Trump said a US blockade of ships sailing to Iranian ports, announced after talks with Iran last weekend ended without agreement, would remain until "our transaction with Iran is 100 per cent complete".

Iran responded sharply, with Iran's parliament speaker and senior negotiator Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf saying in a social media post that the strait, which until recently carried about a fifth of the world's oil trade, "will not remain open" if the US blockade continues. He also said Trump had made multiple false claims about the peace talks on Friday.

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What the f? You start a war which every expert said would closes the strait. Now you think the real estate guy is successful because the strait is open for another week? This is the dumbest tweet every.

The Strait is at risk of closure...forever (or until the oil and gas run out). Iran has newly-realized power that they can exercise at will.

Sure, they could certainly try to keep the strait closed. They would be bombed into smithereens if they attempt it. And it looks like they understand that, which is why they've backed off.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:Why are more troops being sent to the ME after Trump just claimed the war is "over"?

Probably to clear the strait of Iranian mines, duh.

Yeah, right.

This is so sick.

I feel so badly for those proud Americans who signed up to fight to protect their country.

Here, they are protecting Israel. And they are protecting the billionaires including Trump who what to steal Iran's oil.

Iran poses no direct threat to the US. Our soldiers should not be sent to die in this undeclared war that's begun by Trump as a distraction from Epstein.

I have family in the military. They did NOT sign up for this.

What a bizarrely naive comment. They’re not “protecting Israel.” The US (and other countries) are trying to open the Strait so that oil can be supplied around the world. Why is the strait closed? Because Iran chose to lay its mines there. Take it up with Iran.

You’re naive. The US has been bombing and destroying Iran and Iran closed the strait to get the US to stop. Nothing was happening to the US to make US start killing Iranians. On the other side Israel has been destroying Beirut, pretending it’s about Hamas, but it’s not. It’s about taking their land. Don’t be gullible.

Is that why 40 countries have rebuked Iran for laying mines in the Strait and blocking ships, as well as demanding Iran open the Strait back up? Huh, interesting.

DP You just can not help yourself can you? The strait is open just have to make a deal with the Iranians and pay some money. Oh and there are no mines. Ships who have made deals go through the strait every day. If there were mines ships would be sinking. That is how mines work.

I love how you, a random troll, thinks you speak with more authority than you know, the people who actually know what's going on. Please educate yourself before opening your mouth and wasting everyone's time. Iran has left a path open to ships willing to pay a toll. The US Navy has a map of the mine-laden areas and are working to clear them because Iran is too incompetent to do it themselves.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/how-the-us-could-clear-mines-from-the-strait-of-hormuz/ar-AA212QoU?ocid=BingNewsSerp
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/strait-of-hormuz-mines-iran-us
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/4/13/what-do-we-know-about-sea-mines-in-and-around-the-strait-of-hormuz

You do not even understand how traffic works in the strait or how mine clearing operations work but you call troll? If there were mines it would take one to three months to remove them if no active measures were taken by Iran. The US does not even have mine sweeping ships in the region. The US has very limited capability deployed in the Middle East for mine sweeping and those ships are nowhere near the strait. So how are they mapping your mines?

Also the Iranian have underwater drones that act as mobile fields. They have a range of 600km and can stay out for 4-6 days. The Iranians have not mined the strait and the strait is now open. Tell us that is possible?

You are a truly tiresome troll.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has dropped sea mines in the strait, according to the U.S. and Iranian news agencies.

The U.S. Navy has one littoral combat ship built for mine clearing, as well as other military assets in the region capable of doing that work. The Navy has dispatched two additional mine-clearing ships from Japan that are heading to the region.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-says-iran-and-u-s-are-working-to-remove-sea-mines-from-strait-of-hormuz

The U.S. is trying to secure the strait from mines as part of efforts to end Iran's disruption of shipping, which has severely curbed global energy supplies since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran at the end of February.

But while the U.S. can draw on modernised technology to remotely check for and remove mines, clearing a strategic waterway such as the Strait of Hormuz will still be a slow, multi‑step process, former naval officers and industry specialists say.

The U.S. military said over the weekend it had started the mine-clearing operation, sending two warships through the strait, but offered few details about the equipment involved. It said on Saturday that additional forces, including underwater drones, would join the effort in the coming days.

