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  • Iran Claims It Fired on and Seized Ships - but There's More to the Story

    04/22/2026 8:05:20 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 5 replies
    Red State ^ | 04/22/2026 | Nick Arama
    The Iranian regime folks are not happy campers right now. They're being squeezed by the U.S. blockade that's costing them an estimated $435 million a day. As Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explained, that's going to cause their Kharg Island operation to be "shut in" soon. That's the money that sustains the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that would then be cut off. Meanwhile, the U.S. is even seizing its ships, like the MV Touska, that tried to run the U.S. blockade with some bad materials aboard that could have helped their missile program. So what are the regime's options? They...