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Sunday, April 12, 2026

Trump's Plan To Blockade Iran's Blockade Of The Strait Of Hormuz Is Not Impossible, Just Crazy


If the end goal is to restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz to pre-war levels, then I can't understand what Potus is doing
The US navy can wrestle control of the Strait of Hormuz from Iran  Credit: Alex Brandon/AP

President Trump’s latest pronunciations on the conflict with Iran makes it clear that he is going to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.  With peace negotiations having hit the brick wall of Islamist intransigence almost as soon as they had got under way, this is the latest power move to wrestle control of the Strait back off Iran, where it currently resides.

“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. At some point, we will reach an ‘ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT’ basis” Trump ranted on Truth Social.

A blockade on a blockade, is certainly something we don't come acros often. Though it sounds illlogical in practical terms such a move would not be difficult. The US will have excellent situational awareness of all ships coming and going, their details, and most likely whether or not they have either been given a free pass by Iran or have paid at the toll booth, so the US Navy could prevent vessels approaching the strait from the Indian Ocean and also stop ships leaving The Persian Gulf via the strait..

However any attempt to [blockade] Iran would necessitate the use of force to prevent Indian, Chinese and Russian ships from entering Iranian harbors.
 
At the same time, a blockade of Iran would represent a total U-turn from America’s tactics in recent weeks, and necessitate lifting sanctions on Russian and even Iranian oil, in order to avoid a catastrophic cutoff of global energy supplies and an ensuing economic depression.
 
In the unlikely event that the US proceeds with a blockade, the entire rest of the world would focus its ire on the US. NATO would collapse. Japan and Korea would see that the US is a nihilistic monster, indifferent to their economic destruction and looming starvation and the dollar exchange rate would crash.
 

The US government has well and truly backed itself into a corner. Given its established habit of doubling down on what didn’t work, all one can foresee is more feckless bombing of Iran — which will not open the Strait.    

 FROM THE ARCHIVE:

 

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Saturday, April 11, 2026

Outrage at UN As Western Democracies Democracies Elect Iran, China, Cuba to Oversee Human Rights Bodies

 

In a move that has been described as 'beyond outrageous,' representatives of the Islamo-Nazi governments of several nations laughingly known as 'Western Liberal Democracies', including the UK and Netherlands, this week saw fit to nominate the sadistic, misogynistic, fascistic, theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran for a place on a United Nations committee overseeing a programme which shapes policy for human rights, women’s rights and terrorism prevention. WTF?

If this action by governments known for their committment to crackpot 'woke' ideologies, international law and the rules based world order is intended as an insult to Donald Trump it is likely to backfire as Tump has already announced his is considering pulling the USA out of the UN. NATO members promoting regimes Trump has already earmarked for 'regime change' to more influential roles in that organisation and withouth American funding the United Nations would be bankrupt.

UNwatch.com comments, ”On Wednesday, the UN’s 54-nation Economic and Social Council nominated the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN’s Committee for Program and Coordination, which meets next month to shape policy on women’s rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention. ECOSOC’s nomination is effectively decisive, as the UN General Assembly customarily rubber-stamps such nominations without a vote.
In addition, ECOSOC by acclamation elected China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan to the influential Committee on NGOs, which oversees the work, accreditation and UN access of thousands of human rights and civil society groups that enjoy consulative status at the world body.
The United States was the only ECOSOC member to object, saying that Iran, Cuba and Nicaragua were “unfit.”

UN Watch today called on all democratic ECOSOC member states — Canada, France, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, the UK, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, and Finland — to explain why they joined in the election of serial abusers of human rights and regimes which treat women as chattels and slaves to key UN bodies that oversee human rights.

Issues which are addressed by this U.N. committee:

Gender Equality & Empowerment of Women 
Disarmament
Human Rights
Terrorism Prevention.

All are subperbly qualified for a role on the committee because they have such a great track record of treating citizens and their human rights respectfully over there, as we all know. Where other than Iran can a woman be publicly stoned for disobeying her husband, where other than Saudi Arabia are they so scrupulously fair about publicly beheading a woman guilty of adultery that they insist on beheading her lover as well?

FROM THE ARCHIVE:
 

 

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“Appointing China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia to oversee the work of human rights activists is like putting Al Capone in charge of fighting organized crime. It’s truly indefensible, and puts lives at risk.” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.  

