Iran24 August, 20263 min read
Iran’s Mohsen Rezaee Warns No Oil Will Flow Through Strait Of Hormuz Amid Trump Pressure
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Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaee warned no oil would flow through Hormuz if pressure continues. He tied the warning to Washington's sanctions and Trump's economic measures.
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Ormuz, amenaza y sanciones
Iran’s security chief Mohsen Rezaee warned that “not a single drop of oil will be exported” through the Strait of Hormuz or the Persian Gulf if the “economic war continues,” and said Tehran would “regard any country’s participation in or support for America’s economic war against the Iranian people as an act of war.”
The warning was issued in response to President Donald Trump’s announcement of intensifying pressure and isolation against Iran, and the Hoy Tamaulipas report said the threat came after Trump said he was preparing “la operación económica más aplastante” against countries providing support to Iran.
Hoy Tamaulipas also said the escalation came despite a memorandum of understanding signed on 18 de junio between the United States and Iran that contemplated a period of 60 days of negotiations to seek a definitive agreement and reduce hostilities.
In the same context, the Benzinga report said Trump’s administration was preparing “unprecedented financial sanctions” aimed at Iran, backed by U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, while Benzinga added that Vance said oil was moving through the Strait of Hormuz and cited Trump’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright for support of that claim.
Benzinga further tied the immediate market backdrop to the Strait of Hormuz dispute, saying crude oil price had held steady as Iran plotted escalation ahead of U.S. sanctions announced on Monday, with WTI trading at $85.64/bbl and Brent at $93.05/bbl at press time.
Cifras en disputa
A dispute over how much oil is actually leaving through Hormuz runs through the competing accounts, with IndexBox reporting that U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright claimed “more than 8 million barrels per day” were leaving the strait.
IndexBox said those claims contrasted with earlier statements of 9 million and a reported 10 million from U.S. Navy assistance, while analysts using satellite and ship-tracking data estimated the actual number was between 4 and 6 million barrels per day.
IndexBox also said the shuttle operations involve convoys moving under darkness with transponders off, and it noted that the U.S. has expended a significant portion of its precision munitions and missile interceptors while aircraft carriers are overstretched.
In parallel, Al-Jazirah Net said U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright estimated average oil exports via Hormuz over the past week at “more than 8 million barrels per day,” and it added that the U.S. Navy guided tankers along a protected route on the Oman side.
Al-Jazirah Net then contrasted that with commercial tracking firms’ lower estimates, saying flows through the strait range from about 2 million to 6 million barrels per day and citing Kepler’s estimate of about 2.3 million barrels per day in August.
Efectos en rutas y mercados
Beyond the Strait itself, Al-Jazirah Net said not all quantities leaving the Gulf pass through the strait, with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pushing “millions of barrels daily” through pipelines extending across the desert to the Gulf of Oman and the Red Sea. It also said some tankers pass through the Hormuz Strait under separate arrangements with Iran, and that ship tracking data quoted by the newspaper indicated that about one-third of the ships that passed through the strait in August used the northern sea route managed by Iran. The same report described tracking difficulties as an increasing number of tankers suspend their automatic identification systems (AIS) while crossing, depriving tracking systems of identifying their movements and making monitoring more challenging at night.
Al-Jazirah Net said markets so far appeared able to absorb available supplies, noting that Brent crude futures rose to around $90 per barrel while remaining below highs reached during the war. In the background of those logistics and market signals, Hoy Tamaulipas said Iran warned it would consider any participation or support for Washington’s “guerra económica” as an “acto de guerra,” and it said the threat placed the Strait of Ormuz back at the center of international tension due to its strategic importance for transporting oil and gas from the Persian Gulf.