Iran had recently deployed about a dozen mines in the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reported last month, citing sources familiar with the matter. It is not publicly known where mines may have been laid.

Traditionally, the U.S. Navy relied on manned minesweeping ships that physically entered minefields, using sonars to locate the devices and mechanical gear dragged behind the vessel to clear explosives, sometimes supported by human divers. Much of that aging fleet has been retired.

They are being replaced by lighter vessels known as littoral combat ships, which carry modern mine‑hunting equipment such as semi‑autonomous surface and underwater drones as well as remote‑controlled robots that enable crews to distance themselves from the minefield. The navy has three of these in deployment.

Two of those ships were undergoing maintenance in Singapore, a senior U.S. official told Reuters in late March. At the time, the U.S. minesweeping capacity in the ⁠Middle ​East included unmanned undersea vehicles, four of the traditional Avenger-class vessels, helicopters ​and divers, according to the official.

The U.S. operation will likely involve searching for mines using unmanned surface and underwater vehicles equipped with sensors. Once a mine‑like object is detected, the data is typically transferred to crews operating outside the minefield, who identify the device. They then determine how it should be neutralized.

The Navy’s search capability now includes sonar-mounted unmanned surface and undersea vehicles, as well as helicopters that are used to spot mines near the surface, former naval officials say.

To destroy mines, the Navy can deploy systems such as the torpedo‑shaped Archerfish, a remotely operated device about 2 metres long that carries an explosive charge and transmits video back to operators via cable, according to its manufacturer, BAE Systems. Designed to be expendable, it costs tens of thousands of dollars.

The U.S. could also use unmanned boats towing mine‑sweeping sleds that trigger detonations or gather mines, said Bryan Clark, a retired U.S. naval officer and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Human divers are also sometimes used, including for intelligence gathering, specialists say.

Clearing the strait could take two or three weeks, Clark said, and Iranian attacks on mine‑clearing crews could slow the process and raise risks. As a result, he said, the U.S. military may deploy defensive measures like ships and airborne drones to defend crews and equipment.

“Finding and destroying mines is very time consuming,” U.S. Admiral Daryl Caudle, chief of naval operations, said in March. That leaves mine‑clearing capability “vulnerable,” he added.

New technologies are being developed to speed up mine clearance, particularly through advances in sensors used for detection, specialists say.

French technology and defence group Thales says its latest sonar can scan a suspected mine from three different angles in one pass, a process that typically requires multiple sweeps.

Advances in artificial intelligence are also enabling more data analysis to be carried out onboard unmanned vessels.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/how-the-us-could-clear-mines-from-the-strait-of-hormuz/ar-AA213vR9?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Oh lookie the mine troll is back! When are you going to give it up? It’s all lies and propaganda. Just take the L and move along. No one is talking about mines in the strait. Troll some place else.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in US taxpayer dollars, US loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power.

It is only open while the ceasefire holds. Trump better accept the surrender terms dictated by the Iranians- unfreeze Iranian assets, pay reparations and remove bases from the region. The nuclear stuff should be of the table unless the US and Israel give up their nuclear weapons and enriched materials.

Good grief. You truly think Iran has the upper hand here?
What have you been smoking?

If the US has the upper hand, why does it have to make concessions to get the Strait opened?

Wat actual concessions has the US made?

We're blockading Iran linked ship traffic. 90% of Iran's economy depends on those ships getting through.

DP Who told you that? Iran has borders with road and rail. Pakistan and Iraq are its friends both will received and ship goods for Iran. Wait till a Chinese flagged ship fills up with oil and sails past the US blockade. How about an Australian ship. You think Trump will stop an Australian bound ship with the gas crisis in that country? Truth is they will say they stopped 14 ships today but it never happened. One thing this administration does is lie about everything.

The US does not have the ships, air coverage or cooperation of any other nation to run a blockade of this size. In the Cuban missile “quarantine”, the US used over 200 ship including 8 aircraft carriers for 500 miles radius around Cuban. This blockade is magnitudes larger.

The blockade is a Trump distraction. Just like Trump said tariffs have brought in over trillion dollars and created 10 trillion in foreign investment in the US. The US navy will stop a 1,000 ships a day and Iran will be wrecked! In reality Trump has accepted Irans 10 point plan and get nothing in return.

