More about Iran (Persia / Elam)
- crossroadscaloundr
- Apr 21
- 14 min read
Updated: 3 hours ago
Why is it so important to stay update on this:
1)The fake / false media in the West is working overtime to blame Israel &
to make it look like the US is losing.
2) Iran is important in Biblical prophecy & narratives regarding past, present & future.
𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐂𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 — 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐔𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒 “𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄”
“𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘰, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘮 𝘔𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘩𝘦𝘩𝘣𝘢𝘻 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘈𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯.”
Here’s what just happened:
— Iran’s government is 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 — Trump says “not unexpectedly”
— Pakistan’s Field Marshal and PM personally asked Trump to hold the attack
— Trump agreed — but 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐬
— The military remains “𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞” in all other respects
— The ceasefire extends 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥 and discussions conclude
Read between the lines: Iran couldn’t even put together a delegation because their own government is falling apart. Trump is giving them rope — 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐲. The blockade stays. The military stays ready. And the clock is still ticking.
𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 — 𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝.
You people squawking about how Trump "gave in" by extending the ceasefire are absolutely nuts.
We lose nothing by waiting a couple of days for the Iranian puppets to get their crap straightened out. In fact, it makes us look a bit more civilized. And while we wait, Iran is slowly strangled by the blockade.
Time is NOT an issue for us — it IS for Iran.
Stop your bellyaching. It makes you look foolish. The only one losing by extending the ceasefire a bit is Iran.
Utterly barbaric!
Where are the Human & Women's Rights Groups, Greta, the UN & all the woke Uni / College Students. Where is this Marxist, Biblically Illiterate Pope Leo.
𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏: “𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐀 𝐍𝐔𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐍”—𝐍𝐄𝐆𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐃
“𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘯𝘶𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦.”
President Trump announced that Iran nuclear negotiations are accelerating, with talks continuing over the weekend. He confirmed the combination of 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐞 has been “pretty lethal.”
When pressed on whether everything has been agreed to, Trump was direct: 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨, so their public statements will differ—but the substance is moving forward.
He also teased “𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬” 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝟐𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫—details to come shortly.
𝐍𝐨 𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧. 𝐍𝐨 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐍𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝟐𝟓 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬.
𝐑𝐄𝐏. 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐍: “𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐊i𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝟑𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐎𝐅 𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄. 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒 — 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐓 𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐇”
“𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵’𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺.”
Chairman Green responded to Sen. Murphy’s viral backlash over his social media post about the US blockade on Iran:
— Iran has 𝐤i𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝟑𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 for protesting in the streets
— It has 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡
— Murphy’s post — which he now calls “sarcasm” — drew 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡
— Green’s advice: “𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘐𝘙𝘓.”
𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐡𝐲’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐞. “𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐦” 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭.
Do you know what the Iranian regime actually believes? Their dream is for an apocalyptic jihad against Israel and the West.
These are hardcore "Twelver" Shia Muslims, utterly devoted to their radical religion and driven by a singular, apocalyptic belief. They are not interested in negotiation or coexistence.
Instead, they are actively preparing for the ultimate end-times confrontation: a global showdown that would summon the 12th Imam or Mahdi, their long-awaited Islamic messiah.
"Bottom line is the Mahdi is an eschatological mystical figure who is supposed to be ushered in at the End Times and to bring justice and goodness," said Middle East historian and author Raymond Ibrahim.
Prophecy News Watch: "More importantly, it will bring a new global monetary system online – one that’s indistinguishable in capability and function from the mark of the beast system we read about in Revelation 13. So if you’re a Christian, pay attention! This coming system is yet another indication of the times in which we …" Continue reading "12 Steps To The Mark Of The Beast – The Iran War Is Just The Trigger" https://ift.tt/t4ku9A2 #God #endtimes #onlinemoney #digital
Prophevcy News Watch – Melanie Phillips: "Few grasp that U.S. and Israeli intelligence had discovered that Iran was poised to create both a nuclear bomb and a missile arsenal so enormous and so buried underground that no one would ever be able to tackle the mortal threat posed by the regime. Instead, the American and …" Continue reading "The Growing Anti-Israel Animus & The War With Iran" https://ift.tt/dAX98OB #Iran #America #oilandgas #antisemitism
𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐂𝐎𝐌 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐂: 𝟑𝟏 𝐕𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐒 𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃, 𝟏𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎+ 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐏𝐒, 𝟏𝟎𝟎+ 𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐅𝐓, 𝟏𝟕+ 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐒 𝐄𝐍𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐒
The numbers:
— 𝟑𝟏 𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐬 directed to turn around or return to port
— Most vessels turned around have been 𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬
— 𝟏𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎+ 𝐔𝐒 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐬 executing the mission
— 𝟏𝟎𝟎+ 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭
— 𝟏𝟕+ 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 including aircraft carriers, guided-missile destroyers, amphibious assault ships, and dock landing ships
— Assets include 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐚-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭, 𝐮𝐧𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭, 𝐈𝐒𝐑 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭
— No ships allowed in or out of Iranian ports
— Enforcement across the Middle East and beyond
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐈𝐈. 𝟏𝟕+ 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬, 𝟏𝟎𝟎+ 𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟏𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐢𝐥. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐔𝐒 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲.
𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐓𝐎 𝐅𝐎𝐗 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒: 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐎𝐈𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐒 — 𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘
Trump, explaining what happens when a sanctions blockade meets a regime that cannot move its product:
“𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮, 𝘪𝘧 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴 — 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘥𝘦 — 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯, 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩.”
“𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴. 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘵, 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 50% 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸.”
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝. Iran is the world’s ninth-largest oil producer (EIA, 2025), pumping roughly 3.3 million barrels a day. With the U.S./Israeli naval blockade still cutting their export shipping, their onshore tank farms at Kharg Island and Bandar Abbas are 𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲.
“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦. 𝘈 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯. 𝘚𝘰 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦.”
Translation: in roughly three days the regime either fires every centrifuge facility in the desert in a final tantrum, or they sue for terms.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐉𝐨𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧.
𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐑𝐔𝐍 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐏𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐈𝐋. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐒, 𝐀 𝟑𝟎-𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑-𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐕𝐋𝐂𝐂 𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑𝐒, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐋 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐔𝐌. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄-𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊 𝐈𝐒 𝐑𝐔𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆.
Energy analyst Mia Dol Maleki published the technical receipts this morning, with on-the-ground confirmation from inside the regime’s own logistics network. Pulling them apart in order:
1. Iran is now using shipping containers and “𝘫𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦” — disused tanks in poor structural condition — at Ahvaz and Asaluyeh to absorb the oil it cannot ship.
2. Rail to China is a non-starter. Iran’s own senior rail-transport expert Morteza Naserian told Mehr News there are 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚, 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐮𝐦, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐤-𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞.
3. The floating-storage “𝘧𝘪𝘹” is paper-thin. Iran pulled NASHA (IMO 9079107), a 30-year-old retired VLCC, out of the ship-breakers. NASHA buys roughly 48 hours.
4. Jask terminal’s onshore tanks 𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐦 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟓. Some tankers are now anchored near Kharg as improvised overflow — a fleet the IRGC cannot replicate at scale.
5. The 2020 precedent — 85% storage utilization, 120 million barrels afloat — was managed under sanctions but 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧. Both escape valves are closed now. Iran’s ghost fleet is already filled with 166M barrels.
Containers, junk tanks, retired VLCCs, and rail fantasies are not a storage strategy. They are the last moves of a system running out of room — exactly on the timeline that Treasury, Pentagon, and Bessent’s economic-fury team estimated.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝.
𝐎𝐈𝐋 𝐈𝐒𝐍'𝐓 𝐀 𝐅𝐀𝐔𝐂𝐄𝐓. 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐄𝐃.
People keep asking the same question about the U.S. naval blockade of Iran:
If they cannot ship the oil, why do they not just stop pumping it?
The answer is that they cannot. The reason involves physics, geology, and three quarters of a century of accumulated reservoir damage that the regime cannot undo. Let me walk through it.
𝐀𝐧 𝐎𝐢𝐥 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐈𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐅𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐭
A faucet has a valve. You close the valve, water stops, you open it, water flows. Same as before.
An oil well does not work that way at all.
An oil reservoir is a high-pressure system. Crude sits trapped in porous rock — typically sandstone or limestone — under pressure measured in thousands of pounds per square inch, mixed with natural gas above and saltwater below. When you drill into that rock, you are creating a controlled leak. The oil flows up the well because the underground pressure is pushing it.
When you shut the wellhead, the pressure does not stay still. It redistributes. Water from below pushes upward. Gas from above expands. The oil column gets disturbed — sometimes permanently. Petroleum engineers have a term for this: 𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐭-𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮 "𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐈𝐭 𝐎𝐟𝐟"
Three categories of damage start the moment you shut in a producing well.
