Iran Is Using Alternative Routes To Bypass US Naval Blockade

LMAO, land routes aren't some secret ace up their sleeve It would take like 10,000 truckloads to replace a single VLCC tanker delivery, and *exponentially* increase shipping costs. Iran could have been running every tanker truck and train they own at full capacity for the duration of this war and it wouldn't offset losses from US seizures alone, let alone the cost of the blockade

There is no feasible substitute on this time scale. Their oil exports have been severely curtailed.

Pipelines and other land based methods have far less capacity than cargo ships So either way it’s hurting Iran’s oil revenues

People are missing the bigger picture. Iran needs some revenue, yes, but they also need to not fully stop the pumping in order to not damage their oil wells long term. Sure, they could lower the pumping by X%, just enough to avoid damages, and throw away the oil (short term loss, they cannot easily recoup if they don’t have long term storage). OR they could find a way to not throw away the oil, and sell it. Yes, trucks, pipelines, rails, whatever, is not efficient, is a logistics nightmare, and you probably making not much of a profit, but it is better than nothing, moving the oil, keep people busy, get some additional revenue that is just buying them a bit more time, while the US is figuring out how to get out of the situation, they put themselves in (and the rest of the world, but the US does not care about that). Remember that supposedly, the Iranian wells should all have exploded last week because of the blockade (Trump’s words, supposedly because Iran had to stop pumping). Clearly, Iran knows a thing or two how to handle the situation, and how to learn for next time, and they know how to play the clock.

I thought the whole point is to lift the blockade..

Oil is shipped via pipeline from Russia thru Ukraine into Europe and Russia is making a TON of money

Ah yes, it is overland trade with Turkmenistan which will finally end Iranian reliance on the ocean once and for all

Without cargo ships, Iran bleeds out. It’s literally that simple. This was our non-nuclear, nuclear play 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Did they like dig a small trench from iranian ports to caspian sea?

What? There is bypass to the strait that we don’t know about?

The US hubris and ignorance have combined to demonstrate how might in the hands of fools evaporates. The whole world now knows how incompetent the US has become. Maybe news anchor people aren’t so smart after all.

Seems like the US should put some embargo on Pakistan as well.

So if they arent going to use the strait anymore, does that mean theyll use the bends?

> Trump claimed in late April that Iran’s “whole oil infrastructure is going to explode” because the US barricade was preventing Tehran from exporting its oil, the country’s economic lifeline. But experts are skeptical that the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz will force Tehran to capitulate or sign a peace deal on US terms. > Rosemary Kelanic, director of the Middle East Program at Defense Priorities, a Washington-based think tank, said Iran’s geography has lessened the blow of the US naval blockade. > A country of some 90-million people, Iran has nearly 6,000 kilometers of land borders with seven countries as well as a 700-kilometer-long coastline along the Caspian Sea, connecting it to Central Asia and Russia. > “The possibilities for the Iranians to ‘MacGyver’ their way around Trump's blockade are endless because the country has thousands of miles of land border to work with,” Kelanic added.