Tehran has defied President Donald Trump’s demands to fully reopen the strategic waterway to shipping.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has declared that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed to shipping until the US ends what it called its “illegal” interference in the region.
The statement came as the US reportedly pressed Iranian negotiators to declare the strait fully open to commercial shipping following talks with mediators in Oman on Saturday.
“The Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until further notice and until the end of US intervention in the region. No ship will be permitted to transit the waterway,” the IRGC Navy said.
“If the enemy uses the incident it itself caused as a pretext to make another mistake and launch a new act of aggression against us, it will be met with a forceful response, and enemy bases in the region will be targeted,” the Navy added.
The US carried out strikes on Iran on Wednesday and Thursday after several tankers were hit by projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz. While Iran did not publicly claim responsibility for the attacks, it had previously said that all ships transiting the waterway must follow IRGC instructions and use a designated shipping lane.
Get your push-bike tuned, you may be needing it soon.
OK then. I’ll fill up with petrol tonight.
Ever get the feeling that the world is being played by the ‘Deep State’ psychos running the US? The whole plan seems to be about starving China of oil supplies. Every other country affected by the oil shortage is just collateral damage to the main event.
China’s main oil suppliers were Venezuela and Iran. Both of those countries were subjected to unprovoked attacks by the US that disrupted their oil exports to China. Russia initially picked up the slack to supply China with oil. However in recent weeks there has been intense military targeting of Russian oil refineries resulting in significant damage and subsequent oil shortages.
The upshot to my mind is that the US feigns outrage but is quite content to let the fighting continue in the warped belief that it will ultimately damage China.
https://wltreport.com/2026/07/12/us-military-defies-iran-strait-of-hormuz-open-all-vessels/
So Trump cares about climate change…? LOL
The US makes more empty eunuch threats and Iran tells them to get lost. We should do the same but first the quisling globalists have to go.
Iran sucks