The Strait of Hormuz explained: Why does this waterway matter to India and the world?
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Tucked between Iran on one side and Oman and the United Arab Emirates on the other, the Strait of Hormuz is the world's most important oil choke point, with around 20% of the world’s oil flowing through it each day. But this isn’t just a shipping route. It’s a pressure point in global geopolitics.
Rising tensions between Iran and Israel have put the Strait of Hormuz at risk, with Iran threatening to block the waterway, which would affect the overall global economy. For India, a country that imports over 40% of its crude from Gulf nations, any disruption here could spell economic trouble.
In this explainer, we look at why the Strait of Hormuz is crucial, how instability here can affect global energy prices, and why countries like India, heavily dependent on energy imports, should watch this waterway closely.
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How this word" Hormuzd " derived its name from. Can anybody explain.
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Iran as the old name Persia under Cyrus the Great this waterways is a freedom of everything, This is a always used by other Country not only Iran but also India and the rest of the trade of Asia, Khameni has to face multiple wars that he don't deserve or mind as well they will assassinate him for interference in trade
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You don't need to choke the Strait of Hormuz to push Indians to pay more for Petrol and Diesel. Indians are already paying one of the heaviest taxes on tolls thanks to BJP govt. Even though BJP lambasts Nehruvian socialist policies, when it comes to owning a car or motorcycle, it is still deemed a luxury. It is only policy changes that can ease the pressure off of fuels in India - not geopolitical tensions
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@MohdArif-ns3muExcellent Explain
@AjithJanakaDodamgodaNethenyahu became clown and he made all Israelis all time losers in the world
@aabiallu2022Support the Indepence of Alberta, the world supports you and other parts of Canada.
@KM-vy6jgThank you
@patodwyer721You’re a true master at this! Another brilliant video.
@SproutGardenusaSo now I understand the reason why the Iranian Parliment passed the resulition to close the Strait of Hormuz... Saudi/Qatar/UAE...Houthis/Iran will get Russia./ China/NK Turkey can pressure US to stop the war....Apart from Japan/South Korea wtc will be working overtime to bridge the gap and bring stability...if not it will become 100% a WW3...if Trumpy & Nety boy plan to harass Iran.....
@manoalex6575India is Flip Flop. Now it’s US and later India will go with Iran. Made up your mind
@sueza360Oil tankers are currently using this route without difficulty as of 6/24/25
@akesha4138Well wisher of The hindu..great..please maintain the same value of years..
@sarosenthilWhy does civilization care?
We are supposed to be much closer to sustainability by now. ❤
Thank you!
@AritulLindus telling u about geography of Muslim world 😅
@factsreality5495The warnings for overreliance on fossil fuels were guven long ago.
Talk about that😅
Unfortunately the same oil products are used in warships and aircraft by Western countries.
Talk about that😮
Also the plastics( ubiquitous in modern age) that are derived from petrochemicals.😢
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We Indian are habitual and happy with oil price hike...we don't care madam😂😂😂
@discovery5117Lies Lies Why you are speaking lies You know nothing Stop this nonsense Nothing new in it All bakwas
@apcercyed9748Indian log Rashan Bharlo Petrol double hone wala hai economic crash bhi
@psk9664A narriw water-way with wide imlications!❤
@pmtzzThank you ❤😊
@steffenkarl7967Excellent presentation!❤❤
@pmtzzClose the strait of Hormuz
@zahidiqbal-zq9ypGood vidio about fort harmoz is suoper thansgindu
@LakshmiNarayanan-n7tLet the Arabs pay to stop the Iranian fanatics. They are the ones that benefit from the oil dollars.
@tuberNunyaAfter the nuclear attacks on Japan, Iran is the second country where America carried out an attack on nuclear facilities that is considered practically equivalent to a nuclear attack. Pakistan now must have to withdraw their nomination of Noble peace for Donald Trump otherwise present regime of Pakistan can't win the next elections.
@GGG-io1brAs always its israel which is the global problem.
@Jatadhari1000Suuuuuper sharmadha
@sampoornamnatarajan2152So this is why the US wants regime chance in Iran.😮😮😮 The US wants to control the Straights of Hormuz. It is so obvious.
@bettyboop4634Of cause, Iran can close the Strait of Homuse if they wish at their own peril.Time to set the Iranian citizenry free from miles oppressions
@islandsione7689Good
@Ibrahim-y6c3kNOW 🇮🇳 INDIA WILL NOT BUY OIL FROM 🇷🇺 RUSSIA 😂😂😂😂. NOW 🇮🇳 INDIA WILL NOT BUY OIL FROM 🇷🇺 RUSSIA 😂😂😂😂.
@Kashif786-Most oil goes to Asia countries! Most is from Saudi Arabia? What are they going to do if Strait is closed? Or tankers sunk by Iran. That oil is already paid!
@dacriterHeavenly grace to Ambani. If it happens then the prices will remain high in India forever.
