https://www.axios.com/2026/04/12/trump-naval-blockade-iran-strait-hormuz-peace-talksPresident Trump announced the U.S. is imposing a naval blockade on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, several hours after peace talks in Pakistan ended in failure.Iran has effectively held the strait hostage, imposing a toll and limiting oil exports. Trump's blockade aims to flip that dynamic by denying Iran the leverage it's using as a bargaining chip and preventing it from exporting its oil."We want to take this card from the Iranians," a senior U.S. official said. "Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz," Trump wrote on his Truth Social.He added that he the U.S. Navy will "seek and interdict" vessels that have paid a toll to Iran in order to pass through the strait. "No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas," he stressed. Trump noted the blockade will begin "shortly" and added that during the blockade U.S. forces will destroy the mines the Iranians laid in the strait. It is unclear where these mines are located. He mentioned that other countries are also going to be involved in the blockade. "Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL! Iran knows, better than anyone, how to END this situation which has already devastated their Country," he said. The U.S. and Iran didn't reach an agreement during marathon negotiations on Saturday in Pakistan.The deadlock in the talks puts the two-week ceasefire agreed last week in limbo, with the possibility of renewed and escalating warfare. According to a source briefed on the talks, some of the disagreements had to do with Iran's demand to control the Strait of Hormuz and refusal to give up on its enriched uranium stockpile.
Got an Indian oil tanker full of Iranian crude and need it through the straight? Just post on Twitter, "TRUMP, the GREATEST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME, has given our ship permission to pass through the straight" and watch his bitch ass lose the game of chicken.
Trump is such a fucking stupid bastard.
>>1505573Trump was wise to back Iran into a corner to place tolls on the strait. If he didn’t do so they would have charged 10x or 1000x what they are doing now. But now they can’t because they’ve been utterly defeated. GOD BLESS TRUMP AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
>>1505577Shut the fuck up you ass licking toadie. Trump has spent 60 billion of our tax dollars to fail to negotiate the same exact deal that Obama made years ago and Trump cancelled. They even announced they will release 6 billion dollars in held funds to Iran. More than the amount Obama released and MAGA fucks have been harping about for years. So fucking pathetic to call this anything other than a total failure of the Trump admin.
We’re fucked. How do I apply for chinese citizenship?
>>1505573>a blockade to allow free shipping>the straits of hormuz are sovereign waters of iran and Oman>the iranian toll will be paid in crypto >which other countries will be involved in this action>this action will break the ceasefire
>>1505580Are you American? If you have European ancestry you may be eligible for citizenship by consanguinity
>>1505573>"Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz," Trump wrote on his Truth Social.lmao, Iran really got Trump to hit himselfIts embarrassing how bad of a job Trump is doing here
>i’m going to blockade your blockade.Yes it’s stupid. Supposedly this is to get China to apply pressure on Iran but how sure is the US China won’t just ignore the bait?Can’t the US just finish the job to take out the current Iranian administration?
>>1505577>Trump was so smart, tricking Iran into putting tolls on the strait that had previously not been there and then utterly failing to get them dismissed
>>1505587>Go in and kill the leader of the Iranian government>Don't like their replacementThe funny thing is Iran can say Iran has changed, but trump's war mongering hasn't.
>>1505587China may as well build an oil pipeline to Iran while they wait for the Americans to lose a few billion dollars worth of naval assets to drone strikes
>>1505588Yes you see Obama gave them the money to do this and Biden was too busy smelling children and too senile to stop them. Trump was wise to do this since we can’t let Iran control the strait. If anything it should be managed or co managed by USA or Israel. A little pain at the pump (still better than sleepy Biden) will save us more money in the long run. What you Dems don’t understand is that you actually caused this and Trump is cleaning up your mess. But you’ll blame Trump because you are living in a cult and have TDS
>>1505610Weirdest pedophile bot post
>>1505610>to do thisto do what? retaliate after an act of war from trump?
MAGAtards in /news/: 'Donnie's won! HE HAS CONQUERED IRAN BY...*checks notes*...GIVING THEM EVERYTHING THEY WANTED!'