Meanwhile Iran is using access to the straits as a way increase trade and break US influence with countries throughout the world.

What a total and complete defeat for the US. This is an unprecedented defeat for the US and a total disaster for Israel.

Land routes cannot even remotely make up for what they're losing by not having a viable sea route with a blockade going. Iran does not have capacity to move oil over land in any reasonable volume.

Also, Australia isn't a problem. They haven't been buying any meaningful amount of oil from Iran. And I guarantee Australia isn't going to try and make a thunder run past a US blockade. The US isn't quarantining all traffic. That's not the mission. They are only stopping traffic coming from Iranian ports.

Bottom line still remains, sea routes are Iran's economic lifeblood. With the US blockading it, that's a huge liability for Iran.

What the f do you think the US is going to do? Blow up tankers? This blockade is a joke. Do you really think Iran will keep the strait open if there is a blockade?

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in US taxpayer dollars, US loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power.

It is only open while the ceasefire holds. Trump better accept the surrender terms dictated by the Iranians- unfreeze Iranian assets, pay reparations and remove bases from the region. The nuclear stuff should be of the table unless the US and Israel give up their nuclear weapons and enriched materials.

Good grief. You truly think Iran has the upper hand here?
What have you been smoking?

If the US has the upper hand, why does it have to make concessions to get the Strait opened?

Wat actual concessions has the US made?

We're blockading Iran linked ship traffic. 90% of Iran's economy depends on those ships getting through.

DP Who told you that? Iran has borders with road and rail. Pakistan and Iraq are its friends both will received and ship goods for Iran. Wait till a Chinese flagged ship fills up with oil and sails past the US blockade. How about an Australian ship. You think Trump will stop an Australian bound ship with the gas crisis in that country? Truth is they will say they stopped 14 ships today but it never happened. One thing this administration does is lie about everything.

The US does not have the ships, air coverage or cooperation of any other nation to run a blockade of this size. In the Cuban missile “quarantine”, the US used over 200 ship including 8 aircraft carriers for 500 miles radius around Cuban. This blockade is magnitudes larger.

The blockade is a Trump distraction. Just like Trump said tariffs have brought in over trillion dollars and created 10 trillion in foreign investment in the US. The US navy will stop a 1,000 ships a day and Iran will be wrecked! In reality Trump has accepted Irans 10 point plan and get nothing in return.

Meanwhile Iran is using access to the straits as a way increase trade and break US influence with countries throughout the world.

What a total and complete defeat for the US. This is an unprecedented defeat for the US and a total disaster for Israel.

Land routes cannot even remotely make up for what they're losing by not having a viable sea route with a blockade going. Iran does not have capacity to move oil over land in any reasonable volume.

Also, Australia isn't a problem. They haven't been buying any meaningful amount of oil from Iran. And I guarantee Australia isn't going to try and make a thunder run past a US blockade. The US isn't quarantining all traffic. That's not the mission. They are only stopping traffic coming from Iranian ports.

Bottom line still remains, sea routes are Iran's economic lifeblood. With the US blockading it, that's a huge liability for Iran.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in US taxpayer dollars, US loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power.

It is only open while the ceasefire holds. Trump better accept the surrender terms dictated by the Iranians- unfreeze Iranian assets, pay reparations and remove bases from the region. The nuclear stuff should be of the table unless the US and Israel give up their nuclear weapons and enriched materials.

Good grief. You truly think Iran has the upper hand here?
What have you been smoking?

If the US has the upper hand, why does it have to make concessions to get the Strait opened?

Wat actual concessions has the US made?

We're blockading Iran linked ship traffic. 90% of Iran's economy depends on those ships getting through.

DP Who told you that? Iran has borders with road and rail. Pakistan and Iraq are its friends both will received and ship goods for Iran. Wait till a Chinese flagged ship fills up with oil and sails past the US blockade. How about an Australian ship. You think Trump will stop an Australian bound ship with the gas crisis in that country? Truth is they will say they stopped 14 ships today but it never happened. One thing this administration does is lie about everything.

