📰 Hormuz™: A Closed Strait and Oil on the Run
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed to a near halt after back‑to‑back U.S. strikes on Iran, with most observable movements hugging the Iran‑approved northern route while the U.S.-backed Omani corridor sits almost empty.
Transponders on or off, insurers now know whose “security arrangements” actually move ships.
The IRGC Navy is selling this as faith beating firepower.
In its statement, it boasts that traffic has been “restored” to roughly 50% of pre‑war levels — after Iran itself slammed the strait shut — and insists further reopening depends on vessels obeying routes and procedures mandated in Tehran.
The shortfall is pinned on “the adventurous terrorist U.S. military” and its meddling in transit lanes, accused of slowing the gradual reopening and “endangering the interests” of states that rely on Hormuz.
Parliament speaker Mohammad Qalibaf offers the condensed version: hit Iran and “you’ll get hit,” and Hormuz will only open under Iranian arrangements, not American threats.
An unnamed security source adds the punchline nobody asked for: if Trump wants oil prices to rise, “we welcome that.” Iran is happy to weaponize the strait for price spikes, as long as it’s the one holding the valve.
At the same time, the state that cheers higher prices is scrambling to sell as much crude as it can. Maritime trackers have already logged single‑day export spikes in the tens of millions of barrels during this crisis, with huge chunks of monthly volume pushed out in just hours.
Whoever believes Hormuz will be closed “for good” behaves like Iran: rushing to drain storage while the corridor is still, technically, open.
Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al‑Thani, condemned attacks on commercial vessels in his call with Iran’s Abbas Araghchi, warning that such actions “undermine trust,” threaten international shipping security and damage regional stability efforts.
His message was delivered to a country firing ballistic missiles at tankers, over the head of a country firing cruise missiles in the same waterway — without naming either one. In Hormuz, even diplomacy sails under flags of convenience.
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Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed to a near halt after back‑to‑back U.S. strikes on Iran, with most observable movements hugging the Iran‑approved northern route while the U.S.-backed Omani corridor sits almost empty.
Transponders on or off, insurers now know whose “security arrangements” actually move ships.
The IRGC Navy is selling this as faith beating firepower.
In its statement, it boasts that traffic has been “restored” to roughly 50% of pre‑war levels — after Iran itself slammed the strait shut — and insists further reopening depends on vessels obeying routes and procedures mandated in Tehran.
The shortfall is pinned on “the adventurous terrorist U.S. military” and its meddling in transit lanes, accused of slowing the gradual reopening and “endangering the interests” of states that rely on Hormuz.
Parliament speaker Mohammad Qalibaf offers the condensed version: hit Iran and “you’ll get hit,” and Hormuz will only open under Iranian arrangements, not American threats.
An unnamed security source adds the punchline nobody asked for: if Trump wants oil prices to rise, “we welcome that.” Iran is happy to weaponize the strait for price spikes, as long as it’s the one holding the valve.
At the same time, the state that cheers higher prices is scrambling to sell as much crude as it can. Maritime trackers have already logged single‑day export spikes in the tens of millions of barrels during this crisis, with huge chunks of monthly volume pushed out in just hours.
Whoever believes Hormuz will be closed “for good” behaves like Iran: rushing to drain storage while the corridor is still, technically, open.
Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al‑Thani, condemned attacks on commercial vessels in his call with Iran’s Abbas Araghchi, warning that such actions “undermine trust,” threaten international shipping security and damage regional stability efforts.
His message was delivered to a country firing ballistic missiles at tankers, over the head of a country firing cruise missiles in the same waterway — without naming either one. In Hormuz, even diplomacy sails under flags of convenience.
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📰 The Assassination Plot That Isn’t: Israel, Trump, and the Prewritten Revenge Script
Israel handed Washington “new intelligence” claiming elements of the Iranian regime discussed a plan to assassinate President Donald Trump.
The story landed in the Wall Street Journal and on Trump’s tongue at the NATO summit — then shrank within hours, as senior U.S. officials clarified there was no concrete, specific, operational plot, just a single report of a general conversation that hadn’t been corroborated.
The distance between “fresh assassination plan” and “someone talked about it once” is about the size of a prime-time panic segment.
Trump, predictably, refused to stay within the narrow contours of that caveat. In an interview with the New York Post, he said he has already left the U.S. military explicit instructions for the scenario in which Iran succeeds: “If anything happens, just bomb them with a force they have never seen before.”
In his telling, this isn’t new doctrine but a standing vendetta: Tehran has wanted him dead since he ordered the killing of Qassem Soleimani in 2020, and he has been “Iran’s number one target for a long time.”
He even added the line that puts the whole thing back in reality: “I hope you’ll miss me.”
Across the ocean, the gap between talk and action looks just as wide. U.S. authorities have charged eight people over an alleged plot to attack a White House martial arts event with explosive‑bearing drones and snipers, aiming at Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and other officials.
On Iran’s official airwaves, a state TV host on Channel 3 went simpler: he said live that if it were up to him, he’d go personally to kill the U.S. president.
On the municipal level, the person in charge of foreign affairs for New York’s mayor cooked up a meeting with Iran’s UN ambassador — until State Department officials heard about it and the encounter vanished.
What emerges is a layered theater of “plots”. Israel signals danger to keep the Iran war framed as defense of the president.
U.S. agencies downgrade the intel to “overheard talk” but still parade domestic would‑be attackers in court.
Iranian loyalists shout death threats on TV and hang bounty banners, while Trump brags about his own pre-signed order for apocalyptic retaliation.
Everyone gets to claim they’re under existential threat. Everyone gets to justify something: more strikes, more prosecutions, more televised rage.
The only thing still missing is an actual, verified plan — which makes the one written by Trump himself, “if I die, erase them,” the most real assassination script on the table.
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Israel handed Washington “new intelligence” claiming elements of the Iranian regime discussed a plan to assassinate President Donald Trump.
The story landed in the Wall Street Journal and on Trump’s tongue at the NATO summit — then shrank within hours, as senior U.S. officials clarified there was no concrete, specific, operational plot, just a single report of a general conversation that hadn’t been corroborated.
The distance between “fresh assassination plan” and “someone talked about it once” is about the size of a prime-time panic segment.
Trump, predictably, refused to stay within the narrow contours of that caveat. In an interview with the New York Post, he said he has already left the U.S. military explicit instructions for the scenario in which Iran succeeds: “If anything happens, just bomb them with a force they have never seen before.”
In his telling, this isn’t new doctrine but a standing vendetta: Tehran has wanted him dead since he ordered the killing of Qassem Soleimani in 2020, and he has been “Iran’s number one target for a long time.”
He even added the line that puts the whole thing back in reality: “I hope you’ll miss me.”
Across the ocean, the gap between talk and action looks just as wide. U.S. authorities have charged eight people over an alleged plot to attack a White House martial arts event with explosive‑bearing drones and snipers, aiming at Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and other officials.
On Iran’s official airwaves, a state TV host on Channel 3 went simpler: he said live that if it were up to him, he’d go personally to kill the U.S. president.
