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nedekid:
Op thinks some of us are so jobless or have little useful use of time to read such crap of how American colonizers, war criminals live on their ships, for all I care that ship could be at the bottom of the ocean or even a swimming pool.
How fies life in their ship concern millions of Nigerians struggling with life after the desaster at aso rock has driven citizens to penury?

US Military Establishes Secret Shipping Corridor Through Strait Of Hormuz, Moves 10 Million Barrels Of Oil Daily

The United States military has quietly established a shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz, allowing millions of barrels of oil to reach global markets despite the ongoing war with Iran, according to a report by "Axios", citing two US officials.

The operation has reportedly been underway for several weeks, with between 15 and 20 oil tankers passing through the strategic waterway each day using a southern channel along Oman's coast.

US officials told Axios that approximately 10 million barrels of oil per day are currently moving through the corridor — about half the volume that passed through the Strait of Hormuz before the war.

The US military is reportedly helping empty tankers enter the Gulf from the Arabian Sea, where they load oil from countries including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait, before being guided back through the strait.

The operation is being overseen by a US military task force based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, according to the report.

US officials said the operation was made possible after a recent two-week US Central Command campaign weakened Iran's radar and maritime-surveillance capabilities, making it possible for tankers to move through the southern channel with reduced risk.

One US official claimed that the United States has effectively controlled the southern lane of the Strait of Hormuz for about two months, although Iranian forces remain capable of posing a threat to shipping.

US President Donald Trump also confirmed that significant amounts of oil are continuing to leave the Strait of Hormuz, saying there is a “tremendous amount of oil” coming through the waterway.

However, the situation remains highly uncertain. While Washington says the strait is open, Iran continues to maintain that shipping through the waterway remains restricted. Reuters reported on August 19 that only six commodity vessels had crossed the strait on Tuesday, significantly below normal traffic levels.

The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world's most important energy routes, carrying a significant share of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments. The reported US corridor could therefore help reduce the impact of the disruption on global energy supplies, even though normal commercial shipping has yet to fully resume.

Tehran Gas Stations Run Dry As Iran Faces Growing Fuel Shortage

Tehran, Iran — Several petrol stations in parts of Tehran reportedly ran out of gasoline on Wednesday, August 19, with some stations closing completely while motorists at others faced queues of up to an hour.

According to Iran International, residents reported visiting multiple petrol stations only to find them closed or displaying notices that gasoline was unavailable. Others said they had to wait for extended periods to refuel.

The shortages come amid growing concerns that the Iranian government could increase gasoline prices as the country struggles with a widening fuel supply deficit.

Iran's Energy Efficiency Organization has estimated that the country is currently facing a gasoline shortage of around 14–15 million litres per day.

A member of Iran's parliament Economic Committee, Hossein Samsami, warned that raising fuel prices under the country's current economic conditions could trigger widespread unrest.

Meanwhile, there are reports that traffic police in Tehran have been targeting older vehicles and motorcycles in an effort to reduce fuel consumption. A resident claimed some older vehicles were being impounded for up to a month, although the report could not independently verify the claim.

Iran's fuel shortage has also been worsened by disruptions to fuel imports amid the ongoing US naval blockade of Iranian maritime traffic.

In response, Iran is reportedly exploring the use of methanol-blended gasoline to increase domestic fuel supplies. Vahid Ghanei-Fard, CEO of Persian Gulf Star Refinery, said a pilot project using gasoline containing about three percent methanol had been successful and met national and international standards.

He said the refinery's daily gasoline production had reached approximately 49 million litres.

However, Iranian refinery expert Saadatollah Molavi cautioned that methanol-based gasoline would only provide a temporary solution unless the country addresses concerns surrounding production costs, efficiency, gas consumption and infrastructure.

There are also concerns over the quality and safety of the fuel, particularly its potential impact on vehicles and public health.

The latest developments come as Iran continues to grapple with a serious energy and economic crisis, with shortages, rising demand and disrupted imports putting additional pressure on the country's already strained fuel system.

Iran and Oman have agreed on a safe route for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz over the past three weeks of talks, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said Saturday.

Baghaei said discussions with Muscat were continuing on other issues, but the arrangement for safe shipping was separate.

He added that full security in the strait could not be restored while US maritime sanctions, military movements and a naval blockade remain in place.

Iran has effectively stopped importing gasoline because of the US naval blockade, parliament Energy Committee spokesperson Reza Sepahvand told ILNA on Saturday.

“Now that we are facing a naval blockade and gasoline imports have stopped,” Sepahvand said, warning that implementing the proposed national ID-based fuel allocation plan could later force the government to import gasoline at international and Persian Gulf FOB prices, raising costs and the budget deficit.

“We are facing problems supplying fuel given the number of vehicles,” he said.

Sepahvand said Iran was producing 130 million liters of gasoline a day, which he described as peak output, while consumption stood at 137 million liters.