The US does not have the ships, air coverage or cooperation of any other nation to run a blockade of this size. In the Cuban missile “quarantine”, the US used over 200 ship including 8 aircraft carriers for 500 miles radius around Cuban. This blockade is magnitudes larger.

The blockade is a Trump distraction. Just like Trump said tariffs have brought in over trillion dollars and created 10 trillion in foreign investment in the US. The US navy will stop a 1,000 ships a day and Iran will be wrecked! In reality Trump has accepted Irans 10 point plan and get nothing in return.

Meanwhile Iran is using access to the straits as a way increase trade and break US influence with countries throughout the world.

What a total and complete defeat for the US. This is an unprecedented defeat for the US and a total disaster for Israel.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are more troops being sent to the ME after Trump just claimed the war is "over"?

Probably to clear the strait of Iranian mines, duh.

Yeah, right.

This is so sick.

I feel so badly for those proud Americans who signed up to fight to protect their country.

Here, they are protecting Israel. And they are protecting the billionaires including Trump who what to steal Iran's oil.

Iran poses no direct threat to the US. Our soldiers should not be sent to die in this undeclared war that's begun by Trump as a distraction from Epstein.

I have family in the military. They did NOT sign up for this.

What a bizarrely naive comment. They’re not “protecting Israel.” The US (and other countries) are trying to open the Strait so that oil can be supplied around the world. Why is the strait closed? Because Iran chose to lay its mines there. Take it up with Iran.

You’re naive. The US has been bombing and destroying Iran and Iran closed the strait to get the US to stop. Nothing was happening to the US to make US start killing Iranians. On the other side Israel has been destroying Beirut, pretending it’s about Hamas, but it’s not. It’s about taking their land. Don’t be gullible.

Is that why 40 countries have rebuked Iran for laying mines in the Strait and blocking ships, as well as demanding Iran open the Strait back up? Huh, interesting.

DP You just can not help yourself can you? The strait is open just have to make a deal with the Iranians and pay some money. Oh and there are no mines. Ships who have made deals go through the strait every day. If there were mines ships would be sinking. That is how mines work.

I love how you, a random troll, thinks you speak with more authority than you know, the people who actually know what's going on. Please educate yourself before opening your mouth and wasting everyone's time. Iran has left a path open to ships willing to pay a toll. The US Navy has a map of the mine-laden areas and are working to clear them because Iran is too incompetent to do it themselves.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/how-the-us-could-clear-mines-from-the-strait-of-hormuz/ar-AA212QoU?ocid=BingNewsSerp
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/strait-of-hormuz-mines-iran-us
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/4/13/what-do-we-know-about-sea-mines-in-and-around-the-strait-of-hormuz

You do not even understand how traffic works in the strait or how mine clearing operations work but you call troll? If there were mines it would take one to three months to remove them if no active measures were taken by Iran. The US does not even have mine sweeping ships in the region. The US has very limited capability deployed in the Middle East for mine sweeping and those ships are nowhere near the strait. So how are they mapping your mines?

Also the Iranian have underwater drones that act as mobile fields. They have a range of 600km and can stay out for 4-6 days. The Iranians have not mined the strait and the strait is now open. Tell us that is possible?

You are a truly tiresome troll.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has dropped sea mines in the strait, according to the U.S. and Iranian news agencies.

The U.S. Navy has one littoral combat ship built for mine clearing, as well as other military assets in the region capable of doing that work. The Navy has dispatched two additional mine-clearing ships from Japan that are heading to the region.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-says-iran-and-u-s-are-working-to-remove-sea-mines-from-strait-of-hormuz

The U.S. is trying to secure the strait from mines as part of efforts to end Iran's disruption of shipping, which has severely curbed global energy supplies since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran at the end of February.

But while the U.S. can draw on modernised technology to remotely check for and remove mines, clearing a strategic waterway such as the Strait of Hormuz will still be a slow, multi‑step process, former naval officers and industry specialists say.

The U.S. military said over the weekend it had started the mine-clearing operation, sending two warships through the strait, but offered few details about the equipment involved. It said on Saturday that additional forces, including underwater drones, would join the effort in the coming days.

Iran had recently deployed about a dozen mines in the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reported last month, citing sources familiar with the matter. It is not publicly known where mines may have been laid.

