The crew is in limbo amid conflicting statements from Iran and the US regarding the Strait of Hormuz, Raman Kapoor has told RT.
The captain of one of the civilian vessels stranded in the Persian Gulf has told RT in an exclusive interview that his crew has been languishing in uncertainty for over a month as the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed to navigation.
Around 25% of the world’s seaborne oil trade passed through the strategically important waterway before the start of the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran in late February, according to the International Energy Agency.
Over the weekend, US President Donald Trump announced that the US Navy would “begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz” following the failed talks with Iranian representatives in Islamabad. The US Department of War later clarified that the measure would apply to all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports, starting from April 13.
Speaking exclusively to RT on Tuesday, Captain Raman Kapoor said that his vessel transporting oil has been “stranded here inside the Persian Gulf ever since the war started.”
The captain, who declined to disclose his ship’s name and exact location due to security concerns, described to RT how his crew has been suffering from anxiety for weeks, “thinking about their family.”
All this time the crew has been awaiting notification from the company that operates the vessel as to “when to move out from here, where to move out,” he explained.
“The uncertainty is really killing all of us,” the captain said, adding that the crew is feeling “helpless.”
Kapoor told RT that the situation is further compounded by the fact that “two different entities [Iran and the US] are blocking” the strait, and “keep changing the statements” as to the extent of the blockade.
“Please listen to our voice – we are just seafarers, we are not soldiers… we keep the world moving,” Kapoor added in an emotional entreaty to all parties to the conflict.
“We pray that… good sense will prevail,” the captain concluded.
Regrettably the US morons can’t accept they have lost, their bloated ego’s simply can’t sustain the fact, so everyone suffers. If the world were not run by political cowards, the best thing that could happen is everyone sanction the US, until it complies.
The USA will never openly accept defeat but instead silently avoid combat by begging for ceasefires. This was evident last year when the Houthis inflicted the biggest ever defeat suffered by the US Navy since WW2 by forcing the USS Harry Truman carrier strike group to withdraw from the Middle East a year ago. https://en.irna.ir/news/85780651/Yemeni-forces-pound-U-S-carrier-for-second-time-in-24-hours
Then they sent their biggest carrier but the USS Gerald R. Ford was forced into embarrassing retreat and repairs in Croatia a few weeks ago. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa4cc7u
But the USA has eventually learnt their lesson and won’t dare confront the Houthis again. So they avoid the Red Sea and avoid the Bab el-Mandeb Strait by taking the long way round with the USS George H.W. Bush to continue their warmongering today https://southfront.press/uss-george-h-w-bush-carrier-is-travelling-around-africa-to-avoid-attack-by-houthis/
This recent history shows that the USA eventually learns their lessons but it takes them ages to learn anything – it might therefore take the USA over a year to understand that warmongers and their allies are banned from the Strait of Hormuz just as they are denied passage through the Bab el-Mandeb
Obstructing Chinese merchant shipping will finally force the Chinese to declare their hand https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/us-treasury-to-sanction-chinese-banks?catid=17&Itemid=101
This is how a defeated “superpower” behaves https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/525443/Trump-s-blockade-forged-in-the-ashes-of-strategic-failure
Trumps blockade is restricting Iran’s ability to commerce oil. Otherwise like Ukraine, Iran’s leadership will find any reason to breakdown peace talks.
https://news-pravda.com/eu/2026/04/15/2240609.html
The longer the strait stays closed, the more buyers for US oil.
Harry, you mean RUSSIAN oil perhaps ??? I heard mr Putin was doing good business
“We have lots of oil here in our country…we have the best oil quality the world has ever seen!” U.S. President Donald John Trump
And…’Drill, baby drill!” – U.S. President Donald John Trump
OK, if that’s true, then WHY THE F@#K ARE YOU IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO BEGIN WITH???!!!
This is becoming a humanitarian disaster for the tanker crews.
Maybe the seafarers unions will file lawsuits demanding vessel passages for tankers owned by non-belligerent neutral countries?
Looks like the Deagel Forecast may be coming into full view, despite being a year late in the end-result!
https://news-pravda.com/usa/2026/04/15/2243448.html