Iran War Update: Hormuz “Soft Closure,” LNG Force Majeure, and Rising Cyber and Nuclear-Site Risk

The war’s newest pressure points are systemic: insurers are effectively slowing Hormuz traffic by cancelling war-risk cover, Qatar’s LNG disruption is being treated as a weeks-long supply shock, cyber risk to the financial sector is rising, and the nuclear picture has shifted to confirmed Natanz-entrance damage while broader IAEA monitoring still shows no radiological crisis.