The headline is the reality of the thing.
Oil and gas sales from Iran are under international sanction and not supposed to be taking place. However, oil and gas sales from Iran -violating the sanctions- have been taking place.
CENTCOM is announcing that the U.S. military will now ensure the oil and gas from Iran doesn’t move.
The U.S. will physically enforce the pre-existing global sanctions. A blockade begins tomorrow morning.
TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces will begin implementing a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports on April 13 at 10 a.m. ET, in accordance with the President’s proclamation.
The blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. CENTCOM forces will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports.
Additional information will be provided to commercial mariners through a formal notice prior to the start of the blockade.
All mariners are advised to monitor Notice to Mariners broadcasts and contact U.S. naval forces on bridge-to-bridge channel 16 when operating in the Gulf of Oman and Strait of Hormuz approaches. (SOURCE)
Oil and gas from Kuwait will be allowed transit and passage. Oil and gas from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar will also transit without issue. However, oil or gas from Iran will be blocked. China takes the biggest hit, again.
The target now is to cut off the Iranian money supply.
This blockade is happening against the little discussed backdrop of Dubai (UAE) targeting Iranian money changers.
DUBAI – The arrest of dozens of IRGC-linked money changers in the United Arab Emirates is one of the most serious blows yet to Tehran’s sanctions-evasion network, laying bare how heavily the Islamic Republic has depended on Dubai as an economic lifeline.
Sources familiar with the matter told Iran International that UAE authorities detained dozens of money changers tied to financial entities linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, shut down associated companies and closed their offices.
The crackdown follows days of mounting regional tensions and comes after other measures targeting Iranian nationals, including visa revocations and tighter travel restrictions through Dubai.
For years, Dubai has served as Iran’s main offshore financial artery, where oil proceeds, petrochemical revenues and rial conversions were turned into dollars, dirhams and euros beyond the reach of the country’s battered domestic banking system.
“This is going to be a real problem for Tehran because Dubai was an economic lung for the Iranian regime,” Jason Brodsky of United Against Nuclear Iran told Iran International.
“That is economic pressure and diplomatic isolation in a way that the UAE is able to employ against the Iranian regime, and it will have a very considerable impact.” (more)
Slavering wolves who want ALL of EVERYTHING . . . . sorry, I should not insult real wolves!
Clutching at straws
They have to transit the strait and will pay the toll (yuan,crypto) or they will be stopped
as is the case now. pay day for Iran
No need for Dubai if using cypto
If China or others sends navy escorts will the US interfere with them ?
Global economy is going to take a hit
You think China has a navy that capable . . . How cute
You may be right, or not.Other information about the Chinese navy.
No bias. From the search for information.
Source : https://defensefeeds.com/analysis/geopolitics/how-powerful-is-the-chinese-navy/
Chinese Navy vs US Navy: Fleet Size and Ship Composition ….. ……
At first glance, the headline number is what usually grabs attention. By sheer count, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) now operates more ships overall than the United States Navy (USN). That’s a real shift from the past and one that understandably fuels the “how big is China’s navy?” conversation.
But that top-line figure can be a little misleading on its own, since not all ships play the same role or carry the same weight.
When you zoom in on surface combatants, the picture gets more interesting. The U.S. still fields far more destroyers; mostly large, heavily armed ships built for air defense, missile strikes, and long-range operations.
China, meanwhile, has been rapidly adding modern destroyers and frigates, many of them newer and designed around regional missions closer to home. Some analysts argue this gives China an edge in nearby waters, even if the U.S. retains advantages in experience and integration.
Read also: How China is Modernizing its Military Defence
The biggest contrast often shows up in amphibious and support ships. China has been steadily expanding its ability to move troops, vehicles, and supplies by sea.
And :
Troll alert. Wish there were a hand wringing emoji.
That’s a great idea. We also need one for “pearl clutching” and a “fainting couch” to boot.
U mad, Bruhammed?
/s
Where do you get such nonsense ideas?
You must think of China as a nation of idiots or maybe a rogue nation.
China will not openly break International Law that the US and other nations are enforcing.
I look for China to use their railroad (Belt and Road) for an alternate supply chain but with Iran’s oil gone, how much can that be?
Thank you Jesus! Hallelujah!!
You removed the flag comment and I can use screen reader to read the CTH!!!
I am now free to move about the cabin.
Am I dead? Am I in heaven????
Thank you Sundance!!!
Can you elaborate?
I googled “what is screen reader mode”. It gives good, basic info. It gave the below video where the narrator names different screen reader softwares used for different operating systems, ie JAWS for Windows 11, etc. Screen reading the CTH comments would be great!
