Pre-re-(non) closure.
From the New York Post, April 17:
The first commercial ship successfully sailed through the Strait of Hormuz Friday after Iran agreed to reopen the vital waterway following a weeks-long closure.
The Celestyal Discovery cruise ship cleared the strait, just hours after Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced the narrow waterway was once again fully open to all commercial vessels — after the Iranian regime had threatened to attack any ship that transited it following the launch of the US and Israel’s war on Tehran.
The ship departed Port Rashid in Dubai at 11:36 a.m. local time – becoming the first passenger liner to exit the shipping lane since the start of the conflict, data from shipping tracker MarineTraffic showed....
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And from Gary Larson Via Trung Phan:
shoutout to Gary Larson for literally calling this in The Far Side in 1987 (!!!) https://t.co/1ljamEYzkB pic.twitter.com/Z4da85alf1
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) April 17, 2026
