India confronts Iran after ships come under fire in Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil route: 'Serious incident'

Ships and tankers in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Musandam, Oman,
April 18, 2026. Reuters.

India summoned the Iranian ambassador for a meeting after Indian ships reportedly came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.

"The Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in New Delhi was called in by the Ministry of External Affairs for a meeting with Foreign Secretary this evening," the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.

"During the meeting, Foreign Secretary conveyed India’s deep concern at the shooting incident earlier today involving two Indian-flagged ships in the Strait of Hormuz," it continued.

"He noted the importance that India attached to the safety of merchant shipping and mariners and recalled that Iran had earlier facilitated the safe passage of several ships bound for India," the ministry said. "Reiterating his concern at this serious incident of firing on merchant ships, Foreign Secretary urged the Ambassador to convey India’s views to the authorities in Iran and resume at the earliest the process of facilitating India-bound ships across the Strait."

The statement follows an earlier Reuters report claiming that two merchant vessels were hit by gunfire as they attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz early Saturday.

Reuters also reported that the Sanmar Herald, an Indian-flagged vessel carrying crude oil, was attacked in the Strait on Saturday.

The reported attacks came after Iranian officials reversed a decision to reopen the crucial waterway, citing an ongoing U.S. naval blockade in the Strait.

"As long as the United States does not agree to the complete freedom of navigation for vessels... the situation in the Strait of Hormuz will remain tightly controlled and in its previous state," an Iranian military official said, according to Iranian state media agency Fars.

Despite the reports, President Donald Trump said during an unrelated Oval Office press conference Saturday that negotiations are "going actually along very well." Trump also insisted that Iran "can't blackmail us."

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Iran building a new nuclear reactor in Isfahan

The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) said the country is ready to start construction of a new nuclear research reactor at the Isfahan nuclear facility. By "research" they mean "military weapons research," they just left that part off for brevity sake.

Iran’s state-run media outlet Fars news agency quoted the IAEO official asserting that “Iran has a new plan to produce 10,000 megawatts of nuclear electricity and work is underway to choose suitable places to build nuclear facilities in the country, especially in the south.” 

But is the Islamic Republic of Iran telling the truth? We really don't know and neither does the Biden administration. The remarks come amidst the stalled U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations in Vienna, but it may be a smokescreen and a veiled threat to the U.S. and other less bellicose nations to grant these terrorists concessions it asked for in the negotiations.

IAEO [dick] head Mohammad Eslami emphasized Iran’s ambition to develop the new nuclear research reactor “completely indigenously.” 

Eslami also inferred that one of the primary roadblocks preventing Iran’s nuclear growth is the smaller capacity of the country’s domestic power plants. “In this direction, we will use international partnerships and we will not wait for anyone, because Iran has sufficient scientific, industrial and technological capacities,” he said, according to The Jerusalem Post.

 “Fortunately, there are large companies in the country that can support the 10,000-megawatt nuclear power production program, and we also support any company and institution that participates in the program of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.”

Iran’s Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center (INTC) is the country’s largest and most sophisticated nuclear research complex. Built in the mid-1980s with assistance from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the INTC is largely suspected of being the epicenter of Tehran’s underground and secret nuclear weapons program. 

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Iran’s self-reported plan to construct a new nuclear research facility is the country’s latest escalation in its nuclear ambitions. With a rapidly approaching nuclear breakout time, the regime’s intentions appear more malign than ever, and we have to give credit where it's due: thank you Joe Biden and whoever is behind the curtain pulling his strings.

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Iran's largest warship catches fire, sinks in Gulf of Oman

Pants of fire

The largest warship the Iranian navy had caught fire for reasons unknown, and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman, and oh man, are the Iranians upset. This is one of Iran's latest screwups as tensions grow with the West.

Fortunately for the terrorists, nobody was killed from the blaze that began at 2:25 a.m. and firefighters tried to contain it but failed, the state-controlled Fars news agency, an agency similar to CNN and MSNBC reported.

