Tehran12 ships attacked near Hormuz, a weekly record.
Brent crude touched $110 a barrel Friday for the first time since May.
Kpler data show Hormuz flows at 68% of pre-war levels, as Iran contests the route tankers escorted by the US use.
US Central Command’s Brad Cooper says 400 ships and 100 million barrels transited last week and the US controls the strait.
Polymarket traders give 91% odds there will be no Hormuz agreement by 2 November.
How each outlet framed it
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- stresses UKMTO's admission it cannot count true attacks because most ships refuse to report
- BBC
- frames the record as Iran asserting control while the US escorts more tankers, and notes Iran is attacking farther from the strait
- TASS leans critical
- compares October to March 2026 using IMO data, with 15 sailors wounded and one vessel sunk
Sources: Al Jazeera Online, BBC, TASS