On the municipal level, the person in charge of foreign affairs for New York’s mayor cooked up a meeting with Iran’s UN ambassador — until State Department officials heard about it and the encounter vanished.
What emerges is a layered theater of “plots”. Israel signals danger to keep the Iran war framed as defense of the president.
U.S. agencies downgrade the intel to “overheard talk” but still parade domestic would‑be attackers in court.
Iranian loyalists shout death threats on TV and hang bounty banners, while Trump brags about his own pre-signed order for apocalyptic retaliation.
Everyone gets to claim they’re under existential threat. Everyone gets to justify something: more strikes, more prosecutions, more televised rage.
The only thing still missing is an actual, verified plan — which makes the one written by Trump himself, “if I die, erase them,” the most real assassination script on the table.
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📰 The Ceasefire That Never Really Happened
Trump stands on a NATO stage and announces that Iran asked to keep talking, the U.S. agreed, and “the ceasefire is over.”
The catch: there was barely a ceasefire to begin with. Even he’d already explained the deal as “less shooting,” not “no shooting.” The war never stopped; the branding just changed.
U.S. officials quietly admit they’re running alternating rounds of strikes and pauses to avoid a full‑scale blow‑up while keeping leverage on the table.
The Pentagon sits on a fat target bank and burns through it in episodes, signaling that there’s always another wave ready if Tehran plays hardball. “Peace process” means missiles with intermissions.
On the water and in the air, everyone behaves like the next round is already booked. Carrier strike groups Lincoln and Bush slide in to roughly 220–250 kilometers off Iran’s coast, closer than at any time in the war, well inside Iran’s claimed missile envelope.
U.S. commanders brag that Iran doesn’t “control” Hormuz, listing hundreds of tankers and millions of barrels that have technically crossed the strait even as shipping companies treat every transit as a calculated risk, not a routine.
Tehran spins the same reality from the opposite angle. Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says Iran “is not seeking a ceasefire” and boasts that the country has shattered the model of a truce “on paper” that keeps being violated on the ground.
Negotiator‑commentator Mohammad Marandi calls reports of Iranian willingness to return to talks “fake news,” insisting there will be no dialogue until the U.S. fulfills its side of the bargain. In Trump’s version, Iranian readiness is a trophy; in Iran’s version, it simply doesn’t exist.
So the ceasefire lives in statements, not in the sky. Washington says the truce is over but negotiations go on. Tehran says there was never a real truce and refuses to sit down. Both sides agree on exactly one thing: what’s written in the memo is less important than what’s launched from the pads.
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Trump stands on a NATO stage and announces that Iran asked to keep talking, the U.S. agreed, and “the ceasefire is over.”
The catch: there was barely a ceasefire to begin with. Even he’d already explained the deal as “less shooting,” not “no shooting.” The war never stopped; the branding just changed.
U.S. officials quietly admit they’re running alternating rounds of strikes and pauses to avoid a full‑scale blow‑up while keeping leverage on the table.
The Pentagon sits on a fat target bank and burns through it in episodes, signaling that there’s always another wave ready if Tehran plays hardball. “Peace process” means missiles with intermissions.
On the water and in the air, everyone behaves like the next round is already booked. Carrier strike groups Lincoln and Bush slide in to roughly 220–250 kilometers off Iran’s coast, closer than at any time in the war, well inside Iran’s claimed missile envelope.
U.S. commanders brag that Iran doesn’t “control” Hormuz, listing hundreds of tankers and millions of barrels that have technically crossed the strait even as shipping companies treat every transit as a calculated risk, not a routine.
Tehran spins the same reality from the opposite angle. Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says Iran “is not seeking a ceasefire” and boasts that the country has shattered the model of a truce “on paper” that keeps being violated on the ground.
Negotiator‑commentator Mohammad Marandi calls reports of Iranian willingness to return to talks “fake news,” insisting there will be no dialogue until the U.S. fulfills its side of the bargain. In Trump’s version, Iranian readiness is a trophy; in Iran’s version, it simply doesn’t exist.
So the ceasefire lives in statements, not in the sky. Washington says the truce is over but negotiations go on. Tehran says there was never a real truce and refuses to sit down. Both sides agree on exactly one thing: what’s written in the memo is less important than what’s launched from the pads.
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📰 Ankara’s Trade: S‑400 Out, F‑35 Back In
Turkey has offloaded its Russian‑made S‑400 air defense systems to a third Gulf state, widely believed to be the UAE, in what amounts to a three‑way deal: Ankara gets U.S. sanctions lifted, engines for its homegrown KAAN fighter, and a path back into the F‑35 club.
The same Russian system that got Turkey kicked out of the F‑35 program — because Washington feared it would be used to map the jet’s vulnerabilities — now becomes the key to unlocking Turkey’s return.
The paradox doesn’t stop there. If the S‑400 really landed in Emirati hands, it’s the West that may end up with the best look yet at how the system works — and how to beat it.
At the same time, Washington has to weigh what happens to Israel’s air edge if F‑35s start flying from Turkish bases, and what happens to U.S. tech if Ankara lets pieces of it drift toward Iran, Russia, or China. The “fix” for one security headache risks creating three new ones.
Moscow, which sold the S‑400 in the first place, is talking carefully. Russian officials call the whole matter “extremely sensitive,” say they’ve held talks with Ankara and will keep talking.
The picture is almost comic: Turkey sells on a weapon it bought from Russia, but still needs Russia’s blessing to close the sale. In this bazaar, sovereignty comes with a returns policy.
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Turkey has offloaded its Russian‑made S‑400 air defense systems to a third Gulf state, widely believed to be the UAE, in what amounts to a three‑way deal: Ankara gets U.S. sanctions lifted, engines for its homegrown KAAN fighter, and a path back into the F‑35 club.
The same Russian system that got Turkey kicked out of the F‑35 program — because Washington feared it would be used to map the jet’s vulnerabilities — now becomes the key to unlocking Turkey’s return.
The paradox doesn’t stop there. If the S‑400 really landed in Emirati hands, it’s the West that may end up with the best look yet at how the system works — and how to beat it.
At the same time, Washington has to weigh what happens to Israel’s air edge if F‑35s start flying from Turkish bases, and what happens to U.S. tech if Ankara lets pieces of it drift toward Iran, Russia, or China. The “fix” for one security headache risks creating three new ones.
Moscow, which sold the S‑400 in the first place, is talking carefully. Russian officials call the whole matter “extremely sensitive,” say they’ve held talks with Ankara and will keep talking.
The picture is almost comic: Turkey sells on a weapon it bought from Russia, but still needs Russia’s blessing to close the sale. In this bazaar, sovereignty comes with a returns policy.
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Iran’s Message to the Region: If Washington Hits Us, You Bleed Too
Iran just answered US strikes on its territory by firing across six Arab states in one night — not against Israel, but against the neighbors who host American bases.
Tehran’s retaliation wave hit Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq’s Kurdish capital Erbil, and Syria. Iranian forces formally claimed responsibility for striking the US garrison at al‑Tanf in Syria, calling it revenge for seven Iranian soldiers killed days earlier at the Bamfor base.
