Posted on 04/10/2026 7:55:44 AM PDT by Retain Mike
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Wednesday that the strait was open. He then put the onus on other countries to ensure the flow of traffic.
“It’s time for the rest of the world to step up and ensure that [the strait] stays open after President Trump and the War Department brought Iran to the place where they’re voluntarily opening it right now, as was announced last night,” Hegseth said during a Wednesday Pentagon press briefing.
Iran said Thursday there are now two routes – both controlled by Tehran – that ships could use due to the presence of mines in the strait. The regime issued a chart showing that a large section of the X wide strait was a danger to navigation due to possible sea mines. One of these is the Tehran tollbooth, which requires ships to provide documentation and sometimes payment to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard to sail around Larak Island, in Iranian territorial waters, and through the strait.
Iran remains in control of the strait, said Richard Meade, editor-in-chief of the London-based shipping analysis journal Lloyd’s List.
“As of this morning, the Strait of Hormuz remains both open and closed, depending on your position, both geographically and geopolitically,” Meade said during a Thursday webinar. “It is, if you like, Schrodinger’s Strait. Regardless of whether the ceasefire ultimately lasts, the Strait of Hormuz remains as open or as closed as it was prior to the prospect of a 10 or 15 point plan emerging.”
Iran claimed there were mines in the strait and provided a chart with two Iranian-controlled maritime traffic separations – one eastbound, one westbound – to avoid potential mines.
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Just position a fighter in a high altitude pattern and if Iran does something stupid, send a missile their way.
So. Let these countries go open the damn Strait.
This. I’m sick of fighting other countries battles because they don’t have the will. F em.
according to the government, the military used to quantum heartbeat, sensor thingee to find the downed pilot.
in Venezuela, Trump said he used the discombobulator
so if you were a Muslim soldier and you get blown up and you make it to hell, and Mohammed is at the gates to welcome you, and he asks you how you got there, instead of mentioning that you were a victim of , “ Jew-trickery,” you can just mumble something about being quantum discombobulated, and just keep walkin’.
At the narrowest point that leaves +/- 12 miles of water (about 10.5 nautical miles) owned by Oman to negotiate a big ship/tanker. Basically there is a small section where there seems to be no international water due to the narrowness, but, yes, Oman does own some. I don't know the depths or details of sailing a big ship through the twists and turns of the Strait.
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