Day: April 8, 2026

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“Global risks” is not just a headline anymore, it is the operating environment. You have great power tension, cyber threats, economic shocks, and regional wars all stacking on top of each other. Instability is not an event now. It is the baseline.  #Geopolitics  #Security  #GlobalRisk
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— Robert Morton (@Robert4787) Apr 9, 2026

MORE: Senior US and Israeli officials stated on April 7 and 8 that the Israeli campaign in Lebanon is not a part of the US-Iran ceasefire deal.

Hezbollah officials claimed that unspecified actors informed the group that it would be a party to the ceasefire deal.

The IDF conducted the largest number of airstrikes against Hezbollah personnel and infrastructure throughout Lebanon, including central Beirut, since the start of the Israeli campaign in Lebanon.

Hezbollah claimed that it conducted 13 attacks against Israeli targets in northern and central Israel and 20 attacks targeting IDF forces in southern Lebanon before the US-Iran ceasefire went into effect.Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar)MORE: Iran has continued to threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz despite the ceasefire, which is making vessels reticent to transit the strait. Iran is levying these threats so that it can extract tolls on traffic through an international waterway.

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains significantly low amid Iran’s lingering threats and uncertainty over a fragile ceasefire. Commercial maritime tracking data showed only five Iranian‑flagged cargo vessels entered the strait, while just three international oil tankers, six international cargo vessels, and one unknown Iranian-flagged vessel exited via Iran’s alternative route between April 7 at 2:00 PM ET and April 8 at 2:00 PM ET.

The S&P Global Market Intelligence recorded that Iran permitted only four vessels to transit on April 7, the lowest daily total so far in April.

Major shipping companies, including Maersk and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, continue to suspend or tightly limit transits, citing the absence of clear rules and security guarantees.

Shipping and maritime intelligence executives told the Financial Times that daily traffic has fallen to just 10 to 15 vessels, compared with roughly 135 per day before the crisis.

Around 800 tankers are now waiting to transit, with an estimated 300 to 400 vessels effectively stranded inside the Persian Gulf.—  https://x.com/TheStudyofWar/status/2042060487152538090

— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) Apr 9, 2026

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