing time of my life….
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angelomancuso62 Apr 18, 2026 +8
Oh NOOOO! Really? Well this is unexpected.
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WhatWhatWhat79 Apr 18, 2026 +13
Iran is pumping and dumping LOL
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iamnotafbiagnt Apr 18, 2026 +7
They learned it pretty quickly from chief orange
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bonyponyride Apr 18, 2026
Bitcoin also had a huge jump today.
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ThatsItImOverThis Apr 18, 2026 +9
This timeline is the worst.
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Fun-Astronomer5311 Apr 17, 2026 +7
It is opened, just mind the mines.
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Rynowash Apr 18, 2026 +4
It’s our first, semi-annual, annual, going out of business- grand opening celebration bishes! Grab an extra medium Big Mac and grab a seat to witness the end of days!
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t4boo Apr 18, 2026 +2
If they couldn’t find the mines there, can you really say that it’s open?
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it-is-my-cake-day Apr 18, 2026 +2
We will burn all the oil at the sea with all this back and forth.
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QFGTrialByFire Apr 18, 2026 +2
Its not open and confirmed by Iran that its closed just a few hours ago: [https://x.com/mb\_ghalibaf/status/2045264713593114970](https://x.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2045264713593114970) "The U.S. President made seven claims in one hour, and all seven are false. They did not win the war with these lies, and they certainly will not get anywhere in negotiations either With the continuation of the blockade, the Strait of Hormuz will not remain open"
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ancientesper Apr 18, 2026 +2
It is open conceptually
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TheNicestRedditor Apr 18, 2026 +2
It’s open to vessels that are willing to risk their lives
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CircumspectCapybara Apr 18, 2026 +3
There's zero confusion lol. Nobody is going to trust IRGC or its many terrorist proxies to not open fire on ships. The civilian government and the IRGC don't even agree and it's not clear who's in power (the Ayatollah has been silent since he took office, it's not even clear if he's even alive), and the IRGC is also designed to have a "mosaic command structure" which means units can fracture and operate autonomously rather than only take orders from a clear central leadership, which leads to many "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing" situations. Even if you had utmost assurance from every IRGC unit in the area with an anti-ship missile battery or drone, you have no idea where the sea mines are. Iran even said they lost track. The ceasefire was always dead on arrival because it's simply unworkable, and the US leadership and Iranian leadership were working off completely different understandings of what the proposal was. And the Iranian civilian government the US was negotiating with is not necessarily in complete control of the IRGC, who at times has contradicted Iranian state media. You would be a fool to sail through the strait no matter what Iran says.
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ExtremeMuffin Apr 18, 2026 +12
> There's zero confusion lol.  Tell that to the ships who tried sailing through and then turned around. Sounds like they were confused about the situation. Iran and the IRGC are not on the same page about this topic. 
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Infinite_Click_6589 Apr 18, 2026 +2
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the Trump administration paid those ships to sail towards the strait before a planned turn around.
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Few_Occasion458 Apr 18, 2026 +1
f f s
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AstralWoman Apr 18, 2026 +1
A fully laden container ship can take from 1.4 to 4 nautical miles to come to a complete halt. Must be an absolute nightmare stopping and starting....
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p3t3y5 Apr 18, 2026 +1
TACO clearly stated that it's open which means it's closed.
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moschles Apr 19, 2026 +1
I have a conception of opening the strait.
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Positive_Picture7003 Apr 18, 2026
What is this? schrodinger's strait?
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Spiritual_Painter775 Apr 18, 2026
The strait is aladeen
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