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Posted on 04/13/2026 9:06:56 AM PDT by bitt
A promising new stage in our six-week Iran “excursion” began Sunday with President Trump’s announcement that the US Navy, together with allies, will immediately begin to blockade “any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz.”
In wrestling terms, it’s a classic “swerve” move by the president, flipping the tables on his opponent.
Iran thought it had the world over an (oil) barrel. Turns out it signed its own economic death warrant.
The blockade is an inspired tactic pushed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and former Green Beret-turned-UN Ambassador Mike Waltz as the logical next step after the Chinese and Russians last week vetoed a UN Security Council resolution led by the Gulf States for international cooperation to reopen the Hormuz Strait.
With half the US Navy positioned just outside the narrow strait, everything is in place to stop the ships Tehran needs to serve its biggest customer, China, which buys about 90% of Iran’s oil.
And the blockade is just the beginning of the maximum economic pain Trump and his advisers are preparing to inflict on Iran, in what can be called “Operation Economic Epic Fury.”
As an ebullient Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday morning of the naval blockade: “It’s called all in, and all out. We think that numerous countries are going to be helping us with this also, but we’re putting on a complete blockade.
“We’re not going to let Iran make money on selling oil to people that they like, and not people that they don’t like or whatever it is. It’s going to be all or none,” he said. “I predict they come back and give us everything we want.”
‘Bad news for Iran’
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Did Pharoah give in? These people don’t understand what they’re dealing with. It’s not of this world. You can’t say that out loud due to the lack of spiritual understanding of the earth, but Iranian Mullahs are quite happy with dying and taking the country with them.
Armed rebellion is the only way to rid the country of nuclear ambitions.
She gets it.
Trump is always two steps ahead of everyone else. +1
IF SHIPS CANNOT ENTER EMPTY-—THEY CANNOT COME OUT FULL-——
My understanding is that it is only for ships coming and going to Iran. Those going to other gulf countries are free to pass.
Not sure about your reference to the Pharaoh, but yes he sure did give in. All the way.
How long before Iran has a cash flow problem?
She wrote The Big Guy: How a President and His Son Sold Out America, about Joe and Hunter Biden.
A perceptive observer.
Whether it is the truth or not, I have read that Iran has no more oil storage capacity. With the blockade, this means that there will be no place to put the oil still coming out of their wells. That is very bad. Apparently, once a well is capped, it becomes difficult to restart production, and more so in Iran’s case because their equipment is old and they lack any means of repairing it. Thus, even a short blockade under the present circumstance would cripple their ability to export oil for years, if not decades.
I think that is the most important point.
Iran will have cash flow problems very soon. But they might possibly intend to “weather the storm” for some number of weeks, hoping that either domestic or international pressure convinces Trump to change tactic. But — as you pointed out — they have limited storage for their oil. I think they can go about 2 weeks before their tanks are full and they have no choice but to shut down wells. Which will affect them for years. Iran is going to cripple itself very badly, very quickly.
The day before yesterday? 🤔
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The Narket likes it apperently. Oil is down yellow a Hungred again.
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