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🇮🇷 How Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Tolls Accelerate De-dollarization
American media report that Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a toll passage - charging ships for safe passage and accepting only yuan or digital currencies instead of dollars.
Iran is enacting new regulations
— The Iranian National Security Committee has approved a bill to impose tolls on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
The system works as follows:
— Ship operators contact an intermediary linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
— They provide ship details: ownership, flag, cargo, destination, crew, and Automatic Identification System (AIS) data.
— The intermediary sends the information to the Hormozgan IRGC Naval Command.
— Background checks ensure no connections to Israel, the United States, or other countries designated as enemies by Iran.
— Paying the toll grants ships a route and a secret code to request patrol escort through the strait.
— Iran uses a ranking from one to five based on countries’ friendliness. Friendlier countries receive better rates starting at about 1 dollar per barrel of oil.
— A very large oil tanker, typically carrying about 2 million barrels of oil, would face a cost of roughly 2 million dollars.
New financial order and the death of the petrodollar
— Why yuan? China is Iran’s largest oil buyer, and using its currency allows Iran to bypass U.S. sanctions.
— Using tolls paid in yuan creates a parallel financial system outside the U.S. dollar.
— Russia took this path after the 2022 sanctions, selling oil exports in yuan, rubles, and other national currencies.
— China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS), an alternative to SWIFT, is operational.
— Both cases show that de-dollarization of the energy market is no longer a theory - it is happening now.
Let me know your thoughts. The ideas written like this are easier to read.
🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya HQ reports that a U.S. F-35 fighter was shot down over central Iran.
Photos of the alleged wreckage have been released.
The markings on the wreckage closely resemble the tail markings (a red stripe and the “U.S. Air Forces in Europe” shield) seen on the F-15E Strike Eagle of the 48th Fighter Wing “Liberty Wing,” based at RAF Lakenheath, England.
However, while the 48th Fighter Wing does operate F-35A Lightning II’s, there are no known photos showing them with the red stripe.
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/180436?single
🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Additional images showing the wreckage of a fighter jet shot down over Iran.
There is some confusion in Iranian media, with both the F-15E and F-35A being mentioned. However, based on the visible features, it appears more consistent with an F-15E.
Waiting for CENTCOM to say it’s fake news.
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/180441?single
I can’t upload the images due to the rate limit and there is just too many photos of the wreckage. You can check the photos by following the links.
Here is the teaser
Preliminary report
If you have any corrections, please add them in the comments so people can check them.
⚡️ Some of the fired American generals:
• General Randy George (Chief of Staff of the Army, Ground Forces)
• Vice Admiral Fred Cucher (Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former Commander of the Seventh Fleet)
• General CQ Brown (former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
• Jeffrey Cruz (Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency)
• Timothy Hogue (Director of National Security Agency and Military Cyber Operations Command) and his deputy Wendy Noble
• Michael Collins and his deputy
• Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield (in charge of representing the United States militarily in NATO and helicopter commander)
• Admiral Lisa Franchetti (first woman to lead the US Navy, and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force) and three senior military lawyers
• Admiral Linda Fagan (Coast Guard Command, first woman to command one of the six branches of the army)
• General James Slife (Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force)
• General Joseph P. Berger III (Judge Advocate General of the Army)
• General Charles Plummer (Judge Advocate General of the Air Force)
• General Jennifer Short (First Military Assistant to the Minister of Defense)
https://t.me/me_observer_TG/890850
Seems to me that Hegseth intends to fill the army of sycophants and yes men. Anyone that doubts the orders of the PDFile Trump and his dogs are getting purged.
Also, the likelihood of a US ground invasion is increasing.
True Promise 4: Iran and resistance axis ops. against US-Israeli assets on [2026-04-02] – PressTV
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I think I’m done testing out the quote-summary thing, it’s a cute way to get past the charlimit but I need the tokens for summoning a force ghost of Samir Amir (it’s terrible don’t do this I just like bashing my head on walls). Since I actually read the articles, proofreading the summaries takes LONGER than extracting key points myself. No apologies for the #slop. Providing the news roundup seems like a complement to the low-latency Telegram updates? Takes time to get into trade stuff anyways. Otherwise it’s just #retweeting but FOSS. Rather than just blasting all the news at this app with the share button and yelling at people (which completely failed to bring a significant number of interesting people out of the woodwork, I got like ten and then it tapered off), rounding out what is already collected here is probably wise. That’s my new #meta not that anyone asked.
🇲🇫🇺🇸🇮🇷 French President Emmanuel Macron:
“The Strait of Hormuz should only be opened in coordination with Iran.
Opening the Strait of Hormuz by force is not an option we have chosen, we consider it unrealistic.”
https://t.me/RezistanceTrench1/47054
Hmmm, maybe paying in Yuan doesn’t sound so bad compared to getting embarrassed by losing soldiers, right Macron?
