Iran Is Already Charging Tolls To Ships Passing Through The Straight Of Hormuz. This War Has Been An Unmitigated Disaster For Trump And The U.S.

[Alicia J]

Iran is charging tolls for ships to pass through the Straight Of Hormuz. And all Trump can do is cry about it some more.

Let's count the ways that Trump has lost this war...

1) Has there been regime change? NO

2) Has Iran been forced to give up their enriched uranium? NO

3) Has Iran been forced to give up their ballistic missiles program? NO

4) Has Iran been forced to give up their drones program? NO

5) Has Trump now given Iran a massive strategic advantage in the Middle East by blundering into this war and giving Iran total control of the Straight Of Hormuz and making Iran a more powerful adversary in the future? YES

6) Will Americans now be paying a fortune for gas for god knows how long? YES

President Trump on Thursday demanded Iran stop charging tolls for tankers to cross the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran's supreme leader promised the country would control the crucial waterway.

Why it matters: The already shaky ceasefire between the two countries is getting more strained by the day, even as they prepare for peace talks in Islamabad on Saturday.

• The narrow waterway off Iran's southern coast is vital to the normal functioning of the global economy

What they're saying: "There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait — They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now!" Trump posted to Truth Social.

• That followed a Financial Times report that Iran is demanding the right to toll ships passing through the strait: $1 per barrel of oil aboard, paid in cryptocurrency.
• Trump later added in another post: "Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable some would say, of allowing Oil to go through the Strait of Hormuz. That is not the agreement we have!"

Threat level: A U.S. official earlier said the strait is "wide open," but at the same time admitted ships are not moving through it because they are intimidated by the Iranians.

• "Iran has threatened and coerced everybody," the official said.
• The official said the U.S. is considering steps that would encourage ships to start moving through the strait.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/iran-us-strait-of-hormuz-khamenei

 

[Zincwarrior]

Iran just attacked Kuwait.

 

[Alicia J]

Iran just attacked Kuwait.

Of course. Iran has called Trump's bluff. The U.S. military does not have enough THAAD missiles to keep defending the entire Middle East from air strikes.

General Caine tried to warn idiot Trump that this would happen if the war did not end quickly.

 

[JLW]

Iran is charging tolls for ships to pass through the Straight Of Hormuz. And all Trump can do is cry about it some more.

Let's count the ways that Trump has lost this war...

1) Has their been regime change? NO

2) Has Iran been forced to give up their enriched uranium? NO

3) Has Iran been forced to give up their ballistic missiles program? NO

4) Has Iran been forced to give up their drones program? NO

5) Has Trump now giving Iran a massive strategic advantage in the Middle East by blundering into this war and giving Iran total control of the Straight Of Hormuz and making Iran a more powerful adversary in the future? YES

6) Will Americans now be paying a fortune for gas for god knows how long? YES

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/iran-us-strait-of-hormuz-khamenei

MAGA morons call this winning.

 

[Blaster]

Iran has no Navy and doesn't pose much of a threat.

 

[struth]

Iran is charging tolls for ships to pass through the Straight Of Hormuz. And all Trump can do is cry about it some more.

Let's count the ways that Trump has lost this war...

1) Has there been regime change? NO

2) Has Iran been forced to give up their enriched uranium? NO

3) Has Iran been forced to give up their ballistic missiles program? NO

4) Has Iran been forced to give up their drones program? NO

5) Has Trump now given Iran a massive strategic advantage in the Middle East by blundering into this war and giving Iran total control of the Straight Of Hormuz and making Iran a more powerful adversary in the future? YES

6) Will Americans now be paying a fortune for gas for god knows how long? YES

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/iran-us-strait-of-hormuz-khamenei

Who’s paid? And how much?

 

[shockedcanadian]

Iran just attacked Kuwait.

They are playing with fire. If the UAE and others decide it is time for a full blown ground attack Iran will probably not last three months. It would definitely put China and even Russia in a difficult position.

 

[Alicia J]

Iran has no Navy and doesn't pose much of a threat.

Yet Iran has still won. Go figure.

