There is confusion. Gary Gross, with a NYPost link, publishes a suggestion that Iran's passage permissions may be wider than aJ-Eng reports, aJ publishing :
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the US television network CBS on Sunday that Tehran had been “approached by a number of countries” seeking safe passage for their vessels “and this is up to our military to decide.” He added that a group of vessels from “different countries” had been allowed to pass, without providing details.
Here is what we know about which countries’ ships are being allowed to pass through the strait and which nations are reported to be negotiating for safe passage.
Pakistan
A Pakistani-flagged Aframax tanker called Karachi sailed out of the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, Bloomberg News reported.
India
On Saturday, Iran’s ambassador to India, Mohammad Fathali, said Tehran had allowed some Indian vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz in a rare exception to the blockade that has disrupted global energy supplies.
Fathali did not confirm the number of vessels. However, on the same day, New Delhi said two Indian-flagged tankers carrying liquefied petroleum gas bound for ports in western India had passed through the strait.
“They crossed the Strait of Hormuz early morning safely and are en route to India,” Rajesh Kumar Sinha, special secretary of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, said at a news briefing in New Delhi.
Turkiye
A Turkish-owned ship that had been waiting near Iran was allowed to pass through the strait after authorities received permission from Tehran, Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said in comments to Turkish media on Friday.
“Fifteen ships [with Turkish owners] were there. We obtained permission from the Iranian authorities for one of them that had used an Iranian port, and it passed,” Uraloglu said.
China
China is in talks with Iran to allow crude oil and Qatari liquified natural gas carriers safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the Reuters news agency reported on March 5, quoting three unnamed diplomatic sources.
China, which has friendly relations with Iran and relies heavily on Middle Eastern petroleum supplies, is unhappy about Iran’s decision to paralyse shipping through the strait and is pressing Tehran to allow safe passage for its vessels, according to the sources.
China receives 45 percent of its oil via the Strait of Hormuz.
France and Italy
The two European nations are understood to have requested talks with Iran about allowing their ships to pass through the strait, the UK’s Financial Times has reported, citing unnamed officials.
All the Arab Gulf states are unlisted. Crabgrass trusts aJ-English more than NYPost, because it is owned by an Arab Gluf state, which would know whether it's tanker ships passed; and because NYPost is a Murdoch outlet and hence biased and intentionally unreliable. aJ-Eng also posts extensively of Qeshm, the Iranian island inside the Straits, along the Iranian mainland; the report stating:
Beneath the labyrinthine salt caves and emerald mangrove forests of Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, a different kind of architecture lies buried.
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‘Missile cities’ – the fortress in the strait
Today, the island’s modern industrial facade, bolstered by its status as a free trade-industrial zone since 1989, is overshadowed by its role as Iran’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier”.
Located just 22km (14 miles) south of the port city of Bandar Abbas, Qeshm dominates the Clarence Strait, also known as Kuran, and acts as the primary platform for Iran’s “asymmetric” naval power, say analysts.
While exact figures regarding the number of Iranian fast-attack boats and coastal batteries hidden within the island’s subterranean labyrinths remain heavily classified, their strategic intent is clear. Retired Lebanese Brigadier-General Hassan Jouni, a military and strategic expert, told Al Jazeera that Qeshm houses “striking Iranian capabilities” within what is described as an underground “missile city”. These vast networks, Jouni said, are designed for one primary purpose: to effectively control or close the Strait of Hormuz.
This, they have successfully done. Shipping traffic through the strait was effectively halted last week when Iran threatened to strike ships attempting to pass.
Now, only a handful of ships carrying vital oil and gas supplies to the rest of the world are being allowed through, as countries scramble to negotiate deals with Iran for their own tankers and as the administration of United States President Donald Trump attempts to assemble a naval convoy of warships to forcibly open the waterway.
As Qeshm becomes the focal point of a 21st-century energy war, however, its silent salt caves and ancient shrines serve as a reminder that while past empires and military coalitions like those of the Portuguese and British have eventually faded, the geological fortress of the strait remains anchored in the turbulent tides of history.
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Apart from the question of tanker passage through the Straits, much of Gary's post deals with Kharg Island, well to the north of the straits, where US bombing destroyed military targets while leaving Iran's critical Kharg oil depot infrastructure intact - for the time being.
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Apart from any firepower Iran has on Qeshm itself or on adjacent Iranian mainland, aJ-Eng publishes of remaining firepower of Iran in general, as of Mar 16, 2026:
US says it has destroyed Iran missile capacity: How is Iran still shooting?
FURTHER: https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2034040698954031326
That item reports "Hours ago, U.S. forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz." Dated: Mar 17, 2026 5:45 pm
Such Centcom news is of great import on the question of tanker passage through the Straits. Crabgrass has seen no follow-up reporting online.