Traditionally, the U.S. Navy relied on manned minesweeping ships that physically entered minefields, using sonars to locate the devices and mechanical gear dragged behind the vessel to clear explosives, sometimes supported by human divers. Much of that aging fleet has been retired.

They are being replaced by lighter vessels known as littoral combat ships, which carry modern mine‑hunting equipment such as semi‑autonomous surface and underwater drones as well as remote‑controlled robots that enable crews to distance themselves from the minefield. The navy has three of these in deployment.

Two of those ships were undergoing maintenance in Singapore, a senior U.S. official told Reuters in late March. At the time, the U.S. minesweeping capacity in the ⁠Middle ​East included unmanned undersea vehicles, four of the traditional Avenger-class vessels, helicopters ​and divers, according to the official.

The U.S. operation will likely involve searching for mines using unmanned surface and underwater vehicles equipped with sensors. Once a mine‑like object is detected, the data is typically transferred to crews operating outside the minefield, who identify the device. They then determine how it should be neutralized.

The Navy’s search capability now includes sonar-mounted unmanned surface and undersea vehicles, as well as helicopters that are used to spot mines near the surface, former naval officials say.

To destroy mines, the Navy can deploy systems such as the torpedo‑shaped Archerfish, a remotely operated device about 2 metres long that carries an explosive charge and transmits video back to operators via cable, according to its manufacturer, BAE Systems. Designed to be expendable, it costs tens of thousands of dollars.

The U.S. could also use unmanned boats towing mine‑sweeping sleds that trigger detonations or gather mines, said Bryan Clark, a retired U.S. naval officer and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Human divers are also sometimes used, including for intelligence gathering, specialists say.

Clearing the strait could take two or three weeks, Clark said, and Iranian attacks on mine‑clearing crews could slow the process and raise risks. As a result, he said, the U.S. military may deploy defensive measures like ships and airborne drones to defend crews and equipment.

“Finding and destroying mines is very time consuming,” U.S. Admiral Daryl Caudle, chief of naval operations, said in March. That leaves mine‑clearing capability “vulnerable,” he added.

New technologies are being developed to speed up mine clearance, particularly through advances in sensors used for detection, specialists say.

French technology and defence group Thales says its latest sonar can scan a suspected mine from three different angles in one pass, a process that typically requires multiple sweeps.

Advances in artificial intelligence are also enabling more data analysis to be carried out onboard unmanned vessels.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/how-the-us-could-clear-mines-from-the-strait-of-hormuz/ar-AA213vR9?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in US taxpayer dollars, US loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power.

It is only open while the ceasefire holds. Trump better accept the surrender terms dictated by the Iranians- unfreeze Iranian assets, pay reparations and remove bases from the region. The nuclear stuff should be of the table unless the US and Israel give up their nuclear weapons and enriched materials.

Good grief. You truly think Iran has the upper hand here?
What have you been smoking?

If the US has the upper hand, why does it have to make concessions to get the Strait opened?

Wat actual concessions has the US made?

We're blockading Iran linked ship traffic. 90% of Iran's economy depends on those ships getting through.

$20 billion IN IRANIAN FROZEN ASSETS - this isn't our cash to begin with
remove many US troops from the middle east - you're just completely lying here. This isn't part of any agreement.
Iran can toll the Straits - I believe the toll will only be for ships transiting to Iran, which is being blockaded, so no.
uranium stays - Nope. They give it up in exchange for the unfreezing of their assets.
regime stays - true.

Anonymous wrote:“The commander of the Iranian navy, Shahram Irani, said Friday that Trump “has blockaded his friends” and not Iran, as the US said its blockade will remain in place after Iran declared the strait of Hormuz open to commercial traffic.

In a statement carried by Mizan, Iran’s official judiciary news agency, the navy chief said Trump’s blockade is just “empty words” and that no one is listening to him.”

I love this for him.

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If I knock someone out and then revive them with CPR, did I save their life?

These Trump worshippers are so weird.

“ So Iran bottom line:

Trump just paid $20 Billion for something which Obama paid $2 Billion and Trump called him a traitor

The Shart Of The Deal”

-Kieth Olberman

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What the f? You start a war which every expert said would closes the strait. Now you think the real estate guy is successful because the strait is open for another week? This is the dumbest tweet every.

