Regional Security Alert - 01 Sept 2026 - Southern Iran
US strikes across southern Iran raise risks to Hormuz shipping and trade.
US strikes across southern Iran raise risks to Hormuz shipping and trade.
The boarding of the tanker SUN shows why following maritime movement is no longer enough. Increasingly, analysts also need to establish whether the legal identity moving across the map is real.
Hormuz disruption is widening into a broader regional maritime and security risk.
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Founder & Editorial Director of Power & Corridors.
Dean Mikkelsen is the Founder & Editorial Director of Power & Corridors, an independent media and intelligence platform focused on geopolitics, maritime security, trade corridors, ports, energy, infrastructure, aviation, logistics and strategic risk.
His work examines how geopolitical power moves through ports, shipping lanes, logistics networks, critical infrastructure, energy systems, sanctions, investment flows and access to strategic markets.
Power & Corridors focuses on the intersection of strategic geography and commercial risk, with particular attention to the Middle East, Eurasia, Africa, the Arctic, the Indo-Pacific and the global maritime system.
Power & Corridors is being developed as a platform for analysis, reports, briefings, podcasts, events and applied intelligence around the systems that move global power.
The platform examines how conflict, sanctions, infrastructure competition, maritime insecurity, energy disruption and corridor politics shape commercial decision-making, strategic access and global trade.