An oil tanker navigates the Strait of Hormuz despite threats from...

A Liberian oil tanker, the Stoic Warrior, transited out of the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday despite threats from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and amid higher U.S.-Iran tensions over an interim accord. The AP report says the vessel used a new route closer to Oman’s shore that had been promoted by a United Nations maritime agency. The tanker hugged the coast of the United Arab Emirates before passing around Oman’s Musandam Peninsula near the shoreline. The transit comes as the memorandum of understanding creates a 60-day period for private talks to settle details of permanently ending the Iran war while negotiations continue publicly. Separately, fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon escalated: Israel carried out an airstrike on Wednesday that killed two people, its first such strike on Lebanon since the Saturday ceasefire. The route carries about one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas, but the Guard warned that mines had shut parts of the passage.