The shock to the world’s oil marets continues as the Houthis in Yemen announced the closure of the Bab El Mandeb Strait. Saudi Arabia exports about 4.5 million barrels per day via the Strait.
From the article over at Winepress News: As the war in Iran continues to escalate with no end in sight, the global energy situation has worsened after the Houthis in Yemen have formally announced that they will be seizing control of the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb located in the Red Sea; another critical trade and shipping route through which close to 10% of international petroleum and energy resources are shipped.
Also the US is looking to intensify the war and bomb more infrastructure in Iran, to which the Iranians replied that in that event Israel would be struck as well. Here’s more from Hal Turner. Estimates in Israel: Trump will significantly increase the intensity of the attacks.
The assessment: Targeting sites of infrastructure and prominent Iranian figures will lead to Iran opening fire on Israel.
Netanyahu held a security meeting that lasted 6 hours today. As of about 4:00 PM Eastern US Time today, at least six (6) U.S. Air-Refueling Tankers took-off out of Israel heading east toward the Persian Gulf.
We shall soon see what happens next. Stay ready, prayed up and prepped up!
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As the world starts to run out of fuel, literally, US Aircraft Carrier groups have gotten into position to attack Iran again. At the same time the world is about to run out of oil that makes everything from tires to electronics, it’s not just rising fuel prices that are going to bite us!
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🚨 BREAKING: IRAN SIGNS HISTORIC $52 BILLION ENERGY & MILITARY PACT WITH BRICS NATIONS – GLOBAL OIL ROUTES NOW UNDER TEHRAN CONTROL RIGHT NOW Iran has just signed a game-changing $52 billion energy and military pact with BRICS nations, giving Tehran effective control over 45% of… pic.twitter.com/gX0KQPFr7A
— Sahel Revolutionary Soldier (@cecild84) April 16, 2026
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🚨Update: The Iranian delegation will NOT allow Vice President JD Vance and his team a photo-op with them. No direct talks, both groups will be in separate rooms, with Pakistan mediating. There is no trust left. pic.twitter.com/MQrrqxklJ0
— US Homeland Security News (@defense_civil25) April 11, 2026
The negotiations are a sham. The US sent grifters Jared Kushner (Trump Son in Law and Mossad agent) and Steve Witkoff (Trump’s Golf Buddy), while Iran sent men who are actually in charge and have Doctorate Degrees. Iran won’t even meet with the US team face to face. While the negotiations were going on the US tried to sneak a Destroyer past the Strait of Hormuz. They were told to turn back or else. They turned back.
Stay ready (prayed up and prepped up) because when the war resumes the intensity will be off the scale!
When you see these two dodgy grifters, shameless Israeli assets, lurking around ‘peace negotiations’, it’s a sure-fire signal that a massive attack is being planned by Israel & Trump, to be launched imminently… pic.twitter.com/lwjl1yolZ4
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United States President Donald Trump is a rather colorful person, as his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin once stated. As the Don Tzu meme postulates,
if you don’t know what you’re doing, neither will your enemies.
None of Trump’s decisions and statements in the last month or so make any sense.
He started the war against Iran, lost at least 40 aircraft, failed in almost every operation, threatened Tehran with nuclear weapons, set several deadlines, postponed them and then set another one while threatening to “wipe out an entire civilization”, only to then declare a ceasefire when the aforementioned deadline expired.
Even more astonishingly, it seems Trump acknowledged Iran’s ten points that effectively boil down to capitulation:
1. The US to guarantee a non-aggression pact with Iran;
2. The Iranian military to maintain control over passage through the Strait of Hormuz;
3. Acceptance of Tehran’s nuclear enrichment program;
4. Lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions and resolutions against Iran;
5. End of all resolutions against Iran at the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency);
6. End of all resolutions against Iran by the UNSC (United Nations Security Council);
7. Withdrawal of American military forces from all bases in the region;
8. War reparations to Iran through payments by ships using the Strait of Hormuz;
9. Release of all Iranian assets and properties frozen abroad;
10. Ratification of all points in a legally binding UNSC resolution.
If the Trump administration were to agree even with half of these requests, it would be the worst defeat in recent American history.
