{"id":246407,"date":"2026-08-12T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/246407\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:23:09","slug":"trump-calls-iran-all-talk-and-no-action-touts-wall-of-steel-us-navy-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/246407\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls Iran ‘all talk and no action,’ touts ‘Wall of Steel’ US Navy blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump claimed Wednesday that the US has complete control of the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, one day after Energy Secretary Chris Wright<\/a> confirmed increasing oil exports from the crucial waterway as Iran\u2019s economy continues to free fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S.A. has total control over the Strait of Hormuz. I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT!\u201d Trump proclaimed on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur Naval Blockade<\/a> is being called, by everyone, \u2018A WALL OF STEEL,\u2019 and there is nothing Iran can do about it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Trump claimed Iran is \u2018all talk and no action.\u2019 Getty Images<\/p>\n

The US renewed its blockade on Iranian ports<\/a> last month, with the president opting to hit Tehran with economic pressure to force the Islamic Republic to sue for peace.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Wright announced on X Tuesday that the seven-day average of oil leaving the strait was up to almost nine million barrels per day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen combined with the additional 5-7 million barrels per day leaving the region via newly upgraded pipelines and export facilities, total oil flows are currently averaging approximately 15 million barrels per day,\u201d he added. \u201cOn Sunday alone, over 20 million barrels left the Arabian gulf region, which is above the pre-conflict average.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only 84 vessels were recorded going through the strait last week, according to maritime data firm Kpler. However, a source familiar with the situation told The Post that many firms undercount the number of ships leaving the Strait of Hormuz due to the necessity of maintaining secrecy.<\/p>\n

Under the previous US Navy blockade which lasted from April 13 through June 18, only about 2.1 million barrels of oil were escaping <\/a>the strait every day under the threat of Iranian military action.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn coordination with the US military, the US Department of Energy maintains the best available data related to oil and oil products leaving the Arabian gulf,\u201d a spokesperson told The Post Wednesday.<\/p>\n

In his message Wednesday, Trump said of Iran: \u201cThey have no Navy, they have no Air Force, their remaining soldiers are unpaid, the IRGC is decimated and fleeing, and their \u2018Leadership\u2019 is uncertain, at best!<\/p>\n

Components of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) and French Navy frigate FS Languedoc (D 653), transit the Strait of Hormuz in 2023. Carrier Strike Group Two (CSG-2)<\/p>\n

U.S. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct a verification boarding aboard M\/T Wen Yao on Thursday, July 16, 2026, in the Gulf of Oman. The boarding was conducted as part of a US naval blockade against Iran. (CENTCOM \/ SWNS) CENTCOM \/ SWNS<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have No Money \u2013 Their country is \u2018shot.\u2019 All they have is FAKE NEWS and 300% INFLATION, and getting worse!\u201d he concluded. \u201cIran is all talk and no action, the Bully of the Middle East No Longer. Praise be to Allah!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Analysts have noted that the US blockade is choking out Iran\u2019s economy<\/a>, with the Islamic Republic left with fewer options than when the initial embargo was implemented.<\/p>\n

\u201cHormuz is a shrinking asset for Iran\u2019s regime,\u201d Mark Dubowitz, the CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank, wrote on X Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey played this card at their weakest\u2014not when Khamenei intended: after securing nukes and ICBMs, backed by vast arsenals of ballistic missiles and drones and powerful terror armies,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Iran has insisted that it will maintain control of the Strait of Hormuz and warned the US to end its blockade or face retaliatory attacks in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump claimed Wednesday that the US has complete control of the Strait of Hormuz, one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[38,102,34,1488,81,101,933],"class_list":["post-246407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-donald-trump","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-navy","tag-politics","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117083465587427796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}