@aaaa4086As South Africa we say Iran should only block india and their wesern Nato countries,india provided airspace to Trump to violate international law by attacking another sovereign state Iran, curry india are cowards that we ask why are they still in BRCS instead of Pakistan.
@makroti2Iran has neighbors that won't be very happy and this action will further isolate Iran from their neighbors who want to export their oil production.
@dchsr1780Too,,bad,,for,,india,,,yea😢😢😮😮
@Richard-e9e1mImpressed with the explanation. Thank you!
@Lemon_tree_dreamsTrump is gonna cost Americans a very high price of gas and oil . Coincidence ? Not hardly. Trump is a puppet of global wealthy companies such as oil and gas . This was planned for larger profits for oil and gas markets while squeezing the average American .All you Trump supporters can look in mirror now and say thank you to the person looking back for unaffordable costs . You get what you vote for , morons .
@JesseMongiaINSURERS will soon not insure and so stop the flow of oil tankers, etc., in the mined Strait of Hormuz. Bad news! The alleged urangutan just committed us to economic suicide: oil is the West's jugular vein. Iran can easily mine and so stop oil flow on the Strait of Hormuz. The US West Coast states use imported oil reportedly and the sour crude from which most US refineries make gas is reportedly imported. Good news for Venezuela, maybe. Their crude is sour and may become an alternative.
Likewise, Russian crude/gas will be bought by EU, Japan, So. Korea, etc., in DESPERATION. Unfortunately, the brave defenders of Ukraine may now lose: could Putin have ordered the alleged urangutan to strike to ameliorate Russia's financial catastrophe? We will now see Russia invade NATO, as it long planned, after it conquers Ukraine-- thanks,to an alleged urangutan? WW III, soon?
Our US dollar was always prized for its ability to purchase barrels of oil. End that ability and who will want dollars or treasuries? Interest rates on treasuries will spike.
Our senile, incompetent leader, who is destroying the US economy and alliances daily to get himself, family, and billionaire cronies massive tax cuts on US income (while those billionaires use perpetual trusts in foreign countries, so they have not paid US taxes on 90% of their capital for 100 years) now wants Americans to die to protect the unnecessary, luxury project of the billionaires to steal land and oil fields and spend more trillions of US taxpayers' dollars on yet another war for them. Coincidentally, he got hundreds of millions of dollars gifted to him in 2024 from those billionaires. Will greed and incompetence win? Certainly, we (Americans) will lose! If the Strait of Hormuz is truly now closed because the senile incompetent attacked those who control it, we will now see at least a Great Depression v. 2.0 in the EU/US--- at best.
Also US/EU mass media (100% billionaire owned) loves this project and is pushing the US to send Americans,to die in yet another war for it to again "replace the Taliban with the Taliban" after decades of more dozens of US trillions of dollars wasted again and says "facts be dam..ed" if the facts discredit its owners: billionaire warmongers. Supporting these lies and war crimes destroys our (USA's) remaining, waining credibility. If the billionaires win, Turkey, Iraq, and Pakistan will be attacked next by their empire project to create a Greater... as Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, (long ago) Egypt, and now Iran were attacked. (IF the cult leader really is bluffing by trying to demand full surrender from that country of stubborn people, that is proof he is senile, uninformed, incompetent, and ignorant: even cheap drones are landing, so it is the billionaires' project that may have to do that soon! 😂😂😂 His plastic surgeon clearly could not rejuvenate his senile brain!)
I am REALLY worried we will soon see another, desperate, USS Liberty-type, false flag attack on US bases by the billionaires' project to force the USA more into this wr, because it is being lost by them. Help us--- said the tax evading billionaires--- while they still claim to winning! 😁😀😃😂😂😂 I can easily predict Iran now will utterly destroy the Ben gurion airport, IDF air bases, and other airports and sea ports that can supply that project. Maybe, also the Kurdish controled oil sites in Iraq if they supply the project.
Also, in a few years, once they have over 10-15 missiles with nuclear warheads, which they will definitely build now, we will learn how foolish and counterproductive this was. We will then know what a dumb ape ruled us.
Pray China does not use this chance to take Taiwan after we wasted most of our anti-missile missiles! If Taiwan is lost, the CCP can cut off most shipping to So. Korea and Japan. The CCP is as bad an invader as the project and much, much worse than Irn, which mostly just made protest marches and shouted slogans for 40 years! (The Iraqi resistance was due to Bremmer's amazing STUPIDITY in firing all alleged Bathists at once: 90%+ of officials/civil servants in Iraq (i.e., all Iraqi army, police, firefighters, school workers, mayors, EMTs, etc., were barred from employment) then--- while leaving piles of bombs and artillery shells completely UNGUARDED. 😂😂😂😂😂😂) Our alleged, senile urangutan just made the CCP a new ally with a common goal (Iran?)
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@BZSiddiquiIndia should not get a drop of oil...they had people infiltrated in Iran. They participated in all of this...typical Indians.
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