The US military just called the ultimate bluff and Iran’s blockade has been completely shattered.

You see, for weeks, a desperate regime claimed that they had rigged the world’s most critical waterway with deadly underwater mines, daring ships to cross the line.

But this morning, in broad daylight, heavily armed American warships sailed right through the chokeold entirely unchallenged.

This is the first time something like this has happened since the war began.

And it’s happening right at a time when Iran needs all the leverage it can get to negotiate a deal that it can live with.

Take a look.

After all the complaining about the ceasefire after threatening to back out unless the US convinced Israel to implement a ceasefire in Lebanon, Iranian officials did eventually show up to negotiations.

In fact, they actually arrived in Pakistan before the US plane even landed.

The very next day, the US delegation landed too.

Vice President JD Vans got off the plane and met with Pakistani officials before heading into negotiations.

Now, we’ll go over exactly who showed up from the Iranian side because it tells us a lot about how seriously they’re taking these negotiations, but before we do that, let’s talk about those US warships.

You see, this morning, two US warships transited through the state of Hermoose and went into the Persian Gulf, then came back out.

This is the first time since the war began that US ships, US warships have actually entered the Persian Gulf.

Now, there is one Iranian state media outlet that’s claiming that this didn’t actually happen.

The warships actually tried to enter, but the Iranian Navy threatened them and they turned it around.

But then again, this same outlet has been caught lying multiple different times in just last few weeks.

And on top of that, there are three different publications now confirming that two US warships did transit from east to the west entering the Persian Gulf and came back out.

And on top of all this, we can also look at just the satellite data, the location data for these warships.

And we can see that the journey did in fact take place and it happened in broad daylight.

This was a multi-hour mission happening exactly where everyone could see it.

So if Iran wanted to do something, they could have, but they didn’t.

US officials are also confirming that this transit was not coordinated with Iranian authorities, meaning the warships just went in and came back out.

Now, we don’t exactly know what they were doing.

Maybe this was just supposed to be a message that US has free reign over the strait now that a ceasefire is in effect.

Or maybe the warships were escorting a tanker into the Persian Gulf and back out.

Or maybe they were clearing mines.

We don’t exactly know.

But we do know that Iranians had previously claimed that there were mines in the straight of Hermoose.

Take a listen.

This is from an Iranian deputy foreign minister who just confirmed this information 2 days ago.

Meaning this interview is just from April 9th.

The straight of hormones is open.

Of course, there are technical restrictions because of the the war zone and because of many arrangement that Iran did during the war during this aggression against Iran.

So there are some technical restraints and this is why that all the ships that they would like to uh pass through through the straight of wars they have to communicate with our army and our uh military um contact points there because because of the limitations in this
straight and this straight is a very narrow straight.

It is in our territorial water plus territorial water it is in inside our water.

So, so we have to be very careful for the safety and security of tankers and and and vessels.

Uh those technical restrictions are very much uh connected to the uh wartime condition and it takes time to be removed.

So safe passage is is secured uh straight of foremost is open.

But of course uh every each tankers and every each vessel should uh make sec make necessary arrangements with the Iranian authorities to be able to securely pass the straight.

>> Now he says that Iran has a map of these mines and that’s why ships need to coordinate with Iran to get safe passage through the straight of Hermus.

Now, I’m not exactly sure how true that is because just yesterday, the New York Times reported that Iran is actually unable to find the mines that it had placed itself.

This could be because they never had a map or maybe because the person who actually did the job, who placed the mines, had a map and got buried deep underground in a bunker where he was hiding when American strikes took place.

So, we don’t exactly know, but this is where I do want to talk about the theory that some people have floated over the last few days.

They were basically saying that Iran never actually put down underwater mines.

They just said publicly that they did.

So the ships were too afraid, especially civilian ships were too afraid to take the risk.

And this effectively blockaded the straight of Hermoose even though Iran didn’t actually do anything to, you know, make it dangerous.

Then again, this is just a theory.

We actually don’t have any proof.

And on top of that, just to disregard this theory a little bit, President Trump himself put out a statement this morning confirming that US forces are actually carrying out a mission clearing the mines.

Take a look.

The only thing Iran has going for itself is the threat that ships may bunk into one of their sea mines, which by the way, all their 28 of their mind dropper boats are also lying at the bottom of the sea.

We are now starting the process of clearing out the state of Hermoose as a favor to countries all over the world including China, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, and many other.

Incredibly, they don’t have the courage or will to do this work themselves.

Very interestingly, however, empty oil carrying ships from many nations are heading to the United States to load up on American oil.

Now, from what I understand, and I do want to clarify, I’m not a Navy expert, and on top of that, US military does have capabilities that the public doesn’t know about.

But from what I know based on public information, the two warships that went through the state of Hormuz actually don’t have advanced capabilities to detect and remove mines.

So, I’m not exactly sure if those two warships were there to remove mines or there are some other process or there is some other process that’s about to start or ongoing that’s meant to remove the mines.

But nonetheless, two warships going in and out of the straight of Hermoose is definitely a big deal, especially considering that this happened in the middle of the day.

