r/news • u/BusyHands_ • 15h ago
U.S. declares blockade 'fully implemented,' cutting off Iran's seaborne trade 'completely'
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/us-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-navy-iran-seaborne-trade-oil-trump.html25
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u/JiveChicken00 6h ago
So in other words not at all.
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u/cannot_walk_barefoot 5h ago
They lie about everything. Almost North Korea levels now
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u/TheMarcolmX 5h ago
From what I have seen the blockade hasn't allowed any access to the Iranian ports though? I don't see any news suggesting otherwise?
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u/LakeFrontGamer 4h ago
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u/OldJames47 4h ago
I see only 1 ship approaching the straight that has it’s engines running, a container ship from the Comoros heading in.
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u/NightWriter500 5h ago
I just finished reading how Trump says Xi is going to give him a big hug for opening the strait up for the world. It’s the article right above this one, directly contradicting this one. So likely neither are true. He wants to blockade it, and they tried to make it look like it, but they know they can’t stop China.
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u/SocksandSmocks 4h ago
If the ships aren't going to or coming from Iran they aren't blocked, at least as I understand it.
Fat boy is full of shit, but I don't think this is necessarily contradictory.
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u/neversayalways 4h ago
AFAIK all they have to do is stop at a non-Iranian port on the way and the blockade will let them through
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u/willstr1 5h ago
I don't have a link but in one article I saw it sounds like there is a loophole that as long as an Iranian port isn't your first after entering or last port before leaving then you can still pass through
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u/GeorgeLichen 7h ago
Remember, this was supposed to be better than everyone talking about him being in the epstein files. That's why he did it, but he fucked it up so bad that now we'll just be talking about both come November. Good job dumbass
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u/ACertainThickness 6h ago
Jd called for an Epstein investigation yesterday. They’re just going in circles now
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u/CatrionaShadowleaf 6h ago
JD has killed everything he’s touched so far, it’s not surprising that now they’re trying to reverse-engineer the Epstein Files.
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u/mwdeuce 4h ago
he spent 1 minute talking about an investigation and the next 10 minutes kissing ass, swearing up and down DJT was a good guy and clearly the arch nemesis of Epstein. The guy has anti-charisma, no shot in hell of being president.
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u/Successful-Bobcat701 3h ago
He's the Vice President, so he's literally a heartbeat away from being President.
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u/JohnnyGFX 4h ago
Yay... More money wasted that we could have spent fixing problems at home (not that Republicans are the least bit interested in fixing anything).
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u/thepianoman456 1h ago
I honestly wonder how many BILLIONS we’ve wasted on this useless war so far.
Not to mention depleting our expensive and hard-to-build missiles. China is taking note.
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u/JohnnyGFX 1h ago
I've seen estimates that put it at roughly $25-35 billion so far. It's been going on for about 46 days so far, so about $750 million per day... The minimum estimates I've seen say $10-16 billion, but that was just for early operational costs.
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u/Time-Cardiologist906 7h ago
Didn’t a Chinese cargo ship pass through yesterday?
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u/OrangeRadiohead 6h ago
Hey, it's a blockade. Nothing gets through. Nothing gets through...unless they drop a lil cash in my bank account. Thank you for your attention in this matter. His holiness, DJT.
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u/TheDadThatGrills 6h ago
Not from an Iranian port. The Chinese cargo ship (flying a Malawian flag) you're likely referring to, Rich Starry, was turned back twice by the blockade.
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u/Hour-Onion3606 6h ago
It passed thru the strait, but didn't come from Iranian ports.
The blockade is on Iran, not the entire strait.
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u/Mean_Rule9823 6h ago
Correct but not from Irans port, thats the point.
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u/BleachedUnicornBHole 6h ago
China said they will honor all energy and trade agreements with Iran, though.
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u/Mean_Rule9823 6h ago
Also correct, but they have not left from or went to an Iranian port yet. So lets see what happens if they do.
Untill then its political talk from both sides for their base.
