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War On Iran: – Refineries Hit – Oil Passage Toll To Pay For Iranian Damage
Iran has, as promised yesterday, responded to the USraeli attack on its energy installations by hitting refineries and gas facilities in several Persian Gulf countries.
Qatar spoke of ‘extensive damage’ to its gas liquefaction facilities caused by an Iranian attack. Saudi Arabia claimed that the attack was defeated but that a drone had hit its SAMREF refinery near Yanbu on its western coast. Kuwait reported fires at two of its three refineries, Bahrain and the UAE did not comment but people living there report of explosions, fires and damage.
Several missiles and drones hit Israel. It has by now come under a sustained attack with air alarms going off nearly every hour. This afternoon the BAZAN oil refinery in Haifa got hit.
The damage from the continuing U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign in Iran is also quite considerable. The Israeli plan is to destroy all of Iran’s capabilities to the extend that rebuilding will become excessively expensive.
But Iran has already planned for this. It has found a way to pay for rebuilding its state. As it is, and will likely stay, in control of the Strait of Hormuz it can ask for payments in exchange for providing safe passage.
Lloyd’s List reports:
Iran establishes ‘safe’ shipping corridor for approved and paid for transits
AT LEAST one tanker operator is understood to have paid a fee to Iran to transit the Strait of Hormuz while several other tankers have passed following Iranian vetting and diplomatic interventions, according to several well-placed sources with direct knowledge of the transits.
Multiple governments including India, Pakistan, Iraq, Malaysia and China are all understood to be discussing vessel transit plans directly with Tehran, where officials within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have established a nascent ship registration system for “approved” vessels to agree safe passage.
At least nine ships have now exited the strait via the “safe” corridor that routes ships through Iranian territorial waters via Iran’s Larak Island, which is used by the IRGC Navy and port authority to assess visual confirmation of the vessels.
biggerThe picture on the left shows the normal traffic route through the Strait while the picture on the right shows (except for the purple ship) the passing on the controlled route north of Larak Island.
Without the war and without the blockade of the Strait crude oil prices would hover around $60 bbl instead of the current $100-120 bbl (soon to be $200 bbl). When Iran will finally agree to an end of the war – months if not years from now – one of its conditions might be a surcharge of $10 bbl for any tanker passing the Strait. This would come, for a limited time, on top of the $60 bbl peace-level market price. A moderate toll when one considers the cost of today’s barrels. This while providing a significant income of some $50-100 million per day for Iran. It would help to recuperated the money needed to repair any war damage.
The U.S., if it will have any say in this, might well agree to that condition.
Currently Iran has some 140 million barrels of crude oil sitting in floating storage – i.e. on old rented tankers anchoring somewhere. That oil was hard to sell as it was under U.S. sanctions.
The U.S. is currently considering to lift those sanctions to provide more oil to the global markets and to thereby lower its price. As U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced:
In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that’s on the water. It’s about 140 million barrels, so depending how you count it, that’s 10 days to 2 weeks of supply, that the Iranians had been pushing out, that would have all gone to China. In essence, we’d be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days, as we continue this campaign. So, we have lots of levers.
The U.S. wasn’t willing to lift those sanctions during peace talks with Iran. But seeing the the dearth of oil under war conditions and high prices it suddenly allows that to happen.
How that would be ‘against the Iranians’ when they can sell their parked oil at $100 bbl exceeds my understanding.
Added:
The U.S. seems to have run out of stand-off ammunition. F-35 fighters were ordered into Iranian air space and at least one got damaged. This confirms that air superiority over Iran has not been achieved (yet).
Donald Trump, having received a legal and just refusal from the European Union to participate in an illegal and aggressive war against Iran, which violates the UN Charter and international legal relations, has decided to create a military coalition against Iran, this time from the Muslim countries of the region. Why? Because the US and Israel are 100% losing this fascist-Talmudic war they started against Iran’s peaceful economic infrastructure and the Iranian people.