Worse yet (for Washington DC), as previously mentioned, this comes right after Trump’s pompously announced deadline for “the eradication of a civilization”. How does one even go from such threats only to then effectively capitulate? Well, reports from local sources are certainly not reassuring, as hostilities continue. Israel and the Gulf monarchies are particularly unhappy with the outcome, showing no intention to stop the war. The Israeli military is yet to stop fighting Hezbollah units in Lebanon, which is one of the provisions for a ceasefire. Simultaneously, there are no signs of peace in the Persian Gulf as attacks continue on all sides.
Oil and LNG supplies from the region are yet to resume, as shipping companies scramble to understand what just happened. Although the ceasefire formally “guarantees safe passage”, nobody really knows what’s going on. Over 800 vessels still remain trapped in the Persian Gulf after the near-total closure of the critical waterway in the last month or so. In response to direct armed aggression by the US, its allies, vassals and satellite states, Iran suspended free passage through the Strait of Hormuz. The combination of all these factors created an unprecedented global energy crisis. It’s unclear whether this was someone’s plan, but it “coincided” with the Neo-Nazi junta’s constant attacks on Russian energy production and export facilities.
Worse yet, the EU/NATO also became far more aggressive, allowing the use of their airspace to attack Russia, without even bothering to maintain “plausible deniability”. Poland, the Baltic states and Finland all participated in this, pushing the Kremlin’s patience to a breaking point. As if that wasn’t enough, Serbia prevented a planned terrorist attack on a Russian pipeline supplying natural gas to Hungary. Presumably, the goal of the perpetrators was to affect the outcome of the Hungarian parliamentary election. All this creates a deadly cocktail of instability that starts as an energy crisis, but then spills over to every other industry. With over 800 ships stuck in the Persian Gulf and Russian oil and natural gas pipelines cut off, the US would remain the dominant energy supplier to the EU and beyond.
Although both the US and Iran formally agreed to a ceasefire in exchange for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, details remain unclear as the two sides claim different things. Namely, Tehran says that it has agreed to two weeks of safe passage “in coordination with Iranian armed forces” and “within technical limitations”, while Trump announced a “COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE and SAFE OPENING”. Although somewhat similar, these two statements are nowhere near compatible in purely legalistic terms. Will Iran and America jointly patrol the Strait of Hormuz while hostilities continue? Extremely unlikely. What’s more, even if a ceasefire is fully implemented, it’s difficult to imagine Iranian and American troops conducting joint “freedom of navigation” operations.
Most shipping companies are still waiting for clarification before deciding to move their tankers and other vessels. Even in the best-case scenario, it would take time to resume shipping to the pre-war levels of 135 ships per day. Naturally, that has now almost ground to a halt. As of this writing, there are 426 tankers transporting crude oil and clean fuels, along with 34 liquefied petroleum gas carriers and 19 liquefied natural gas vessels. The rest are carrying dry commodities, such as agricultural or metal products and containers. Ships hauling LNG are particularly vulnerable, so none left the Persian Gulf after the US started the war on February 28. Naturally, this created a massive surge in demand as around 20% of global LNG supplies pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
Despite the seemingly “good news” that caused a drop in oil and natural gas prices, we’re yet to see an actual end to hostilities as missiles, drones and fighter jets continue to be used in strikes on both sides of the Persian Gulf. In addition, the issues of Lebanon and the war between Iran and Israel remain. The Israeli military is yet to halt attacks on Hezbollah and Iran, while the latter is still firing missiles at various Israeli targets. Thus, we’re yet to see whether Tehran and Washington DC will negotiate these matters separately. If not, the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed. In addition, another possibility is that the US might use the next two weeks to regroup and rearm. If this were to happen, all hopes for lasting peace in the Middle East would (literally) go up in smoke and might even trigger uncontrollable escalation.