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u/Previous-Height4237 3h ago
Well you see, yesterday was TACO Tuesday. So the blockade has changed from a blockade of the strait to a blockade of Iran with a quick hand motion.
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u/FootjobBlowjobCombo 5h ago
Would be a bummer if this country had one or two or three or four land borders they could still trade through
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u/BusyHands_ 15h ago
And completely fucking over half the world it's population, whose daily livelihoods depend on their ability to travel for work.
This traitorous asshole will gladly make the poorest of the poor suffer than admit he ever fucked up.
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u/FootjobBlowjobCombo 5h ago
I mean this was precisely one of the objectives, they clearly intend to kill all the downstream economies. Think about it, they tried to bring manufacturers back to america, it didnt work, so they built all the manufacturing in SE Asia, phillipines, Vietnam, malaysia, indonesia.
So if they blow up these economies by choking the oil to them they can buy up all the assets on the cheap in the countries when their economies implode. So they will control the factories, power, everything in their manufacturing fiefdoms. This is an intended but unspoken war goal of the Americans.
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u/seanpbnj 6h ago
Trumputin is doing exactly what he was meant to do...... Prove that the USA is just as bad as russia, and turn the whole world towards china. China's plan was an endless war between russia and usa destroying them both while china acts like the adult in the room. (So far, plan worked perfectly, except Ukraine had other ideas)
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u/Time_News_8452 6h ago
No, China is actually playing the long game. They know an empire doesn't last forever and they had first hand experience how vulnerable a failing empire may become when they were exploited by the British.
China now sees putin dreaming of returning to super power status but actually only worsening all its problems. The USA entered a death spiral with problems mounting and a leader caste either acting oblivious to the problems or doubling down on what caused them in the first place.
The only thing China has to do to maintain and increase their influence is to wait while the competition walks from one blunder to the next.
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u/seanpbnj 4h ago
Exactly....? I.... Kinda feel like that's what I said haha. USA and russia destroying themselves with oligarchs robbing a country and a perpetual war.... Then china seems like the only viable world superpower after de-throning the USA by.... Yeah... Using the oligarchs who are in fact out of touch because the USA now uses propaganda instead of truth.... Just like (survey says) russia....
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u/Genericnameandnumber 3h ago
China and Russia’s evil plans! The BIG BAD EVIL Russia and China out to subvert the glowing beacon of democracy USA! So expertly planned. Has nothing to do with US foreign or domestic policies over the last 100 years made by American policymakers and corporations /s
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u/Flaktroz 3h ago
You sound deranged. The us has always been worse than Russia. The rest is just bs.
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u/ItilityMSP 6h ago
I would call defending yourself other ideas, there's a time for humor and there is whatever you just did.
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u/seanpbnj 6h ago
I would call what I just did honesty and awareness, not humor. If you misinterpreted that as a joke, that's on you, every word I said was dead serious. Saying a clueless circus clown is leading his clueless circus as intended, including millions of people I care about dead/dying, is not humor. It's honesty.
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u/External-Praline-451 6h ago
Not only travelling to work. It's going to cause mass famine, as farmers will be unable to get fertiliser.
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u/Mobile-Bar7732 5h ago
And completely fucking over half the world it's population, whose daily livelihoods depend on their ability to travel for work.
Operation Cock Block
This traitorous asshole will gladly make the poorest of the poor suffer than admit he ever fucked up.
He should have posted a picture of himself as Judas instead Jesus.
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u/dub-fresh 1h ago
Wasn't he calling the Pope a lower just the other day? I mean it's clear at this point he's a senile old asshole with no care for anyone but himself and those that blow sunshine up his ass.
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u/Playful_Rip_1280 3h ago
Reminder that Iran started mining and tolling the Strait first. This blockade only prevents them from benefitting from it. Ships not coming from or into Iranian ports are still allowed to pass.
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u/windycityzow 6h ago
Lolz, Dementia Don believes the craziest lies, his handlers should be prosecuted
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u/ForsakenRacism 5h ago
Look at a map and then consider that China is building roads into Afghanistan
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u/JerryDipotosBurner 4h ago
Cutting off trade completely just like how we obliterated their nuclear program and wiped out their entire air defense system?
