Iran Tightens Grip On The Gulf As Mosquito Fleet Bites Foreign Commercial Oil Tankers

 

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi today (12 March 2026) denied reports that Iran was laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Takht-Ravanchi's remarks come days after the US said it had struck multiple Iranian vessels, including 16 minelaying vessels operating near the Strait of Hormuz.

"Some countries have already talked to us about passing the Strait, and we have cooperated with them," the Deputy FM was quoted as saying by AFP. "As far as Iran is concerned, we feel that those countries that joined the aggression should not benefit from safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz."

News sources in the middle east report that India has agreed passage for 28 ships through the strait, but this is not confirmed.

UK Defense Secretary John Healey said the reports had become "clearer and clearer that the Iranians may have started mining in the strait."

 Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba says the closure of the Strait of Hormuz should be continued as a tool to pressure the enemy as reports from Reuters and other international sources suggested Iran has begun marine mine laying operations to further block sea traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

He additionally stated that "all US bases should immediately be closed in the region and those bases should be attacked." 

Attacks on US bases in the Gulf region and as far away as the Mediterranean have been ongoing this week, as the cross Gulf drone and missile strikes continue, most recently in northern Iraq, and around Erbil. 

On the question of base attacks, he claimed that Iran "only" targets military bases and sites, and says this will continue. However, he did try to assure angry Gulf neighbors, who have been pummeled by Iranian missiles and drones for close to two weeks now, that Iran believes in "friendship with our neighbors". 

The message, which may have been released in response to reports that the Ayatollah had been seriously injured in a bomb strike and was in a coma, further praises 'martyrs' of the Islamic Republic and is one that emphasizes Iran is not backing down, despite the immense daily US-Israeli bombings so the economic outlook for the west is grim as we face a months long oil and energy crisis. 

He also 'thanked' regional militias for their 'support' - at a moment Shia Iraq militant groups are said to be launching strikes on US targets inside neighboring Iraq. Ominously, the new Ayatollah is warning of opening "other fronts". 

Elsewhere in The Gulf two oil tankers were struck overnight in the Gulf asas Iran intensified its attacks on foreign ships across the region. The vessels were reportedly hit by small, fast, remote-controlled boats on Iran's Mosquito Fleet, in effect marine drones laden with explosives. The attack took place in Iraqi waters, with footage showing one of the tankers ablaze.

Picture: screen grab from AFP

Iraqi authorities said oil Iraqi ports had “completely stopped” operations following the attack, hours after Donald Trump insisted the United States had already won the war.

The attacks sent oil prices soaring  on Thursday, with crude hitting more than $100 (£80) a barrel, despite record releases of strategic crude reserves to dampen one of the worst oil shocks since the 1970s. New threats of an attack on Iran's vital Kharg Island oil terminal by  Trump have been taken as proof that the US leadership has gone mad. 

The two tankers - carrying cargos of extremely flammable naphtha and condensate,  - were attacked while present in loading area.Tanker ZEFYROS was scheduled to head to Khor Al-Zubair Port on March 12 to load additional 30,000 tons shipment of naphtha. This incident negatively affects Iraq’s security and economy and also represents a threat to safety of maritime navigation and oil activities within Iraqi territorial waters, SOMO says.

According to an Iraqi port official speaking to the Reuters news agency, authorities have successfully evacuated 25 crew members from the two ships. Despite these efforts, the fires have remained ablaze on both vessels.

One tanker, which was flying a foreign flag, is believed to be American, though its specific nationality has not been confirmed. The attack took place within Iraq’s territorial waters, but no group has claimed responsibility for the incident.

It turns out that perhaps the area is not as "safe" as President Trump said it was. And as a reminder, the US Navy already said it was 'too dangerous' to escort tankers through still.

As a result of these hits on tankers, Iraq one of the first Persian Gulf majors to start reducing oil production after the near-closure of Hormuz, closed its oil ports,  followed by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as Iran tightened its grip on the entrance to the Gulf. The cuts forced forced the International Energy Agency to act with a co-ordinated release of 400 million barrels — a historic drawdown that is significantly higher than the volume that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Oil prices are surging higher on the news with WTI back above $91 - now up on the week and 20% higher than yesterday's lows.

