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The United States military said on April 14 that more than 10,000 troops, a dozen warships, and dozens of aircraft are carrying out a naval blockade on Iran.
“More than 10,000 U.S. Sailors, Marines, and Airmen along with over a dozen warships and dozens of aircraft are executing the mission to blockade ships entering and departing Iranian ports,” the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement.
In the first 24 hours of the blockade, “no ships made it past the U.S. blockade and 6 merchant vessels complied with direction from U.S. forces to turn around to re-enter an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman,” the command added.
“The blockade is being 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,” it continued.
CENTCOM noted that its forces are “supporting freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports.”
U.S. President Donald Trump announced the blockade following the breakdown of recent talks in Pakistan to end the war with Iran.
While the U.S. framed the blockade as a response to Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz, vessels have been passing through the strategic waterway — a chokepoint for around 20 percent of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments.
U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal on April 14 that more than 20 commercial ships have passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours
Despite recent escalation, U.S. President Donald Trump said that Iran talks could resume in Pakistan over the next two days.
“You should stay there, really, because something could be happening over the next two days, and we’re more inclined to go there,” Trump said in an interview with The New York Post.
Trump added that Pakistan’s Army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, is doing a “great job” in pushing forward the talks.
“He’s fantastic, and therefore it’s more likely that we go back there,” Trump said.
Earlier, Trump had given a contradicting message to the Post, saying that talks with Iran were progressing slowly and that if a meeting was to happen, it would likely not be in Pakistan.
“Things are happening, but a little bit slow… I don’t think it’ll be [in Pakistan] that we have our meeting. We’ll probably go to another location. We have another location in mind.”
All in all, it is clear that diplomatic efforts are still ongoing. A new round of talks will likely take place soon. However, if no agreement is reached, more escalation is to be expected, especially considering that the ceasefire is nearing its end. The U.S. military continues to deploy forces near Iran.
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sorry to say this but i can’t wait for washington to push iran (or china?) to the point where an aircraft carrier catches a missile/s or drone/s and sinks. i think i’ll open a bottle of something and celebrate.
dreaming of a genie or a lad in a lamp.
it will happen. did you see the ambassador to pakistan at the un speaking directly to (the united states) of i$rael. it was the starkest warning or threat -take your pick that i’ve ever seen!… i only wish that the prc and india had had the balls to do it before they made the dirtiest deal with the u.$. to haul away a crime scene in lower manhattan all those years ago?… what a different united nations it would have made then and now!…
the pakistanis know once the dirty kikestanis have eliminated iran, they and turkey are next on the list of regime change. not that it will ever happen in that israhell is a dead and dying state as well as the ussa. they both are fully aware and have embarked on this reactionary movement which strikes all dying empires at the end of their reign.
it already happened. the zionist state and the occupied us adminstration desperately censored all photos showing the damaged aircraft carriers, some of them fled to avoid getting in the range of straight of hormuz.. what left for those criminal is the war of information
yes, saw some of that.
disinformation by ommission deceit by intention
iran is 🫕
you’re whore tho.
it became this in december 2024. https://hawarnews.com/ar/140197 we all know very well that the alawites are traitors and the main culprits for the current situation.
they betrayed iran and hezbollah without any bad conscience. they were not ashamed to give their weapons to the enemy.ukrainians know very well that such people must be are shot. azov and the croatian hos knew very well that this was the right thing to do.
tehran was decimated last night with drones and missiles.
https://hawarnews.com/ar/140199 i hope that in ten years this tribe will no longer exist. that all the members kill each other and the tribe disappears.
i posted the link to the video which the nazis have removed from the comment the comment before being altered by some one else went
“tehran was decimated last night with drones and missiles” at you tube.
iran thought we were letting them off the hook!
heheheh
shitfront idiots thought the war was over!
it us over for shitsrael, you wank the punk.
hahaha haha no it’s not even begun fir world war 3 yet its a prelude which is still a intermission continuation of ww2 which is the last chapter from the book that started with the french revolution. its all been that same war really. by the pharoah architects of pyramid powers as depicted transparently at the louvre
i’m gettin your cunton a hook you crook.
https://hawarnews.com/ar/140197 i wish death to all alawites and the transformation of the coastal areas of syria into an uninhabited desert where no one will live anymore.
no one dared to attack iran until december 2024. now again. and for this, the prices of oil and gas are now huge. therefore, all alawites must die. death is the only thing they deserve for their betrayal of hezbollah and iran.
they used infiltration to oust the shah, a commoner of no royal blood, and send iran back to the past using the ayatollah that they, the cia ( acting as the front for the british mi6) installed in the first place. to keep oil prices high for all of them in opec by having an politically unstable and divided theatre of operations. imo
iran is lost now. only 90 000 000 iranians remain against battle hardened 10 000 us soldiers who won all their battles during the past 100 years
wrong theres 340 million americans represented by 10 000 soldiers atm. there’s not 90 million iranian soldiers.
american goy get to die for gods chosen donny your so wonderful
western civilization it’s based on the reproduction of the goy and the human cattle, then push the goy to get more land, take more resources and expand their religious beliefs to the land conquered while the empire gets more resources to plunge. western empire of the exceptionals its not so complex, they create the power to goy then expand themselves using their politic “democracy”.
what a contradictory article.
southfront is full of shit.
donny it’s not going for war this week, not yet, but he will continue to push for regime change, the empire of the exceptionals won’t retreat. their last resort it’s bombing iran to the oblivion and create in the aftermath a puppet goverment to expand the usa empire of the exceptionals and finally conquer the middle east. usa empire and the donny will push, wait and see. i didn’t lie in ukraine, usa will try to conquer iran at any cost.
they will start the second phase of the iran invasion the next month, expect a full boots on the ground in may and before july 4th, the usa empire date of birth.
maybe even date of death too.
the only boots on iranian soil will be iranian boots, or, usa boots tied to dead us feet..
who cares what the kiddie fuckar says…he just wants to avoid prison time
10,000 trannies cannot locate their assholes, gps is jammed