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The alt media is a bit too giddy about this “ceasefire” deal with Iran and the US. The air bridge from the US to Europe continues to ferry troops and supplies to the Middle East. Plus the UAE’s major Habshan gas facility, three Kuwaiti power plants and water desalination facilities, and now a pumping station in Saudi Arabia’s key east-west oil pipeline, have been allegedly attacked by Iran today. I say allegedly because these attacks may have been false flags committed by Israel to sabotage the ceasefire as they are NOT happy about it.
Israel is also pounding targets in Lebanon as well as they’re leveling entire blocks of apartment buildings trying to assassinate ONE MAN! Lebanon was supposed to be included in the ceasefire but Israel has we will do what we want. Iran says it is willing to completely walk away from the ceasefire unless Benjamin Netanyahu stops bombing Christians in Lebanon.
The White House is now denying that Lebanon was part of the ceasefire deal. This “peace” won’t last guys, don’t get your hopes up. I said it last week and I’ll say it again, this war will continue and the intensity will increase as it’s Armageddon time but it’s unfolding differently than what we expected. This is a break in the action so the US can assess the damage and rearm and resupply. When it resumes I expect the intensity from both sides to increase exponentially.
Then Saudi Arabia’s critical East‑West crude oil pipeline, which transports oil from the Gulf coast to the Red Sea, was struck in a drone attack on Wednesday, hitting a pumping station along the route. The incident occurred just hours after the United States and Iran announced a ceasefire in their ongoing conflict. Damage to the pipeline is currently being assessed, and Saudi Aramco has so far declined to comment publicly. In my opinion this was probably an Israeli attack on the Saudi pipeline in order to sabotage the ceasefire.
Now here we are with Trump declaring “peace” yet again and yet I believe everyone involved knows that this is simply a pause. We also know what the Bible says about the subject and we’ve been watching it play out in front of us in real time! 1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
‘FOR WHEN THEY SAY PEACE AND SAFETY THEN SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMETH UPON THEM…’
Stay ready and keep praying and keep prepping! This isn’t over by a longshot! Be strong in the Lord and the power of HIS might! Ephesians 6:10.
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The move was “subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz,” he wrote on Truth Social.
The announcement came less than two hours before his deadline on Iran to either make a deal that includes opening the Strait of Hormuz or else face major attacks on its civilian infrastructure.
Trump wrote that he made the decision “based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan.”
“This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE!” Trump declared.
The 8 p.m. ET deadline — which Trump set Sunday after demanding in a belligerent social media post that Iran “Open the Fuckin’ Strait” — had caused panic in the U.S. and around the world.
Trump escalated matters dramatically on Tuesday morning, writing in another Truth Social post, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.“
Sharif earlier Tuesday afternoon had asked Trump for a two-week extension of his deadline for Iran. He also asked Iran’s leadership to agree to open up the strait for two weeks “as a goodwill gesture.”
“We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region,” Sharif wrote in an X post.
“We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate,” Trump wrote.
“Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated.”
Iran’s Mehr News Agency later Tuesday posted a statement from the secretariat of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme National Security Council declaring, “the American side, despite all the apparent threats, has accepted these principles as the basis for negotiations and has surrendered to the will of the Iranian people.”
“If the surrender of the enemy in the field becomes a decisive political achievement in the negotiations, we will celebrate this great historical victory together, otherwise we will fight side by side in the field until all the demands of the Iranian nation are achieved,” read a translation of the statement.
Editors Note: While I definitely support the cause of peace I am also very suspect of this deal. Trump and his team are NOT trustworthy as they have proven twice already. We will see how it shakes out but what about Israel? Will Bibi and his far right cabinet agree to this ceasefire or will they do everything in their power to sabotage the deal? Time will tell and I will keep watch as always.
Blessings to you all!
Johnny
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“Should the USA proceed with its threats concerning Iran’s power plant facilities the following retaliatory measures shall be promptly enacted,” warned Zolfaghari. “All power plants, energy infrastructure, and information and communications technology of the Zionist regime, and all similar companies within the region that have American shareholders shall face complete and utter annihilation.”
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See the historic interview of Felicity Arbuthnot with Nobel Laureate Dr. Bernard Lown concerning the Armageddonists in the U.S. State Department. Are they still there? Or are they in the Pentagon?
