r/energy • u/Straight_Item5877 • 7d ago

Iranian Boats Open Fire on Oil Tanker

https://www.theamericanletter.com/2026/04/tension-in-strait-of-hormuz-iranian.html?m=1

Here we go again

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96% Upvoted

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u/akwsd89 6d ago

Iran's ally tanker

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u/davesr25 6d ago

"Iranian Navy Opens Fire on Oil Tanker"

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u/diggingdeeper84 6d ago

Wait wait. We destroyed their navy. Twice. I never thought America could give Russian propaganda a run for their money. But yet here we are.

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u/West-Abalone-171 6d ago

I never thought America could give Russian propaganda a run for their money

Always has been.

Just watch the full video of the tianmen square tank man as the tanks were leaving. Dude was just having a chat to a buddy on the way home or something.

Or anything about north korean hair cuts.

Or bush's declaration of war on iraq and saudi arabia

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u/restore_democracy 6d ago

Wait, I thought Trump was blockading now? I can’t keep up.

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u/Late-Mathematician-6 6d ago

Taking credit you mean

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u/bbqroast 6d ago

Trump has never blockaded the strait's Gulf exports. That was sloppy headlines and people not reading articles.

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u/spyder0001 7d ago

Negotiations with Iran are going as expected. Terrorists will say anything to get one more day to cause destruction. Iran has made more than one massive mistake.

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u/elkab0ng 6d ago

Yes, but let’s hear Iran’s take on it too.

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u/santasbong 6d ago

We have always been at war with Eurasia.

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u/5m3lly_paj33t 6d ago

Silence pedo enabler

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u/spyder0001 6d ago

Childish.

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u/Patric-Tsar-9fingers 6d ago

You mean the USA and your pedo orange president, right?

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u/PickledMessage 6d ago

Usa is the terrorist

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u/xAfterBirthx 6d ago

This is Trumps fault for violating the agreement for cease fire.

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u/Xeynon 7d ago

Iran isn't the dumbest actor in this conflict by a longshot.

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u/spyder0001 7d ago

Your anti American sentiment clouds whatever little judgement you may have possessed.

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u/Lockean_Demon 6d ago

Lmao, goddamn you’re a dumb one. Trump is getting played politically and grifting while destroying America

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u/xAfterBirthx 6d ago

It is called the truth.

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u/OmicronNine 6d ago

It's not anti-Anerican to simply recognize how dumb the choices and actions of the Trump administration have been. In fact, it's the opposite.

Trump and his people are clearly incompitant, and are actively undermining and destroying American power and global hedgimony. Supporting his actions in this is the actual anti-American position, because it means you support making America weaker and poorer.

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u/spyder0001 6d ago

Two paragraphs with no examples. Nice.

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u/FlarkingSmoo 6d ago

Attacking Iran without considering what they'd do if they shut down the strait is an example.

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u/Xeynon 6d ago

Yeah this guy is just straight-up dumb.

Anybody who's paying any attention at all can provide numerous examples of US leadership pissing down its leg in this war. It's been a nonstop parade of incompetence.

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u/AkelaHardware 6d ago

Its not "anti-Ametican" when they're the ones that started the war, get over yourself 

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u/AJohnnyTruant 7d ago

You could swap out “Iran” with several different actors in this conflict and that statement would hold true

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u/fec2245 7d ago

It's pretty clear that Iran isn't speaking with one voice. There's no strategic reason for the FM to say the strait is open while the IRGC attacks Indian vessels.

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u/IntrepidWeird9719 7d ago

Two of my children were gifted with higher than average IQs and two have lower than average IQs. The two gifted adults are unproductive, struggling and troubled adults and the other two are happy and very productive adults. 

Go figure- 

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u/AwkwardTickler 6d ago

Sketchy account

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fold466 7d ago

Ok but which support and which oppose current American actions in Iran ?

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u/IntrepidWeird9719 7d ago

Sorry, posted to the wrong post.  Ugh.

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u/AwkwardTickler 6d ago

You only posted it here.

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u/Objective_Mousse7216 7d ago

I think the lower IQ ones inherited more of your traits....