The Strait is at risk of closure...forever (or until the oil and gas run out). Iran has newly-realized power that they can exercise at will.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in US taxpayer dollars, US loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power.

It is only open while the ceasefire holds. Trump better accept the surrender terms dictated by the Iranians- unfreeze Iranian assets, pay reparations and remove bases from the region. The nuclear stuff should be of the table unless the US and Israel give up their nuclear weapons and enriched materials.

Good grief. You truly think Iran has the upper hand here?
What have you been smoking?

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in US taxpayer dollars, US loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power.

It is only open while the ceasefire holds. Trump better accept the surrender terms dictated by the Iranians- unfreeze Iranian assets, pay reparations and remove bases from the region. The nuclear stuff should be of the table unless the US and Israel give up their nuclear weapons and enriched materials.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are more troops being sent to the ME after Trump just claimed the war is "over"?

Probably to clear the strait of Iranian mines, duh.

Yeah, right.

This is so sick.

I feel so badly for those proud Americans who signed up to fight to protect their country.

Here, they are protecting Israel. And they are protecting the billionaires including Trump who what to steal Iran's oil.

Iran poses no direct threat to the US. Our soldiers should not be sent to die in this undeclared war that's begun by Trump as a distraction from Epstein.

I have family in the military. They did NOT sign up for this.

What a bizarrely naive comment. They’re not “protecting Israel.” The US (and other countries) are trying to open the Strait so that oil can be supplied around the world. Why is the strait closed? Because Iran chose to lay its mines there. Take it up with Iran.

You’re naive. The US has been bombing and destroying Iran and Iran closed the strait to get the US to stop. Nothing was happening to the US to make US start killing Iranians. On the other side Israel has been destroying Beirut, pretending it’s about Hamas, but it’s not. It’s about taking their land. Don’t be gullible.

Is that why 40 countries have rebuked Iran for laying mines in the Strait and blocking ships, as well as demanding Iran open the Strait back up? Huh, interesting.

DP You just can not help yourself can you? The strait is open just have to make a deal with the Iranians and pay some money. Oh and there are no mines. Ships who have made deals go through the strait every day. If there were mines ships would be sinking. That is how mines work.

I love how you, a random troll, thinks you speak with more authority than you know, the people who actually know what's going on. Please educate yourself before opening your mouth and wasting everyone's time. Iran has left a path open to ships willing to pay a toll. The US Navy has a map of the mine-laden areas and are working to clear them because Iran is too incompetent to do it themselves.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/how-the-us-could-clear-mines-from-the-strait-of-hormuz/ar-AA212QoU?ocid=BingNewsSerp
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/strait-of-hormuz-mines-iran-us
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/4/13/what-do-we-know-about-sea-mines-in-and-around-the-strait-of-hormuz

You do not even understand how traffic works in the strait or how mine clearing operations work but you call troll? If there were mines it would take one to three months to remove them if no active measures were taken by Iran. The US does not even have mine sweeping ships in the region. The US has very limited capability deployed in the Middle East for mine sweeping and those ships are nowhere near the strait. So how are they mapping your mines?

Also the Iranian have underwater drones that act as mobile fields. They have a range of 600km and can stay out for 4-6 days. The Iranians have not mined the strait and the strait is now open. Tell us that is possible?

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Anonymous wrote:Iran's Foreign Minister just reported that, in line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the Strait of Hormuz is open. No, I did not see the tweet. It was just reported on CNBC Squawkbox.

What a lesson Iran learned from all this. Whether they intended to build a nuclear weapon or not (no evidence they did), they have now learned to concentrate military assets on the Strait. They're FAR more powerful coming out of this.

Yeah Iran walked away significantly advantaged from all this. Trump gave the hardliners a huge advantage here.

Reporting is US will pay Iran $20 billion as part of the deal. I don’t want to hear about “pallets of cash” from another MAGA ever again

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/17/iran-us-deal-20-billion-frozen-funds-uranium

At least quote honestly from your own source. That $20 billion is frozen Iranian assets. It's not U.S. money. It's a great deal in return for Iran giving up its uranium.

"the U.S. would release $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in return for Iran giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium"