Iran has effectively turned the strait into a pay-to-pass zone.
Iran frames it as charging for “securing the strait” and safety services, not a classic toll. They’ve drafted laws and protocols around this.
Grok: If you pay we let you pass!
Iran says it will not open the Strait of Hormuz unless the US stops blockading its ports.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh says no date has been set for a new round of face-to-face talks with the US and slams Washington’s refusal to abandon its “maximalist” demands.
US President Donald Trump says the naval blockade on Iranian ports will remain in force until there is a deal, and warns that Washington will not be blackmailed by Tehran.
Israel launches attacks on southern Lebanon despite a ceasefire, and says it has established what it calls a “yellow line” – similar to the one it imposed in Gaza.
French President Emmanuel Macron has blamed Hezbollah for an attack that killed a French peacekeeping soldier in Lebanon. The armed group denied the claim.
Iranian official says no enriched uranium to be sent to US
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh says his country will not send any enriched uranium to the US and that the question is “not open for discussion”.
The IRNA news agency reported on Khatibzadeh’s comments, which came on the sidelines of a diplomatic meeting in Turkiye.
“Multiple messages have been exchanged between Iran and the United States, but [the US] insists on demands that Tehran considers excessive,” he said, according to IRNA.
“Iran wants Hormuz, and it wants to keep its enriched uranium; and the US wants exactly the opposite, not half of a loaf – and that’s what’s really standing in the way,”–Robert Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago
President Donald Trump said that the United States will not be “blackmailed” after the Iranian military has once again proclaimed that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed and allegedly fired on multiple vessels on Saturday.
They literally went from “This is not our war” a day before to saying “We sending our naval forces to open the strait” the next day after the strait is opened from US led effort.
Britain’s Sir Keir Starmer, France’s Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Fredrich Merz, and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni met in Paris on Friday to host a virtual conference with 50 countries discuss a theoretical future military deployment to the Persian Gulf…
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp says control of the Strait of Hormuz has now “returned to its previous state” because of the US’s continuing blockade of Iranian ports.
US President Donald Trump says the naval blockade will “remain in full force” until “our transaction with Iran is 100% complete”.
Earlier today:
President Donald Trump said today that the Iranians have “agreed to everything,” including getting rid of their enriched uranium.
The Iranian Foreign Minister said that the Strait of Hormuz is now completely open.
NATO counties won’t let us use their NATO bases while we take out Iran for them? Then why the hell are we part of NATO?
How and why did NATO start?
Trump opens the Straight of Hormuz, then Italy, France, and the UK jump in to claim credit:
Starmer Announces Bold Mission to Reopen Strait of Hormuz:
“It’s good news that the Strait of Hormuz has now reopened. This must be a long lasting and workable solution, without tolls or restrictions on routes.”
“We will lead a multinational mission to open the Strait of Hormuz.”
After Iran and Trump Just Declared It Open.
Starmer’s masterplan:
“UK will lead a defensive military mission with France to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz”
You have no shame. You hindered the peace effort every step of the way. You emboldened Iran. You blocked the US from using your air space.
You’re all irrelevant buffoons.
Al Bozo would like a pat on the back from big bad Trump:
More than a dozen countries have offered to play role in the UK-France led mission in the Hormuz Strait. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/488E66
A senior Iranian cleric said no one would dare attack Iran, while warning that any strike would fail and urging caution toward the United States.
“ No one will dare attack Iran anymore,” Ahmad Khatami, Tehran’s interim Friday prayer leader, said.
“ They may attack, but it will not lead anywhere and this revolution will endure,” he added. Khatami also urged distrust of the United States during the ceasefire period.
“ We must even be pessimistic about the enemy’s smiles, especially our enemy named Trump, who is a symbol of lies,” he said.
He stressed the importance of public support and unity during the truce, saying people should remain present and trust in leadership.
Tehran says US blockade of ports must end as strait to open
Speaker of Iran’s parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said that recent claims by US President Donald Trump regarding Iran “were false”, and warned that the Strait of Hormuz “will not remain open” if the US blockade of Iranian ports continues.
Trump told the AFP news agency that there were no “sticking points” left for a deal with Iran, while also issuing a series of upbeat messages on social media regarding apparent agreements with Tehran.
But the US president also stated that the naval blockade would “remain in full force” until “our transaction with Iran is 100% complete”.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said earlier on Friday that the Strait of Hormuz was “completely open” to all commercial vessels, “in line with the ceasefire in Lebanon” and “on the coordinated route as already announced”.