"As an organization accredited with special NGO consultative status at the United Nations, and which regularly gives a platform to dissidents from China, Cuba, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Nicaragua, we are gravely concerned that brutal dictatorships were elected to oversee our work and credentials — and it is scandalous that Western democracies put them there. 

 “This means dictatorships will have a majority on the committee in order to deny United Nations accreditation to independent organizations that call out their human rights violations, and to accredit more fake front groups created by the regimes,” Neuer said. 

The inclusion of such third world tyrannies with absolutely horrific records on human rights damages the credibility of people in the west that are pushing for liberalisation and democratisation of human rights abusing dictayorships, harms the ability of pro-democracy dissidents within those countries to protect the most vulnerable victims and to advocate for human rights inside the United Nations.  

By their ill considered and politically motivated actions at the UN, major Western states have betrayed their own human rights principles, severely undermining the ruled-based international order that they claim to support. It is notable that all the western nations voting for the expansion of human rights violation have far left governments and therefore it is likely their actions were an infantile attempt to anger Donald Trump. Unfortunately the self righteousness of these idiots prevented them to giving a few seconds thought to how their dislike of Trump might affect the lives of thousands of people living under oppressive regimes.

It is not so long ago that these same western nations united to block Russia from getting elected to similar ECOSOC bodies, so there can be no other reason they failed to do the same now to stop the election of serial violators such as Iran, China, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan,” when in fact Russia's human rights record is no worse than any of those.

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The reaction is a mixture of horror and sanctimonious revulsion; one individual says she is "genuinely a little disgusted to live in a country where 27% of voters voted for UKIP". In that case, my advice for her would be to take advantage of the freedom of movement within the EU and vote with her feet.
Humanitas

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Friday, April 10, 2026

Iran Weaponises The Strait of Hormuz Against The Petrodollar

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The PetrodollAr system has propped up the US economy for 50 years - picture: sbcgold.com

In spite of the very fragile ceasefire in the conflict between the USA / Israel alliance and Iran, the theocratic regime of the Muslim nation has opened a new front in the war by weaponising the Strait of Hormuz against The Petrodollar. 

Having made ths strait a de facto toll gate at the entrance to the Persian Gulf, the Irania's are demanding that commercial vessels pay hefty transit fees in yuan or Bitcoil, according to multiple reports form news organisations in the middle east. As well as signalling a further deepening of Chinese-Iranian economic cooperation it brings a new dimension to Ian's asymmetric warfare. A huge proportion of the world's hydrocarbons supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz and signififant reductions in shippping movments will trigger a global crisis.

China, Russia and Iran along with their BRICS partners have been threatening currency wars with the aim of replacing or at least offering a serious rival to the US Dollar as the primary global reserve curency. 

For years, Russia and the two Asian allies have accused Washington of using the dollar's dominance in global trade as a weapon, imposing sanctions and inflicting economic pain on rivals through the dollar-dominated financial system.

Now the ongoing war aound The Gulf - and lets not fool ouselves that the current ceasefire wil turn into lasting peace - is forcing a fundamental reassessment of the petrodollar system that has underpinned US financial hegemony for decades. This informal arrangement, in which Gulf oil producers price crude in dollars and reinvest revenues in US assets, emerged as a cornerstone of American economic power in the 1970s and has held since then. But with the US-Israeli campaign against Iran now in its second month, the strait’s uncertain fate is raising urgent questions about whether that order can survive. 

Iran has so far managed to withstand the US-Israeli attack and inflict some damage on Israel and US allies around The Gulf, even after significant casualties aming its leadership, and has been able to assert strategic control over the Strait of Hormuz. Thus they have added a currency war to the shooting war.

This means Iran has been able to insist it will only accept  payment for pasage through the strait in Chinese Yuan or crypto currencies, particularly in relation to oil transit through the Strait of Hormuz. At least two vessels have so far settled the transit fees in Yuan via a Chinese maritime services company which is acting as an intermediary and handling payment to the Iranian authorities.

This is a significant even though analysts debate if it can ultimately become decisive in the longer run. The de-dollarisation rhetoric has emanated from China, Russia, Iran and their BRICS partners for years, without materialising into meaningful change. Now, if one of the vital choke points through which one-fifth of the world's petroleum passes becomes conditional on currency denomination that is meaningful. 

