Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump, who has today, and for the eleventh time, destroyed the entire Iranian Navy since the conflict began 55 days ago.
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Re the Iranian bording of container ships, worth noting that both the fast boats seen in the widely shared video have multi-launch rockets (MLRS) on the roofs. This is normal.
The tactic would be to sail alongside and shoot rockets into the superstructure
🗣️ @mrglobaltoo.bsky.social on Trump lying about saving 8 Iranian woman: “More lives dramatically negatively harmed so Trump can inflate his own selfish ego to make himself look like more than what he is to his base… if something happens to these women, do you think Trump cares?”
What has Christopher Aaron Gillum, former Chapel Hill, NC police officer (& former registered Republican), been up to?
Making terrorist threats & planning a mass shooting at a New Orleans festival.
Not a drag queen.
Not a protester.
Not an immigrant.
Not a Muslim.
Not an Iranian.
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JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇩🇪 Demonstrator threw paint on Iranian Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi in Berlin, Germany today.
It is hardly new for extremists to be running the Iranian Regime. But it is still new to have them running the United States.
1/5 NEW: Israeli and Iranian attacks in mid-March 2026 on vital energy infrastructure were unlawfully indiscriminate and could trigger profound economic consequences for millions of people in the region and globally. 🧵⤵️
These impairments can only slow down decision-making within the Iranian leadership and reinforce whatever is rhe default option (which appears to be: no new meetings with US & no reopening of the Hormuz straits until the US removes its counter-blockade )
I think some people just do not think those Iranian elementary schoolgirls were human enough to matter
you can’t try to hyperbolize “thinks Claude kills whales” while Claude is actually being used to massacre Iranian girls
This is a common view, but I disagree. The reason our military is in the Persian Gulf and was bombing Iranian cities, but the Iranian military is capable of launching a single attack on American soil is that, in fact, the old metrics of air power and naval superiority matter quite a lot.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. forces boarded and seized a sanctioned, stateless oil tanker carrying Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/w...
Good article that shows what everyone with a scintilla of sense knew what would happen if you took out the Iranian political leadership (the IRCG would seize power and de facto run the state and be even more obstructionist).
We are living through a case study of/
Right after the firing of Navy Secretary John Phelan was announced, Peace President #Trump orders the Navy to fire on Iranian boats. Coincidence?
#Trump orders #US #military to 'shoot & kill' Iranian small boats choking #StraitOfHormuz
In a social media post Thursday morning, Trump said the military is intensifying its mine clearing efforts in the critical waterway. The move intensified the US - #Iran standoff in the Persian Gulf & […]
"At least two fully laden Iranian tankers have sailed out of the Persian Gulf and past a US blockade this week...."
April 22, 2026
During a classified briefing on Tuesday for the House Armed Services Committee, a senior Defense Department official admitted it could take six months to fully clear the Strait of Hormuz of mines deployed by the Iranian military AFTER the "war" ends. wapo.st/4eIeBgm
Live updates: Trump orders US military to 'shoot and kill' Iranian small boats choking Strait of Hormuz
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Trump orders US military to ‘shoot and kill’ Iranian small boats choking Strait of Hormuz
U.S. President Donald Trump in a morning social media post ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” Iranian small boats choking the Strait of Hormuz.
1/ Recent satellite images showing dozens of Iranian fast boats in formation in the Strait of Hormuz illustrate Iran's ability to lay naval mines in the strait. An Iranian export catalogue highlights its many indigenously produced mine types. ⬇️
But trump claimed that the Iranian navy was wiped out.. weeks ago!
How can it still be a threat?
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Trump orders US military to 'shoot and kill' Iranian small boats choking Strait of Hormuz, says mine clearing has begun.
Orange Shitler ordered the US military to attack and destroy Iranian speed boats pushing an end to the ceasefire.
Reza Pahlavi gets tomato soup thrown on him in Germany by an angry Iranian.
The German Government refused to met Pahlavi at his speech as he is deemed too radical.
He has previously called Donald Trump's bombing of Iran as 'humanitarian aid' and urged them to 'finish the job'.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez: "Really what this has demonstrated is that we can choke off China's oil anytime we want. We now have Venezuela's oil -- it's under our control -- and we can stop the flow of Iranian oil anytime."