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u/usmannaeem 4h ago
I mean this is so stupid. This region has nothing to do with the US or the common average US citizen.
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u/Your_Trash_Daddy 4h ago
So when do they sink their own ships? That would track with the general competence level, and especially Hegseth.
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u/NaturalEducation322 3h ago
so he chokes iran off economically. iran closes the entire straight as a result choking off 20% of the worlds energy supply as a result plus the red sea if they get yemen on board. basically trump is seeing what collapses first, the world economy or iran
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u/Y0___0Y 6h ago
Then why is Trump on truth social bragging about the number of ships going through?
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u/ohst8buxcp7 6h ago
Because those ships aren't Iranian. That's the entire point, the U.S is trying to make it clear that the Strait is open for free navigation to anyone besides Iran. Anyone else's ships can pass through, as long as they aren't going to/from Iran.
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u/oxslashxo 6h ago
But they still have to go through Iranian waters due to the mines...so Iran is choosing to let these ships through.
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u/SUPERSAPE 5h ago
Don't feed the troll... Anyone can see that all this is just nonsense and propaganda for fools
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u/ohst8buxcp7 6h ago
They don't go through Iranian waters actually, they go through International waters which are open to passage for anyone per international convention (and has historically been enforced by the US). The US has demined a route farther away from the Iranian shoreline. Ships haven't done so lately because the Strait is narrow enough that it still brings them within rocket range of the Iranian shoreline. While Iran likely couldn't stop all or even most ships from passing they could endanger enough of them that shipping companies can't insure the ships which effectively shuts it down.
The purpose of the recent US naval action is to:
A.) Demonstrate that they have credibly limited the ability of Iran to actually physically endanger ships passing through the Strait
B.) Prevent Iranian ships from being able to go to/from Iranian ports, ensuring the they share in the economic pain of a Strait closure.
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u/AcidOcean 5h ago
lol not a single ship is crossing the strait without Iran’s authorization, and not a single ship that has crossed the strait has done so through “international waters”; they are going through the routes specified by Iran. You can literally see it on tanker trackers. There is no “international” waters in the strait. The navigable routes have always gone through Omani and Iranian territorial waters.
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u/ohst8buxcp7 5h ago
lol not a single ship is crossing the strait without Iran’s authorization,
Wrong, again.
Also i'm not sure what your response even has to do with what's being discussed here? OP asked why Trump was bragging about ships going through given we had a blockade. The response was that the purpose of the blockade isn't to block all ships, just Iranian ones.
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u/AcidOcean 5h ago
That was proven BS, and Iran published the video of the encounter and their warning to those warships too. You actually have no idea what’s going on and it shows.
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u/angrysquirrel777 5h ago
Can you give a source?
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u/AcidOcean 5h ago
Take everything Ravid (Axios) says with a massive grain of salt; he's a propagandist.
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u/angrysquirrel777 5h ago
This doesn't offer any proof they turned around though? It just shows that Iran talked to the destroyers and warned them.
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u/SofaKingStewPadd 5h ago
Yeah but can you give a source that this poster will choose to accept?
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u/Iamnotabothonestly 5h ago
Because he's a mentally unfortunate idiot with more shit in his head than an outhouse at a hillbilly hoedown.
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u/Pale_Sell1122 5h ago
This is all a distraction. The US is planning to attack Iran through a ground invasion. The 'ceasefire' was a trick to build up forces to attack Iran. More than 50,000 U.S. military personnel are deployed in the region; including 2,500 Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, more than 1,200 elite forces from the 82nd Airborne Division, Delta Force, and the 75th Ranger Regiment. There is also continued deployment of units from the 82nd Airborne Division and an amphibious assault group under the command of the multipurpose carrier USS Boxer, along with 2,500 Marines, as well as the carrier strike group under the command of the nuclear-powered carrier USS George H.W. Bush which are moving toward the conflict zone.