>>1505573If I have to choose between affordable gas and Iran having nukes, I'll take the affordable gas.
>Yes you see Trump will give them the money to do this and Trump was too busy fucking children and too senile to stop Iran. Trump was retarded to do this since he is letting Iran control the strait. A little pain at the pump will lose MAGAts more than just money in the long run: votes in the midterms & ensuring Reps lose to Dems in 2028. What you Dems understand is that Trump actually caused this and MAGAtards are making this mess worse. But MAGAts blame Obama & Biden Trump signed the surrender documents in Afghanistan and released all those terrorists and then blamed Biden. Art of the deal because Trumptards live in a cult and have ODS & BDSftfy
Doesn’t matter, trump and his handelers have stacked the courts and filled agencies with their cronies. They can do whatever they want and they don’t even have to tell us why. They’ll just dangle more Epstein or UFO documents to get the news cycle whipped up and they’ll move on to the next decision that enriches them and suck our tax dollars away.
>naval blockadeIran launched two drones toward the Strait and two US destroyers turned tail and ran.
>>1505635Did we find those Iraqi WMDs yet?
>>1505573>drumpftards will insist this is some 4d chess move by the orange-gutan
>>1505655If Iran nukes the US I'll bet you will feel very silly.
>>1505657>See if Iran hypothetically gets a nuke and hypothetically deploys it without it getting shot down, you'll have some real egg on your face!
>>1505641The war is the dangle. Trump likely won't be arrested for bombing little girls but will die in prison if he raped little girls
>>1505661Actually, thanks to the republican supreme court declaring trump is a king, he can get away with raping little girls since they declared he can't be prosecuted.On the other hand, he doesn't get that immunity with the ICC, so if the next president actually puts America First, they could easily just extradite him to stand trial for his war crimes, including intentionally bombing school girls. Or given this is the new republican forever war and it won't end,, trump could be handed over to the Iranians to get them to give up on some of their demands to finally negotiate peace.
>>1505610Whatever is the fucking plan with what's happening now? America took out the ayatollah, only to have him just be replaced with his son who is even more death to israel/death to usa than his dad so it's back to square one with attempting to negotiate with a side that absolutely hates the fuck out of the other. Did the US really think that Ali Khamenei's death was going to have Iran's leadership immediately collapse and want to negotiate?
>>1505694>Did the US really think that Ali Khamenei's death was going to have Iran's leadership immediately collapse and want to negotiate?Yep. This is what happens when an 80 year old dementia patient is calling the shots and firing anyone who disagrees with him.
>>1505694>>Did the US really think that Ali Khamenei's death was going to have Iran's leadership immediately collapse and want to negotiate?Yes, the wild part was Khamenei was about to cave on all of demands trump and isreali made, which is why they needed to attack, because if they didn't have a war, trump couldn't distract from the Epstein files and isreali would finally investigate the fact that it was netanyahu who was responsible for the oct 7th attack.
>>1505686They'll want Hegseth too and all of Trumps children so none of them try any daring rescue mission bullshit
>>1505591>build an oil pipeline to IranImplying we wouldn't just bomb it as soon as it was in Iran
Oh, hey that thing I said would happen has happened.Anyone that thought the USA would rather Iran have control of the strait than the strait be closed is a fucking dipshit.
Release the unredacted Epstein files!
>>1505723So then Iran will bomb pipelines too. Do you need mutually assured destruction explained?
I'd put the pipeline underground. The Chinese will be able to build a long tunnel
HAHAHAHAHAHHE WANTS IT CLOSED NOW? AFTER WEEKS OF BEGGING TO GET IT TO OPEN?I GUESS HE AND HIS CRONIES BOUGHT A BUNCH OF OIL FUTURES
How's the blockade going?
>>1505573Trump just broke the two week ceasefire with this. There doesn't even have to be any action, he's said to begin immediately. Iran will definitely never agree to any further negotiations with Trump, if Americans want this war to end
>>1505788Given trump killed the Iranian leadership during the last peace negotiations, I would make any future cease fire conditional.