That same al‑Tanf corridor is where a tanker smuggling Iranian weapons to Hezbollah was intercepted; now it’s a declared battlefield.
The Revolutionary Guard boasted they targeted a US command base in Syria, turning a logistic junction into a prestige target.
Iran’s army says it used drones, helicopters and aircraft to hit an American base in Bahrain.
Kuwait’s defense ministry reported dealing with “hostile missiles and drones,” while Arab sources said a US radar in Kuwait was damaged by an Iranian suicide drone and posted footage of fires and explosions near Jahra.
In Qatar, residents told Reuters they heard blasts around Doha, phones lit up with government alerts, and the defense ministry announced that air defenses intercepted multiple strikes — with a child injured by falling debris from the interception.
In Bahrain, sirens sounded twice in one night and local reports said an Iranian missile slipped past air defenses. Jordan claimed it downed three Iranian missiles with no casualties or damage inside the kingdom.
Iranian media added their own version: sirens in Kuwait, explosions in eastern Jordan, “Heydari” rocket salvos toward Gulf states, and ballistic missiles aimed at US bases across the region.
Twenty‑four hours earlier, spokesmen for Iran’s Khatam al‑Anbiya headquarters and for the army had publicly warned that if the US struck infrastructure like the power plants and bridges hit overnight, Iran would “crush all remaining infrastructure in the region and expand the scope of its attacks.”
Washington went ahead; Tehran expanded — on the soil of six third countries whose main crime is hosting American hardware and signing defense agreements.
The logic is naked and brutal. The US bombs Iranian bridges, ports, power plants and military sites to “protect shipping” and “limit Iran’s ability to threaten the Strait of Hormuz.”
Iran responds by proving that every radar, fuel depot and air defense battery around those US bases — in monarchies and client states — is now a valid target.
American officials talk about “phases” focused on destroying Iranian offensive infrastructure, then “subsequent phases” on securing sea lanes.
Iranian officials talk about phases too; theirs end with regional energy infrastructure “deprived of oil and gas resources for years.” It’s mutually assured sabotage dressed up as doctrine.
The result: sirens from Amman to Manama, debris falling on Qatari neighborhoods, Gulf governments pushing emergency alerts to civilians while insisting they “intercepted most threats,” and Iran ticking names off a list of countries whose territory is now part of its retaliation theater.
The US says it’s defending global trade; Iran says it’s defending sovereignty; the host states discover that renting out a runway and a radar to Washington comes with a clause written in missiles.
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Iran just answered US strikes on its territory by firing across six Arab states in one night — not against Israel, but against the neighbors who host American bases.
Tehran’s retaliation wave hit Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq’s Kurdish capital Erbil, and Syria. Iranian forces formally claimed responsibility for striking the US garrison at al‑Tanf in Syria, calling it revenge for seven Iranian soldiers killed days earlier at the Bamfor base.
That same al‑Tanf corridor is where a tanker smuggling Iranian weapons to Hezbollah was intercepted; now it’s a declared battlefield.
The Revolutionary Guard boasted they targeted a US command base in Syria, turning a logistic junction into a prestige target.
Iran’s army says it used drones, helicopters and aircraft to hit an American base in Bahrain.
Kuwait’s defense ministry reported dealing with “hostile missiles and drones,” while Arab sources said a US radar in Kuwait was damaged by an Iranian suicide drone and posted footage of fires and explosions near Jahra.
In Qatar, residents told Reuters they heard blasts around Doha, phones lit up with government alerts, and the defense ministry announced that air defenses intercepted multiple strikes — with a child injured by falling debris from the interception.
In Bahrain, sirens sounded twice in one night and local reports said an Iranian missile slipped past air defenses. Jordan claimed it downed three Iranian missiles with no casualties or damage inside the kingdom.
Iranian media added their own version: sirens in Kuwait, explosions in eastern Jordan, “Heydari” rocket salvos toward Gulf states, and ballistic missiles aimed at US bases across the region.
Twenty‑four hours earlier, spokesmen for Iran’s Khatam al‑Anbiya headquarters and for the army had publicly warned that if the US struck infrastructure like the power plants and bridges hit overnight, Iran would “crush all remaining infrastructure in the region and expand the scope of its attacks.”
Washington went ahead; Tehran expanded — on the soil of six third countries whose main crime is hosting American hardware and signing defense agreements.
The logic is naked and brutal. The US bombs Iranian bridges, ports, power plants and military sites to “protect shipping” and “limit Iran’s ability to threaten the Strait of Hormuz.”
Iran responds by proving that every radar, fuel depot and air defense battery around those US bases — in monarchies and client states — is now a valid target.
American officials talk about “phases” focused on destroying Iranian offensive infrastructure, then “subsequent phases” on securing sea lanes.
Iranian officials talk about phases too; theirs end with regional energy infrastructure “deprived of oil and gas resources for years.” It’s mutually assured sabotage dressed up as doctrine.
The result: sirens from Amman to Manama, debris falling on Qatari neighborhoods, Gulf governments pushing emergency alerts to civilians while insisting they “intercepted most threats,” and Iran ticking names off a list of countries whose territory is now part of its retaliation theater.
The US says it’s defending global trade; Iran says it’s defending sovereignty; the host states discover that renting out a runway and a radar to Washington comes with a clause written in missiles.
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US Hits Civilian Infrastructure in Iran, Causalities Grow
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The US hit bridges, energy facilities and a key Iranian port on Friday, expanding its aerial campaign against Iran, and prompting swift Iranian strikes against US allies in the Middle East.
US airstrikes hit bridges in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, killing at least seventy people, Iranian state TV reported. The bridges were a key transit point for Bandar Abbas, Iran’s main port.
Further US airstrikes brought down a tower in Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman that the US military claimed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) used to facilitate attacks on vessels in the strait of Hormuz. The US also targeted key electrical infrastructure and Iranshahr airport.
Iran’s energy ministry told citizens to reduce their use of electricity and air conditioning after the power grid came under strain due to US strikes on energy facilities. The ministry said areas in the south were experiencing “extreme heat and attacks on power infrastructure” as temperatures in Iran soared.
Strikes on civilian infrastructure not being used for military purposes could constitute a war crime, human rights experts have said.
Renewed US strikes had killed at least 38 people and wounded more than 400 in Iran by Friday morning, said a spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry, Hossein Kermanpour.
The attacks appeared to be the follow-through of Trump’s promise to expand strikes against Iran, including the targeting of infrastructure and power plants.
Trump reportedly met senior department heads this week to discuss an expanded aerial campaign to force Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz.
The current round of fighting has entered its seventh day and further undermined the interim deal between Iran and the US, which was meant to keep the strait open and give room for negotiations to lead to a permanent truce. Iran has shut the strait and the US reimposed its blockade of Iranian ports and ships on Wednesday.
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The US hit bridges, energy facilities and a key Iranian port on Friday, expanding its aerial campaign against Iran, and prompting swift Iranian strikes against US allies in the Middle East.
US airstrikes hit bridges in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, killing at least seventy people, Iranian state TV reported. The bridges were a key transit point for Bandar Abbas, Iran’s main port.