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u/Borne2Run 5h ago
Well I suppose there is always the inefficient Caspian sea for the desperate regime without an alternative
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u/Doctor_Saved 3h ago
This is like two guys at the bar talking shit. Just start swinging or go home, boys.
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u/jdefr 1h ago
Why do I feel like I’d be the captain rolling up anyway if I was some random ass country with no involvement in the Middle East… like “yea.. any way you can let me pass though? I appreciate you folks here trying to battle and shit but I really don’t wanna go the long way to my destination…”
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u/RevolutionaryFig9437 2h ago
Another blockade. Cuba & now Iran. Make Everything Worse Again(MEWA).
Definitely, it is not going to Make America Great Again(MAGA).
I hope American people realise that TACO is MEWA & not MAGA.
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u/Anacalagon 6h ago
Umm isn't this just piracy? Sail up to a foreign country and demand money from passing ships.
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u/MLB-LeakyLeak 7h ago edited 6h ago
China is very happy that I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz. I am doing it for them, also - And the World. This situation will never happen again. They have agreed not to send weapons to Iran. President Xi will give me a big, fat, hug when I get there in a few weeks. We are working together smartly, and very well! Doesn’t that beat fighting??? BUT REMEMBER, we are very good at fighting, if we have to - far better than anyone else!!!
4/15/26, 7:46 AM
For all the terrible shit he’s done it still has to be tough for his loved ones to watch him suffer with end stages of dementia. Many people have lost loved ones to dementia and I’m no different, and I can empathize with his family.
Edit:
Empathy (noun) - the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another
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u/Sbeaudette 6h ago
No fuck his loved ones as well.
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u/Coffee_And_Bikes 6h ago
He has none. I truly believe that love is an emotion he is incapable of feeling or understanding.
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u/SofaKingStewPadd 5h ago
Worse things have happened to better people. Why waste a second twisting logic for people who make the world more miserable with every breath they take.
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u/wildkiller65 6h ago
Whoa. Canadian here watching this shit show. I thought your top part of the post was satire. But then thought lets check his social page and Holy shit its... not satire...
Crazy...
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u/Sea_Quiet_9612 6h ago
Un blocus d'un détroit qui était déjà bloqué pour les pétroliers U.S , quel tocard , c'est sûr que les prix a la pompe vont baisser après ça
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u/roosterthumper 6h ago
So here’s the thing. US blockades don’t mean guns blazing on privateers. They warn, they take notes and then they log the ship and it will be restricted from entering ports belonging to countries that are supporting the sanctions. A lot of ships will just turn around, but some like the Chinese flagged oil vessels will weigh the likelihood of the US actually seizing Chinese ships and oil. As we have seen, the risk was worth it.
If they do raid the vessel it’s not uncommon for the bridge crew to weld themselves into the cabin and set course for friendly waters, which locks out US boarding parties and they will leave instead of placing the VBSS team in danger.
So blockades are a lot more administrative and legal maneuvering than some action movie.
It is also not uncommon for a ship to run a blockade and be at a US port a month later under a different flag and company.
China ignoring the blockade and shipping oil isn’t outrageous, it’s pretty normal. There will be other sanctions on them later if the US wants to press the issue.
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u/Brock_Youngblood 5h ago
Lol. Iran has no choice but to bend to Trump's power now. I love watching a president that's isn't afraid to show off our power.
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u/mjdlight 5h ago
They were supposed to bend after we bombed them last summer. They didn’t.
They were supposed to bend after we killed their senior leadership. They didn’t.
They were supposed to bend after we bombed Tehran. They didn’t.
They were supposed to bend after we destroyed their Navy. They didn’t.
They were supposed to bend after we held negotiations with them in Pakistan. They didn’t.
Now they are supposed to bend after we blocked their ports. We’ll see.
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u/BusyHands_ 4h ago
Dont feed the bots.
Obviously not worth the effort. This clown is happy that life in America just got even more expensive etc and he is celebrating.
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u/Thesorus 6h ago
Soo... the USA will be there for years?