#global-supply-chain-disruption

#global-supply-chain-disruption

Nearly half of the world's traded urea—the most widely used fertiliser—and large volumes of other fertilisers are exported from Gulf countries via the Strait of Hormuz, making global agriculture highly exposed to any disruption there. Recent disruptions to gas supplies and shipping have already forced fertiliser plants, which use natural gas to manufacture fertiliser, in the Gulf and beyond to shut or cut their output.

Khamenei insisted that Iran would continue to use control of the waterway - through which roughly one-fifth of global oil and gas flows - as a tool of economic and strategic pressure on the U.S. and its allies, underscoring persistent regional tensions.