Further US airstrikes brought down a tower in Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman that the US military claimed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) used to facilitate attacks on vessels in the strait of Hormuz. The US also targeted key electrical infrastructure and Iranshahr airport.
Iran’s energy ministry told citizens to reduce their use of electricity and air conditioning after the power grid came under strain due to US strikes on energy facilities. The ministry said areas in the south were experiencing “extreme heat and attacks on power infrastructure” as temperatures in Iran soared.
Strikes on civilian infrastructure not being used for military purposes could constitute a war crime, human rights experts have said.
Renewed US strikes had killed at least 38 people and wounded more than 400 in Iran by Friday morning, said a spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry, Hossein Kermanpour.
The attacks appeared to be the follow-through of Trump’s promise to expand strikes against Iran, including the targeting of infrastructure and power plants.
Trump reportedly met senior department heads this week to discuss an expanded aerial campaign to force Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz.
The current round of fighting has entered its seventh day and further undermined the interim deal between Iran and the US, which was meant to keep the strait open and give room for negotiations to lead to a permanent truce. Iran has shut the strait and the US reimposed its blockade of Iranian ports and ships on Wednesday.
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After the US strikes on Friday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened a “devastating price” for countries hosting US bases if American attacks against infrastructure continued.
“The American enemy and the hosts of its bases in the region should know that crossing red lines and attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure will have a very severe and devastating price to pay,” the IRGC said in a statement.
The Iranian military responded to US strikes by targeting Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman and Qatar. Qatar, one of the mediators between the US and Iran, had been mostly spared from Iranian retaliation in the recent rounds of violence. Qatari authorities said falling debris wounded a child as air defences intercepted missiles.
In Kuwait, authorities said Iranian strikes hit a power and desalination plant, damaging the water facility. The country relies on desalinated water for about 90% of its drinking water. Officials said they were working to assess the damage and get the plant running again.
Strikes in Iraqi Kurdistan killed eight members of armed Kurdish opposition groups, which blamed Iran for the strikes. Tehran also claimed to have struck the al-Tanf military base in Syria, although Syrian authorities denied this.
Washington and Tehran advanced competing plans for ships to transit the strait, with Iran attacking some ships that took the US route. Shipping in the waterway has been drastically reduced over the last few days as violence escalated, though most ships that continued to transit used the Iranian route.
A tanker travelling through the strait, on the route closest to Oman, came under attack on Friday, according to the British military. The tanker sustained minor damage but none of its crew were hurt. Iran did not claim responsibility for the attack.
Iranian state media also said the US struck an oil tanker which was empty and docked at Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export terminal on the strait.
Centcom also said it had “redirected” three commercial vessels “trying to run the blockade” since it took effect at 8pm GMT on Tuesday. The previous day, a US aircraft fired on and disabled an unladen oil tanker that tried to break the blockade.
Iran has asked its allies in Yemen, the Houthis, to be prepared to close the oil route through the Red Sea if the US targets Iranian energy infrastructure.
The Houthi leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, also threatened that all Saudi oil and other critical facilities could be targeted by the group if Riyadh intervened in Yemen. The threat came after Saudi Arabia struck Sana’a airport, leading to retaliatory missile strikes from the Houthis on Saudi Arabia.
Given the risks, some oil shippers are transiting the strait with their location devices turned off, but many are just staying put, Lloyd’s said on Thursday. A growing amount of the region’s energy is being shipped through pipelines, but not nearly enough to offset the decline in shipping through the strait.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Thursday said efforts were still under way to bring the US and Tehran to the negotiating table but acknowledged that was becoming increasingly difficult.
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🔥 Night 12: Hormuz as Reality Show
On the twelfth straight night, CENTCOM pressed “repeat.” At 5:30 p.m. Eastern, another wave of US strikes rolled over Iran’s coast, sold with the same copy‑paste line as every night before: protecting “civilian mariners and commercial vessels” in regional shipping lanes.
By morning, the target list read like a demolition tour — naval assets, missile and drone storage, coastal surveillance sites, air defenses — wrapped in a promo slogan about “more than 50,000 American service members” staying “alert, focused, lethal and most ready” across the Middle East.
The map of hits filled in overnight: Bandar Abbas, Ramshir in Khuzestan, Bushehr, Sirik port, Kharg, Ahvaz, the islands of Kishm and Qeshm, Tabriz, Zanjan, Kermanshah province for the first time since Operation Roaring Lion, Jask, Konarak and Mahshahr.
Khuzestan’s deputy governor reported missile strikes near Ahvaz; Bushehr’s governor confirmed attacks in the city and said a power station was hit by a US missile near the nuclear plant, a detail echoed by Arab media.
Local agencies added another wave on a military site. At the Shalamcheh crossing, likely aimed at an Iranian border‑guard HQ, officials admitted two deaths.
Opposition channels spoke of more, naming one victim as Amir Mohammad Salami of the Revolutionary Guards’ signals corps and noting that Iran’s national police chief, Ahmad‑Reza Radan, had visited the crossing hours before the strike.
For the first time since fighting resumed 12 days ago, long‑range B‑1B bombers from British bases were used against IRGC targets — even as US briefers insisted that bombers weren’t flown “last night,” and official footage from the south showed little more than a pier, a shovel and a boat.
On the other side of the water, reports from Jask spoke of wounded and strikes on IRGC navy bases; state TV literally asked civilians to shoot down enemy drones and helicopters themselves.
The Guards announced that no tanker would pass Hormuz without their coordination, claimed two tankers had turned back and one had caught fire, and later there were reports of explosions on Kishm island and in the strait, plus a missile hitting its shore.
Meanwhile, IRGC units handed out shoulder‑launched Misagh heat‑seeking missiles — Chinese‑based SK‑7s with a range of up to six kilometers — to Basij activists and junior personnel. The army that runs advanced air‑defense batteries is now asking its citizens to point second‑hand launchers at the sky and hope.
So the twelfth night looks like this. The world’s biggest navy carpet‑bombs “maritime threats” with strategic bombers.
The regime that closed Hormuz orders villagers to shoot drones with export knock‑offs.
Between them, 2,000 ships and tens of thousands of sailors sit stuck on both sides of a strait that used to be an energy corridor and is now a live‑fire exhibition.
Security is the word both sides use. Hostage is the reality everyone else lives.
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On the twelfth straight night, CENTCOM pressed “repeat.” At 5:30 p.m. Eastern, another wave of US strikes rolled over Iran’s coast, sold with the same copy‑paste line as every night before: protecting “civilian mariners and commercial vessels” in regional shipping lanes.
By morning, the target list read like a demolition tour — naval assets, missile and drone storage, coastal surveillance sites, air defenses — wrapped in a promo slogan about “more than 50,000 American service members” staying “alert, focused, lethal and most ready” across the Middle East.
The map of hits filled in overnight: Bandar Abbas, Ramshir in Khuzestan, Bushehr, Sirik port, Kharg, Ahvaz, the islands of Kishm and Qeshm, Tabriz, Zanjan, Kermanshah province for the first time since Operation Roaring Lion, Jask, Konarak and Mahshahr.