Happily for us, but sadly for them, the 679-foot Kharg sank. It was used to resupply other ships in the fleet at sea and conduct training exercises. Apparently their naval trainers didn't teach the part about fire prevention. 

Fars reported that 400 sailors and trainee cadets abandoned the sinking ship like rats on a, well, sinking ship. If the 400 Iranian crew, 33 suffered injuries.

The ship became a non-functioning submarine near the Iranian port of Jask, about 790 miles southeast of Tehran on the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf. 

Photos circulated on Iranian social media showed sailors wearing life jackets, clearly scared with some seemingly weeping, abandoning the boat as a fire burned behind them. 

Fars published video of thick, black smoke rising from the ship early Wednesday morning. Satellites from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that track fires from space detected a blaze near Jask that started just before the time of the fire reported by Fars.

Iranian officials offered no cause for the fire aboard the Kharg, though they said an investigation had begun and they are currently looking for ways to blame the Jews, although none were sighted near the vessel at the time the fire roared.

And then there was this massive fire on Wednesday night at the oil refinery in Tehran sending plumes of black smoke over the capital city. It was also unclear in this case what caused the inferno at the Tondgooyan Petrochemical Co., as the temperatures reached 104 degrees Fahrenheit from the summer heat, and this had historically caused fires to burn.

Somehow, however, Iran will find a way to blame, who else, the Joooze!

Interestingly, the Wednesday fire aboard theKharg comes after a series of unexplained explosions began in 2019 targeting commercial ships in the Gulf of Oman. The U.S. Navy had accused Iran of using limpet mines to target these ships with timed explosives usually attached by divers to a ship's hull.

Naturally Iran denied the allegations put forth by the United States but U.S. Navy footage shows Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard terrorists removing one of the unexploded limpet mines from a ship. 

So don't believe your lying eyes--it was those Joooze!

The sinking of the mighty Kharg marks the latest naval cluster***k for Iran. In 2020, during an Iranian military training exercise, a missile mistakenly struck a naval vessel near Jask, killing 19 sailors and wounding 15. Also in 2018, an Iranian navy destroyer sank in the Caspian Sea.

It couldn't have happened to a nicer group of scumcrumpets.

 there that aren’t vaccinated?” Lightfoot added. “There’s no way to know that. So I think for the time being, most people are gonna continue to wear masks outside of their homes.”

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Iran in proxy war arms Hamas with "thousands of new rockets"

The Islamic Republic of Iran is giving "The Fightin' Hamassholes" a gift of "thousands of new rockets" in the Gaza Strip, according to a report by Tehran's state-controlled media, a media similar to ours in the US.

Hamas started the Iran-funded shooting war by firing thousands of rockets into civilian areas as other anti-Semitic terrorist groups joined in on the "fun." Israel--to the dismay of Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Alexandria Obviously-Commie (Duh-NY) and others--shot down about ninety percent of the 4,000 rockets fired with the Iron Dome defense system. These Democrats support Hamas and believe Israel doesn't have the right to defend herself.

Now Hamas is reloading with the help of Iran and you can bet the shooting is about to restart.

“With the end of the Israeli regime’s latest aggression, the Palestinian resistance has resumed the process of rocket production,” said Fathi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s politburo, according to Iran’s Fars News Agency. 

Hamas calls their unprovoked attack on Israel as "resistance" much the same way pro-abortionists call their murderous deeds "pro-choice."

“Our factories and workshops have restarted producing thousands of rockets to stop [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s intransigence in Al-Quds [Jerusalem] and Tel Aviv,” Hamad added.

Except the Jews have been in Israel thousands of years before Islam existed.

Hamas leaders have said that despite the current calm between the sides, “This war will last forever,” because it isn't about resistance; it's about destroying the Jews as their scripture demands.