Trump said Israel was “prohibited” from bombing Lebanon, as the first day of a 10-day ceasefire in the country saw tens of thousands of people return to homes they were forced to flee during weeks of Israeli attacks on the country.
Visit our live tracker for the latest casualty figures from across the region.
Here’s a recap of the latest developments:
US President Donald Trump has claimed that things are “going very well” in talks with Iran, but senior officials in Tehran say the US blockade of Iranian ports must end if the Strait of Hormuz is to remain open.
Despite claims by Trump, Tehran has denied agreeing to transport enriched uranium out of the country, saying that is a red line.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) said 21 ships attempting to enter or leave Iranian ports have complied with directions from US forces to turn around and return to Iran since the maritime blockade began on April 13.
Abas Aslani, a senior fellow at the Centre for Middle East Strategic Studies in Tehran, said there are “glaring contrasts in the narratives” coming from the US and Iran on talks to end the war.
Ship-tracking site MarineTraffic said a cruise liner, reportedly without passengers, has successfully sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, the first passenger vessel to make it through since the war began.
The Office of the US Chief of Naval Operations said reports of food shortages on board the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and USS Tripoli – both deployed in the Middle East – are “false”.
He who laughs last in Iran
Lars Hedegaard
Influential parts of the US Democratic Party, including several members of Congress and many in the mainstream media, are clearly hoping for an Iranian victory in the Israel-US war and the Iranian clergy. They delight in every little difficulty they claim President Trump lacks the sense to master. Some of them claim that the mullahs and their revolutionary guards have either already won the war or are on the way to it. Continue reading Iran: Mullah’s Fear Humiliation More Than Anything
President Donald Trump confirmed Friday that Iran has fully opened the contested waters of the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial shipping traffic.
Iran: Strait of Hormuz open ‘for remaining period of ceasefire’
Iran’s Foreign Minister says “in line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire”.
United States President Donald Trump says naval blockade on Iran to stay in place until peace deal signed.
First loaded Iranian oil tankers leave Gulf since US blockade:
Three Iranian oil tankers have become the first loaded vessels to leave the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz since the US blockade came into force, according to maritime tracking firm Kpler.
Antonio Gramsci’s “ongoing march through the institutions” was successful beyond his wildest dreams.
Bobby Prevost from Chicago is a faux Pope.
He’s a politician and a businessman running one of the largest human trafficking ops in the world.
He reports to Hussein Obama & to David Axelrod.
Don’t think he’s blackmailed or “they got something on him”. Bobby Prevost has got a long history of leftist activism, he is more than a complicit tool.
This pathetic excuse for a pope, Leo XIV, is a shameless political hack who meddles in global affairs like a cheap lobbyist.
He spits on the Church’s sacred duty to rise above filthy earthly power games.
He needs to shut his treasonous mouth and crawl back to the confessional before he drags the faith into the gutter. Leo XIV’s rap sheet of predator-shielding, Obama-pandering, Christian-abandoning, Iran-apologizing, and anti-Church political warfare makes him the faith’s internal Antichrist.
President Emmanuel Macron of France offered his support to President Pedro Sánchez of Spain, after President Trump threatened to inflict economic pain on Spain for refusing to allow American fighter planes to use the country’s airbases to attack Iran.
The European Union has held off on designating the IRGC a terror group, while Australia and Canada have followed the US’s lead. The Europeans have been divided, with Italy lobbying for the designation and France resisting
A new French corruption scandal erupted today (14) as financial and anti-corruption police raided services linked to the Élysée Palace as part of an investigation opened in October 2025.
French police were denied access to Emmanuel Macron’s official residence as part of a corruption investigation into the organization of state ceremonies posthumously honoring citizens https://t.co/SAgPSpeIBs
The probe is looking into allegations of favoritism, conflict of interest, corruption, and influence peddling when awarding public contracts for organizing prestigious Panthéon ceremonies by the Centre des Monuments Nationaux (Center of National Monuments).
French cops are focusing on Shortcut Events, which monopolized the organization of all such €2 million ceremonies from 2002 to 2024.
Investigators want to know if the contracts awarded to the same firm involved improper support from the Élysée, Ministry of Culture, or related bodies, bypassing normal procurement rules.
But the French police found the doors of the Presidential Palace closed to them.
“The French presidency refused to let investigators enter the Elysée Palace on Tuesday as part of a probe into contracts linked to memorial ceremonies, invoking the immunity enjoyed by French President Emmanuel Macron.
The investigators that presented themselves at the Elysée Palace weren’t granted entry, according to a French presidency official who was granted anonymity for protocol reasons.
‘Investigators were told that the documents pertaining to Élysée Palace staff, which are unrelated to the President’s official duties and can therefore be disclosed, would be provided to them upon request’, an Elysée official said.”