Khuzestan’s deputy governor reported missile strikes near Ahvaz; Bushehr’s governor confirmed attacks in the city and said a power station was hit by a US missile near the nuclear plant, a detail echoed by Arab media.
Local agencies added another wave on a military site. At the Shalamcheh crossing, likely aimed at an Iranian border‑guard HQ, officials admitted two deaths.
Opposition channels spoke of more, naming one victim as Amir Mohammad Salami of the Revolutionary Guards’ signals corps and noting that Iran’s national police chief, Ahmad‑Reza Radan, had visited the crossing hours before the strike.
For the first time since fighting resumed 12 days ago, long‑range B‑1B bombers from British bases were used against IRGC targets — even as US briefers insisted that bombers weren’t flown “last night,” and official footage from the south showed little more than a pier, a shovel and a boat.
On the other side of the water, reports from Jask spoke of wounded and strikes on IRGC navy bases; state TV literally asked civilians to shoot down enemy drones and helicopters themselves.
The Guards announced that no tanker would pass Hormuz without their coordination, claimed two tankers had turned back and one had caught fire, and later there were reports of explosions on Kishm island and in the strait, plus a missile hitting its shore.
Meanwhile, IRGC units handed out shoulder‑launched Misagh heat‑seeking missiles — Chinese‑based SK‑7s with a range of up to six kilometers — to Basij activists and junior personnel. The army that runs advanced air‑defense batteries is now asking its citizens to point second‑hand launchers at the sky and hope.
So the twelfth night looks like this. The world’s biggest navy carpet‑bombs “maritime threats” with strategic bombers.
The regime that closed Hormuz orders villagers to shoot drones with export knock‑offs.
Between them, 2,000 ships and tens of thousands of sailors sit stuck on both sides of a strait that used to be an energy corridor and is now a live‑fire exhibition.
Security is the word both sides use. Hostage is the reality everyone else lives.
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🛢 The Gulf Sends the Bill
Iran didn’t fire back at the pilots who hit it. It fired at the neighbors who rent out the runway.
Revolutionary Guards announced strikes on two US‑used bases in Kuwait; sirens and explosions rang through the night, including near the Iraqi border.
Kuwait’s army confirmed its border crossing with Iraq was hit by drones, with “material damage, no casualties,” and by midday smoke was filmed rising after a ballistic missile impact near the post, followed by more launches at American targets later in the day.
In Jordan, Iranian missiles went after US sites in Aqaba and hit King Faisal Air Base, with Guards claiming they had destroyed a THAAD radar, a Patriot battery and a C‑RAM radar in their official communiqués.
Qatar was pulled in with launches tracked from western Iran toward Doha, and blasts were reported in Iraqi Kurdistan and northern Iraq while sirens sounded in Bahrain.
In one statement about the “twenty‑third phase” of Operation Ra’ad, the Guards itemized their targets: ammunition and logistics depots at Doha base, fuel storage at Ali Al Salem, and the ammo depot at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait — while describing the US military simply as “child killers.”
The Gulf states and Jordan, none of them firing a single shot in this war, issued a joint note: Iranian attacks are “overt aggression” that violate the UN Charter and international law, and they “stress their right to self‑defence, individually or collectively, and to take legal measures to protect their sovereignty.”
Legal measures — while missiles land near their borders, bases and skylines.
So the reckoning in the Gulf looks like this. Washington sells “maximum pressure” on Iran and calls every base and pier a “platform for regional security.” Tehran sells “resistance” and calls every runway with a US flag a “legitimate target.”
Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain get craters, sirens and diplomatic statements. Security is the word both sides use. Hostage is the role the Gulf actually plays.
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Iran didn’t fire back at the pilots who hit it. It fired at the neighbors who rent out the runway.
Revolutionary Guards announced strikes on two US‑used bases in Kuwait; sirens and explosions rang through the night, including near the Iraqi border.
Kuwait’s army confirmed its border crossing with Iraq was hit by drones, with “material damage, no casualties,” and by midday smoke was filmed rising after a ballistic missile impact near the post, followed by more launches at American targets later in the day.
In Jordan, Iranian missiles went after US sites in Aqaba and hit King Faisal Air Base, with Guards claiming they had destroyed a THAAD radar, a Patriot battery and a C‑RAM radar in their official communiqués.
Qatar was pulled in with launches tracked from western Iran toward Doha, and blasts were reported in Iraqi Kurdistan and northern Iraq while sirens sounded in Bahrain.
In one statement about the “twenty‑third phase” of Operation Ra’ad, the Guards itemized their targets: ammunition and logistics depots at Doha base, fuel storage at Ali Al Salem, and the ammo depot at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait — while describing the US military simply as “child killers.”
The Gulf states and Jordan, none of them firing a single shot in this war, issued a joint note: Iranian attacks are “overt aggression” that violate the UN Charter and international law, and they “stress their right to self‑defence, individually or collectively, and to take legal measures to protect their sovereignty.”
Legal measures — while missiles land near their borders, bases and skylines.
So the reckoning in the Gulf looks like this. Washington sells “maximum pressure” on Iran and calls every base and pier a “platform for regional security.” Tehran sells “resistance” and calls every runway with a US flag a “legitimate target.”
Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain get craters, sirens and diplomatic statements. Security is the word both sides use. Hostage is the role the Gulf actually plays.
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⚡️ Night 13: “Free Navigation” by Carpet Bombing
At 6:45 p.m. Eastern, the thirteenth consecutive wave of US strikes on Iran began. By morning, CENTCOM declared the cycle “complete.” Between those two sentences, a string of cities that barely existed in previous summaries turned into coordinates: Ahvaz, Andimeshk, Omidieh, Khorramshahr, Kishm, Bandar Abbas, Jask, Konarak, Khorramabad, Khondab, Taft, Shirkuh, Firuzabad.
In Ahvaz, local reporting spoke of dozens of strikes in half an hour, more than 30 blasts, hit ammunition depots, four dead, five wounded, and the 92nd Armored Division under bombardment, along with IRGC Basij base “Hamid” nearby. In Bandar Abbas, the lights went out.
CENTCOM wrote it differently. In its release, the targets were “military command centers, drone storage facilities, communications networks, coastal observation sites and maritime capabilities,” all “to further reduce Iran’s threat to civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.”
In the same breath, the command insisted that “the international waterway remains open” and that commercial ships “continue to sail freely with US military escort” — while more than 50,000 American service members are deployed “to keep the strait open” that ships now cross only with fear and insurance attached.
The tools were heavy. B‑1 bombers lifted off from Europe carrying 2,000‑pound bombs — roughly 900 kilos — while dozens of transport and refueling aircraft moved east, and fighter traffic over Baghdad stood out against the Iraqi night.
Around Tehran, air‑defense batteries fired in several sectors, and an opposition journalist claimed the drones over the capital were scouting only: “No strike was carried out, it was purely surveillance and intelligence gathering. Very soon there will be the main, very very large strike on Tehran.”
Air‑defense systems reveal themselves when they shoot, then the next phase begins.