The first is 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. While the well is producing, the pressure drawdown holds the oil-water and oil-gas interfaces in roughly stable positions. Stop production, and water begins to rise into the producing zone while gas migrates downward. When you eventually restart, the well now produces salt water and natural gas instead of oil — sometimes permanently.
The second is 𝐰𝐚𝐱 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Crude oil contains paraffin waxes and heavy asphaltenes that stay liquid only because the oil is hot and moving. Stop the flow, and these solids precipitate inside the wellbore, the production tubing, and the surface flowlines. Restart attempts plug the well shut. Iranian crude is notoriously waxy.
The third is 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠. The perforations through the steel casing — the holes through which oil enters the well from the rock — clog with sand, fines, and asphaltene sludge during shut-in. Restart cuts flow rate, sometimes to zero, until a workover crew is deployed at six-figure cost per well to clean each one out.
For an old field — and Iran's giant fields are old: 𝐀𝐡𝐯𝐚𝐳, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐧, 𝐆𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧, all producing since the 1950s and 60s — shut-in damage is brutal. Texas and Oklahoma operators in low-price periods routinely keep pumping at a loss rather than shut in, because the damage from shutting in costs more than the lost revenue.
𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦
There are three additional factors making Iran's situation worse than a typical producing nation's.
Decades of sanctions have starved the industry of Western technology. Halliburton, Schlumberger, and Baker Hughes were the global leaders in well stimulation, workover, and reservoir management until they were forced out of Iran between 2010 and 2018. The National Iranian Oil Company has limped along on Chinese-supplied equipment of significantly lower quality, plus reverse-engineered Russian and pre-revolution American gear. Restoration after a shut-in requires precisely the high-end services Iran no longer has.
Iran also depends on water injection to maintain reservoir pressure. Most of Iran's giant fields are on secondary recovery — meaning seawater is pumped down injection wells to push oil toward producers. Shut in the producers and you must also shut in the injectors, or the field over-pressurizes. Stopping injection lets pressure decline. Restarting injection costs hundreds of millions of dollars and typically returns the field to lower output than before. There is no clean reset button.
And oil is 𝟑𝟎-𝟒𝟎% 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭. Stop pumping for 90 days and the Iranian currency collapses, subsidies on bread and electricity vanish, and the regime faces a domestic crisis worse than the 2022 protests. They cannot stop. They are physically and politically incapable of stopping.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐰
Iran continues pumping because it must. The U.S. blockade, which began February 28, prevents shipment.
Iranian onshore storage at Kharg Island and Bandar Abbas filled up within weeks. After that, the regime began using its own fleet of aging Very Large Crude Carriers as floating storage, anchored off the Strait of Hormuz with their AIS transponders dark.
The floating storage filled up next.
What happens then is what petroleum engineers call a 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬. Each pumping platform is producing oil that has nowhere to go — and gas associated with that oil that, if not flared, will over-pressurize the entire system. So Iran is now flaring increasing quantities of associated gas (visible from NASA VIIRS night satellite imagery), burning off the secondary product into the sky just to keep the primary product moving.
Flaring is wasteful, expensive, and visible from orbit. It is what countries do when they have run out of options.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠-𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞
Even when this war ends, Iran's oil sector will not return to where it stood on February 27, 2026.
A reservoir engineer can model the damage. Estimates range from 𝟐𝟎-𝟑𝟓% 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬 across Iran's giant fields, depending on how long the chaos continues and how badly the wells are mishandled while it is going on. That is hundreds of billions of dollars of reserves that will sit underground forever, because the regime did not have the technology, the time, or the strategic patience to manage a controlled shut-in properly.
This is what makes the U.S. naval blockade strategically devastating in a way that ordinary sanctions are not.
Sanctions reduce demand for Iranian oil. The blockade physically prevents its movement. And because Iranian oil cannot be turned off and cannot be shipped, every barrel pumped now becomes either flared waste or reservoir-damaging backpressure.
The Islamic Republic is not facing a financial squeeze. It is facing a 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐞 — the kind that does not get undone with a ceasefire, a sanctions waiver, or a billion-dollar Qatari escrow account.
It is the kind of damage that the rocks themselves remember.
𝐀 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐱 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞-𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜.
𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐘 𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐙𝐄 $𝟑𝟒𝟒 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐑𝐘𝐏𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐘 𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐒 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐅 “𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐂 𝐅𝐔𝐑𝐘.” 𝐊𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐆 𝐈𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐈𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐍𝐓.
From Fox Business’ Edward Lawrence reporting on the operation:
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐮𝐫𝐞: $344 million in cryptocurrency tied to Iranian regime networks frozen. The administration is targeting digital-asset flows that the regime has been using to evade conventional sanctions on banks. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed the freeze.
𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝:
𝘒𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯’𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭, 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘫𝘢𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 $170 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯’𝘴 𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘹𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘮 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦. 𝘈𝘯𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭, 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘛𝘦𝘩𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐮𝐫𝐲:
1. Iran’s international shadow banking infrastructure (the network we’ve been dismantling for two weeks)
2. Iran’s weapons procurement networks
3. The 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘵 of tankers used to hide oil origins
4. Independent Chinese 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘵 refineries (especially in Shandong Province) that buy Iranian crude
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫: Treasury has shared information with China, Hong Kong, the UAE, and Oman — identifying banks that have allegedly enabled Iranian activity, and warning that continued cooperation will trigger SECONDARY sanctions on those institutions. The threat is now extraterritorial: comply, or your bank loses access to U.S. dollar clearing.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐦-𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤: $344M crypto frozen + 35 shadow banking entities sanctioned + naval blockade since April 13 + UAE leaving OPEC May 1 + Iran’s oil infrastructure on the verge of permanent damage. The campaign is not a tightening of pressure. It is a complete dismantling of the regime’s economic capacity in real time.
𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐨𝐢𝐥. 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬. 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨. 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝟒𝟕 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.
𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐅𝐎𝐗 𝐁𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒: 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 $𝟏𝟕𝟎 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐃𝐀𝐘. 𝐊𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐆 𝐈𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘. 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐃𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍’𝐒 𝐎𝐈𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄.
Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich, reporting on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Fox Business interview:
𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵 𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘓𝘢𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘒𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 $170 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯’𝘴 𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩’𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞:
𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯. 𝘏𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 — 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵 — 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘥𝘦.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐀𝐄 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐂 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐀𝐄 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬:
𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘮 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘮 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘖𝘗𝘌𝘊 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘗𝘌𝘊+.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐬: Iran’s primary oil export terminal at Kharg Island will hit storage capacity within days. Once full, Iran has to physically reduce production — and once a well is 𝘴𝘩𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 under pressure, the geological structure can sustain permanent damage that costs years and billions to repair. The naval blockade is not a temporary squeeze. It is permanent erosion of Iran’s primary revenue source.
$𝟏𝟕𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲. 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫. 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐢𝐥. 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬. 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐇-𝐳-𝐛, 𝐇-𝐦-𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐑𝐆𝐂. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝟒𝟕 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭.
𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐓𝐎 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐎𝐒: 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐑𝐄𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐒 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍’𝐒 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐑. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐕𝐘 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐄𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐔𝐏 𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐍𝐔𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌. 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟏𝟔. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐏𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄.
From the broadcast walking through it:
𝘛𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 16𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘯𝘶𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮.
𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩, 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐱𝐢𝐨𝐬, 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜:
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘪𝘨. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘯𝘶𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯.
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘥𝘦. 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘥𝘦, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘯𝘶𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟔 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐲 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧, per the broadcast:
- 2 million Iranian jobs lost since the war began 60 days ago
- Half of Iran’s remaining jobs at risk
- Iranian rial down 98% to a record low
- Annual inflation at 67%
- Chicken prices up 75%
- Daily oil shipments down 70%
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞: national average gas price at $4.22 a gallon, highest in four years. Trump met yesterday with Chevron and other energy company executives to plan steps to alleviate pump pain if the blockade continues for months. The administration is treating the price at the pump as a manageable cost of forcing regime concession — not as a reason to lift the blockade.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐟: Axios reports the U.S. has prepared a plan for a 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘴 on Iran if needed. Trump’s public posture: a non-nuclear deal is still possible, but 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯. The accompanying Truth Social post: 𝘕𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘔𝘳. 𝘕𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘺.
The structural picture: Iran’s currency is destroyed. Its oil revenue is gutted. Its labor market is in collapse. Its strategic options are now (a) accept a nuclear deal on American terms, or (b) absorb a wave of U.S. strikes on top of an economy already in freefall. Every day the blockade holds, option (a) gets cheaper for Iran and the leverage gap widens.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬, 𝟏𝟔 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐢𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐢𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭’𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬. 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐨.
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