US President considers that Iran is acting “very poorly” in the passage of oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
The indication was given after the announcement of the ceasefire: the Iran will be demanding payment of toll, paid in cryptocurrencies, at tankers who want to go through Strait of Hormuz.
Hamid Hosseini, spokesman for the Iranian Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Exporters Union, said this payment would be required over the two weeks of the ceasefire.
Furthermore, the Iranian authorities will also be carrying out strict monitoring of the cargo – to ensure that no weapons are transported.
The spokesperson explained that each ship must send cargo information in advance, via email; then wait for notification of the tariff, ($1 per barrel of oil); After the evaluation, to avoid tracking or sanctions, pay in bitcoin.
Donald Trump does not agree: “There are reports that Iran is charging fees to oil tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz — They better not be doing it, and if they are, they better stop now!”
“Iran is acting very poorly — some would say dishonorably — to allow oil to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. That’s not the deal that we have!”, continued the US president, in messages published on Truth Social.
Criticism and the psychiatrist
Trump also published a series of criticisms of the media and commentators who questioned his declaration of victory over the Islamic Republic, as happened in the Wall Street Journal.
“The Wall Street Journal, one of the worst and most inaccurate editorial boards in the world, claimed that I declared a premature victory in Iran. In reality, it is a victory, and there is nothing ‘premature’ about it!”, said Trump in Truth Social, shortly after targeting influential conservative commentators, in another message.
“I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens e Alex Jones (…) they think it is fantastic that Iran, the main state supporting terrorism, has nuclear weapons. It’s because they have something in common: they have a low IQ. They are stupid”, Trump said.
These four conservative commentators publicly expressed their opposition to the war in Iran, seeing it as a breach of the isolationist promise of the “America First” policy defended by Trump, and accusing the President of having given in to pressure from Israel to trigger the conflict on February 28.
According to Trump, the four “were all fired from television, lost their programs and are no longer even invited to the studios because no one is interested in them; they are unbalanced, disorder promoters“.
Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly are both former hosts of the conservative broadcaster Fox News who now run their own independent programs.
For Carlson, Trump advises “maybe go and consult a psychiatrist”.
As for conspiracist influencer Candace Owens, Trump criticizes her for “accusing the first lady and France, highly respected, to be a man, when that is not the case.”
The North American President says he “hopes” that Brigitte Macron “wins a lot of money” in the defamation lawsuit filed in a North American court by the French presidential couple against Owens, for spreading the conspiracy theory.
