The Plot

Misc

Trump said he was gonna blow up their energy facilities on Monday (March 30) and it just didn’t happen

waterway between Iran and Oman, 39 KM at its most narrow
- Also UAE sorta
resources that pass through (global scale)
- 20% of the world’s oil
  - 15 million barrels per day in 2025
  - 20% of LNG
  - 25% of seaborne oil trade
  - 85% goes to Asia (Japan, India, South Korea, China)
    - especially problematic for India and China
- up to 30% of internationally traded fertilizers
  - 30-35% of global urea exports
  - 20-30% of ammonia
Iran has threatened to close it multiple times, this is the first time they’ve actually gotten involved
fun fact - Saddam Hussein attacked Iranian shipping hoping they would close the Strait, which he thought would cause American intervention
alternate shipping routes
- Iraq Pipeline through Saudi Arabia (IPSA) could transport 1.65 million barrels from Iraq to the Red Sea
- Habshan-Fujairah oil pipeline could transport 2 million barrels from the UAE to after the Strait, which the UAE is currently working to improve

way deep in the Persian Gulf
25 km off the coast of Iran
sea port of up to 90% of Iran’s oil products
- includes fertilizers
storage for up to 30 million barrels of oil
Trump has talked about trying to seize it, but apparently Iran has an appetite for attacking it and tanking the self-hit, and it’s so close to Iran that there’s not much America could do to stop them, if they can take it in the first place
- If the US does take it, Iran would probably try to attack energy infrastructure across the ME