{"id":428775,"date":"2026-03-21T00:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/us-assessment-iran-could-keep-hormuz-shut-for-anywhere-from-one-to-six-months\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:40:17","slug":"us-assessment-iran-could-keep-hormuz-shut-for-anywhere-from-one-to-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-assessment-iran-could-keep-hormuz-shut-for-anywhere-from-one-to-six-months-428775\/","title":{"rendered":"US assessment: Iran could keep Hormuz shut for anywhere from one to six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>CNN is out with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/20\/politics\/us-strait-of-hormuz-avert-closure-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">report <\/a>highlighting the difficulty of reopening the Strait of Hormuz:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US officials are furiously trying to avert a potential months-long closure of the Strait of Hormuz, privately acknowledging that reopening the key waterway is a problem without a clear solution<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report from the Defense Intelligence Agency said it could remain shut from 1-6 months, citing four sources familiar.<\/p>\n<p>An official pushed back against the six-month scenario, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> the six month closure of the Strait of Hormuz is an impossibility and completely unacceptable to the Secretary of War<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oil is higher on this report but it&#8217;s notable that this assessment isn&#8217;t current, it was said to be circulating &#8220;in recent weeks&#8221; which suggests it was prepared before the war and wouldn&#8217;t necessarily reflect damage since or indications of Iranian capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN is out with a report highlighting the difficulty of reopening the Strait of Hormuz: US officials are furiously trying to avert a potential months-long closure of the Strait of Hormuz, privately&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}