Iran was going to charge $1 per barrel to "hostile" nations who transit the Strait. At oil's current price, that's a 1.33% fee. Trump is implementing a 20% fee to ALL traffic. With BS moves like these, It's becoming hard to swallow the rhetoric that Iran is the evil player here.

Good luck with that you stupid old fuck

That gotta be some transcendent level of entrepreneurship, not only maritime piracy, but in place they don't even dare to close their warships to.

I would also like to see how they plan to enforce it on let's say China or India or Russia.

Of course The Idiot does not understand anyone collecting fees on that is a collapse of the status quo we supposedly demand, because nothing is real to him unless it's a grift.

Just a mob-style shakedown scheme. Dude is so uncreative.

cheeto already walked it back https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/14/us-strikes-iran-bahrain-jordan-uae-tankers

"protection"

The US will be reimbursed 20% of whatever it costs to protect ships? That doesn’t seem like an awesome deal for the US

trump moved his mob protection racket overseas. Union leaders everywhere are secretly jealous. /s