Would the US Administration really endanger the Entire planet?
Here is a story told to me by Dr.Bernard Lown, one of co-founders of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) during the Reagan era….
I met Bernard Lown in Paris. We sat in dappled Spring sun, at a pavement breakfast café – fresh squeezed orange, coffee, croissants:
“I came back two days ago and went to talk (at the State Department) of the concerns in Moscow. Afterwards, a senior official – a household name (he declined to divulge) walked me to the exit. As we neared the exit, he put his arm round my shoulders: ‘Don’t worry, Professor Lown, if there is a nuclear war, we will be the first ones to rise up and meet Jesus in the sky.’” Lown, used to the vagaries of the unwell, responded: “Tell me, does anyone else in this building feel as you do?”
Oh yes, many of us do.” (emphasis added)
The swathe of “household names”, from the Reagan era, are now in the Bush Administration and the American Enterprise Institute. [And in the Trump Adminstration which has renamed its Defense Department]
The world should be very afraid – or should the physicians in white coats move in?
Should the above statement by Bernard Lown be taken seriously?
Felicity Arbuthnot, October 2007
The Armageddonists are Back? Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon, Trump at the White House
Felicity Arthbuthnot interview with Dr. Bernard Loan in 2007 suggests that’s the Armageddon narrative was already a talking point behind closed doors at the US State Department during the GWB adminstration. .
“The former Fox News host has said that the U.S. was “founded as a Christian nation” and that it “remains a Christian nation in our DNA, if we keep it.” The Washington Post
“On Wednesday, while speaking at a Pentagon Prayer Service, from which Catholics were excluded, Hegseth called for “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy,” asking that “wicked souls” be “delivered to the eternal damnation” in the fight against Iran, a Muslim-majority nation. Some senior military commanders seem to have followed his lead.
Trump Unleashes Threats against Iran. Press Conference. April 6, 2026
Hegseth Says It ‘Takes Money to Kill the Bad Guys’: A Modest $200 Billion
“Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth plans to request that Congress approve $200 billion to fund the war against Iran, on top of the Pentagon’s roughly $1 trillion budget for the current fiscal year”
Hegseth’s “Holy War” against Iran. “Secular Warfare” is Out, “War of Religion” Is In
According to War Secretary Pete Hegseth, the U.S.-Israel war with Iran is a Holy War. “A costly war of religion, namely a $200 Billion push in “defense Is it an attempt to trigger a War of Religion, requiring numerous dismissals of commanding officers.”
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Hegseth held a Christian worship service at the Pentagon, where he prayed for “overwhelming violence of action” against Iran and for “every round to find its mark”.
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During Easter:Defense Secretary PeteHegseth “held a Protestant-only Good Friday service at its in-house chapel, with no Catholic Mass scheduled for one of Christianity’s holiest days.In recent developments”
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Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth faces mounting religious and legal scrutiny after praying publicly for ‘overwhelming violence’ in God’s name, prompting Pope Leo XIV to respond with a Palm Sunday address declaring that Jesus ‘rejects war’ and that God refuses the prayers of those who wage it.
Hegseth Fires Army Chief of Staff Randy George
There is chaos within the ranks of the US military including command structures.
Hegseth is ignorant regarding the complex modalities of modern warfare. He is firing generals and commanding officers at the height of a war with Iran.
The firing of senior military personnel has created divisions within the structures of military command, i.e. a refusal within the senior ranks of the Armed Forces to undertake an all out war with Iran, which would inevitably lead to countless deaths of American service men and women.
The level of incompetence under the leadership of Hegseth is beyond description.
On the same day, General David Hodne, who was set to head the Army Training and Transformation Command in 2025, and Major General William Green Jr., head of the Army Moral Support Command, were also dismissed.
The Atlantic magazine, citing sources close to the White House, reports that Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll may also be dismissed.
Some claims suggest the reason for these dismissals is the commanders’ refusal to follow orders!
Hegseth had previously dismissed more than a dozen high-ranking officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General CQ Brown, Navy Commander Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Air Force Vice Chairman General James Slife, and Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse.
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