Showing posts with label Strait of Hormuz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Strait of Hormuz. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Peter Morici doesn't get it that Tehran already threatens the global order, without nuclear weapons, because it already decides who may safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz

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   ... With nuclear weapons in hand, Iran could threaten the global order with impunity. ... Tehran would recover, build atomic weapons, de...

Trump keeps calling Iran's leadership "new" as if that means there's been real change when the current president assumed office in July 2024 lol

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  Trump says Iran’s president asked for ceasefire, but U.S. wants Hormuz Strait open first President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Iran ’s...

The U.S. has military bases in all Persian Gulf countries except Iran, from which Trump has launched attacks on Iran which will have the effect of bankrupting those countries

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 There is something deeply insane about all this. Only Saudi Arabia and the UAE have pipelines which can by-pass the Strait of Hormuz and re...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Massive oil shortages incoming, tanker traffic down 90% in March through the Strait of Hormuz

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In other words, this would mean Trump is going to cut and run from the Persian Gulf just like he cut and ran from the Red Sea on May 6, 2025

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 Trump Tells Aides He’s Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz: Administration officials assess that forcing the waterway back open wou...

It's embarrassing to have a whiny little baby for president demonstrating everyday that he's not up to the job of being the leader of the free world

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  Trump lashes out at UK and France, telling allies ‘the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore’ ... “You’ll have to start learning how t...
Monday, March 30, 2026

Trump says "we will conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!)"

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  Trump says U.S. will destroy Iran’s oil wells, Kharg Island without deal to ‘immediately’ reopen Hormuz Strait He thinks this is a bargain...

Strategic victory for Iran (and China): Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz is the primary result of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran so far

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... So far in March, the first full month of war, barely six vessels per day on average have traversed the narrow waterway connecting the ...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

The latest UKMTO JMIC Advisory on 3/29 indicates 12 tankers transited the Strait of Hormuz in the last 7 days vs. 2 previously, 78 through the Bab al-Mandab Strait vs. 130 previously

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 Persian Gulf Activity: 1.7/day last week vs. 0.3/day prior week Red Sea Activity: 11.1/day last week vs. 18.6/day prior week  JMIC Advisory...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Tanker traffic out of the Persian Gulf has been cut by 98% in one month because of the Iran War, effectively reducing the world's primary energy inputs through the Strait of Hormuz by 20%

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The UAE is bypassing the Strait of Hormuz with 1.9 million barrels per day now coming out of Fujairah via its overland pipeline, and Saudi A...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Global oil in storage was 8,210 million barrels to start 2026 with consumption at 105 mbpd, meaning a 78-day cushion, analyst says we're moving from absorption phase which began Feb 28 to fragility now

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  Brent oil tops $110 again after Chinese ships are turned away from Strait of Hormuz ... “The oil market did not underreact to the disrupti...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Trump's whopper of the week: The ten vessels Iran let through Hormuz on March 22-23 were a present to the United States lol

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  Trump says Iran let 10 oil ships through Strait of Hormuz as ‘present’ to U.S. ... “That was three days ago, and I didn’t think much about...

The latest JMIC Advisory Note says transits through the Strait of Hormuz average one per day for Mar 24-25

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One man ruins the world, except for Russia

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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Trump outmanuevered: Iran decision to let vessels from non-hostile nations through the Strait of Hormuz will make any U.S. military action interfering with that to blame for disruptions

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  Oil prices fall as Iran signals safe passage for ‘non-hostile’ ships through Strait of Hormuz ... Iran’s mission to the United Nations sai...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Trump threatened to bomb Iranian power infrastructure if the Strait of Hormuz wasn't open by last night, and the latest UKMTO JMIC Advisory Note indicates that it is not open

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 Normal transits are about 138/day vs. four on March 22 and six on March 23.  

Iran is charging $2 million in protection money in exchange for safe passage of some vessels through the Strait of Hormuz

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 Not only do the Iranians control the Strait, they've turned it into a racket. Vessels have been tracked passing between Qeshm and Larak...
Monday, March 23, 2026

The Iranian parliament Speaker says Trump is lying, uttering fake news, there have been no negotiations lol

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Volume in stock and oil futures surged minutes before Trump’s Iran post Iran Media Denies Direct Talks After US Holds Off Energy Strikes... ...

Leon Panetta: Trump has no choice but to go big or go home

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  ... He advises Trump to abandon his magical thinking and “face the fact” that he must use the military to open the strait, neutralise Ira...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Two weeks in the news

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  The economy has Strait of Hormuz deadline for Trump: Two weeks ...  For now, the C-suite has its own view of the matter: it’s roughly two ...