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Explainer: Pressure, paralysis, and a corridor still on paper

Sanctions are straining Tehran, traffic through the strait has collapsed to a handful of vessels a day, and a new Iranian-Omani corridor exists mostly on paper.

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Sanctions are straining Tehran, traffic through the strait has collapsed to a handful of vessels a day, and a new Iranian-Omani corridor exists mostly on paper.

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Sanctions are straining Tehran, traffic through the strait has collapsed to a handful of vessels a day, and a new Iranian-Omani corridor exists mostly on paper.

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