Posted on 04/18/2026 2:02:18 PM PDT by libh8er
Donald Trump convened an emergency situation room meeting with his inner circle on Saturday to discuss the precarious Strait of Hormuz situation, according to a report.
The president met with Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, among others, Axios reported, citing two US officials.
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Envoy Steve Witkoff, CIA Director John Ratliffe, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine also reportedly attended.
The meeting comes amid reports that US soldiers are preparing to storm Iran-backed ships 'in a matter of days,' US officials told The Wall Street Journal.
The US naval blockade of Iranian ports has already caused 23 ships to turn back racheting up economic pressure for Tehran.
US officials believe the blockade will help facilitate a peace deal, a White House spokesperson told WSJ. However, it has enraged Iranian officials who are continuing to blockade the Strait of Hormuz in response, despite the president announcing it was open yesterday.
The narrow waterway facilitates the transportation of 20 percent of the world's oil which has been sent soaring to nearly $100 a barrel due to the current Iranian blockade.
It dropped slightly following reports the Strait had reopened. It is unclear how much oil prices will be affected with the Strait closing again.
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The best thing to do is START BOMBING THEIR ASSES ALREADY..but I think the reason why they stopped, they ran out of ammo, we gave SO much to Ukraine we barely have anything for ourselves
B-52’s until it hurts!
I don’t see that as an American problem.
Call BiBi and commence bombing TONIGHT..the ONLY reason why Israel stopped is because the US told them to, they never wanted to stop..so just let Israel do as much as they can and whatever help they need we can assist
Weren’t we supposed to be bombing by now? I remember very clearly some VERY bellicose language about this from our side.
I don’t think we gave much if any air delivered ordnance to the Ukies. Their manned AF has not been a major player in their efforts. But since a lot of ours in this effort has been delivered by naval aviation it is reasonable to suggest that tbe weapins stores on our CVs are in need of reconstitution
“gave SO much to Ukraine we barely have anything for ourselves”
You don’t seem to have a good grasp of what type of ordnance we supplied to Ukraine and what we are using against Iran. With some few exceptions, it is not the same stuff.
Bomb the damned place flat and get it over with. Pave it for a Wal Mart parking lot. Enough of this shit. Sick of Iran. Sick of the damned Gulf. Sick of hearing about the Strait. Enough of American blood in the damned Middle East. Too hell with the rag head Muslim. Screw Allauuu. Screw ‘em. If I never hear of the Strait of Hormuz again, I will be happy enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can we...or Israel...get a few snipers in there to take care of the matter?
Who didn’t see this happening?
Do you think we were running low on weapons and that is why Trump did the 2 week cease fire, to buy time to regroup? Some have speculated that might have been the reason..but even so, they could have let Israel continue til we were ready
bomb the basturds staight to smithereens (Jahannam the Moslem H3LL)
let’s get this done and done once for all
all this pussyfooting around and talk talk talk only enables the murderous Islamicist thugs to rearm, redeploy, and dream up new attacks and mischief
I don’t believe any left wing news sources when it comes to Iran.
Just 2 days ago some lying press said we were going to pay Iran $20 billion.
Knees jerked all over FR.
Then someone asks Trump and he said, “I’m not giving them a dime”.
So I’ll wait.
Liberals around the world are celebrating that the crisis is not ending as quickly as expected last week. We will see the markets reverse their trends of the past week.
Just remember we are still in position for a sudden and unexpected end when Iran realizes they have no alternative. Trump keeps pulling out new tactics to neutralize any advantage Iran has. I am impressed with the admin’s performance.
Patience
Ditto
Wolf Blitzer: “Can I get in? Might be good publicity for my TV show.”
“Get lost.”
There has been a lot of back and forth about how Trump is Israel’s puppet, and Israel is calling the shots and such. I don’t subscribe to any of that. I support Israel like I support Trump.
And at this point, I think Israel has a certain level of cache — “See? You cannot trust these guys. Don’t waste time talking to them. Just bomb the eff out of them.”
I’m thinking Trump may be getting closer to full agreement on this point.
Yep, daily mail, consider the source
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