On the Iranian scoreboard, victory looks smaller and louder. One Tomahawk cruise missile reportedly intercepted over Kerman, and an American aircraft “downed” over Kishm island — maybe a big plane, maybe an F‑15, maybe a drone. CENTCOM didn’t respond.
Meanwhile, satellite imagery shows Iran rebuilding what was smashed: missile bases dug deep into mountains north of Kermanshah, bridges, ports, factories, roads patched by a single truck.
Every night, the US burns more precision munitions to prove control. Every day, Iran proves that shrapnel infrastructure can be put back together fast enough to keep the war going.
One necessary footnote: part of the “Ahvaz strike” videos circulating overnight were shot in Gaza. One of the posters admitted it openly and apologized. In a conflict sold as live‑streamed transparency, even the proof of impact is recycled from a different war.
So Night 13 looks like this. Strategic bombers from Europe drop nearly‑ton warheads on cities most Americans have never heard of. The Pentagon calls it “protecting civilian mariners.” Iran calls the interception of one missile and the claim of one downed aircraft “success.”
And the Strait of Hormuz — that used to be an energy corridor — is now policed by people who swear it’s open while they turn the coastline into a firing range.
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At 6:45 p.m. Eastern, the thirteenth consecutive wave of US strikes on Iran began. By morning, CENTCOM declared the cycle “complete.” Between those two sentences, a string of cities that barely existed in previous summaries turned into coordinates: Ahvaz, Andimeshk, Omidieh, Khorramshahr, Kishm, Bandar Abbas, Jask, Konarak, Khorramabad, Khondab, Taft, Shirkuh, Firuzabad.
In Ahvaz, local reporting spoke of dozens of strikes in half an hour, more than 30 blasts, hit ammunition depots, four dead, five wounded, and the 92nd Armored Division under bombardment, along with IRGC Basij base “Hamid” nearby. In Bandar Abbas, the lights went out.
CENTCOM wrote it differently. In its release, the targets were “military command centers, drone storage facilities, communications networks, coastal observation sites and maritime capabilities,” all “to further reduce Iran’s threat to civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.”
In the same breath, the command insisted that “the international waterway remains open” and that commercial ships “continue to sail freely with US military escort” — while more than 50,000 American service members are deployed “to keep the strait open” that ships now cross only with fear and insurance attached.
The tools were heavy. B‑1 bombers lifted off from Europe carrying 2,000‑pound bombs — roughly 900 kilos — while dozens of transport and refueling aircraft moved east, and fighter traffic over Baghdad stood out against the Iraqi night.
Around Tehran, air‑defense batteries fired in several sectors, and an opposition journalist claimed the drones over the capital were scouting only: “No strike was carried out, it was purely surveillance and intelligence gathering. Very soon there will be the main, very very large strike on Tehran.”
Air‑defense systems reveal themselves when they shoot, then the next phase begins.
On the Iranian scoreboard, victory looks smaller and louder. One Tomahawk cruise missile reportedly intercepted over Kerman, and an American aircraft “downed” over Kishm island — maybe a big plane, maybe an F‑15, maybe a drone. CENTCOM didn’t respond.
Meanwhile, satellite imagery shows Iran rebuilding what was smashed: missile bases dug deep into mountains north of Kermanshah, bridges, ports, factories, roads patched by a single truck.
Every night, the US burns more precision munitions to prove control. Every day, Iran proves that shrapnel infrastructure can be put back together fast enough to keep the war going.
One necessary footnote: part of the “Ahvaz strike” videos circulating overnight were shot in Gaza. One of the posters admitted it openly and apologized. In a conflict sold as live‑streamed transparency, even the proof of impact is recycled from a different war.
So Night 13 looks like this. Strategic bombers from Europe drop nearly‑ton warheads on cities most Americans have never heard of. The Pentagon calls it “protecting civilian mariners.” Iran calls the interception of one missile and the claim of one downed aircraft “success.”
And the Strait of Hormuz — that used to be an energy corridor — is now policed by people who swear it’s open while they turn the coastline into a firing range.
#Iran #US #Hormuz #Ahvaz #BandarAbbas #war #oil #shipping #MiddleEast #fakeDemocracy #oligarchy
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How Mr. Trump Went to the Iran War And Botched Up Big Time This Weekend
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The war in Iran, along with a cycle of threats and walk-backs, has upended Trump’s domestic agenda at a dire political moment.
Americans are facing rising gas prices; Republicans in Congress are being forced to fund and defend an unpopular war that they never voted to approve; and with the midterm elections looming, polls show cratering support for a war that has no end in sight.
Trump will hit the road this week for a swing through the West Coast to talk about the economy and sell his agenda to the American people. Here are three domestic hurdles Trump is facing because of the war.
Trump’s war in Iran has driven up the cost of oil around the world, and Americans are paying, on average, more for gas than they have since 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine.
Gas prices on Monday were at a national average of $4.10 a gallon, according to the AAA motor club. The increase has raised the cost for drivers by more than 37 percent since the war began at the end of February.
And it compounds a cost-of-living crisis caused by persistently high inflation that Trump struggled to address before the war even started.
Trump has asserted that oil prices per barrel have been far lower than expected because of the conflict, and that gas prices will “drop like a rock” when the war ends.
On Monday, Trump tried to pass the blame on to oil companies, boasting in a social media post that they had grown much more profitable as a result of his policies.
In a social media post, and in an Oval Office appearance, he cited Chevron and Exxon for record profits, and suggested they should ease prices for the public.
he wrote,
Trump has been the only president in the modern era to take the country to war without the support of the American public.
In the most recent Quinnipiac University poll, 60 percent of voters said they opposed military action against Iran, a slight uptick since May. And in a recent CNN/SSRS poll, 74 percent of Americans — including about 43 percent of Republicans — said the war in Iran had not been worth the cost in terms of the financial burden or American casualties.
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The war in Iran, along with a cycle of threats and walk-backs, has upended Trump’s domestic agenda at a dire political moment.
Americans are facing rising gas prices; Republicans in Congress are being forced to fund and defend an unpopular war that they never voted to approve; and with the midterm elections looming, polls show cratering support for a war that has no end in sight.
Trump will hit the road this week for a swing through the West Coast to talk about the economy and sell his agenda to the American people. Here are three domestic hurdles Trump is facing because of the war.
Trump’s war in Iran has driven up the cost of oil around the world, and Americans are paying, on average, more for gas than they have since 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine.
Gas prices on Monday were at a national average of $4.10 a gallon, according to the AAA motor club. The increase has raised the cost for drivers by more than 37 percent since the war began at the end of February.
And it compounds a cost-of-living crisis caused by persistently high inflation that Trump struggled to address before the war even started.
Trump has asserted that oil prices per barrel have been far lower than expected because of the conflict, and that gas prices will “drop like a rock” when the war ends.
On Monday, Trump tried to pass the blame on to oil companies, boasting in a social media post that they had grown much more profitable as a result of his policies.
In a social media post, and in an Oval Office appearance, he cited Chevron and Exxon for record profits, and suggested they should ease prices for the public.
“That goes for other Oil Companies as well,”
he wrote,
“and get your consumer (retail!) Oil Prices DOWN, NOW!”