🇮🇷🇺🇸🇸🇦| New satellite imagery for CNN confirms that Iran successfully struck the US AN/TPY-2 radar at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, some time ago.
@FotrosResistancee
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/20787?single
🇷🇺🇨🇳🇫🇷❌🇧🇭 According to The New York Times, Russia, China, and France blocked an Arab-backed push at the U.N. Security Council to authorize military action against Iran over the Strait of Hormuz.
The resolution, drafted by Bahrain and supported by Gulf states, faces a likely vote Friday, but the three veto powers oppose any use-of-force language.
Divisions also persist among nonpermanent members, making passage uncertain.
Source -> https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/180388
🇺🇸⚔🇮🇷 The Pentagon’s Casualty Numbers Don’t Add Up
According to an investigation by The Intercept (https://theintercept.com/2026/04/01/iran-war-us-casualty-numbers-trump-hegseth/), nearly a month into the U.S. war on Iran, the casualty figures coming out of the Pentagon don’t hold together — and the gaps are getting harder to ignore.
CENTCOM’s official figure as of this week stood at roughly 303 service members wounded since the start of Operation Epic Fury. But that statement was three days old when it was sent, and excluded at least 15 troops injured in a Friday Iranian missile strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. Repeated requests for updated figures went unanswered. The command also refused to provide a death toll. The Intercept’s own tally puts killed-in-action at no fewer than 15, including six soldiers killed in a single drone strike on Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, and one at Prince Sultan Air Base on March 1.
The 303 figure also appears to exclude more than 200 sailors treated for smoke inhalation after a fire aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford, which has since withdrawn for repairs. A separate Iranian drone strike on the Crowne Plaza hotel in Bahrain’s capital on March 2 wounded two Defense Department employees — an incident CENTCOM declined to confirm.
The official figures also exclude contractors entirely. Labor Department data cited by The Intercept shows nearly 12,900 contractor injury cases in the CENTCOM area in 2024 alone — before the Iran war even began — with over 3,700 serious enough to require more than a week away from work, including traumatic brain injuries, and 18 killed. The Intercept flags these numbers to show how much the Pentagon’s public tallies routinely undercount the true human cost of U.S. operations in the region.
Iran has responded to U.S. strikes with ballistic missiles and drones hitting American bases across eight countries: Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the UAE. The tempo has been sufficient to push U.S. troops out of hardened bases and into hotels and office buildings across the region — a situation retired General Joseph Votel, former CENTCOM commander, told The Intercept could compromise command effectiveness and turn civilian infrastructure into military targets. An Iranian strike on a Bahrain hotel has already tested that warning.
🛢 Dated Brent, the physical North Sea crude benchmark, rose above $140 per barrel today, the highest since 2008.
It tracks real cargoes loading 10 to 30 days ahead and is set daily from actual buyer and seller deals by S&P Global Platts.
Brent futures on ICE are paper contracts for delivery months later. They are driven more by speculation and storage costs.
The gap is large. Physical oil is around $141 per barrel while futures are near $109.
This shows tight immediate supply and war risk pricing in the real barrel market while financial pricing lags behind.
Source -> https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/180380
🇺🇸 General Mike Flynn basically calls for a purge of US Military leadership that’s not in line with the Trump Administration.
Member of the Political Bureau of the Ansar Allah movement, Muhammad al-Farrah:
The Strait of Hormuz is what will lift the siege and sanctions on Iran.
Certainly, Bab al-Mandab is no less significant than Hormuz, and the countries of aggression are not stronger than America. All credit belongs to God, first and last.
Hopefully soon.
Team, is this a #redherring? Is this something that happens with depleted uranium in explosives? I am not a weapons expert/material scientist/physicist/crank.
@loffredojeremy: What do you think about enriched uranium being found in soil collected from the site of the September 2024 strike in Beirut’s Dahieh suburb that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah? Enriched uranium was confirmed by two different labs using two different methods. One lab being a lab used by the UK Ministry of Defense.
💠 Breaking | An advanced enemy fighter was hit and crashed in Qeshm
Public Relations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps:
🔹 Following the false claim by the lying US president about the complete destruction of the IRGC’s air defense, moments ago an advanced enemy fighter in the south of Qeshm Island was hit by the IRGC Navy’s new advanced air defense system and under the control of the country’s integrated air defense network.
🔹 This fighter crashed between Hengam Island and Qeshm Island and sank into the depths of the Persian Gulf waters.
Video in https://t.me/sepahnewsir403/12448 !!!
Edit. If anyone wants to know how ADs hit fighter jets, I recommend this post -> https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11116557
The hits against enemy jets are very different to anti UAV drone hits.