Macron kept the police out of the Elysée Palace
National Financial Prosecutor Pascal Prache said that the failed raid was part of a probe on contracts for the organization of memorial ceremonies.
“French presidency staff told investigators they couldn’t search the Elysée Palace because the premises are covered by presidential immunity, the statement said.”
Meanwhile, Macron schmoozes with African despots, like this guy who runs the largest slave nation:
Heureux d’accueillir en visite d’État mon ami le Président Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani.
Face à la destabilisation du monde et aux défis communs, la Mauritanie et la France sont deux partenaires de confiance.… pic.twitter.com/XEgqRt1Jot
When Protest Becomes Intimidation: The Far Left’s Blind Spot on Violence
There is a strain within modern left wing politics that refuses to confront an uncomfortable truth. While it speaks the language of compassion and justice, it too often minimises, excuses or rationalises disorder when it serves a political end. That is not a fringe problem. It is a cultural one. The recent death of a conservative activist at the hands of the so called progressives in France, is just another example.
Islamic scholar in Virginia: “Of all Western nations, America is the last stronghold of Christianity. This is why it’s our duty to change that and make America Muslim.
Christians and Jews have a superiority complex. We have to cure their illness.” pic.twitter.com/iqDfQ1CnQy
Is this clown serious? He thinks non-Muslim terrorist groups aren’t on UN terrorism lists because of “Islamophobia”? Is he fooling himself, or trying to intimidate the UN into adding some “right-wing terrorists” to their lists? Presumably such groups would be made up of “Islamophobes.”
“Pakistan decries stigmatisation of Islam, says no non-Muslim name on UN terror lists,” Geo News, August 21, 2025:
Bringing the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) attention to the rise of right-wing extremists and fascist movements, Pakistan has decried the “dangerous stigmatisation of Islam and Muslims”.
“It is not understandable, and is indeed unacceptable, that every name on the Security Council’s terrorism lists is Muslim, while terrorists and violent extremists elsewhere escape scrutiny. There is no non-Muslim in the lists,” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar said during a UNSC meeting on “Threats to international peace & security caused by terrorist acts”….
We could be witnessing the most historic reset in our lifetime and those of our parents.
Some think Trump has no clue what’s going on, when in reality, he now controls the flow of 36%+ of the world’s crude oil supply, and just forced the nations of the world to buy oil from us, and Venezuela, which in case you forgot, Trump conveniently already secured, along with the Panama Canal.
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Notice how oil has dropped in price two days in a row now due to the blockade? Maybe Trump had a plan all along.
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Now Trump’s focus on Greenland, Canada, and the Arctic shipping routes, makes even more sense.
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If I’m not mistaken, Trump is securing global shipping lanes, and turning the US into THE global energy superpower.
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Trump has China, and the world, by the balls, and the sheep are oblivious.
From the looks of it, Trump is completely shaking up the global order, and forcing the world to deal through the USA.
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I think Trump is stripping the Deep State of their leverage, and securing the entire board.
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We seem to be watching the “world’s most powerful reset”, and the dawning of what I hope is truly the USA’s “Golden Age”.
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The dominoes’ are starting to fall. The Deep State’s reign is over.
The Democrats in Washington are backstabbing and eating their own and simply have been outmaneuvered.
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Trump controls the oil, therefore, he controls the world.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has claimed that Angus Taylor is copying her policies but won’t deliver on them, after the Liberal leader used his first major policy speech to toughen his migration stance by dismissing the UN’s Refugee Convention and insisting all permanent visa holders must speak English.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Taylor was appealing to Hanson’s voters by calling for Australia’s immigration system to start discriminating based on values, while Labor’s Pat Conroy accused him of “desperate dog whistling” in an attempt to compete with One Nation.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.
Taylor harked back to post-war European migration as the gold standard in his speech to the Menzies Research Centre on Tuesday morning, where he elaborated on extracts released the night before that claimed too many self-serving migrants were becoming a drain on the country.
In laying out his argument for enhancing social media screening and tying visa conditions to the Australian values statement, Taylor cited last year’s Bondi terror attack, “genocidal marches in major cities”, antisemitism and radical Islamic preachers as examples of falling migration standards.
NSW Liberal leader Kellie Sloane and several federal colleagues supported Taylor’s speech, which also revealed the Coalition would restrict Labor’s 5 per cent house deposit scheme to Australian citizens, but it was otherwise condemned by Labor, the Greens and refugee advocates. Continue reading Australia: Libtards Try to Hijack the Hanson Agenda