I use a screen reader. If you swipe two fingers down from your iPhone., it will read the content for you. I can put in an ear bud and work out or clean or whatever while I “read”.
Yesterday I used the screen reader to read this article and it started reading me the comments without voicing the red flag commentary that is on all comments. The statement is long and since it is on every comment, it makes using a screen reader untenable.
Sadly. Today the red flag commentary is back. I have no idea why it omitted it yesterday but it was great while it lasted!!
THIS IS WHY PAKISTAN WANTED TO HOST TALKS
Report : Pakistan sends 13,000 troops & 18 fighter jets, along with support aircraft to King Abdulaziz Air Base, Saudi Arabia to fight against Iran under new defense pact after Saudi Arabia warned Pakistan either to honor the defense pact or return its $6.3 Billion loan.
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2043251189773385990#m
I thought this should have been done at the outset, but certainly before talks commenced. I guess no one can say Trumpmand the US didn’t try to end this war peacefully.
Not possible until US assets in place and Iran’s missile, Navy and Air Force decimated.
Other nation’s ships would have been too exposed.
Donald J. Trump
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Can someone interpret that picture?
I think it’s just hyperbole.
Careful. Trump IS NOT Jesus. Any believer’s light is not their own. Christ alone
is worthy of all of our praise. Attributing the works of Christ alone, to a mortal man is
blasphemy. There is ONE KING on the throne, and that is none of us. Anything else
is a cult of personality, not Christianity. We are praying FOR our President, not to him.
Thank you Mary.
I got blasted yesterday for complaining about President Trump using the blastphenmy of “Praise be to aaaaahhhh- lala” .As I was aware, it was meant in jest or ironically.
It should be Praise be to God.
Muslims get their 72 Raisins when they die for Allah.
😂😂😂😂😂😂raisins lol. You win the internet today.
“Allah” is actually a contraction in Arabic (al-lah) and simply means “the God”.
It was originally used by pagan (pre-Muslim) Arabs to give a name to the otherwise unnamed one god worshipped by Jews and Christians, and “Allah” was adopted by followers of the Prophet Muhammad as the name of the one deity they worshipped in place of the pantheon of pseudo-gods pagan Arabs worshipped.
The city of Mecca was a center of pagan worship in pre-Muslim Arabia, and the Prophet “cleansed” the city by destroying the idols and made it both his headquarters and the center of worship for Allah, “the one God”.
And by the way, the version of the Koran used today by Muslims is probably a forgery put together by the Caliph Uthman (644-656 AD).
According to Muslim tradition, the (supposedly) “Rightly Guided Caliph Uthman claimed that the “Qurra” – i.e., the Koran readers who traveled with the Arab Muslim armies that were fighting the Christian Roman Empire (Byzantium) in the west and the Zoroastrian Sasanian Persian Empire in the east – had corrupted the true recitations (Qu’ran) of the Prophet. Uthman supposedly ordered all existing copies of the Koran collected and destroyed and put out a correct (according to him) version of the Koran.
At the time, most Arabs were illiterate (Muhammad himself was illiterate), and it’s likely that there were only a relatively few copies of the Koran in existence – mostly in the hands of the literate Qurra.
The reaction of Muslims at the time is indicative – Uthman was assassinated by the son of the first Caliph Abu Bakr, and replaced by ‘Ali – the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad (married to Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet by his first wife). But then Uthman’s kinsmen – the Umaya family who governed the formerly Christian Roman Province of Syria, rebelled against ‘Ali, and in course of the ensuing civil war Caliph ‘Ali was assassinated and the Umayya triumphed, establishing the Umayyad dynasty of Caliphs.
No copies of the supposedly corrupted Koran are known to exist today. The original Koran was probably not written in Arabic; most likely it was written in Syraic, the most widespread language spoken in the pre-Muslim Middle East. Arabic most likely didn’t become a written language until the Umayyad dynasty.
Thank You.
Adding further context to the authenticity of the late-arriving religion of death and subjugation and their god:
It is probable that the original text of that disgusting satanic drivel used by the modern antiChristian Muslim world was the very first comic book ever produced.
HAPPY 250TH BIRTHDAY!!!!!!
Great info!
After all this time……some still do not see or know when President Trump is joking or being sarcastic!
There’s a certain group of people hiding behind a political party name that not only never know or see this……..but have absolutely no sense of humor!
‘…a cult of personality…’
i.e., the core MAGA constituency.
The image is obviously AI-generated. Was it posted to trigger uncomfortable self-examination in the MAGA faithful, or simply to trigger responses for surveillance collection and profiling by Big Brother?
(Surveillance including responses outside of this reader comment thread – Big Brother is surveilling everything, including your private conversations captured by your phone mic.)
The glowing image of benevolent Trump-Jesus surrounded by worshippers may be quickly forgotten if the Hormuz blockade is the next stage of a Plan designed to weaken and shame the US military, involving hypersonic anti-ship missiles sinking
sitting ducksUS carriers.I know what you’re saying, but I don’t think anyone takes that seriously.
oh please!
lighten up
I suspect God loves a good meme
….and, I suggest we all pay more attention to what the devil is doing
And yet……we were told by this very person…..JESUS…….that we would do works just like him…..even GREATER!
When that happens………..do you consider that blasphemy?
Or…….is it fulfilling the WORD!
Truth! John 14:12
I thought this picture was making fun of the Pope, not Jesus.
PDJT was having a war of words with the Pope. So he put up this picture with him as the Pope. imho
Sacrilege.
I find the picture offensive, portraying President Trump as Deity. President Trump is the instrument, that God is using to carry out His will. President Trump would not be where he is right now if God had not given him the strength, the endurance, and the intelligence to carry out His will. Without God, Donald John Trump would not even be here, he would not have survived Butler, Pennsylvania. I think it is way past time to give honor, respect, praise and worship to who really founded the Country, who has sustained this Country, and who is directing this Country, our Lord Jesus Christ. Without Him, nothing could be done.
I think you are more than sensitive. All you state is obvious and no one is contesting that. Stating the obvious sounds like you are elevating yourself to be the jury.
the fundamentalists always seem to adhere to “their way or the highway” which is rhetorical I know
no humor
no lightness of being
no critical thinking
just a dull dogmatic life
feel sorry for their children
Not good, Mr. President.
Humble thyself before the Lord.
He saved you at Butler not for this.
Translation:
‘The Iranian President informed the Revolutionary Guard that the country has only weeks before complete collapse’
FAFO
I just love a good story with a happy ending! 🤩
Reports are saying Mojtaba the son of the last dog crap leader of the regime has two very wonded legs and facial disfigurement. This is along with his previous erectile dysfunctions. 72 Virgins are breathing a sigh of relief that this animal won’t be able to party….yet @MichaelRapaport
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2043431181677437226#m
As Mahyar Tousi would say, “He’ll just have to settle for 72 goats”. (Unless there are PETA folks up there as well …. In which case he’s just shit out of luck.)
Mmmm.
72 pita chicks for eternity.
on the ‘What’s Going On With Shipping?’ you tube channel, today’s episode is “Strait of Hormuz Week 6 Recap: President Trump Orders Blockade, CENTCOM to Blockade Iranian Ports”, 28 min. in length:
Dubai last week arrested Iran’s financiers, cutting off major income sources.
Hahahahahaha
Good one. Don Tzu always seems to be 2 or 3 steps ahead of the rest of us. I pray for God’s protection, wisdom and mercy on our president.
Ah, the money changers. Interesting explanations and data points in this panel discussion hosted by Rich: Alex Krainer, Susan Kokinda and Tom Luongo:
and Saudi is now piping their oil to the other side of the country to Red Sea ports ! so no problem buy legal buy Saudi !
The target now is to cut off the Iranian money supply.
I would have thought that would have been one of the first moves we should have made.
We did months back. Now other countries are joining in the effort
These fanatics won’t stop without a fight and ultimately death and defeat. The world needs to do whatever it takes to make sure that happens.
Mark Dubowitz
@mdubowitz
Read the full thread for the analysis from former @USTreasury and current @FDD
economic warfare expert i@miadmaleki
The bottom line below is a brutal reality for the regime in Iran.
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Miad Maleki
@miadmaleki
1/10 The U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would cost Iran approximately $276M/day in lost exports and disrupt $159M/day in imports, a combined economic damage of ~$435M/day, or $13B/month.
Cont reading full thread….👇
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2043456536454836467.html
Thanks Troublemaker great link explaining the economic consequences for Iran.
Thanks for posting. Lots of good info…
Excellent, Thanks Troublemaker
Great post, thank you! Hope this is truly the end for this 47 yr blight upon this world.
I don’t understand why this wasn’t done on day 1
Quick summary:
12-14 days until Iran is destroyed economically…and without bombing any critical infrastructure…😯
Sad panda with his back to us. I just can’t. 🙂
Iran’s president signals openness to US deal if Washington shifts approach –
Iran’s president signals openness to US deal if Washington shifts approach.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that an agreement with the United States is still a possibility if Washington takes a different stance toward Tehran.
“If the American government abandons its totalitarianism and respects the rights of the Iranian nation, ways to reach an agreement will certainly be found,” Pezeshkian said in a post translated from Persian to English shared on X.
“I commend the members of the negotiating team, especially my dear brother Dr. Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, and say, ‘God gives you strength,’” he added.
Iranian Leaders LIE, Any Questions?
ALL MUDSLIMES LIE. AND LIE. And LIE
“rights of the Iranian nation” = nuclear enrichment. F them.
Pezeshkian has no real power in Iran. The IRGC runs the show now & they are the “craziest bastards”.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2043456536454836467.html
Analysis of how bad shutting down Hormuz Strait will be for Iran, Great Read!
FYI, Troublemaker posted same upthread an hour before you.
Burgess Owens
@BurgessOwens
“Our President is a Genius.. Oil source “reset”….America”…
Video linked…
Maybe our enormous US debt is being solved.
Selling US oil and LNG can reduce our debt.
Acquiring Venezuela oil first then taking on Iran was very smart.
Genius move, President Trump.
Yes, absolute genius!
The “We better not make Iran angry or they’ll use their proxies to attack us” mentality will soon be a thing of the past. Thank you President Trump!
Thanks for posting
The longer the blockade the deeper the world-wide economic recession and our own inflation will be.
Standard gas $6,49 and Diesel $7.99 yesterday in Los Angeles. Biden all over again and the Senate is in the balance.
How much of that price is tax?
The British regime taxes our fuel at approx 70%
The state & federal tax on gas in Commifornia is $0.71/G; $0.61+ of that goes to the state. And they plan to increase it again this summer.
That’s the fault of the commies in Cali.
Gas is 3.53 here. Not great but an acceptable price to pay if it will eliminate the maniacs screaming “Death to America”
Lorraine, excellent reply to the Panican troll.
That doesn’t mean “we” voted for commies but suffer the same fate. In my state (blue) there’s taxes on gas, county too (red) but also Federal tax! Time to roll back the federal tax and give us all a break!
The fed tax was supposed to create a fund that would cover the maintenance of the interstate highway system, and ONLY THAT.
BUT the pols of both parties can’t keep their grubby hands off a pile of money, even if it’s being “held in trust” for certain maintenance duties. The the pols, it’s just another way to spend OPM TODAY, to buy favors & votes tomorrow!
Kinda like the SS Trust Fund/Surplus. Greedy, grimy slithery hands, stealing everything not nailed down.
Oh cool all those trucks supplying the whole country can go to your neck of the woods to fill up
i used to think all the talk of US education system being near bottom of the league was just political banter
reading some of the posts here lately i think its probably true
1/10 The U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would cost Iran approximately $276M/day in lost exports and disrupt $159M/day in imports, a combined economic damage of ~$435M/day, or $13B/month.
Over 90% of Iran’s $109.7B in annual trade transits the Persian Gulf. Oil/gas accounts for 80% of government export earnings and 23.7% of GDP. Kharg Island alone generates ~$53B/year, or as I noted to @TIME, “$78 billion a year in energy revenue.
2/10 CRUDE OIL: Iran was exporting ~1.5M barrels/day, earning $139M/day at wartime pricing (~$87/barrel), though with minimal proceed repatriation due to banking sanctions. A blockade zeroes this out overnight. Kharg Island, which handles 92% of crude exports, sits deep inside the Gulf with no viable alternative. That’s $139M/day, gone.
3/10 PETROCHEMICALS: Iran exported $19.7B in petrochemicals in 9 months of 2024/25, ~$54M/day. Virtually all of it ships through Assaluyeh, Imam Khomeini, and Shahid Rajaee, all inside the blockade zone. No overland route can move these volumes. Another $54M/day, gone.
4/10 NON-OIL EXPORTS: Iran’s non-oil trade hit $51.7B in 2025. After subtracting petrochemicals, ~$88M/day in goods (minerals, metals, etc.) flow through Persian Gulf ports. Roughly 90% would be blocked. That’s another ~$79M/day in lost revenue.
5/10 PORTS: Over 90% of Iran’s seaborne trade transits the Strait of Hormuz. Shahid Rajaee (Bandar Abbas) alone handles 53% of all cargo operations. Imam Khomeini handles 58% of basic goods imports. Bushehr ports moved 57M tons last year. All deep inside the Gulf.
6/10 ALTERNATIVES? Iran’s options outside the Strait are negligible. Jask, the much-touted bypass, operates at a fraction of its 1M bbl/day design capacity. Only 10 of 20 storage tanks were built. Effective throughput: ~70K bbl/day. Chabahar handles just 8.5M tons/year. The five Caspian ports combined handle 11M tons, versus 220M+ through the Gulf.
