Hopefully the Strait of Hormuz will be open again within the next few weeks?
Today 4/13/2026 starts the US military blockade of oil and gas shipping in the area where 20% of the worlds oil goes through on tankers.
President Trump is 100% correct to blockade all traffic.
Iran was being paid extortion money by certain countries to allow their tankers to pass through without being blown up.
Iran was getting millions of dollars every day through extortion.
Also its oil was still being shipped despite a blockade via various means including ghost tankers.
China and certain other countries were still moving oil through the strait.
No zombie tankers were passing through the strait of hormuz but NOT now! https://audaciouscat.com/rabbit/zombie-oil-tankers-3-22-2026/
“The blockade will be 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. CENTCOM forces will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports.”
Oil and gas tankers will be moving through the strait of hormuz but NO iranian oil tankers will be moving oil.
This will be good for oil and gas prices to some extent.
Its yet to be seen what the nut jobs controlling iran will do next.
If the war starts up again all bets are off.
If nothing had been done, as nato and the eu etc were going to do, the iran oil scam and money would have continued to flow into iran.
China and other countries would get oil from iran in spite of the international sanctions. Zombie tankers and paying extortion money.
Now China will be it a big hurt and will need to buy oil from the US!
Scroll on down to see a live map of brent crude oil price and a live map of shipping in the strait of hormuz.
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Cut Off the Money – U.S Military Will Start Enforcing Embargo of Product No One Is Supposed to Be Buying
Oil and gas sales from Iran are under international sanction and not supposed to be taking place. However, oil and gas sales from Iran -violating the sanctions- have been taking place.
CENTCOM is announcing that the U.S. military will now ensure the oil and gas from Iran doesn’t move.
The U.S. will physically enforce the pre-existing global sanctions. A blockade begins tomorrow morning.
TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces will begin implementing a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports on April 13 at 10 a.m. ET, in accordance with the President’s proclamation.
The blockade will be 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. CENTCOM forces will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports.
Additional information will be provided to commercial mariners through a formal notice prior to the start of the blockade.
All mariners are advised to monitor Notice to Mariners broadcasts and contact U.S. naval forces on bridge-to-bridge channel 16 when operating in the Gulf of Oman and Strait of Hormuz approaches. (SOURCE)
Oil and gas from Kuwait will be allowed transit and passage. Oil and gas from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar will also transit without issue. However, oil or gas from Iran will be blocked. China takes the biggest hit, again.
The target now is to cut off the Iranian money supply.
This blockade is happening against the little discussed backdrop of Dubai (UAE) targeting Iranian money changers.
DUBAI – The arrest of dozens of IRGC-linked money changers in the United Arab Emirates is one of the most serious blows yet to Tehran’s sanctions-evasion network, laying bare how heavily the Islamic Republic has depended on Dubai as an economic lifeline.
Sources familiar with the matter told Iran International that UAE authorities detained dozens of money changers tied to financial entities linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, shut down associated companies and closed their offices.
The crackdown follows days of mounting regional tensions and comes after other measures targeting Iranian nationals, including visa revocations and tighter travel restrictions through Dubai.
For years, Dubai has served as Iran’s main offshore financial artery, where oil proceeds, petrochemical revenues and rial conversions were turned into dollars, dirhams and euros beyond the reach of the country’s battered domestic banking system.
“This is going to be a real problem for Tehran because Dubai was an economic lung for the Iranian regime,” Jason Brodsky of United Against Nuclear Iran told Iran International.
“That is economic pressure and diplomatic isolation in a way that the UAE is able to employ against the Iranian regime, and it will have a very considerable impact.” (more)
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Current price of brent crude oil.
https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/oil-price?op=1
Live map of ships in the strait of hormuz
https://hormuzmonitor.com/live-ship-data/
Ships under 300 tons are not displayed.
Some of the info about live ship tracking is not up to date.
The chart is now wrong.
The US navy is controlling the strait of hormuz now.