Their transponders were fully on and everyone could see it.

We have to assume that Iran loses a little bit of their leverage if the Straight of Hermoose opens up to any kind of traffic that Iran doesn’t want it to open up.

Iran has said publicly that they’re not going to let more than 15 ships out of the Straight of Hermoose in a single day.

Now, as of right now, the traffic is well below that or maybe close to that limit.

But if it does go above that, that does mean that Iran is losing a bit of their leverage.

Now talking about negotiations, guess what China is doing.

All the while negotiations are ongoing in Pakistan.

US intelligence indicates that China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran within the next few weeks.

The system Beijing is preparing to transfer are shoulder fired anti-air missiles called manpads.

These man pads posed a asymmetric threat to low-flying US aircrafts throughout the war and could again if the ceasefire falls apart.

Now, also remember during the press conference after the rescue mission that took place just a week ago, President Trump confirmed that the F-15 that went down did go down because of a handheld shoulder fired missile, which means a man pad was used.

So, if more man pads do come in, it would create a significant problem for the US Air Force if the ceasefire falls apart.

But luckily, we do have some positive news from the negotiations that are ongoing in Pakistan.

Take a look at the list of people who came from the Iranian side.

Now, we don’t know the exact number, but based on just estimates, we have seen that around 70 people showed up in the Iranian delegation to negotiate a deal.

They have economic experts, diplomatic experts, and security experts.

Everyone is basically there.

The U.S. Military Just Did Something HUGE To Open Strait Of Hormuz

Even the person that we were talking about yesterday, the Muhammad Beageri guy who IRGC was pushing to be included as someone who, you know, represents IRGC’s convictions or IGC’s side in the negotiations.

Even that guy is included.

The size and the composition of this delegation does tell us something.

It basically means that Iran is taking this seriously and maybe they are hoping for a negotiated deal that they can live with.

Now, from yesterday’s video, some of you guys may remember that before the Iranian delegation took off from Iran to go to Pakistan, the speaker, the head of the delegation was basically saying that, hey, two of the conditions from the ceasefire agreements were not met.

And that meant that Iran is basically going to pull out of the negotiations.

According to him and according to his statement, these conditions were a ceasefire in Lebanon and two, the release of Iranian blocked assets, basically Iranian sanctioned money.

They want that money back.

Now, guess what? We know for sure one of these was not fulfilled.

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon even as we speak.

Israel has struck over 200 Hezbollah targets in the last 24 hours.

And on top of this, US officials are also saying that they never actually agreed to release any of the Iranian frozen funds for the ceasefire.

And guess what? They did not release any of it.

So that means despite both of the conditions basically not being met, Iranians still went to Pakistan and Iranians are negotiating right now.

In fact, as I’m recording this on Sunday morning, it seems like negotiations have been ongoing for over 4 hours now behind closed doors.

We have Vice President JD Vance negotiating with the Iranian delegation and experts from both sides are negotiating with each other.

This does tell us a little bit that Iran is desperate.

And maybe I’m misreading the situation because this is a bit of a personal opinion, but the way I look at things is that Iran publicly said that, hey, if these two conditions are not met, we’re not going to come.

And US was like, well, we never really agreed to those two conditions, so we’re not going to meet them right now.

We’re not going to fulfill the conditions.

So despite making a public comment about not coming, Iran still came to the negotiations.

They brought a big entourage, basically a big delegation to negotiate.

and they’re negotiating for a very long time.

That does tell us that Iran really, really wants the negotiations.

And on top of that, of course, it could be that Iran was just bluffing when it put out that statement, right? Maybe it was something that wasn’t negotiated and Iran was basically making it public very last second in hopes that, hey, maybe US will give them more than they deserve.

But US held firm on their line and Iran was like, all right, we tried, it was worth a try, you know, and they came back to negotiations anyway.

Either way, Hezbollah and Lebanese people are not happy about this because to them it looks like Iran completely embanded them after making some public statements and now they’re negotiating with United States.

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So, I’m sure that’s something Iran’s probably not happy about.

They have now a weaker relationship with one of their proxy groups.

But, nonetheless, let’s see how the negotiations go.

As of right now, negotiations are ongoing, but we don’t actually have any reports about what is being discussed, what is being agreed to, and what are the disagreements.

But when we do get those reports, I’ll be sure to make an updated video for you guys.

But when we do get those reports, I’ll be sure to make an updated video for you guys.

Until then, my name is Sam.

I’ll see you guys in the next video.

Now to understand why Iran is behaving the way it’s behaving right now, we have to go back and look at how Iran got to where it is today.

U.S. Military Just Did Something HUGE to Open Straits of Hormuz

That doesn’t just mean going back to 1979 when the Islamic Revolution took place.

In fact, we have to go further back to when the Kger dynasty was ruling Iran in the 19th century and look at how the decisions the ruling class made back then still affects Iran to this very day.

Well, guess what? That’s exactly what we’re doing in our multi-part podcast that just came out today.

So, if you’re someone who’s interested in the history of Iran and how we got to where we are today, definitely go check it out.