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
After Spain’s PM granted amnesty to 500k illegals, hundreds of boats now arrive every day. Spain is handing itself over to Mohammedans — just centuries after its ancestors finally expelled them.
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump PUMMELS Spain and their leftist government
“Has anybody looked at how badly the country of Spain is doing. Their financial numbers, despite contributing almost nothing to NATO and their military defense, are absolutely horrendous. Sad to watch!!!”… pic.twitter.com/JLHhZ7qiJ7
Street violence flares just days after Spain’s socialist government fast-tracked residency for half a million migrants…
The left’s response to pushback is always the same: label patriots as extremists while their policies import the very tensions now exploding. Spain stands at a crossroads.
Violence broke out in the Spanish city of Granada when roughly 40 left-wing Antifa extremists tried to shut down a pre-election rally held by the nationalist party Vox in Plaza de las Pasiegas. Police had to form a cordon between the rival groups as fights broke out, delaying the event by around 30 minutes.
Commies turned up to try and disrupt VOX party conference in Granada and were outnumbered and humiliated by patriots.
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 said Friday that Iran “agreed to everything” in negotiations with the United States following a news-packed morning that included the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
These incompetent clowns are now trying to brainwash their electorate into believing that they are hero’s for the Straight of Hormuz opening. They were offered seat at the table, they declined. In the end they weren’t even in the room. The rules of their old chess game have completely changed and they have no idea what the new rules are.
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.
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”….
The interview was published the day after Meloni condemned as “unacceptable” Trump’s criticism of Pope Leo XIV, following the pontiff’s repeated calls for an end to the war in the Middle East.
“She’s unacceptable because she doesn’t mind that Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow up Italy in two minutes if they had the chance,” Trump said in English.
🚨 🇮🇹 Meloni: “Trump’s remarks toward the Holy Father are unacceptable.”
🇺🇸 Trump: “She is the one who is unacceptable. She doesn’t care if Iran acquires nuclear weapons and blows up Italy in two minutes.”
The Long March Trough the Institutions Arrived in the Vatican
DavidAxelrodmetwiththePope last week, a few days later thePope attacked President Trump on Iran. Then last night three liberal Cardinals attacked president Trump on 60 minutes This was all coordinated by Barrack Obama to break Trump’s catholic base before the midterms
“Our ancestors of Europe fought tooth & nail to prevent Islam entering and conquering Europe”
We have failed them.
Pope Leo walks without shoes in the Great Mosque of Algiers, Algeria.
So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama’s campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left.
The blockade officially began at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time on Monday.
President Donald Trump’s blockade of Iran could be poised to deliver a staggering blow to the Iranian economy, including the cash flows needed by the regime to pay the host of soldiers and thugs it requires to stay in power.
“The blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman,” the statement said.
I honestly thought this was AI. 😂
They went from “Death to America” to a cardboard Ayatollah in the span of a week. pic.twitter.com/gH8R6nAnGb
