Friday, March, 13 2026 - Iran’s new supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei ordered the Strait of Hormuz oil shipping lane to remain closed on Thursday, March 12.
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's message was read by a
newscaster on state television. He has yet to appear publicly since his
nomination last Sunday as supreme leader, after he was reportedly injured in an
airstrike.
Khamenei, whose father Ali Khamenei was k!lled in the first
wave of US-Israeli attacks at the start of the Middle East war, called for the
Strait of Hormuz to remain blocked and for Gulf countries to close their US
military bases.
“The lever of blocking the Strait of Hormuz must definitely
be used,” Khamenei said of the waterway through which a quarter of world’s oil
and liquefied natural gas (LNG) usually transit.
He added that “a limited amount of” Iran’s revenge for US
and Israeli strikes had “taken concrete form, but until it is fully achieved,
this case will remain among our priorities.”
Iran launched a new wave of attacks against Gulf energy
targets on Thursday, March 12, that sent prices oil spiking briefly above $100
a barrel and led to a warning that the crisis could lead to to “the largest
supply disruption” in history.
But Trump dismissed growing concerns, writing on social
media that “of far greater interest and importance to me, as President, is
stoping an evil Empire, Iran, from having Nuclear Weapons, and destroying the
Middle East and, indeed, the World.”
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