“Even with all this, we are still facing a fuel-supply problem,” he said.

Replacing a single ship carrying essential goods to Iran would require about 2,500 trucks, a Chamber of Commerce official warned, saying land routes cannot offset the US maritime blockade and negotiations are the only realistic way to restore trade.

Davoud Rangi, vice chair of the chamber’s Import Management Committee, said Iran receives around 400 to 500 ships carrying essential goods each year, making any attempt to replace maritime imports with overland transport impractical.

“Mobilizing this number of trucks is far-fetched for us, and even if they were mobilized, transportation costs would rise sharply,” Rangi told Eghtesad News on Thursday.

He said Iranian authorities should not count on land corridors as a substitute for the country’s southern ports because neighboring states could restrict border traffic at short notice and the routes lack the capacity to handle the necessary volume of goods.

FSBoperator:
Save your weak lies for yourself

Trump and Hegseth crashed over weapons shortages.

Back at Camp David, as he was confronted by Trump over the bare weapons stockpile, Hegseth defended himself and blamed his deputy, Stephen Feinberg, for the shortages and for not ensuring Trump was fully apprised of the issue, both persons familiar said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/05/trump-hegseth-clashed-camp-david-over-iran-missile-depletion-concerns/
https://archive.is/H7xrt

So Oga rest

FSBoperator:
There was no plan for a US Naval standoff or an invasion of Iran in Trump's plan.

He waged hard on the CIA/Mossad color revolution and his decapitation strikes on Iranian political and military leadership to end the regime and from there a power vacuum in Tehran that would naturally see to that country balkanizing along ethnic lines or falling into a protracted long civil war.

But the color revolution failed and when Trump began his decapitation strikes he was constantly begging Iranians to overthrow their govt.

But none of that happened and the last thing Trump and his Neocons ever factored was Iranian response which was wave after wave of missile and drone strikes on Israel and ever Gulf Kingdom state that the US launched their air strikes from.

So the US had to supply Israel with Patriot batteries and missiles alongside THAAD batteries designed primarily to take out ballistic missiles.

But these systems were so ineffective that they had an interception rate less than 15% and required at least 4-5 missiles to take out one Iranian ballistic missile.

Given the cost per unit of each interceptor compared to an Iranian missile that cost a fraction of what each missile interceptor cost, the US was bleeding it's missile arsenal that they decided to priorize protecting that parasite state over the Gulf Kingdom states that actually fund the US military.

So Hegseth is a liar.

The US is low on patriot missiles as well as their initially highly limited THAAD batteries and missiles that were designed solely to protect the US mainland and not Israel from Russian ballistic missiles.

As I said, there was no plan by the Neocons to even have a naval blockade over the straits of Hormuz talk more of a ground invasion because they believed too much on their color revolution setting things off .

One of the greatest tragedies in war is when a General constantly deploys the same winning tactic .

The saying "why change a plan if it's working " is what got the US into this mess because they believed too much on their color revolution that was successful in Syria and Libya.

There's never going to be a ground invasion because the US will bleed badly if they tried it because geography is not on their side when it comes to invading Iran. Those mountains are a real natural defensive asset to Iran .

If any of you think Trump is going to order a ground invasion, then ask why he hasn't done so against the Houthis in Yemen who also have terrain factor to their advantage.

FSBoperator:
Iran has constantly denied ever entering or requesting peace talks with the untrustworthy Trump WH.

Trump modus is to talk tough every Friday just after the market closes and by Monday morning before the markets open, spew lies that he is in talks with Iran and on the verge of signing a peace deal .

All this just to manipulate the market to make bank through insider trading and to douse any panic over a full blown war with Iran and to give the false impression that the straits will soon be open to traffic.

Trump even just launched a special app add on for his Truth Social that will require 100k monthly subscription to get info directly from him before he makes an official announcement .

This of course is just Trump trying his hands at selling info to his fellow market manipulators to either sell or buy crude futures depending on what nonsense bs he is set to announce.

The Democrats are already compiling this as one of too many of Trump and his family members insider trading.

The Orangutan and his entire family will soon run to Israel before impeachment notice are served on him by the incoming DNC majority Congress.

It's over for Zion Don, Israel and ZoG

FSBoperator:
The reason the US is in this quagmire is because they banked heavily on their color revolution to kick start things with their MSMs inflating it while Big Tech is used to rally the population to insurection


All that failed because the Iranians studied both the Libyan and Syrian uprising and how that led to a long grinding civil war.

The CIA and Mossad are getting really sloppy by recycling this same plan of using color revolutions to kickstart a civil war.

Iranians are not stupid and they saw the CIA and Mossad plan unfolding and did everything to end the inorganic revolution by taking out Mossad and XIA assets/agents and deporting Afghan and Indians from their country - whom the CIA was hoping on doing their dirty work.

Then the Kurds finally got sense to understand that it always ends bad for US proxies especially Kurdish ones.

