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Iran Is Now Dumping Its Oil Into the Sea
townhall.com ^ | 5/18/2026 | Dimitri Bolt

Posted on 05/18/2026 10:06:03 AM PDT by rktman

Iran has reportedly begun dumping oil into the Persian Gulf after running out of storage capacity for excess crude. Images allegedly showing oil residue in the waters around Kharg Island began circulating around 10 days ago, with more continuing to emerge as time has gone on.

Some reports warn that the situation is rapidly becoming an environmental disaster, as Iran’s coastline has reportedly become heavily coated in oil, which is now said to be spreading to the shores of neighboring countries, including Kuwait.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: envirowackos; iran; khargisland; oil; oilspills; persiangulf

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Guessing grrrrrreta is too busy saving palestinians? Almost like some international criminal court of some other world governing(in their dreams) agency would step up. No?
1 posted on 05/18/2026 10:06:03 AM PDT by rktman
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From the wellhead to the sea.


2 posted on 05/18/2026 10:07:27 AM PDT by Fido969
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Great minds think alike… where’s Greta and the save the earth crowd now?

Oh… is anti-Americanism more important than the earth?

Huh….


3 posted on 05/18/2026 10:07:28 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: rktman

More like too busy giving it away on the party boats...


4 posted on 05/18/2026 10:08:22 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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5 posted on 05/18/2026 10:13:39 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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Better be careful about the sources of the reporting here. Obviously Iran is expected to deny it, and that should be suspect, but this needs to be so big it is undeniable before drawing the conclusion that they’re out of capacity, can’t process or sell enough, and are dumping to save their wells.


6 posted on 05/18/2026 10:13:59 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Well, I surmise that she had the dude removed because he showed no interest in getting with her. Which is actually admirable since he didn’t want to take advantage of someone ‘on the spectrum’.


7 posted on 05/18/2026 10:14:17 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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Is a bad pickle. Storage is full. If you shut off the field, it becomes extremely difficult to restart it. Do you lose an oilfield forever? Or do you do a spill?

Sucks. I hope they don’t make the Middle East dirty. Is so clean over there


8 posted on 05/18/2026 10:14:42 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Carry_Okie

Mechanically that is probably correct.


9 posted on 05/18/2026 10:15:14 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: DesertRhino

Right.


10 posted on 05/18/2026 10:15:44 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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Another thing Trump has revealed is how aligned Iran and the IRGC are with EU globalists

Their leaders, media, controlled NGOs and domestic US allies/agents want us to believe Iran is powerful, controls the Persian Gulf, controls the Straits, and of course, will outlast Trump.


11 posted on 05/18/2026 10:16:39 AM PDT by PGR88
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Sounds like a SPECOPS team needs to visit the irgc command folks.


12 posted on 05/18/2026 10:18:02 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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“ Is a bad pickle. Storage is full. If you shut off the field, it becomes extremely difficult to restart it. Do you lose an oilfield forever? Or do you do a spill?”
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There’s some truth there but it can be somewhat mitigated and minimized.

Iran has a domestic population of over 90 million people with many domestic vehicles requiring petroleum derived products. The Iranians managing the oil fields can choose which wells and fields are cut off or have production lowered so that permanent damage can be minimized.


13 posted on 05/18/2026 10:26:20 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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Proper fertilization is key.

The Hair-Raising Solution to Oil Spills

https://www.ecotoxsci.com/posts/the-hairraising-solution-to-oil-spills-turning-salon-waste-into-environmental-gold


14 posted on 05/18/2026 10:30:12 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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I have posted here many times that we are dealing with an apocalyptic Muslim cult, that believes it is their job to usher in their Twelver Shiite end times era of chaos. This chaos that the Mahdi/Shiite savior emerges from to set everything right.

Wild bullshyte fantasy, but the Ayatollahs and IRGC believe this. I bet this was cooked up while smoking hashish. The preferred form of cannabis for centuries, in that part of the world.


15 posted on 05/18/2026 10:32:57 AM PDT by dennisw (Qatarlson the Insufferable blowhard. There is no limit to human stupidity. |||||||||||||||||||||||||)
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A lot of folks don’t get that they don’t give a sh*t what the rest of the world wants. 12th iman full speed ahead!


16 posted on 05/18/2026 10:38:54 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: rktman

Trump now plays the environment card as he occupies Karg island.


17 posted on 05/18/2026 10:39:14 AM PDT by cicero2k
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Do you lose an oilfield forever? Or do you do a spill?

The USA has oil reserves underground in salt mines, or so I have heard. Why can't Iran transport excess oil to mountain lake beds or underground caverns (like the ones they built for nuclear development)? Very short-sighted of them to dirty up the ocean.

18 posted on 05/18/2026 11:04:36 AM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: Resolute Conservative

How Dare You!!


19 posted on 05/18/2026 11:11:54 AM PDT by paul in cape
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To: rktman

Would it burn?


20 posted on 05/18/2026 11:15:27 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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