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Zika Virus Threatens Rio Olympics As WHO Declares Global Emergency

Zika carrying mosquito (Image source)

This could just be another jolly jape for the fear and panic industry, remember Swine Flu, Bird Flu, SARS, MRSA, Mad Cow Disease, AIDS, the hole in the ozone layer, the new ice age, nuclear war or any of the other things that were going to kill us but didn't?

After an inauspicious start when it was discovered in the heart of Ugandan forest about sixty years ago to mysterious genetically-modified Mosquitoes in Brazil, the latest existential threat to humanity (most notably to pregnant women who get infected) is the ominous-sounding Zika virus.

The epidemic is spreading rapidly from its epicenter near the place where genetically modified mosquitos created for the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation were released into the wild in Brazil, thus threatening disaster at the Olympics with female athletes being advised to "consider participation very carefully", to Colombia (with 2100 pregnant women infected), and further north in America with CDC confirming 6 cases in Texas.

Now above you have a perfect example of how the fear-and-panic industry works, its purpose being to sustain the power elites in power by keeping us so scared we will believe only the government can protect us from the many threats we are exposed to every day of our lives.

But consider (very carefully), while Zika poses a serious threat that women who become infected in the early stages of pregnancy will give birth to babies with microcephaly (a very small head, probably accompanied by developmental problems)how is that a threat to women athletes in the Olympic games. Those competitors haven't dedicated themselves for years to achieving excellence in their chosen sport just so they can get pregnant at the Olympic games.

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“A causal relationship between Zika virus infection and birth malformations and neurological syndromes … is strongly suspected. [These links] have rapidly changed the risk profile of Zika, from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions.

“WHO is deeply concerned about this rapidly evolving situation for 4 main reasons: the possible association of infection with birth malformations and neurological syndromes; the potential for further international spread given the wide geographical distribution of the mosquito vector; the lack of population immunity in newly affected areas; and the absence of vaccines, specific treatments, and rapid diagnostic tests […] The level of concern is high, as is the level of uncertainty.”

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"You may say that, I could not possibly comment." as the saying goes.

Even though the virus poses no great threat to human adults or children other than pregnant women, the BBC reports, an alarming mixture of confusion and fear is blighting the pregnancies of thousands of women across this teeming tropical city in the northeast of Brazil, and wherever else the Zika virus has infected people. And the conspiracy theories have not even started yet.


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Zika Virus Outbreak Centred On Area Where GM Mosquitos Were Released In 2015 - Why Are We Not Surprised

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Zika virus carrying mosquito - another Pentagon weaponised virus experiment gone wrong (Image source)

Just as it was new media that broke the story of the Ebola / US Department of Defense link last year (Why does the DARPA bological Warfare Agency need a patent on the virus and why did The Pentagon and a US University have a research team in Africa working on genetically modifying the virus? - links below this article) so a link between American GM scientists and the latest 'deadly pandemic' health scare, Zika virus has been exposed.

Here's an article exposing the epicentre of the Zika epidemic as the region of Brazil where only last year, Genetically Modified mosquito zapping mosquitos were released into the environment. The idea was the GM mozzies would mate with wild mosquitos but their offspring would be sterile, ergo no more baby mosquitos. Initially the scientists claimed succcess in reducing mosquito numbers. And then it all went wrong. Well biologists are all idiots with a God comolex of course, they never consider for a moment that science and the people who worship it, anything less omnipotent and infallible. The flaw in their grand design is a thing called evolution.

Zika Virus Outbreak Centred On Area Where GM Mosquitos Were Released In 2015 - Why Are We Not Surprised

I've never met a scientist yet who understands evolution. Why? Because to understand evolution you'd have to accept the supremacy on nature. And science tits are genetically incapable of admitting anything is cleverer than them.

And which socipoathic science nerd do you think was behind this insane plan?

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