An adviser to Iran's supreme leader said no Iranian supports abandoning the Strait of Hormuz and vowed to defend it to avoid being forced to pay ransom to enemies for passage of Iranian ships. He said the strait's strategic, security and economic importance is irreplaceable and that Iran will not yield on the issue.

After U.S.-Iran fighting resumed, several ships have completed dark transits of the Strait of Hormuz by switching off AIS transponders while visible traffic has fallen sharply. Bloomberg-cited Kpler preliminary data show six bulk commodity carriers that crossed the strait last Sunday had AIS turned off. Over the past three days dark transits outnumbered visible passages; AIS tracking showed no recorded transits early Monday. Some vessels reappeared on both sides of the strait after last publicly reporting positions on the opposite side, consistent with transit with AIS disabled. Visible passage along the southern Oman-coast route has effectively stopped since last Wednesday; Iran-designated northern safety corridor still saw a small number of vessels through last Saturday. Iran has recently attacked ships using the Oman route, including vessels that had switched off transponders, which appears to have reduced activity on that corridor.

俄羅斯總統普京：針對俄羅斯的襲擊，俄方將作出鏡像式且數倍猛烈的迴應。