Trump has been the only president in the modern era to take the country to war without the support of the American public.
In the most recent Quinnipiac University poll, 60 percent of voters said they opposed military action against Iran, a slight uptick since May. And in a recent CNN/SSRS poll, 74 percent of Americans — including about 43 percent of Republicans — said the war in Iran had not been worth the cost in terms of the financial burden or American casualties.
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Despite the fact that Trump ran on getting and keeping America out of wars, the conflict has now lasted far longer than his promise of “four to five weeks,” and it has killed 18 U.S. service members.
Trump has dismissed the pains being experienced from the war, saying they are temporary. And he has downplayed the number of American troops’ deaths by comparing them to casualty counts of past wars like Vietnam.
On Monday, Trump wrote that he believed that any polling showing discontent was “the Radical Left’s Fake Poll numbers.”
As Republicans face a tough midterm in a matter of months, even Trump’s closest allies have intensified their calls for a clear end to the conflict.
“We got to wrap it up,”
Speaker Mike Johnson said last month, as the United States launched a fresh barrage against Iran, signaling the collapse of a temporary cease-fire.
Trump went to war without the authorization of Congress, an issue that came to a head in recent weeks as members have been asked for billions more in funding.
Last week, Senate Republicans declined to limit Trump’s power to continue the war, but days later many complained that they were unsure where the conflict was headed.
“I don’t know whether the president should start a new bombing campaign again, because I don’t have the military intelligence,”
Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, said on Sunday during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“Now, that’s a problem, too, because it’ll cause a lot of pain. It’ll cause energy prices to go up, and a lot of inflation for the American people. They’re all hellish choices.”
Democrats are already employing their strategy to use Republicans’ support of the war against their opponents in upcoming races.
In Maine, Majority Forward, a major Democratic group, has spent more than $1.5 million on ads accusing Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, of giving Trump a “blank check” for the war, according to an analysis by the media tracking firm AdImpact.
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Trump Seeks to Cripple Iran’s Economy
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Trump has threatened to impose severe sanctions against any country or entity maintaining economic ties with Iran, hoping to achieve with economic measures what military means have so far failed to do.
It is unclear, however, how far the Trump administration is prepared to go in confronting China, Iran’s biggest trading partner, which has signalled its resistance to US economic pressure to cut off links with an ally.
Iran, meanwhile, vowed retaliation against any country that took part in the US-led isolation campaign.
Launching what he called Operation Economic Outcast, the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, called it an unprecedented campaign and compared it with the D-day Normandy landings, a turning point in the second world war.
“Today, in that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the globe,” Bessent said on Monday.
“Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone.”
Asked whether sanctions would be applied to China, which bought an estimated 80% of Iran’s shipped oil last year, he replied: “We want to make clear here today that no one is above the reach of US sanctions.
That if they facilitate transactions and are part of the ecosystem that turns Iranian oil into money, into repression, they will be targeted.”
Bessent said the US had identified those that continued to deal with Iran and each violator would be given a deadline to cut ties or face US sanctions. He said the deadlines imposed would depend on individual circumstances.
“Any entity that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the US dollar system,” he said. “The clock just started ticking.”
Bessent said Trump was “making phone calls to world leaders with specific requests to cease their interactions with the regime”, but he did not specify whether the US president would talk to Xi Jinping.
China’s embassy in Washington told reporters: “Regarding the Iran issue, sanctions and pressure do not help resolve the problem. China calls on the relevant parties to take responsible actions and resolve the issue through political and diplomatic means.”
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Trump has threatened to impose severe sanctions against any country or entity maintaining economic ties with Iran, hoping to achieve with economic measures what military means have so far failed to do.
It is unclear, however, how far the Trump administration is prepared to go in confronting China, Iran’s biggest trading partner, which has signalled its resistance to US economic pressure to cut off links with an ally.
Iran, meanwhile, vowed retaliation against any country that took part in the US-led isolation campaign.
Launching what he called Operation Economic Outcast, the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, called it an unprecedented campaign and compared it with the D-day Normandy landings, a turning point in the second world war.
“Today, in that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the globe,” Bessent said on Monday.
“Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone.”
Asked whether sanctions would be applied to China, which bought an estimated 80% of Iran’s shipped oil last year, he replied: “We want to make clear here today that no one is above the reach of US sanctions.
That if they facilitate transactions and are part of the ecosystem that turns Iranian oil into money, into repression, they will be targeted.”
Bessent said the US had identified those that continued to deal with Iran and each violator would be given a deadline to cut ties or face US sanctions. He said the deadlines imposed would depend on individual circumstances.
“Any entity that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the US dollar system,” he said. “The clock just started ticking.”
Bessent said Trump was “making phone calls to world leaders with specific requests to cease their interactions with the regime”, but he did not specify whether the US president would talk to Xi Jinping.
China’s embassy in Washington told reporters: “Regarding the Iran issue, sanctions and pressure do not help resolve the problem. China calls on the relevant parties to take responsible actions and resolve the issue through political and diplomatic means.”
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Tehran said it would retaliate against the sanctions using a range of measures. Maj Gen Ali Abdollahi, the armed forces’ chief of staff, said the retaliation could take the form of land, sea or air operations or cyber-attacks.
The announcement of secondary sanctions against Iran comes nearly six months after the the US and Israel launched an attack on Iran that killed its supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
Early expectations that the regime in Tehran would collapse or agree to Washington’s demands to give up uranium enrichment and other key elements of its nuclear programme were dashed.
Hardliners appeared to strengthen their grip on government in Tehran and responded by declaring the closure of the strait of Hormuz, attacking ships that ignored its declaration.
Trump imposed a counter-blockage on Iranian oil exports through the strait, leading to an impasse that has had profound effects on the global economy.
Sina Toossi, a senior non-resident fellow at the Center for International Policy, said: “After nearly six months without a military or diplomatic victory, Washington appears to be trying to accomplish through intensified economic strangulation what military force has so far failed to achieve. But Tehran is answering that zero-sum approach with one of its own.”
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, however, said further military action was not off the table. “By no means are we foreclosing using kinetic strikes anywhere in the strait of Hormuz or around Iran,” Hegseth told reporters on Monday.
In apparent anticipation of the US measures, the United Arab Emirates, a close US and Israeli ally, announced it was suspending trade ties with Iran.
Turkey, another trading partner with Iran, which has been critical of the US-led campaign against the Islamic Republic, has yet to respond to the US threat of sanctions.
Andrew Miller, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, said: “The announcement of new economic sanctions on Iran and those countries trading with it signals what is plain to all: this war has brought the United States no closer to eliminating Iran’s nuclear programme or crippling the Iranian regime. But while sanctions can be effective, it is highly unlikely they will produce a quick settlement favourable to the United States.”
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The Mediator Joins the Fight
Tom Barrack has two jobs that now pull in opposite directions. He is Washington’s ambassador to Turkey and its envoy for Syria and Iraq. A mediator is supposed to keep both sides talking. Barrack chose a podcast and picked a side.
