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Posted on 04/28/2026 12:27:30 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
A superyacht linked to one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's key allies has sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, despite the ongoing blockade of the critical shipping channel.
The 142m-long (465 ft) multi-deck luxury boat, named Nord, is linked to sanctioned Russian billionaire Alexei Mordashov. It travelled from Dubai to Muscat, Oman, over the weekend - one of few private vessels to transit through the strait in recent months.
Iran held high-level talks with Russia this week as its standoff with the US over the strait's re-opening continues.
Approximately one-fifth of global oil and LNG supplies normally pass through the waterway.
Mordashov, who has close ties to Putin, is not listed as the formal owner of the Russian-flagged boat. However, Nord's records indicate it was registered to a firm owned by his wife in 2022.
Nord, estimated to be worth more than $500m (£370m), left Dubai on Friday night and arrived at Al Mouj - a marina in Oman's capital - on Sunday morning, according to data on the Marine Traffic platform.
The route shown on the tracker has been used by vessels crossing with agreement from Iran.
It is not clear whether Nord gained permission from Iran to sail through the route.
Mordashov made his fortune largely through his steel and mining company Severstal - the largest such firm in Russia.
With an estimated net worth of about $37bn (£27bn), he is the richest Russian national listed by the US business magazine Forbes.
Iran has severely restricted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz in response to US and Israeli strikes that began on 28 February.
Earlier this month, Tehran warned that any vessel that approaches the strait would be targeted.
The US then announced that its forces would intercept or turn back vessels travelling to or from Iran's ports.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
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Next thing you know, they'll say that the Russian yacht was built by...................
Halliburton!
And?
Gas was $3.60 A gallon this morning. An hour later, it was $3.69. Let’s get going Mr. President. If you’re waiting for the Iranians who are actually calling the shots to fold, they’d rather die. Give them their wish.
This movement might have been okay
Travelled south from Dubai ?
A private yacht not a cargo or oil tanker
Probably not smuggling more weapons to Iran ….? Probably not transporting Iranian oil out?
Bribed the right people to look the other way.
i bet it was on its way to Ukraine to blow up a school
Exactly. A Russian yacht is not subject to the blockade.
That’s a really big misunderstanding about what’s going on.....not ALL ships are subject to it.
What do people think, a Russian yacht just sailed through, gave the US Navy the middle finger, kept on going and our Nwvy did nothing?
Of course this from the BBC.
From the BBC and posted by a TDS sufferer for the headline. This has nothing to do with our blockade and the transit is not breaking it.
Thanks!
Fun movie.
From Russia, with love.
Was it going to pick up crude at an Iranian port?
It doesn’t apply anyway. The map shows the path of the ship and the US blockade line. They do not intersect.
“ i bet it was on its way to Ukraine to blow up a school”
And a couple of Orthodox churches. 😂
I was hoping for some hot chicks dancing on the yacht. Is that wrong. It’s hard to tell around here.
It probably had equipment on it to spy on the US forces, probably some eavesdropping equipment on the yacht. And maybe also some photographic equipment too on it. But now days some one with a good digital camera can take pictures for Russia and get any detail they might be looking for.
“Despite” blockade?
The USA is not blockading the Straight.
The USA is blockading Iranian ports.
It’s free to travel.
yeah, Sydney Sweeney was on there in her nazi jeans. Seriously, the guy who tried to off Trump was mad at Trump because he wasn’t fighting hard enough for ukraine.
I remember when the democrats were the doves, the peaceniks with Alan Alda as a spokesman. Today, you can’t blow up things fast enough for them
“ It probably had equipment on it to spy on the US forces, probably some eavesdropping equipment on the yacht”
Maybe.
Or, more likely, full of Russian trafficked whores going home from the UAE since business is bad and they can’t put them on planes because they might flee.
Honestly it’s been a long time since democrats have been Liberal.
They represent The Left and all things Not in the interests of this country.
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