The practical consequence, even if it was partially adopted, would be a bifurcated global oil market. One where yuan-denominated barrels flowing through Hormuz for payment in China's currency in the Chinese payment system CIPS ( Cross-Border Interbank Payment System) and dollar-denominated barrels are rerouted at a high additional cost and time for those who are not using Chinese currency. 

Further, Iran is employing a broader mechanism employing informal transactions in cryptocurrency to effectively circumvent the US financial system. Wang Yiwei, director of the Institute of International Affairs at Renmin University, said that the yuan-for-passage is more likely to gain international acceptance than a complete blockade. 

Of far more concern to banks and businesses in the west if oil shipments through the strait are to be transacted in currencies other than the dollar, particularly the Chinese yuan and the Iranian rial the  Gulf states, driven by security concerns, begin to distance themselves from the dollar-based energy trade, the ripple effects could be profound: reduced demand for the greenback, waning appetite for US Treasury debt, and a gradual erosion of the dollar’s reserve currency status. 

FROM THE ARCHIVE: 

 

Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Does Trump's Crazy Rhetoric Suggest He Plans To Nuke Iran?

 

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Nuclear explosion (Picture - adobe stock image )

American President Donald Trump inexplicably gambled the future of the world and his own political legacy on achieving regime change in Iran. From last summer's first shouts in the campaign to replace the theocratic regime this blog warned that Iran was not some third world failed state which could easily be rolled over. 

Now Trump's Iran gamble, which was always a risky bet, is poised on a knife edge, the Iranian's have so far given as good as they get in terms of air and drone strikes, have invoked asymmetric warfare by weaponising the Strait of Hormuz through which, when shipping can move freely through it, approximately a quarter of the worlds oil, natural gas and petroleum products are distributed.. 

At first, in the opening days of the current round of hostilities most conservative opinion in the USA was behind Trump but currently, five weeks into the war, it is getting harder to find commentators who are backing him to the hilt. Even some of his more usually supportive backers are getting cold feet. Andrew Day in American Conservative is worried that Trump might use nukes in Iran:

A new rhetorical theme emerged last week, when Trump threatened to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages”. The phrase is associated with Curtis LeMay, who served as Air Force chief of staff during the Vietnam war. LeMay is known for something else too: his promotion of nuclear weapons and complaint that Americans had a “phobia” of using them.

Trump doesn’t seem to share that deranged perspective, but nuclear anxieties are growing thanks to his belligerence. Two weeks ago, a United Nations representative resigned from his post and leaked the disturbing information that “the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran”. Days earlier, officials from the World Health Organisation told Politico they were worried about a possible nuclear attack.

If Trump decides to go further and actually push the big red button, at least one of his main advisors likely wouldn’t object. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has echoed Trump’s threat to send Iran back to the Stone Age, and he says US armed forces should aim for “maximum lethality, not tepid legality”. 

As Trump's threats and claims have become crazier day by day it looks as if nuclear is on the agenda. Many American commentators think there is a strong likelihood the US will use a nuclear weapon. Who is going to object? America's NATO allies in the UK and Europe have surrendered the right to do that because of the way they hve distanced themselves from the whole escapade. Russia and China are Iran's allies but it is unlikely they would risk all out war with The USA over Iran. Both would probably instigate moves to have America censured by theUnited Nations and then take a PR advantage of the situation since their leadership is not crazy like ours is (in the US). 

There is no certainty that the Iranians, like the Japanese will surrender should the US use a weapon of mass destruction, more likely they would retreat and allow a US occupation and then wage guerilla warfare for years, knowing that the American public do not like US soldiers returning home in body bags. 

Will there be someone in the US government able to stop such a thing? We shall see. This is an existential struggle for Iran but also for the American global hegemony. If the US allows Iran to win that would be the beginning of the end of the Petrodollar Empire as many are predicting.

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Monday, April 06, 2026

If Trump Carries Out His Threat To Quit NATO Will That Be The End Of The Alliance?

 

Though the US President's threats to blow up Iran's oil and gas gacilities and destroy the country's entire infrastructure can be take with a pich of salt because Iran's allies, Russia and China, are unlikely to sit back and let that happen, his warning that the US could pull out of NATO should shock even the most complacent and anti-American elements on tEurope's political left.

