TehranHormuz traffic averaged 11% below normal to 18 October.
Iran’s foreign minister says the strait will not be managed as it was before the war.
Iran restricted transit after strikes began on 28 February, and a June interim deal with the US has since stalled.
Washington demands unrestricted navigation, while parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf threatens a response to any attack.
Polymarket traders give a US-Iran Hormuz agreement by 2 November an 8% chance.
How each outlet framed it
- Middle East Eye leans critical
- quotes Qalibaf's 'impregnable fortress' rhetoric and the warning that any new militarism would bring an 'unimaginable' response
- Mehr News Agency
- reports Araghchi saying Hormuz will no longer be managed as before and tying the change to the June 17 Pakistan-brokered MoU
Sources: Middle East Eye, Mehr News Agency