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Echoes of 1956: Can the Suez Crisis Parallels Help Us Understand the Strait of Hormuz?
Al Jazeera EnglishAugust 23, 2026 at 02:16 PM1 views
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What happens when a revolutionary movement takes control of the world’s most vital waterway, bringing global oil shipping to a halt and provoking war with an empire? It is not the Strait of Hormuz, but the Suez Crisis of 70 years ago. In 1956, Egypt shut the Suez Canal and took on three armies alone. When the canal reopened months later, with Egypt in control, the region and the global economy would change forever.
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