Mr Trump has reportedly raised the issue in private discussions with White House aides in recent days, and on Wednesday confirmed that he was ‘absolutely’ reviewing membership.

There are a number of valid reasons why it would serve US interests to do this. The global reach of US military power and the fact that the USA brings weapons and tactics to NATO that no other country has, or is ever likely to have being the main one. With American backing, NATO has credibility in its deterrent fuction (we must remember that the purpose of forming NATO in 1945 was to defend Europe angaist any future rebirth of Nazi style totalitarian ideology,) with its whole defensive strategy being built on defensive capabilities and will to usethose capabilities.

Without the USA the only remaining defensive capability is in the nuclear sphere because of the independent British and French arsenals. In terms of conventional warfare NATO would be a toothless guard dog because leadership in member states has been content to let the USA be the world's peacekeeper, while British and French governments chose to neglect national security in favour of politically correct, virtue signalling policies and vanity projects. An aggressor could well, therefore, be tempted to take actions that fell short of the use, or riposte, of weapons of mass destruction. A Russian incursion into a non-Nato state, for example, Bosnia and Herzegovina or Moldova; or even a limited incursion in the Baltic, either on land or at sea. And financially of course, without the money Washington throws in NATO would be bankrupt.

President Trump's threat to NATO came as the latest in a sereies of contemptuous responses to the failure of traditional allies to give their support to the US/Israeli war on Iran. Foremost in his targets for criticism was UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, with whom his disappointment, first over his refusal allow US bombers to use the joint base on Diego Garcia and the RAF bases in Cyprus and at Fairford in Gloucestershire for strikes on Iran, and over Starmer’s reluctance to deploy the Royal Navy to defend the shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz, and then his refusal to take part in re-opening the Strait of Hormuz. France’s preference for diplomacy over action has irked him too.

Whether or not this outburst was more than a mark of his frustration with unappreciative allies or a wake-up call to NATO member states rather than a than genuine threat, it still suggests an alarming failure on his part to understand what NATO is and is not;

Bringing home 100,000 troops already on the US taxpayer rolls is a political winner. Losing command positions in an outdated, unattended, organization doesn't seem like a loss, just a matter of course. And upon pulling out of NATO, the US understands old alliances will be lost, but if those allies are only interested in a one sided alliance in which the USA defends freedom against tyranny while the allies whose security benefits from US strength make trade deals with America's enemies, there is no point in the US continuing to be part of NATO. 

The morale boosting of being stationed in Europe is not what it used to be (unless some diplomatic post) and will soon carry the same weight as being stationed in Iraq. Yesterday (Good Friday 2026) we saw British leaders praising sitting down with muzzies, and a few days ago Britain's monarch (who has allegedly converted to Islam,) lauding a Muslim leader who is presiding over a genocide of Christians in his homeland. No surprise then that the United Nations is considering a global ban on criticism of Islam.

This begs the question how long will it be until Great Britain, Germany, or France become just another Muslim country with a nuke. Europe is a sinking ship, recruiting more and more basket case states like Albania to the European Union to drag down even powerhouse economies like Germany

 The conflict in Ukraine, which NATO could have prevented had any leader including Trump's predecessor, ben able to muster the Testicular Fortitude to stand up to both Moscow, and the neo - Nazi regime in Kiev, was a money laundering scheme from the outset and is only an issue because of weak, appeasing, governments that lack the will to act. So what, hypothetically is lost if Ukraine is lost? The great have always swallowed up the lesser. 

The Russians have no room or reason to laugh as they send their personnel, their people, to the slaughtered in Ukraine. Why is it--how is Russia such a problem if Europe keeps funding Russia for Russian energy? Does Europe fear a Russian invasion? Why? China never feared NATO as they do the other treaty/blocs formed by the US, Japan, SKorea, Australia, et. al. 

 And what's "funny", just like Russia, China probably sees the European betrayal of American interests as "funny". Is Europe a federal nation of semi autonomous states, or a continent made up of individual nationalities? No one seems to know and that seems the point all along.

Its not just NATO, and the United Nations that would be bankupt without American support, it's the WHO, IMF, all of these international organizations that have lost sight of their original purpose and meanings, and are now a gigantic anti-American bureaucraxy with ambitions to become a global government, and yet find themselves incapable of survival without US taxpayer dollars.

