Iran FM: Hormuz Strait Was Navigable Until Feb 28

The significance lies in the framing: Tehran is tying commercial shipping risk in Hormuz directly to military and coercive pressure, effectively rejecting the idea that navigation safety can be separated from the wider confrontation. That matters for energy and freight markets, which price Gulf transit risk on perceived intent as much as on actual incidents. The open question is whether this rhetorical linkage hardens into policy — specifically, whether Iran treats shipping access as leverage in the standoff. Watch for any shift in official language from grievance to conditionality.