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Posted on 04/15/2026 7:58:00 AM PDT by Retain Mike
According to a U.S. Central Command social media post, six merchant vessels turned around in compliance with the U.S. blockade once it went into effect Monday morning. CENTCOM spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins declined to provide USNI News with the names of the six ships.
The Strait of Hormuz continues to be a point of contention in the ongoing war between Iran and the U.S. Iran wants control of the waterway as part of the agreement between the two countries. International maritime law treats the Strait of Hormuz as an international passage open to all, while Iran argues it is made up of Iranian and Omani territorial waters.
Overall, the U.S. blockade is in line with the definition laid out in the Newport Manual on the Law of Naval Warfare, an analysis of the rules and principles governing conflict at sea published by the U.S. Naval War College’s Stockton Center for International Law. Compared to ongoing sanctions implemented during the first Trump and Biden administrations, the current blockade is ordinary, Naval War College professor James Kraska told USNI News.
A blockade is a “belligerent operation intended to prevent vessel traffic from all states from entering or leaving specified coastal areas that are under the sovereignty, occupation or control of an enemy,” reads the Newport Manual, of which Kraska is a co-author.
The blockade applies to any ship that visits Iranian ports, regardless of country of ownership or flag, including China, which does purchase Iranian oil. A Chinese ship that visits an Iranian port will be subject to the blockade, Kraska said.
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Hmmm...makes one wonder just how many of these ships were bound for the Houthis, or Hezbollah, or carried weapons from China.
I don’t understand though. They say that some of the ships are being redirected to other Iranian ports. If they have other Iranian ports, can’t they just bring their Chinese weapons and things there? It’s like if you blocked Los Angeles International Airport you could always just send something to Detroit.
Based on reliable youtube channels, 170 tankers have changed their port plans and are heading to the USA.
Special infrastructure is required to load oil onto ships. 90% of Iranian oil is shipped through Kharg Island.
That only applies to Iranian ports on the Persian (Arabian) Gulf, NOT the Gulf of Oman or the Arabian Sea to the east of the Strait of Hormuz. Tankers can apparently only get Iranian oil from the Persian Gulf.
Ah, not just from China...
I can think of at least two of our NATO...snort...allies who have some splainin’ to do...
And I’ll bet there are more.
Regards,
LOL
oh ok thx. But they can still receive weapons from China somewhere else though. Another port
Super tankers cannot go through the Panama Canal. That’s a very long transit.
Supertankers have to partially unload to go through the Suez Canal.
There has been huge traffic going around the Cape of Africa since the Iran war then making a bee line to the Gulf Of America.
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