Trump announces 20% Hormuz cargo fee, renewed blockade of Iranian ports

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Iranian Frigate Hormuz,Strait

The president has previously said passage through the Strait of Hormuz should be free of tolls.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States will charge a 20% fee on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz and resume a blockade of Iranian ports near the waterway as the U.S. and Iran exchange new strikes.

Trump declared the United States the “guardian” of the major oil shipping route and said cargo moving through the strait would be subject to the new charge.

“The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as ‘THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,’ but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Monday.

Oil prices rose and stocks declined following Trump’s announcement, which came as Washington and Tehran traded new strikes.

Trump also said the United States would restore its blockade of Iranian ports near the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Central Command said the blockade will resume Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET.

The president has previously said passage through the Strait of Hormuz should be free of tolls.

He has also raised the possibility of the United States collecting charges for traffic through the route.

The U.S. has opposed Iranian plans to collect tolls from ships traveling through the strait.

Maritime experts, regulators and senior Trump administration officials have said Iran’s proposed charges would violate international law.

Trump’s latest announcement places the United States in the role he described as providing safety and security in the Strait of Hormuz while seeking payment equal to 20% of cargo shipped through the waterway.

The Strait of Hormuz has become the center of the rapidly escalating conflict between Washington and Tehran. The renewed blockade and Trump’s proposed cargo fee were announced as the two countries continued exchanging military strikes.

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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