Fuck he's powerful. This is the type of strong, decisive leadership America needs. Can't wait to see our boys sinking fleets worth of chinkoidsect flagged cargo containers.
>>1505754This explains 90% of what trump does
>>1505794Yeah, well they're in a ceasefire right now it was for 2 weeks so they have time to parlay and by calling immediate action Trump has just broken it.This is actually the 4th time; Soleimani was assassinated on his way to talks, that's how they got his location.The 12 Day War began whilst the Iranian delegation was in Qatar, they were also bombed in Qatar.The current war as you know.Finally this ceasefire breach
Makes you wonder how big of a shitstorm they'll be if trump actually loses a US ship with his latest retarded plan.
>>1505821Lose a ship? Iran doesn't even have a military anymore. Its just Iranian twitter propaganda, panican fear, and MSM lies that's convinced people America is losing. The facts on the ground don't support the lies
>>1505640>>But muh Trump imitated Afghan surrender Holy fuck yeah he got us out of one of our permanent never ending wars, what a monster. The president during the actual widthdrawal fucked it up so badly, there is no “oh but Trump made us do it so quickly”, then be a fuckingpresident of America and say “we aren’t leaving sloppy” Democrats wanted a Saigon, they wanted the people handing on and falling to their deaths from aircraft they wanted it. Don’t ever forget.
>>1505834>then be a fuckingpresident of America and say “we aren’t leaving sloppy”Breaking Trump's agreement with the Taliban risked a retreat under fire which would have been a bigger shitshow. Actions have consequences, dumbfuck.
>>1505657If Iran gets nukes then somehow sneaks within range to shoot them at the us while somehow getting past all of our surveillance, navy and defenses we deserve it because the level of stupidity to even allow it to get close to happening deserves to be wiped off the face of the earth.
>>1505580You already live in China, just go renew your license at the DMV
>>1505830The fake news networks don’t realize that once we have boots on the ground the people will rise up and overthrow their tyrant overlords. We will merely have to raise our eyebrows and the Iranian army will know they lost
The fake president and its cultists don’t realize that once they taco out the people will point and laugh at the orange cultists' soyboy bitch. They will merely have to drop their pants & bend over and the Iranian army will know they won
>>1505900Just came to note that glownigs are blaming /news/ for the term TACO>>>/k/65072008
>>1505919/k/ used to (dunno if they stopped) have reoccurring threads where the OP theorycrafts if the US can fight a war against every other country in the world, simultaneously, at the same time. Lots of responses would be "US can and will win against the entire rest of the planet".It's nice to see the board being more realistic in that thread, and the jingoists eating shit.
>>1505919>>>/k/65072008>only place I have ever seen it used is /news/>onlyhttps://www.vox.com/politics/485141/trump-taco-iran-ceasefirehttps://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/08/politics/trump-iran-taco-ceasefire-strait-of-hormuz-analysishttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-04-08/us-iran-ceasefire-trump-s-latest-taco-leaves-key-issues-unresolvedhttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-taco-meaning-nickname-origin-meme.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/trump-always-chickens-out-taco-investors-narrativeI love the smell of destroyed opinions in the morning. Smells like... superiority.
How are they going to blockade the ships? He is just talking out his arse, as usual.Also, America had a blockade of tankers going to Cuba and they lat a russian one just float through it no problem a few weeks ago.
>>1505947If it's like Venezuela they'll just send helicopters to steal the ships and oil.
>>1505888>the people will rise up and overthrow their tyrant overlordsWhen the U.S. left Afghanistan all the people trained to protect the country from the Taliban, immediately folded like a wet sock and the Taliban came back into power. In Iraq, when the U.S. left, all the people trained to protect the stability from another Sadam Husein immediately folded like a wet sock allowing ISIS to take hold. I don't think the people in this region are going to rise up and overthrow their tyrant overlords. History is showing "the people" would rather instead install another tyrant overlord or keep the current tyrant overlord. We gotta stop doing this half assed shit of taking out only the perceived top leaders, all it does is extend our stay because the remaining people still hate our guts and will keep doing shady activities
>>1505919/pol/ uses it more than /news/. Not necessarily by percentage of posts but on an absolute scale, yes. 1pbtid baiting still counts.
