Long lines formed at gas stations in Bandar Abbas on Saturday, May 16, amid what a citizen described as a crisis in access to gasoline, a video sent to Iran International shows.
Senior Trump advisers have pressed the UAE to take a larger role in the conflict with Iran, with proposals that include capturing Lavan Island. - Telegraph
Americans are told that they must absorb rocketing costs of war of choice on Iran.
Put aside gas price hike and stock market bubble. Real pain begins when U.S. debt and mortgage rates start to jump. Auto loan delinquencies are already at 30+-year high.
This was all avoidable.
“We’re facing the largest supply shortage of lubricating fluids in the modern history of America. Realistic, middle-of-the-road estimates are for our average available supply in this product category to drop by 40%.”
Internal AutoZone Memo
Iran, within the framework of its national sovereignty and the guarantee of international trade security, has prepared a professional mechanism to manage traffic in the Strait of Hormuz along a designated route, which will be unveiled soon.
In this process, only commercial vessels and parties cooperating with Iran will benefit from it.
The necessary fees will be collected for the specialized services provided under this mechanism.
This route will remain closed to the operators of the so‑called “freedom project.”
Enbridge "definitely would consider" backing a new oil pipeline to Canada’s west coast, its CEO said, giving an early vote of confidence hours after Mark Carney signed an energy deal with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith - Bloomberg
China has explicitly informed the US that it recognizes Iran's "exercise of sovereignty" over the Strait of Hormuz, contradicting the White House readout of the Trump-Xi summit that claimed Xi opposed Iranian "militarization" of the Strait and any "toll" for its use, per a source close to Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf.