The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Centre announced on Tuesday that, according to a briefing from the Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC), the maritime security risk level in the Strait of Hormuz remains severe. Fourteen Iranian strikes since June 25 “have kept the threat level at SEVERE, with deliberate hostile action assessed as highly likely under current conditions,” according to the JMIC’s most recent advisory report. Additionally, IRGC-related “routing pressure,” “navigation interference,” and “mine-risks” were used to justify the hazard level for commercial traffic passing through Hormuz. On July 7, the agency raised the maritime security threat level in and around the waterway to “severe” following attacks on three commercial tankers, and it has remained like that ever since.