>>1505947>How are they going to blockade the ships?Prevent anybody that paid the $2mil from passing through the strait.
>>1505573Oh look the people who took a few days data and projected it indefinitely into the future were dead wrong, and their predictions failed to predict Americas ability to react to and have a say in how all this shit plays out
>>1505951They’re going to pay in crypto
England told trump to fuck off with his new blockade plan. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-humiliated-as-key-us-ally-bails-on-his-new-war-plan/Maybe don't denigrate and threaten your allies if you want their help?
>>1505954>Maybe don't denigrate and threaten your allies if you want their help?He's trying to do this to save Europe from the consequences of Israel's actions.>nooo you hurt our feelings, now gas is going to increase to $10/gal and millions of people will starve, and it's all your fault ree ree reeee>shut up and help us>noooo you're so meeean, reeee
>>1505954They’re (the US) supposed to be observing a ceasefire. Nobody will join this, nobody wanted to join it before the ceasefire and nobody wants their reputation ruined by committing literal piracy on the high seas
>>1505955He threatened to annex Canada and invade Greenland (Denmark), both of those countries are NATO allies. Then he asks for help with a war he was winning bigly and said he doesn’t need help and then cried about not getting any help which he never needed anyway. So far he’s started a war during negotiations and has now broken the ceasefire which he called for. He’s not a serious person, and by that I mean it’s better to ignore what he says and stay as well away from him as possible
>>1505955>Israel's actions.His actions. And no, he's not fucking trying to save them from anything, he doesn't give a shit about them.
>>1505949bro the provisional government installed by the US was filled with drug addicts, pedophiles, corrupt officials, and other human trash trying to coast on American firepower holding up the governmenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QIIn a way the home grown Taliban willing to live in caves for over a decade, were the people rising up to take down a tyrant government. They just weren't liberals in terms of governing philosophy.
>>1505959>His actions.Israel started the engagement.>>1505957>He threatened to annex Canada and invade Greenland (Denmark), both of those countries are NATO allies. Parochial shortsightedness. NATO will impacted by Iran's actions regardless of Trump threatening them in the past. If they refuse to help out of spite then they will suffer because of it.
>>1505965>was filled with drug addicts, pedophiles, corrupt officials, and other human trash trying to coast on American firepower holding up the governmentSo the trump regime?
This is a very bad move by Trump. If the Americans start hijacking ships carrying valuable cargo, be it fuel or fertiliser or anything, the countries who are waiting to receive those goods will understandably be pissed. Don’t be surprised if there are retaliatory measures such as embargoes and boycotts against the US, it’s very serious and people are going to suffer and die if they can’t get these goods they’re relying upon
What does Trump think will be China’s response to the US navy boarding or even firing upon a Chinese oil tanker
>>1505580Can you speak a lick of Mandarin?>>1505582>AmericanI wouldn't feel at all comfortable with applying for citizenship with an enemy of my homeland. They can and will stab you in the back. I know Russia did with one father who left Texas because he thought it was "too woke." Either that or he was too retarded to quite get Russia's conscription policies and not knowing Russian made it even worse.
>>1506028FAFO
>>1506030>ConscriptionNah. He was just dumb. Really dumb as in he signed up willingly to try to earn points.
>>1506028A strongly worded letter. The same as Russia's response was.
>>1506030>I know Russia did with one father who left Texas because he thought it was "too woke." Either that or he was too retarded to quite get Russia's conscription policies and not knowing Russian made it even worse.Given he thinks 'woke' is a thing, pretty sure he's just retarded.The question now is, did he get droned, or gunned down in a meat wave or by barrier troops.
>>1506035Eh he kinda got half-conscripted. Signed up for a non-combatant position and then the Russian military went "oh lol nah you going to the front lines as fodder".
>>1506112LMAO, deserved.