7/10 IMPORTS: Iran imported $58B in goods in 2025, ~$159M/day. A blockade chokes off industrial inputs, machinery, and consumer goods. Food inflation already hit 105% by February 2026. Rice prices are up 7x. This gets dramatically worse under blockade. Blockade will hopefully allow offloading of the humanitarian cargos.
8/10 Extremely important topic is the storage clock: Iran has ~50-55M barrels of total onshore oil storage, roughly 60% full. Spare capacity: ~20M barrels. With 1.5M bbl/day of surplus production that normally exports, storage fills in ~13 DAYS. After that, Iran must shut in wells.
Why is this very important: when mature oil wells shut down, bottom water rushes in, a process called water coning. Oil droplets get permanently trapped in rock pores. This oil can never be recovered. Iran’s fields already decline 5-8% annually. Forced shut-ins could permanently destroy 300,000-500,000 bbl/day of production capacity, that’s $9-15B/year in revenue, gone forever.
9/10 CURRENCY COLLAPSE ACCELERANT: The rial has already cratered from 42,000 to 1.5M per dollar. Banks are limiting withdrawals to $18-30/day. Overall inflation: 47.5%. A blockade eliminating all forex earnings pushes the rial into terminal hyperinflation. The regime issued its largest-ever banknote, 10M rials, worth about $7.
10/10 BOTTOM LINE: A naval blockade imposes ~$435M/day in combined economic damage. Storage fills in 13 days, forcing well shut-ins that cause permanent reservoir damage. The rial enters terminal collapse. Iran’s alternatives outside the Strait can replace less than 10% of Gulf throughput. The blockade makes continued resistance economically impossible.
What a pretty picture! Economic security IS national security.
Exactly !
To include USA main street too !
This reason for this embargo is exactly what it says…to prevent Iranian oil from hitting the market. China has access to Russian oil, from what I understand. As does most anyone else (through India). The main issue isn’t to deprive China, but to deprive Iran.
Correct, China has access to oil, just not the cheap, discounted Iranian oil.
China will be buying their oil at the same price everybody pays.
US Navy will have to come into Iranian antiship missile range to do this, another unthought thro risky gamble?
Go back to sleep.
What is unthought is your comment. ANY risk the USN takes is fully considered.
Money talks, bullshit walks.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/beware-the-millennium-challenge-war
‘The 2002 U.S. Joint Forces Command war game found that a US carrier battle group in the Persian Gulf would suffer catastrophic destruction from asymmetrical attacks.’
And this was before hypersonic missiles fielded by China and Russia that bypass defenses and punch right through a ship, quickly sinking it.
China’s mass production capabilities may enable overwhelming any US anti-missile defenses with multiple hypersonic salvos, if they even have a chance of stopping a hypersonic at Mach 10.
We’ll see.
So you think Russia or China or both are going to start WW3?
China and Russia on Iran’s side?
Cutting off one’s own nose to spit on your own face?
Very interesting that the US is implementing a blockade. The ‘international law’ of blockade is largely governed by the Declaration of Paris in 1856 and the 1970 Hague Convention. The United States was not a signatory to either – although it has agreed from time to time to adhere to them for specific conflicts. Therefore, those ‘rules’ do not legally apply to any American blockade of Iranian ports. We will need to revisit traditional (pre-1856) notions of what constitutes an ‘effective’ blockade and US conduct towards “neutrals” on the ‘high seas’ – questions of whether anything within the Gulf would be considered on the ‘high seas’…we will have to carefully parse through the legality of sinking attempted blockade runners on sight if they don’t stop or if they resist, as well as the implications of ‘blockade runner’ status of any foreign warships which attempt to escort their (neutral or ostensibly neutral) ships through the blockade – does that make them belligerents subject to seizure per se (as opposed to neutrals from which only contraband maybe seized)? Interesting set of questions.
We still need to be arming Persians citizens with rifles. If the war powers are not renewed, Persians will be on their own.
I’m reading where the UK has been in bed w Iran. Letting them access the UK banking system to avoid sanctions
Why mess with the Strait? Just strike every wellhead, every pipeline and every gathering and loading station and let China and Europe figure out where to buy their oil. The U.S. and Venezuela are open for business and we have a special price adder for the coward NATO countries!
Iran International news site; and live blogs with current updates covering every topic on current situations and new ones.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202604067622
Great WW III. So we are going to stop China and Russia as well? Should be interesting. I still don’t know why this couldn’t have waited until after November if it had to happen. If it all turns to gold before mid terms I guess it will make sense but, if it doesn’t why now.
There must be great gnashing of the teeth by the democrats at missing out on this windfall (which should go straight towards the debt after replenishing the military).