Dear citizens of our fragile and small planet, as you know, due to the negative international processes that arose after the collapse of the USSR, the US Presidency was assumed by a short-sighted individual with a fraudulent and criminal mentality, who Talmudic-mindedly rejects the US constitutional norms and international legal relations established by the UN. Therefore, in order to cover the US debt of over $38 trillion to the fraudulent and thieving Talmudists in the US, that is, before the private Federal Reserve System, he, in the interests of these Talmudists, who are the leaders of Christian Freemasonry, destroyed all social protections for the American people. And on the international stage, Donald has begun waging fascist wars of conquest, under 100% false and unfounded accusations, to rob and pillage other countries. He is reviving Talmudic imperialism. In other words, Donald Trump has transformed the United States into the gray wolf from Krylov’s fable, who accused the lamb of threatening the wolf’s vital interests. Let’s now consider what an honest person, an honest American, would do if they were President of the United States instead of Trump. He would have restructured this debt, that is, legally and fairly declared that the United States had no debt to the private Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, since this Reserve Fund had printed vast quantities of empty dollars, not backed by gold reserves, and fraudulently enriched itself at the expense of US government entities, which it had practically robbed for decades. Moreover, he would have obliged the Federal Reserve System to pay the US government a fair and substantial compensation, since all the wars waged by the US administration were waged in the interests of the financial and other enrichment of this Reserve Bank. Americans, in turn, received nothing but devastating debts. Therefore, the loans taken by the US government from this private Talmudic clan are, in reality, are money spent solely in the interests of the same Reserve Fund. Well, yes, that’s what an honest person would do. But Talmudist Donald Trump, naturally, acted differently. Why? Because he’s not a US citizen in the classical sense, but a citizen of Talmudic Christian Freemasonry, which is guided by the Talmud, not the US Constitution. Therefore, he believes that all Talmudists in the US government, as well as in the private banking system, should enrich themselves at the expense of all other peoples living in the US. He believes that only Talmudists have human and civil rights, while all others have no such rights, since, according to the Talmud, they must serve the Talmudists like animals, and must even die senselessly in their interests. Talmudists extend this same logic to all of humanity. In other words, Talmudism is parasitism on the body of the nation and all of humanity, which is why the deranged Hitler once rebelled against Talmudism. Why did the US and Israel twice wage war against Iran? Because they were jealous of Iran’s ability to develop economically better and faster than their own Talmudic countries. However, the profits from Iran’s economic success was wenting to the Iranian people, not to the Talmudic to the Freemasons of the US and Israel, what fueled envy and aggression. This is precisely why, like locusts, they are destroying Iran’s entire peaceful economic system, unable to defeat it militarily to seize its energy resources. Having essentially lost this Talmudic war, the US and Talmudic Israel attacked Iran’s oil and gas assets to provoke a retaliatory strike against US energy interests in the Muslim countries of the Middle East. Why? To incite the indignation of these Muslim countries and organize a military bloc against Iran, together with these countries of the region, which have long been intimidated and enslaved by the godless and stupid Talmudists of the US and Israel. As you know, genetic is not the real Cohen, that is, the silly pretty girl who works as Donald Trump’s secretary, after bombing the US gas infrastructure, proudly declared that the Talmudists have such reserve rotten plans up their sleeve. The vilely provoked speculative outrage of the Muslim countries of this region has enabled Donald Trump’s Talmudists to shamelessly appeal to the US Congress for another $200 billion to wage an anti-American and anti-human war. Therefore, I warn the Iranian leadership, as well as the Muslim countries of this region, not to succumb to this provocation. They must not fight among themselves in the interests of the Talmudists of “Israel” and the US, who, if they win, will surely enslave them all.I appeal to Turkey, which once controlled the territory of Palestine and Israel, to understand that Arabs and Jews have always lived in these territories since ancient times, but the Talmudic genetic ancestors of Benjamin Netanyahu and other Talmudists of “Israel” never lived there in ancient times; they are foreign invaders. Turks and Arabs are in the same religion of God, for whom there is no division among humanity into Arabs, Turks, Jews, Georgians, or other peoples. For God, all people and peoples are one humanity, some of whom are God’s people and peoples, and some are Satan’s, among whom are the Talmudists. Glory to the Almighty! Peace to your home, your country, and all humanity!
Professor David Ben-Melekh, a true descendant of King David of Israel.
Georgia, March 19, 2026.
Posted by: David | Mar 20 2026 12:22 utc | 832
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