>>1505951>Prevent anybody that paid the $2mil from passing through the strait.How are they going to do that? Are they going to ram or sink an oil tanker from a foreign country right there in the strait? Are you saying that the US would scuttle a Chinese flagged tanker and risk nuclear war? What about a NATO ally tanker?Best case scenario is that no tankers leave and gas prices sky rocket until TACO. Worst case is nuclear war where we're going it alone.>>1506013>Israel started the engagement.“It was my opinion that they were going to attack first,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, sitting next to Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz.Earlier, Trump said “I might have forced their hand,” referring to Israel.
>>1506115They won’t even know who’s paid since it’ll be in crypto paid by yuans. Anyway, the latest was they’re going to stop all shipping going into or coming from Iranian ports
>>1506026So basically Trump - so senile, it knows nothing of US history - if it ever went to school to attend history classes - will become leader of the 21st century's equivalent of the Barbary pirates:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJhmm3D3OYThe duality of the orange hypocrite.
>>1506169I was just thinking about how Trump was against the Iraq war for all the reasons he’s using now to justify the Iran war
>>1506115>How are they going to do that?They're going to enforce a blockade and prevent any ship from going through.There's a reason why the rest of NATO is gearing up for war. And it's not because they took Trump's recommendations at the UN seriously.>Earlier, Trump said “I might have forced their hand,” referring to Israel.Marco Rubio said the quiet part out loud: Israel attacked Iran, they knew Iran would bomb their allies in the region, so America struck afterwards.
>>1506171A war he said he wasn't going to do
>>1506171>I was just thinking about how Trump was against the Iraq war for all the reasons he’s using now to justify the Iran war>>1506173>A war he said he wasn't going to dohttps://i.postimg.cc/DyfV5rt6/anti-harris-sign.jpg>'No more foreign wars': a campaign slogan in 2024>'Kamala Harris will send your children to war'The duality of the orange hypocrite and its cultists.It's now more than impossible for any Democrat administration to be - certainly do - any worse than this Trump one.
>>1506172>They're going to enforce a blockade"How?" is what I'm asking. How are they going to enforce a blockade? A ship pays the toll to Iran and coming out of the strait - what's the US planning to do to stop that? Also, NATO's not gearing up for war in the ME. Look at Starmer's comments about getting drug into an ME war. No one wants to be the next Tony Blair and NATO isn't coming to bail out this admin.>Marco Rubio said the quiet part out loudDonald Trump didn't say that. He said "we forced Israel's hand". In fact, Rubio ended up having to walk back the statement he made earlier because Trump wanted to brag that we were leading the war effort.Anything else you say is cope of the highest quality.
>>1506177It's 'Democratic'. People will call you an ESL otherwise.
>>1506186>How are they going to enforce a blockade?How is a blockade usually enforced?This is a very silly conversation.>Donald Trump didn't say that.Doesn't matter what he said. Rubio's confession to the press aligns with the timeline of events.
Americans deserve to starve for voting for this piece of shit for two terms.
>>1506208>dodging the questionlol
>>1506208Trump said the US would blockade ALL shipping in and out of the straits, later it was said only ships who’d paid the Iranian toll would be stopped, then it was all shipping to and from Iranian ports. It’s a fair question to ask if they’re going to be stopping and seizing ships or taking the crews hostage and sinking them or just sinking them.It’s also a fair question with regards to where the US navy is willing to take their ships, because those Iranians can apparently target 2’000 miles or something like that
>the Democrats refer to themselves as DemocratsHi, esl 1506189
>>1506172https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJhmm3D3OYSo Trump is basically going to do with the US Navy what the US Navy was created to fight against in the late 18th century. Thus Trump = leader of a pirate fleet. The pirates during the Barbary Wars - which the newly-created US Navy was sent to fight against - were Muslims. But then, Trump recently said 'Praise be to Allah', so there you go MAGAts.
>>1506210I'm not dodging anything. Blockades are ordinarily enforced by seizing and/or sinking ships. Trump has already threatened to genocide everybody in Iran, so anything is on the table at this point.
