Posted on 05/04/2026 10:46:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There's been a lot of bluffing by Iran over the last few weeks during the tenuous "ceasefire," and it looks like the United States has finally called it.
As RedState reported, the U.S. Navy successfully escorted multiple American-flagged vessels through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. Now, CENTCOM is confirming that hostilities have already resumed. According to Kassy Akiva, who attended a press briefing with Admiral Brad Cooper, six Iranian boats were destroyed. What's left of the regime also tried to launch missiles at U.S. Naval ships, but they were successfully intercepted.
He says 6 Iranian small boats were eliminated this morning.— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) May 4, 2026
That follows news that Iran is launching barrages of missiles and drones at the United Arab Emirates. A major oil facility was hit, prompting a pledge of direct revenge from the Emiratis. There are also claims that residential districts in Oman were hit. Iran's most recent aggression appears to have been enough to end whatever was left of the ceasefire. CNN, via sources in Dubai, is reporting that strikes on the regime are expected to resume within the next 24 hours.
An Emirati official told CNN: They expect an American or Israeli strike on Iran within the next 24 hours.— Amit Segal (@AmitSegal) May 4, 2026
While President Donald Trump clearly wanted to get a deal done, you can't make a deal with someone who doesn't want to make a deal. The Iranians have been stalling, essentially demanding a wholesale victory, hoping that the United States loses its stomach for renewing hostilities. It's not certain yet, but it looks like that was a miscalculation. With two carrier groups in the Gulf and weeks to resupply, the U.S. military response is likely to be large-scale and devastating for the Iranians, and it appears the UAE is ready to join the fight as well.
The window for Iran to prevent what is coming is small. They need to get to the table right now with something viable, and I don't see that happening. Islamists are hardwired not to back down to threats, no matter how devastating the results. That also makes it very unlikely that economic costs will topple the regime, which has surrounded itself with radical, mostly foreign-sourced militias. That means if this thing pops off again, Trump is going to have to go all the way. I still don't think that means ground troops, but it will mean not holding back on the target list this time, including all the regime officials who have been mouthing off for the last month.
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I suppose that has reset the War Powers Act countdown.
6 little boats blown up so far. UAE is about to launch a major counterattack. US and Israel purely defensive at this point, bout there are at least 10 re-fuelers in the air so the ceasefire has ceased.
I have to wonder if Trump is glad the Iranians did this. He wasn’t worried about Congress giving him approval on the War Powers Act before; he certainly isn’t now.
Now the question is... Will he destroy an entire civilization as he promised?
Golda Meir once said you can’t negotiate peace with those that come to kill your children.
The Islamic Republic is a civilization?
Surely you jest!
The author has this all wrong. You can’t make a deal with someone who doesn’t even have the authority to negotiate on behalf of your counter-party.
The U.S. right now seems to be operating like a real estate executive negotiating a purchase deal after the CEO of the seller has gone home for the day, and he’s wondering why he’s not making any progress with the overnight security guard and janitor who are answering the phone and picking up the faxes.
Iran doesn’t need a navy to choke the world’s oil lifeline — just a swarm of ‘mosquito’ boats
Nice! Hear that? It is the sound of extreme Dim heads popping.
I was thinking last night that was why and I think its the ONLY reason I can think of, that Trump stopped the war to begin with, was to resume it later and say “Well the war powers act gives me 60 days, I stopped the war with 26(give or take) more days to go” and sinking 6 iranian boats is great, keep it up, destroy them all
I don’t that the President needs to proceed with complete destruction from the start.. Begin with taking out a bridge and power plant a day or every 2 days.Hopefully they will surrender at some point and will not have to completely rebuid infrastructure. That being said I think that who ever is in charge in Iran at the moment doesn’t care if the whole infrastrucure is destroyed.
President Trump is not constrained by the War Powers Act. He’s constrained by politics.
Meanwhile...
U.S. Central Command
@CENTCOM
Guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG 91) observes a merchant vessel while on patrol enforcing the U.S. blockade against Iran. As of today, 50 commercial vessels have been redirected by U.S. forces to ensure compliance.
1:36 PM · May 4, 2026 42.6K Views
https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2051355367288811944
So how come he stopped it at that particular time and he told Israel to do the same, another two weeks and perhaps the list of objectives left over would have been completed. Israel wanted to continue, heck they had the 12 day war last year too which Trump also stopped, not sure why
Trump declared the end to hostilities. So, I think this is what they wanted to start the countdown again.
When is Trump going to listen to his military advisers who are telling him over and over that long breaks in attacks on Iran only give them time to rearm, reposition, dig deeper and scatter their assets? You never let your enemy up off the floor once he is down. There is no such thing as a fair fight in war.
Kind of makes the prospect of negotiating a less than desirable prospect.
Good, the Iran leadership can not be trusted, nd this a deal is a ridiculous goal, but it had o be tried, otherwise, they would have accused Trump of being Hitler, again.
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