Strait of Hormuz Chaos Declared 'New Normal' as Iran-US Strikes Escalate

Shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd has warned that heightened military risk and operational chaos in the Strait of Hormuz — through which roughly 20% of the world's oil passes — is now a permanent condition, as U.S. airstrikes against Iranian targets and Iranian retaliatory drone strikes on Kuwait and Bahrain create a fractured, two-tier transit system. The strategic waterway has become a live theatre of great-power conflict centred on Iran, a nation Scripture identifies as a key player in the end-times alignment of nations against Israel. The prophet Ezekiel describes Persia — modern-day Iran — as among the coalition that will march against Israel in the last days, and the destabilisation of this critical chokepoint signals the accelerating repositioning of those prophesied powers.