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Security in the Gulf and the Sea of Oman will be enforced on a reciprocal basis, following the United States’ announcement of a naval blockade targeting Iran, the spokesperson for the Islamic Republic’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaghari, stated on April 13.
In a statement, Zolfaghari said that Iran considers the defense of its territorial waters a “natural and lawful duty,” stressing that the presence of foreign-aligned vessels in key maritime corridors will not be permitted.
“The Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran explicitly and decisively declare that the security of ports in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman is either for everyone or for no one,” the spokesperson said, warning that any threat to Iranian maritime security would result in broader regional consequences.
Zolfaghari affirmed that the Islamic Republic will continue to regulate passage through the Strait of Hormuz under a “permanent regime” implemented by its armed forces.
He also stated that vessels affiliated with adversaries “do not have and will not have the right to pass” through the strategic waterway, while other ships would be allowed transit under Iranian regulation.
“If the security of the ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the waters of the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman is threatened, no port in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman will be safe,” Zolfaghari warned.
The statement came just a few hours before the blockade announced by the U.S. President Donald Trump after the failure of the talks with Iran in Pakistan came into effect.
Renewing threats to Iran, Trump claimed in a Truth Social post that the Islamic Republic’s naval forces have been “obliterated” and said that the U.S. has not hit “fast attack ships” because it did not deem them a threat.
“Warning: If any of these ships come anywhere close to our BLOCKADE, they will be immediately ELIMINATED, using the same system of kill that we use against the drug dealers on boats at sea,” Trump wrote.
Meanwhile, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations reported that it has been informed that “maritime access restrictions are being enforced affecting Iranian ports and coastal areas, including locations along the Arabian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea east of the Strait of Hormuz.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had welcomed the U.S. decision to blockade Iran, stating during a cabinet meeting on April 13 that the ceasefire with the Islamic Republic “could turn on a dime.”
Netanyahu said that U.S. Vice President JD Vance briefed him on his way back from talks with Iran in Pakistan. According to the primer, the Americans “could not tolerate Iran’s blatant violation of the agreement to enter negotiations. The agreement was that they would stop the fire, and the Iranians would immediately open the Strait [of Hormuz] — they did not do so. The Americans could not accept this.”
Additionally, Vance told Netanyahu that the central issue from the U.S. perspective was “removing all enriched material and ensuring that there will be no enrichment in the coming years — possibly for decades — no enrichment inside Iran. This is their focus, and of course it is also important to us.”
What Netanyahu said was not surprising. The Wall Street Journal reported just a day earlier that in addition to the blockade, Trump and his advisers are looking at resuming limited military strikes in Iran as a way to break a stalemate in peace talks.
The escalation by the U.S. could lead to the collapse of the ceasefire, set to end in little over a week. Iran will not likely fire the first shot, but it is guaranteed to respond to any American or Israeli attack.
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the american military industrial complex is just making things a lot more worse for “american” citizens, smh. 🤦
destroying civilization is never improvement. simply waste
so msm so droll.
yes the troll favourite at sf, with his daily dozen disguises and his attempts at disingenuities , arguing with himself and the usual childish bs, really is an insult effectively mocking free speech and truth in journalism as a parody of parochislism and community values imo
oops 504 error when they don’t like what you print
iran will be destroyed because putler and the alawites are traitorous pigs. before that disgusting atrocity in december 2024, israel would not have dared to do something like that. i wish death and destruction to all alawites and all russians. i hope someone will come and cause the death of all alawites and all russians, even the smallest babies.
you are obviously a severly disturbed clown, seek help…..
mirror mirror ramses
your time will come buddy.
golly gosh fat cat aren’t you inventive.
pakistan, india, myanmar, indonesia, vietnam can offer their coastal waters for safe passage of chìnesè oil tankers.
most of these countries have their own quarrels with china on territorial eez water disputes.
pakistan and china and myanmar are more likely partners. they can reopen the silk road. soms infatructure is already build. in myanmar and pakistan.
the question is how will china deal with a cut off of oil from iran through the hormuz kharg island water way. land routes and pipelines trough pakistan are not really developed for such large volumes
more international operation is likely
you’re so obvious it’s insulting.
true i hope that iran can keep moving the oil to china and asia and make the zionist helpers pay the toll per barrel. a permanent loss of free passage through hormuz and toll fee is exactly what trump deserves. iran controlling hormuz is the best strategy to win the war and teach the zionists a lesson.
meanwhile i want to see more action and pressure on turkey to stop the flow of azerbaijani oil to israel. israel needs to loose all access to cheap oil they need a oil embargo.
no that’s a load of propganda for profit from war their family business war is their most profitable business operation.
a scenario where the world unifies against sociopathic mandated control.
get real psychopaths rule the world and always have the “charming psychopaths” rather like in a fairy story.it’s hereditary
me and anonymouse bob went to gay americunt bar where we exchange much jizz—nice hebrews use our anuz sell us diapers
the foul words of a serf
iran neither defends it supposed allies, nor attacks. until the second war of aggression, iran’s cowardly self-interest (which it dressed up as “strategic patience”) plus iran’s incapacity to keep its mouth shut repeatedly gifted the pathologically violent zionist entity a knowledge of iran’s strategy that greatly helped israel fight its wars of aggression.
i find it hard to believe great soldiers are listening to these crack heads
years of indoctrination years of selective programming. you as a german should know that the most idealistic soldiers dont make it in the army you get kicked out. because the bundeswehr is very keen on doing israels bidding silencing removing anyone who is too smart to be woke or mindless zogbot. so everywhere including with cops the worst power hungry police violence scum remains.
this is why in the usa the cops so often shoot people for nothing because they are dumb enough to do what jews tell them to do without questioning. they dont care about morals towards the people.
no. its not the jews you fool they’re set up to play lead dog to protect the head of the snake.
and “all liars go to hell”
you find it very in your face in the vatican in the ceiling clearly designed to be above the mob.
israel is an expendable military and political puppet state driven by generational propaganda. this also happened in ukraine. both were and are will funded by war lord mafia corporations today. the operative word is expendable. despite any media you might believe in. the corporations that created this para-dime as losing markets
the lack of benevolence and plunder of populations wealth is not sustainable to heaven. a fast burning wildfire may spread beyond any controls. data centers will not save empires demands on humanity. just more waste of assets
all states are expendable military operation obviously to anyone with even grade 2 social. studies even primitive tribal “states”
bibi is the last man on earth to talk about ‘violation of agreements’.
listen, there is no truth in war and never has been truth is always the first casualty of war “they in there hate the truth ” pope benedict.
we tricked the goatfuckers again!
heheheh
you didn’t ever trick anyone who wasn’t programmed to be deceived.
your just mindless zog, little insecure man. iran will close bab al mandab you idiot.
you learned well from your nazi masters.
for the u.s. to continue it lies and propaganda about iran is tantamount to telling americans that arabs that couldn’t fly a plane took out 2 building built to withstand worse than being hit by a plane. oh, wait…never mind.
ask carney. he knows more than you hahaha
well although sf hate anything not anti semitic anti american the facts are that it’s the city that is annhiliated first and then the world has a 1000 years of peace.
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