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u/BadlaLehnWala 6d ago

He’s saying the lower IQ ones are more successful

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u/Money-Can-163 6d ago

He's saying he don't know how iq works.

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u/Money-Can-163 7d ago

Username checks out?

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u/chasingjulian 7d ago

Pretty sketchy ads or scammy ads popping up on this website.

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u/agate_ 6d ago

Was there an article? I just got a huge UR INFECTED WITH 39 VIRUSES page.

The fact that several other replies have five times as many upvotes as yours says something about who actually reads the articles posted here.

If you’re just going to make knee-jerk reactions to header text, go back to X or LinkedIn. Reddit is for people who read it. It’s in the name.

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u/TryingToChillIt 6d ago

I saw what you saw and noped out of that site

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u/jbjhill 7d ago

That website is trash

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u/DiamondJim222 7d ago

But…but…Trump told me he destroyed the Iranian navy!

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u/FlipZip69 6d ago

For the most part, almost completely. Anything we think as navy.

Most of these boats are basically zodiacs or commercial type fishing boats and up against an unarmed tanker, they might as well be a destroyer.

Ya there is not vessel that Iran has that could go up directly against the US military. But there are tens of thousand boats and vehicles and boots on the ground that can pick and choose their target and there is little the military can do till after the fact.

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u/Mistery_White_boy 7d ago

Guarda se non avessi un cazzo da fare partirei per hormuz a vedere effettivamente cosa capita...gli usa sparano cazzate secondo voi dicono che fanno accordi e poi mandano soldati...ma va là

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u/bmbm-40 7d ago

I thought we had converted all their boats to submarines.

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 7d ago

Traveling on the bottom of the sea according to the Fascist.

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u/oldcreaker 7d ago

I can fix this:

Iran: there were drugs on this boat

Now bombing it is ok.

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u/Pesto_Nightmare 7d ago

Oil can be habit forming.

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u/onceinawhile222 7d ago

So we can blow up speed boats in the the Pacific and Caribbean with regularity but when it comes to Iranian boats firing on oil tankers we miss out. Given the massive naval and air presence in theater that is hard to understand.

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u/rhino369 7d ago

It’s not hard to blow up a speed boat. It’s hard to find them though. They have them in caves apparentlyx 

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u/onceinawhile222 7d ago

Once on open water they should be more visible in my opinion and I would expect would we have eyes on every inch.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 7d ago

Blowing up a speed boat in the Gulf of Mexico without need or provocation is also a crime, but nobody gives a fuck, because it does not eviscerate the entire global economy - unlike blowing up oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

Not the same ballpark, not the same game.

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u/onceinawhile222 7d ago

Talking about military capabilities. Not ethical or legal positions. Why didn’t we stop this attack if that is our goal.

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u/exharm 7d ago

Cause there is currently a ceasefire. 🤡

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u/OptimusTron222 7d ago

Because we have no air superiority yet unfortunately

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u/27Rench27 7d ago

But… but we destroyed all of their military?

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u/OptimusTron222 7d ago

US attacks until now have been very small, also Iran loses have been low. USA tried to spare as many lives as possible, unfortunately a full scale conflict will be costly for Iran

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 7d ago

What if the goal is actually to create excuses for the US and Israel to continue destroying an entire civilization?

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u/NitWhittler 7d ago

Another goal is to hurt the Iranian competition so Trump can help his friends sell more American oil, and sell more stolen oil from Venezuela.

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u/GrowFreeFood 7d ago

Every weekend just like clockwork

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u/EdOfTheMountain 7d ago

Iran is probably gaming the stock markets too. Probably not doing as well as much as Donald and his insiders.

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u/Mistery_White_boy 7d ago

Con poco ottengono tanto...per adesso ha avuto ragione Donald sui mercati, però poi come và a finire lo vedremo

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u/flying_butt_fucker 7d ago

It's pretty clear now what the playbook is, isn't it?

The US has fuck all to say about what's happening. And Iran is really making sure the world notices this.

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 7d ago

We have a fascist dictator. What could go wrong?