 

[Blaster]

Yet Iran has still won. Go figure.

Iran hasn't won anything.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Iran has no Navy and doesn't pose much of a threat.

They seem to be doing just fine

 

[Zincwarrior]

Iran hasn't won anything.

They control the Straits.

 

[Alicia J]

They are playing with fire. If the UAE and others decide it is time for a full blown ground attack Iran will probably not last three months. It would definitely put China and even Russia in a difficult position.

The U.S. will need more troops than they currently have in the Middle East to defeat Iran in a ground war.

And Americans don't have the stomach anymore for thousands of dead American soldiers. Not after Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Who’s paid? And how much?

Nobody and nothing.

Some people are so Trump deranged that they realize the sheer volume of their anti-Trump posts is making them look like a crazy person.

So they get the brilliant idea to create a sock and even more brilliant give it a girl's name! Boy that will fool 'em!

 

[frigidweirdo]

They are playing with fire. If the UAE and others decide it is time for a full blown ground attack Iran will probably not last three months. It would definitely put China and even Russia in a difficult position.

And yet, the problem is going to be that for those three months, oil isn't coming out of the Middle East.

We've seen what one month does. The west simply can't cope with this.

The reason they've hated Iran is because Iran has OIL and the ability to control that oil. So the west has tried to stop this, but can't without going through hardship.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Iran is charging tolls for ships to pass through the Straight Of Hormuz. And all Trump can do is cry about it some more.

Let's count the ways that Trump has lost this war...

1) Has there been regime change? NO

2) Has Iran been forced to give up their enriched uranium? NO

3) Has Iran been forced to give up their ballistic missiles program? NO

4) Has Iran been forced to give up their drones program? NO

5) Has Trump now given Iran a massive strategic advantage in the Middle East by blundering into this war and giving Iran total control of the Straight Of Hormuz and making Iran a more powerful adversary in the future? YES

6) Will Americans now be paying a fortune for gas for god knows how long? YES

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/iran-us-strait-of-hormuz-khamenei

Who’s charging the toll? How are they going to collect it?

 

[Missouri_Mike]

And yet, the problem is going to be that for those three months, oil isn't coming out of the Middle East.

We've seen what one month does. The west simply can't cope with this.

The reason they've hated Iran is because Iran has OIL and the ability to control that oil. So the west has tried to stop this, but can't without going through hardship.

Sounds like a European problem to me.

 

[Alicia J]

Nobody and nothing.

Some people are so Trump deranged that they realize the sheer volume of their anti-Trump posts is making them look like a crazy person.

So they get the brilliant idea to create a sock and even more brilliant give it a girl's name! Boy that will fool 'em!

As I've said before....any facts that MAGA cry babies don't like simply "aren't true".

You think you can make the facts magically disappear. Except you can't.

This is a childish, juvenile way to "debate". But you are just copying the deranged idiocy of your terrorist god Trump.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Yet Iran has still won. Go figure.

Iran did not win but the long term outcome could be worse for the world and America.

China and Russia are pulling the strings there. This is why America will continue to lose ground globally. Unless you cut off the head of the snake (China) and the West embraces American values and turns their back on these communists, the end result will be assured.

Yes the McCarthy years went overboard, ditto for J Edgar Hoovers FBI. However, they understood the danger of communism. Allowing China into the WTO single handedly drove trillions into a the coffers of a single communist party. Europe and others were all too eager to do so, all wanting America to fail. Foolish, short sighted idiots. China has been influencing and choosing Western leaders ever since, with one goal: weaken America and their allies.

This is why a successful win in Iran would be a big deal but clearly whoever thought it was going to be easy did not understand the terrain. Hubris is not in my vocabulary since I have to fight to survive...

 

[Zincwarrior]

Who’s charging the toll? How are they going to collect it?

Iran. Crypto payment.

 

[Alicia J]

Who’s charging the toll? How are they going to collect it?

Read the article and find out. Even Trump is saying it's true. Is Trump also lying about it?

Poor MAGAs....they just can't keep all their bullshit straight anymore.