Iran threatens to close Hormuz Strait
-------------------------
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps has threatened to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz following a U.S. demand that buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases or face sanctions
-------------------------
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps naval bases

Maritime boundary

Deep-water shipping lane

IRAN
Sirri
IRAN UAE
PERSIAN GULF
Abu Dhabi
Bandar-e-Abbas Qeshm
Larak Island
STRAIT OF HORMUZ
IRAN Tehran Bahrain: HQ
IRAQ
SAUDI ARABIA
U A E
Jask
of U.S. 5th Fleet
OMAN
IRAN OMAN
Abu Musa
Occupied by Iran, claimed by UAE
OMAN
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Fujairah
25 miles 40km
-----------------------
OMAN
IRAN
Shipping lanes for tankers which carry 18.5 million barrels of oil
every day

----------------------
Iran’s crude oil and condensate exports
(barrels per day, March 2019)
Total: 1.69 million b/d 

613,000 China
387,000 South Korea
258,000 India
108,000 Japan
97,000  Turkey
226,000 Other
----------------------------
© GRAPHIC NEWS   Sources: Bloomberg tanker tracking, EIA, Reuters