CENTCOM: "During the first 24 hours, no ships made it past the U.S. blockade & 6 merchant vessels complied with direction from US forces to turn around to re-enter an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman," it said. Diplomacy is not yet dead, as Bloomberg reports Iran is mulling a short-term pause to shipments through the Hormuz Strait. Trump tells NYP talks could happen again in two days in Pakistan.

14 April 2026

A vessel owned by China passed through the Strait of Hormuz in spite of the blockade by the United States Navy under orders of President Donald Trump. The sanctioned Chinese-owned oil and chemical tanker Rich Starry successfully transited the vital waterway on Tuesday amid a U.S. blockade on Iranian ports.

14 April 2026

United States Vice President JD Vance says that the U.S. has "accomplished our objectives" in Iran and could wind down the war anytime. If that's the case, then why would Donald Trump insist on a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in an attempt to get the Iranian regime to come to the negotiation table over its nuclear weapons program?

14 April 2026

Prepare for much more pain at the pump. The United States has started its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.  Ships are now all barred from entering or exiting Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz by the U.S. Navy.

14 April 2026

Teddy Roosevelt would be so pleased if he could see the world today, with a US military presence virtually everywhere on the planet. The current savagery with Iran is only the headline conflict—having displaced the proxy missions in Ukraine and Gaza—but many more are quietly underway or waiting in the wings. No declaration of war, of course, since declarations require Congress to act in accordance with a set of rules nobody can agree on. In war, according to Sun Tzu, if the goal is victory, the only rule is winning as quickly as possible. But in a world governed by bankers and politicians, too much haste can be unprofitable.

14 April 2026

Where do we go from here? Peace talks with Iran have totally failed, and there appears to be no hope that the gaps between the demands that the U.S. is making and the demands that Iran is making can be bridged. There are several key issues that both sides are not willing to compromise on, and that have very serious implications for the entire planet.

13 April 2026

The United States ruling class appears consistently unhinged in its rhetoric. U.S. ruler Donald Trump is now threatening to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, which is already being blockaded by Iran.

13 April 2026

The Middle East ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz are on extremely shaky ground. The Israelis are desperate and will do whatever they can to reignite the war, Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi has told RT India.

13 April 2026

United States ruler Donald Trump has attacked Pope Leo, the patriarch of the Catholic Church, as being "terrible for foreign policy." The social media assault comes as Pope Leo emerged as a vocal critic of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran.

13 April 2026

A recent survey indicates a significant segment of young American adults harbor growing skepticism and anger toward artificial intelligence technologies. The findings, first reported by The Epoch Times, suggest a notable shift in sentiment concentrated among the youngest voting-age cohort, according to the data [1].

13 April 2026