The betrayal of the Kurds by the US in Iraq and Syria and how they were treated as dispensable especially with Turkey eventually using the Syrian war to destroy the PKK without the US lifting a finger .

There's also the case that the Kurds in Syria are now being ruled by same ISIS with full US recognition and backing that they(Kurds) fought against .

I don't see the Kurds wanting to be in anyway or form associated with the US anymore so when Trump sent them weapons and money to invade Iran and declare Kurdish regions as independent, the Kurds just took Trump's weapons and money and told him to go fck himself.

So no Kurdish proxies . The Arab minority who are Shia also are not ready to fight for ZoG after seeing what their Shia cousins in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia are being subjected to and know that the US and Israel will quickly impose a Sunni Arab monarch from the Gulf over them as was the case of the British creation of Shia Bahrain with a super minority Sunni monarch.

Also you must note that majority of the Sunni population in the Gulf Kingdom states are not in anyway in support of this war against Iran by their leaders .

They would have supported this war just as they did against Alawaite Syria under Assad or how they also supported Sunni ISIS backed by Israel and the US against Shia ruled Iraq.

Right now the Arab monarchies in the Gulf are more than likely to face a populist revolt among their own Sunni population for aligning with ZoG to wage war on a fellow Muslim country.

And these same Sunni population also understand that Iran is being attacked because of it's support for Palestinian liberation which their govts oppose and this same Sunni populace in the Gulf kingdom states are also aghast at their govts signing into the Abraham Accords .

The only ones now in facing a real threat to their power and continuity are the Gulf monarchies and their greatest fear is not just Iran but their own populace finally waking up and kicking them out.

No amount of US mercs can protect and keep the Gulf monarchs in power once their people revolt.

And when this happens , a real islamic theocracy/ govt similar to the Egyptian Brotherhood may emerge to replace the puppet monarchies or even far worse, a secularist Pan Arabic movement similar to the Baathist party may emerge which will spell doom for Israel .

FSBoperator:
The War was not supposed to last this long. At least not the standoff, long range bombing phase which has led to severe depletion of US Patriot and THAAD missiles.

There was supposed to be a color revolution, except the Iranians shut of the internet, triangulated or jammed all the starlink terminals, and rounded up the mossad/CIA agents. This was before the war actually kicked off, btw. A year before that, they deported something like 1 million Afghan nationals in the span of a month. Those Afghan migrants were supposed to be part of the 5th column to destabilize Iran.

There was also supposed to be an uprising from the Kurds on the Iran/Iraq/Syria border. The CIA armed and paid Kurdish militias and provided them with a battle plan. Except the Kurds just stayed home.

The decapitation strikes were supposed to leave Iran leaderless and demoralized. Except they had organized their military and government to be ready for just such an eventuality, and had the social technology of shia martyrdom to make their deaths a meaningful rallying point. Also, the Iranian regime turned out to be quite popular with the people, while killing a hundred school girls with the opening airstrike proved to be deeply unpopular with the locals.

The way this war was supposed to go was:
1. fake color revolution that got quashed immediately by Iran.


2. mass protests destabilize several Iranian cities to follow if 1 above had succeeded.

3. Iranian officials start getting assassinated or defecting which still didn't happen because 1 and 2 were a dud.

4. Mossad, CIA and special forces infiltrate and support these moderate resistance groups.

5. IRGC tries to crack down on things

6. Decapitation airstrikes, short 2-3 weeks of bombing campaign.

7. Kurds activate, run ops on their border

8. Turks mobilize to secure their border

9. More Iranian officers get assassinated or defect.

10. The ones who hold on are too busy dealing with color revolution protests and sabotage to launch missiles at Israel or US bases.

11. Various warlords start emerging to lead Iranian resistance factions.

12. Iran splits into several failed states

13. Millions of Iranian refugees suddenly appear heading to Europe because the country is now Libya 10.0

14. Total ZOG victory with US and Israel doing follow-up air strikes on whoever and whatever faction emerges to try to bring peace and order .


Now all of this above collapsed because the Mossad/CIA color revolution failed spectacularly.

Iran is supposed to be multicultural, multi ethnic and multi religious just as in Syria which will make any national front impossible when existential threats are being brought on it.

Iran was supposed to also be crippled by the US sanctions just as in Syria but Iran has it's own in-house technological and scientific solutions plus a lot of help from China.

China's support for Venezuela failed because those mullato Mezitos have no real culture nor civilization - a relic of a slave plantation filled with mystery meat mutts descended from slaves can not be compared to Persians with their over 3,000yr civilization.

If Iran was Nigeria, it would have capitulated within a week because of too many treacherous subservient people (especially from the SE) .

I recall with horror how these same treacherous people were going on SM celebrating Trump's threat to invade Nigeria.

Multiculturalism is a weakness as we can see with Syria and a zero civilization country like Venezuela is easy pickings.

We can learn a lot from Iran in how they kept their country together and more unified against a common enemy .