After Israel struck the Abu al-Duhur airbase in northern Syria, Barrack said Israel may have been “trying to bait Turkey.” He also said the United States found no evidence that Turkey planned a military move at the site.
Israel says it warned the Syrian government and shared intelligence with authorized U.S. officials before approving the strike.
Defense Minister Israel Katz answered during Shabbat, an unusual move for a routine diplomatic quarrel. He called Barrack’s comments “full of inaccuracies” and said the envoy contradicted Trump’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
Barrack also insisted that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not seek an adversarial relationship with Israel. Ankara was simultaneously pursuing an Interpol notice against Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials on genocide allegations.
That does not make Israel’s intelligence correct. It does make Barrack’s sales pitch harder in Jerusalem.
A mediator may challenge Israeli claims. But he cannot publicly write Turkey’s defense brief, dismiss Israel’s threat assessment and then ask Israel to trust him with its border arrangements.
Washington gave Barrack a bridge job. He appears to have rented it to Ankara.
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Tom Barrack has two jobs that now pull in opposite directions. He is Washington’s ambassador to Turkey and its envoy for Syria and Iraq. A mediator is supposed to keep both sides talking. Barrack chose a podcast and picked a side.
After Israel struck the Abu al-Duhur airbase in northern Syria, Barrack said Israel may have been “trying to bait Turkey.” He also said the United States found no evidence that Turkey planned a military move at the site.
Israel says it warned the Syrian government and shared intelligence with authorized U.S. officials before approving the strike.
Defense Minister Israel Katz answered during Shabbat, an unusual move for a routine diplomatic quarrel. He called Barrack’s comments “full of inaccuracies” and said the envoy contradicted Trump’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
Barrack also insisted that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not seek an adversarial relationship with Israel. Ankara was simultaneously pursuing an Interpol notice against Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials on genocide allegations.
That does not make Israel’s intelligence correct. It does make Barrack’s sales pitch harder in Jerusalem.
A mediator may challenge Israeli claims. But he cannot publicly write Turkey’s defense brief, dismiss Israel’s threat assessment and then ask Israel to trust him with its border arrangements.
Washington gave Barrack a bridge job. He appears to have rented it to Ankara.
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She Survived a Botched Execution. Now Christa Pike Is Awake and Speaking #️⃣
Christa Pike, the Tennessee death-row inmate whose execution failed last week, is conscious and able to speak, according to her attorneys. The development comes days after officials attempted to put her to death by lethal injection in a case that has raised new questions about the state’s execution procedures.
Pike, 50, was scheduled to be executed on September 30 at the Tennessee prison where she has been held for decades. The procedure did not go as planned. After receiving two doses of pentobarbital, she reportedly remained alive and was eventually placed on a ventilator.
Her attorneys now say Pike has regained consciousness and is communicating. They describe her condition as serious, however, and say she faces a prolonged recovery.
According to the legal team, Pike suffered significant injuries to her hands during the failed execution, including burns, swelling and blistering. Her lawyers have requested access to medical records and other documentation that could help establish exactly what happened inside the execution chamber.
The case has quickly become a major issue for Tennessee officials. Gov. Bill Lee ordered an independent review of the execution and paused subsequent executions in the state while the circumstances are investigated.
Pike’s lawyers are also seeking to have her death sentence changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole. They argue that the failed execution and the injuries she sustained raise serious constitutional and legal questions about whether the state should be permitted to attempt another execution.
Pike was convicted in the 1995 killing of Colleen Slemmer, a 19-year-old woman who was a fellow student at a Tennessee technical college. Prosecutors said Pike and two accomplices lured Slemmer into a wooded area, where she was attacked and killed.
The case attracted national attention because of the brutality of the crime and Pike’s age at the time. She was 18 when Slemmer was murdered, making her one of the youngest women ever sentenced to death in the United States.
Pike has spent decades on death row while her case moved through the courts. Her execution had already been delayed several times, including because of questions surrounding the state’s lethal-injection procedures.
The latest failure has placed those procedures under renewed scrutiny.
The central question now is what happened during the execution attempt and why the state was unable to carry it out. Medical and legal records are expected to play a key role in determining whether the problems were caused by the equipment, the injection process, Pike’s medical condition or a combination of factors.
For now, Pike remains alive and under medical care.
Her attorneys say the fact that she is conscious and speaking represents a significant change from the days immediately following the failed execution.
But they caution that her recovery could be lengthy and that the full extent of her injuries remains unclear.
The state’s investigation could ultimately determine whether Tennessee attempts to carry out Pike’s sentence again—or whether the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the failed execution lead to a different legal outcome.
What was supposed to be the final hours of a death-row inmate’s life has instead opened a new chapter in a case that has already lasted more than three decades.
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Christa Pike, the Tennessee death-row inmate whose execution failed last week, is conscious and able to speak, according to her attorneys. The development comes days after officials attempted to put her to death by lethal injection in a case that has raised new questions about the state’s execution procedures.
Pike, 50, was scheduled to be executed on September 30 at the Tennessee prison where she has been held for decades. The procedure did not go as planned. After receiving two doses of pentobarbital, she reportedly remained alive and was eventually placed on a ventilator.
Her attorneys now say Pike has regained consciousness and is communicating. They describe her condition as serious, however, and say she faces a prolonged recovery.
According to the legal team, Pike suffered significant injuries to her hands during the failed execution, including burns, swelling and blistering. Her lawyers have requested access to medical records and other documentation that could help establish exactly what happened inside the execution chamber.
The case has quickly become a major issue for Tennessee officials. Gov. Bill Lee ordered an independent review of the execution and paused subsequent executions in the state while the circumstances are investigated.
Pike’s lawyers are also seeking to have her death sentence changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole. They argue that the failed execution and the injuries she sustained raise serious constitutional and legal questions about whether the state should be permitted to attempt another execution.
Pike was convicted in the 1995 killing of Colleen Slemmer, a 19-year-old woman who was a fellow student at a Tennessee technical college. Prosecutors said Pike and two accomplices lured Slemmer into a wooded area, where she was attacked and killed.
The case attracted national attention because of the brutality of the crime and Pike’s age at the time. She was 18 when Slemmer was murdered, making her one of the youngest women ever sentenced to death in the United States.
Pike has spent decades on death row while her case moved through the courts. Her execution had already been delayed several times, including because of questions surrounding the state’s lethal-injection procedures.
The latest failure has placed those procedures under renewed scrutiny.
The central question now is what happened during the execution attempt and why the state was unable to carry it out. Medical and legal records are expected to play a key role in determining whether the problems were caused by the equipment, the injection process, Pike’s medical condition or a combination of factors.
For now, Pike remains alive and under medical care.
Her attorneys say the fact that she is conscious and speaking represents a significant change from the days immediately following the failed execution.
But they caution that her recovery could be lengthy and that the full extent of her injuries remains unclear.
The state’s investigation could ultimately determine whether Tennessee attempts to carry out Pike’s sentence again—or whether the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the failed execution lead to a different legal outcome.
What was supposed to be the final hours of a death-row inmate’s life has instead opened a new chapter in a case that has already lasted more than three decades.
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