迪拜——伊朗革命卫队指挥官的顾问10月7日告诉半官方的法尔斯通讯社，伊朗认为霍尔木兹海峡中的某些运输航线属于非法路线，这些航线主要位于靠近阿曼海岸的南部水域。
DUBAI - Transit routes in the Strait of Hormuz deemed illegal by Iran will soon be closed, an adviser to the Revolutionary Guards’ Commander told the semi-official Fars News Agency on Oct 7, referring to the southern pathway hugging Oman’s coast.
穆罕默德雷扎·纳克迪表示，这些‘少数航线’是通过炸毁和破坏海峡中的岩石通道而形成的，被用于‘小型船只走私石油并将其转移到油轮上’，这与‘海湾石油出口已恢复到战前水平’的说法相矛盾。
Mohammadreza Naqdi said these “few routes” had been created by blasting and damaging some of the rocky passages in the strategic waterway and were used by “small boats smuggling oil and transferring it to tankers”, challenging the narrative that Gulf oil exports are regaining pre-war levels.
他补充说：‘霍尔木兹海峡已经关闭，伊朗伊斯兰共和国的武装部队对其拥有完全控制权。这种情况将持续到伊朗的合法要求得到满足为止。’
“The Strait of Hormuz is closed, and the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran have full control over it. This situation will continue until Iran’s legitimate demands are met,” he added.
根据Kpler的初步数据，9月30日该地区的原油出口日均量为1830万桶，其中9月有14天的出口量超过了战前水平。
A seven-day moving average for crude exports from the region was 18.3 million barrels per day on Sept 30, provisional data from Kpler showed, with volumes topping pre-war levels on 14 days in September.
这些数据包括了通过霍尔木兹海峡、红海以及阿曼湾的码头和船对船转运的石油。
That included Gulf oil sent via Hormuz, the Red Sea, and from terminals and ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman.
伊朗革命卫队一直否认海湾地区的石油运输量因美国海军的帮助而有所回升。
另一位伊朗革命卫队顾问马吉德·米拉赫马迪10月1日表示，目前每天有10艘船只通过该海峡，而战前（2月28日美国和以色列对伊朗最高领袖阿亚图拉·阿里·哈梅内伊发动空袭之前）这一数字为平均125艘。’
The IRGC has consistently denied that seaborne crude flows in the strait are rebounding thanks to US Navy help, with another IRGC adviser, Majid Mirahmadi saying on Oct 1 that a daily average of 10 ships transit the waterway against an average of 125 before the war which started on Feb 28, when the US and Israel killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a Tehran airstrike.
尽管9月份的石油运输量有所增加，但伊朗对油轮的袭击和物流限制仍然存在，这让人质疑这种增长能否持续下去。
Despite growing oil flows in September, Iranian attacks on tankers and logistical constraints have persisted and call into question whether higher flows can be sustained durably.