The rockets fired by Hamas this time were more sophisticated than their previous crude projectiles. Iran provided them, Hamas fired them, and the US far-left along with a porn performer take the side of Hamas. [Not to go into detail, but if the porn performer were to do her schtick in Gaza, she'd be a dead porn performer.]

Iran's leaders recently said that they will continue arming and funding Hamas, comments that have stoked outrage among Republicans in Congress and covert symbolic applause by the Biden-Harris-Squad administration.

Many U.S. lawmakers are pressing the administration to abandon its diplomacy with Iran aimed at inking a new Iran deal. They say that the billions of dollars in sanctions relief the United States will give Iran will go to funding terror proxy groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, which also fired rockets at Israel during the most recent conflict.

But do you doubt this administration doesn't know that? If they're willing to kill millions of babies year-to-year, what's a few Jews? 

Disgusting.

e need clarification,” Lightfoot said. “We still have a long way to go to hit the critical mass (of vaccinations) or herd immunity. I don’t want people to have false confidence.”

“To say, ‘If you’re vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask,’ that’s great. But what about all of the other people who are out there that aren’t vaccinated?” Lightfoot added. “There’s no way to know that. So I think for the time being, most people are gonna continue to wear masks outside of their homes.”

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Iran: Attacking us would be "unwise"

While Iran continues to publicly chant "Death to America!" "Death to Israel!" "Death to the Jews!" they don't believe it would be a good idea for us to attack them  preemptively.

Iran, the country that means "Land of Pond Scum Leaders" in Farsi, is continuing to verbally assault the US. The latest bravado come from the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohammad Pakpour, yet another Muslim named after the prophet of Islam.

Pakpour spoke at a press conference in Tehran, where nobody insults the press unless they happen to be Ayatollah Ali Khamenie. He was quoted by the semi-official Fars news agency warning American officials to "be wise" and stop threatening Iran with military aggression.

"U.S. statesmen should be very wise and avoid threatening Iran because the entire world has admitted this fact that the Americans cannot do such a thing," the odiferous commander said, adding that attacking Iran would be "unwise."

Since the Trump administration recently imposed new sanctions on 25 scumcrumpets and companies connected to Iran's ballistic missile program and other who support the Revolutionary Guard Corps' Qods Force.

What Pakpour is saying that just because we captured your sailors, approached your naval vessels, imprisoned Americans on false charges, fired off ballistic missiles in violation of our agreement not to do so, and threatened you with military retaliation for being in international waters, don't think you can respond in kind. 

Trump's sanctions were in response to Iran's ballistic missile test last week, violating UN Resolution 2231. It bars Iran from conducting ballistic missile tests for eight years and went into effect after the nuclear deal was signed.

Iran's Foreign Ministry were pissed over the sanctions and swore that they will also ensure "legal restrictions" were imposed on the "American individuals and companies which have a role in aiding extremist and terrorist groups or contribute to the suppression and murder of the defenseless people in the region."

I guess they don't want Americans taking away their jobs.

The so-called religious leader of the largest state sponsor of terrorism, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dismissed the calls from the Trump administration to stop the ballistic missile tests and said Trump had showed the "true face" of America.

Iran threatened to attack Israel in response to an American attack on Iran. That sounds pretty stupid--Israel may be tiny compared to its surrounding enemies, but they pack a huge punch.

An Iranian official recently said they would immediately attack Israel if the United States "makes a mistake" and added that "only 7 minutes is needed for the Iranian missile to hit Tel Aviv."

Iran would love to have an excuse to attack Israel. They pray for this to happen sooner rather than later because Islam at its core, is an anti-Semitic religion. In fact, the very first prayer, al Fatiha, is anti-Christian and anti-Semitic all rolled into one.

But why would you punch your enemy's friend standing next to you if your enemy punches you first?

Anyway, I suspect Israel wouldn't wait for the punch to come--I suspect Netanyahu and Trump would actually speak to each other before any 'punches' are thrown and would coordinated an action that would shock and awe awful Iran in under 7 minutes.



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