Should the US taxpayer pay eternally for anti-American behavior? For alliances that like to virtue signal their opposition to America?

If Trump quits both NATO and the UN both will die and nations will be forced to make alliances and trade arrangements with geographic neighbours and nations of similar economic and cultural development instead of bureaucrats from third world failed states being allowed to jerk the strings of successful, socially and economically devloped nations.

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Sunday, April 05, 2026

Trump's Rant About Iran's Obliterated Air Defences, Navy And Ability To Pursue The War Was Quickly Shot Down

 

by Arthur Foxake, 5 Aprul 2026

Donald Trump said that unless Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz, 'they won't have any power plants and they won't have any bridges standing'
Donald Trump said that unless Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz, ‘they won’t have any power plants and they won’t have any bridges standing’ Credit: Alex Brandon/A

In a bad tempered rant laden with expletives Donald Trump has threatened to strike more of Iran’s critical infrastructure if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened by Tuesday.

Ludicrously claiming Iran's air defences had been obliterated on a weekend when at least three American aircraft were shot down by those 'obliterted' air defences did nothing at all to boost the President's credibility, not that he had much of that left anyway. 

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one ... Open the f---ing strait, you crazy b-----rds, or you’ll be living in hell – just watch! Praise be to Allah,” Trump ranted on Truth Social.

This latest threat is likely to have exactly as much effect on the people Trump only days ago called 'the new, more reasonable regime, as all his previous ones. Closing the sea entrance to The Persian Gulf was always Iran's secret weapon since the regime seized control of the vital waterway at the start of the conflict, only allowing ships from friendly countries to sail through it.

The US president previously gave Tehran a 10-day window to agree to a deal to end the war and reopen the strait. When that deafline passed  he appeared to extend that deadline to “Tuesday, 8:00 PM” in a social media post and insisted a deal with Tehran could still be struck as soon as Monday.

We can only wait to see what happens on Tuesday when the strait remains closed.

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) has said that they can sustain the Strait of Hormuz closure for years and will cut US military logistics, a senior security official told Iranian broadcaster Press TV, citing the sea-based supply of regional American bases.

Though the 2026 crisis has so far affected mainly The Gulf States and east Asian nations, if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened it will eventually hit Europe harder than a couple of years of the special military operation. Europe has become the main victim of the US /Isreali coalition’s war with Iran, and it is preparing for the worst period since 2022, as well as sharply increased fuel costs.

The data is interim, but with oil rising by $20-30 (for example, from $85 to $110, which has been observed over the past couple of weeks) and the EU’s oil imports at around 10 mbpd, daily spending increases by $200-300 million per day. This will result in €70-100 billion in additional oil costs by the end of the year.

Even without extreme peaks, the growth of LNG contracts and spot prices gives +10–20% to the current base – or €40–70 billion of additional costs. Thus, with Europe's energy infrsstructure already at crisis point due to the obsessive pursuit of Net Zero, energy losses alone will amount to €110–170 billion.The rise in energy prices leads to a decline in industrial performance. This primarily affects the chemical, metallurgical, and fertilizer industries. 

But the financial crisis will be worse than the energy crisis

In a moderate scenario, they could fall by 5-15% (underproduction and capacity conservation), which would result in a loss of €120-200 billion in industrial output. Additionally, the side effects of inflation would result in another €80-120 billion in losses due to domestic demand. The decline in indices (STOXX 600) by 6-10% per month (according to Reuters) is not only a concern for speculators, who would lose €800 billion to €1.2 trillion on paper. 

There is also a real effect, underinvestment. It will amount to €50-100 billion.Even without an extreme scenario, Europe will have to unearth its budgets to compensate for prices and support industry. It all depends on generosity, but €50-100 billion in additional expenses can be seen.In general, the total losses of the EU from the US war in Iran will amount to €410-690 billion by the New Year. Because even if the war ends quickly, many of the Gulf’s production facilities have already been destroyed, and key LNG infrastructure will take a year or more to repair. 

This means that energy prices will not drop to their previous levels. Additionally, if Trump continues to wage war, with oil prices exceeding \$120 and gas prices fluctuating, the EU’s net losses could exceed a trillion euros per year. By the way, from the beginning of the special military operation to Iran, the transition to new energy rails and the associated production problems (the German company BASF has shut down in Germany and moved to China), the EU’s total losses were estimated at €2.0-2.4 trillion in cumulative economic effects. 

This includes overpayments for energy (€700-900 billion), reduced production (€600-800 billion), and subsidies (€650-750 billion).Europe has lost about €2+ trillion of economic resources over the past 3-4 years, and the damage could exceed a trillion per year. The situation has become worse because energy has become structurally expensive, rather than temporarily expensive. 

In fact, Europe is transitioning to a new model of expensive and not always physically accessible energy, with the relocation of energy-intensive industries outside the EU (deindustrialization) and an increased dependence on imports. This includes not only energy but also energy-intensive goods. 

When the reality of all this finally dawns on European virtue-signalling-obsessed leaders it will be too late for them to staep back from this journey to civilisational suicide they have put their countries on. 

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Saturday, April 04, 2026

In A Crazy War When The Best Option Is Retreat The Choice Will Always Be Escalate

 

People are asking how we got into this crazy war that now threatens to spiral out of control and affect us all materially even if our homelands are ot directly involved in the fighting. 

The narative peddled by the American / Israeli lobby to the Gulf Cooperation Couci (GCC) states and Iraqi government (as confessed by that Iraqi MP) was based on the premise that Iran would fall within 3 days, after they killed Khamenei, there’d be a regime change, various rebels and pro-westerners would take over – basically it’d be a cakewalk like Venezuela. That’s how they got the Gulf States on board with the plan to attack Iran. 
 
Simply put, it was a failure of deterrence by Iran. Iran was too soft and was seen as weak by its enemies. To succeed in deterrence, getting nukes would be one method. Shutting up reformists who kept messaging they want to surrender would be another. In fact Iran need never have had a problem getting nukes, in the 1980s I worked for several years in the UK nuclear industry, and in the organisation that employed me (as a computer specialist) we had a number of Iranian scientists who had been working in britain and decided to stay when the Ayatollahs took over.

These guys were highly regarded by their British, French and American colleagues ,and I ;earned in conversation with senior managers that having them on board was regared as a major success by our governments. The Iranias were ahead of us in nuclear research, perhaps because they focused on practicalities rather than getting bogged down in Science - Fiction inspired theories. There were plenty of equally talented scientists who did not get out of Iran, and maybe did not want to. But they had their own nuclear research facilities, their oil provided the money to fund research and they had the people to develop nuclear weapons, directed energy beam weapons and much more.

So why did Iran not develop these technologies for defence purposes when, for almost 50 years western gvernments had been demonising the theocratic,authoritarian regime? We can only speculate, but while we know Iran has been a major sponsor of terrorism, acts of violence and destruction are attributable nly to the terrorist groups rather than Iran itself.  
 
The scenarios incorporated into the propaganda narative justifying recent attacks on Iran, arms race, Iran going nuclear, threat to western interests, developing an aerial dfence shield etc doesn’t matter. Other than the fact that despite the claims made for 'renewables' by green loons, the world still runs on hydrocarbons, there are no valid reasons why western governments have been fearful of Iran.

As for asymmetrical attacks? Same idea. Failure of deterrence, Iran's regime could have closed the Strait of Hormuz whenever it wished, but they didn't. So  the US government is not deterred, they convince themselves Iran is too scared of US military power to hold the global economy to ransome. But Washington gambled that  Iran would not close the Strait of Hormuz and strangle their own economy, and the Ayatollahs called their bluff.

A planned vote at the UN Security Council on a draft resolution authorizing the “use of force” in the Strait of Hormuz has been abruptly postponed, exposing deep divisions among major powers over how to respond to complications arising from the imposed war on Iran.

The draft, submitted by Bahrain and backed by the United States in UNSC, would further escalate the US-Israeli war on Iran. However, the delay, officially attributed to the Good Friday holiday, comes despite the predetermined voting day, raising questions about underlying political disagreements.

China has warned that authorizing such measures risks further escalation, while Russia has denounced the text as “biased”, signaling potential obstacles to its authorization.

Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron dismissed the idea of a military operation in the strait as unrealistic, cautioning that it would be prolonged and expose global shipping to greater danger.Other NATO members feel the same.

With no new vote date announced and veto threats looming, the future of the resolution remains uncertain, highlighting the growing complexity the US has created at a critical global energy chokepoint.”

