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MỸ ÂM THẦM NẠO, VÉT SÂU 93 FEET DỌC BỜ BIỂN OMAN ĐỂ MỞ MỘT TUYẾN ĐƯỜNG AN TOÀN MỚI CHO TÀU CHỞ DẦU, HÀNG HÓA... TRÁNH XA PHÍA IRAN KHI RA VÀO VỊNH HORMUZ - KHIẾN IRAN NGẨN NGƠ- KHÔNG CÒN TUYỆT ĐỐI KIỂM SOÁT TÀU HÀNG NHƯ TRƯỚC- VẤN ĐỀ BẾ TẮC VỊNH HORMUZ ĐÃ CHUYỂN HƯỚNG CÓ LỢI THẾ CHO MỸ./-Mt68

US Opens Route Around Hormuz Strait

Satellite imagery reveals American naval forces have dredged a deep-water channel along Oman's coast, enabling oil tankers to avoid Iran's reach in the strategic waterway

Bianca Jones

AUG 30, 2026 17:36

A new analysis of satellite imagery has revealed that American naval forces have quietly executed a major engineering project in the Strait of Hormuz, creating an alternative shipping lane that circumvents Iranian control over the vital waterway. According to high-resolution satellite photographs collected over recent months, the US Navy has dredged and deepened the seabed along a route between the Omani coastline and a nearby island, establishing a new passage outside the traditional international shipping corridor. The satellite monitoring shows that in recent months, American forces undertook an underwater excavation operation, scraping and deepening the ocean floor to widen a shipping route that previously could not accommodate large oil tankers. This new channel runs close to Oman's coast, beyond the operational reach of the Iranian regime.

The original natural shipping lane measured approximately 1,600 feet wide with a natural depth of around 93 feet, dimensions sufficient for standard commercial vessels but inadequate for the massive oil tankers known in the petroleum industry as VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers).

Over recent months, the US Navy re-engineered the route, dredging the seabed and conducting widening operations along the passage located between the Omani island of Jazirat Musandam and the Omani mainland.

The channel has now become one of the strait's major new traffic arteries, with the United States moving millions of barrels of oil through it nightly. Thanks to Jazirat island flanking the route from the north and the curvature of the Earth, Iranian forces cannot effectively target attacks on the new passage.Iran

on Wednesday announced that it and agreed on the coordinates of new commercial shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz after several rounds of negotiations, but stressed that the incoming deal would not end the crisis in the region.

Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, told reporters that the reopening of the strait is contingent on the U.S. removing its naval blockade and halting all attacks on Iranian infrastructure.“An understanding with Oman cannot, in itself, mean that the strait has become safe for passing vessels, because the factors creating insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz — particularly the U.S. naval blockade and other actions against Iran and its interests — remain in place,” he said.____________________

Definition

dredge

[drɛdʒ]

dredge (verb)

dredges (third person present)

dredged (past tense)

dredged (past participle)

dredging (present participle)

1. clear the bed of (a harbour, river, or other area of water) by scooping out mud, weeds, and rubbish with a dredge:
   "the lower stretch of the river had been dredged"

   "the dredging and deepening of the canal"
   • bring up or clear (something) from a river, harbour, or other area of water with a dredge:
     "mud was dredged out of the harbour"

     "they start to dredge for oysters in November"