All three components of the claim are strongly corroborated. First, the traffic-rise-from-lows component is directly confirmed by Lloyd's List ('Subtle rise in non-Iranian trade through Hormuz'), which states last week was the busiest since the conflict began. Second, the below-normal component is confirmed by the same Lloyd's List source (over 90% below normal) and VOV World's citation of Lloyd's List data (18 passages on May 10 vs. a pre-conflict average of 135 daily). Third, the Iran military-coordination component is confirmed by CGTN and VOV World citing Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Iranian FM Araghchi, who stated the strait is open to vessels cooperating with Iran. The AIS-dark vessel surge is independently confirmed by the Kuehne+Nagel/myKN article citing TradeWinds and Lloyd's List, with a 600% increase in AIS suppression between April 19 and May 3. The small residual uncertainty reflects that the Lloyd's List primary article was paywalled and could not be fully fetched, and that the precise framing of 'friendly ships with military coordination until instability ends' is a paraphrase of Iranian official statements rather than a verbatim quote.