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Friday, April 03, 2026

Iran - US Peace Talks Dead - Well We All Knew They Were Stillborn

 by Arthur Foxake, 3 April 2026

Peace talks between the US and Iran aimed at ending the middle east conflict and reopening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping have reached a “dead end”, mediators have said. A spokesman for theThe Islamic Republic regime told negotiators from third-party countries attempting to mediate negotiations that US demands were “unacceptable”, according to The Wall Street Journal. Tehran said it was unwilling to meet US officials in Pakistan in the coming days as planned.

Islamabad had hosted initial talks to end the Gulf war alongside foreign ministers from Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, which were never attended by the US, Israel or Iran.Officials from Turkey and Egypt are still considering new venues for talks, including Doha or Istanbul, and are also looking at fresh proposals to overcome the deadlock, according to the mediators.

Negotiations have stalled since Donald Trump, the US president, presented Tehran with a 14-point peace plan that was deemed unrealistic by the Iranian regime.

Iran has now gained leverage for its negotiating position by closing the entrance to the Persian Gulf and disrupting global oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

Though Trump is making ridiculous claims about ending the war and having crushed Iran, the US that is more keen on a peace deal as Iran has the advantage here, and to the Ayatollahs who lead that country every war is a holy war and they are never going to meekly roll over. 

Trump can bomb them back to the stone age which would be a war crime since it targets civilians, but that will take a lot of bombs and a lot of time because Iran has a huge land area. However provided Iran can fire the odd drone or missile or launch a small, fast, heavily armed boat from its mosquito fleet periodically at tankers in The Gulf, no insurance will be possible and the Strait of Hormuz remains shut. 

With Russia and China supporting Iran with weapons and technology the greatet risk of escalation for the USA is that, having seen the weakness of the western alliance, the BRICS powers might just decide the opportunity to destroy American economic dominance is too good to miss.  

The west can expect elevated gas, food and oil prices for a long time, government debt will become more expensive, living costs - already at crisis level due to misguided Net Zero policies - will continue to rise and the global economy will be plunged into recession. 

There is now no way out of this for Trump without regime change  and though he claimed the reigime had been destroyed the old guard are still in place, this is why the USA needs a negotiated peace. The only other way to end the war os a land invasion which requires hundreds of thousands of troops and offers no gurantee of success. There would be a 50 / 50 chance of another forever war like Iraq, Aghanistan or \vietnam. 

The White House and The Pentagon have miscslculated badly here, this blog warned Iran would be no pushover and most military experts said the same. The tolerance for pain from the regime is much greater than  Western poplations are prepared to put up with. I am no fan of the Islamists and have felt for a long time that Iran's theocratic regime needed to be dealt with however this is not going to end well for Trump or the global economy  

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Tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced due to 'humanitarian' interventions by the developed nations (led by the USA, France and the UKm the FUKUS axis) in the domestic politics of third world nation. Usually the interventions support rebel groups who if they came to power would be far more oppressive and brutal regime than the one they replaced.

Hypocrite David Cameron defends selling arms to outrageous Saudi regime
Not only have Hypocrite David Cameron's government been caught out giving technical support to the appalling Saudi Arabian regime of head amputators, The House Of Saud, they are very eager to sell armaments to the regimes which violates human rights in ways even Pol Pot could not imagine.

Loud Trump Resonates Throughout America - Boggart Abroad
I don't know why the politically correct left are getting so worked up about The Trump, American politics is even more tightly controlled by big money than the European system, and the really big money (Golman Sachs, J P Morgan, Soros and company) are not going to let him win. It would upset thrir buddies in Saudi Arabia too much.

US Presidents Of The Past warned Against Secret, Shadow Government. By now it should be obvious that peacemake, joybringer and putative aquatic pedestrian Barack Hussein Obama was never really in charge of the US Government. Whatever Obama said would happen, all the American government's policies ensured the opposit would happen. The embedded article thows some light on how the US government really works

Teacher Forced To Resign For 'Sharing' Material Critical Of Obama And His Beloved Muslim Terrorists
The supporters of the wannabe King of the American Empire like to describe themselves as 'liberal', 'progressive', and left wing. If they were really any of those things they would not be as fanatically committed to the idea of suppressing free speech as they are.

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