Iran Escalates as IRGC Fires at Tanker in Hormuz Strait, Hezbollah Violates Ceasefire
BBC: “Iran’s security council says it is “determined” to control the Strait.”
With the two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire set to expire on Wednesday, Tehran and Hezbollah are already violating the truce with renewed attacks.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) opened fire on two Indian-owned ships early Saturday, including an oil supertanker, a move aimed at threatening global energy supplies. “Two Indian-flagged vessels were fired at by Iranian gunboats in the Strait of Hormuz today,” India’s NDTV reported. “One of the two vessels involved in the incident is a very large crude carrier (VLCC), a classification given to tankers that are massive in size and designed for long-haul crude transport.”
In a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, Iran is trying to wrestle control of the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting 20 percent of global oil and gas exports. “Iran’s security council says it is “determined” to control the Strait,” the BBC reported Saturday.
President Donald Trump noted Iran’s latest violations, saying the regime “got a little cute, as they have been doing for 47 years.” Following six weeks of joint U.S.-Israeli military operations, Tehran had no naval force left to “blackmail” the world, he said.
“They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no leaders. They have, no, nothing,” President Trump told reporters on Saturday. “They wanted to close up the strait again, as they’ve been doing for years, but they can’t blackmail us.”
President Trump: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran "got a little cute," wanting to close the Hormuz Strait but "they can't blackmail us." pic.twitter.com/yIeY9Ln9Vt
— Donald J Trump Posts TruthSocial (@TruthTrumpPost) April 18, 2026
The Telegraph (UK) covered the latest Iranian naval attacks:
Iranian gun boats attacked at least two cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz after Tehran reimposed restrictions on the waterway in response to the continued US blockade of its ports.
Troops on two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) vessels opened fire on the ships 20 nautical miles north-east of Oman, without warning sailors, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations centre. It said one of the tankers was struck, but no injuries were reported from either crew.
A US security official told Axios that the IRGC had also attacked a third commercial ship in the waterway since reimposing restrictions.
Hezbollah violates the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire
Less than three days into a 10-day ceasefire, the Iranian terror proxy Hezbollah breached the agreement by resuming hostilities against Israel.
President Trump, on Thursday, announced a temporary truce, pausing a 45-day armed conflict that erupted after Hezbollah attacked Israel on behalf of Iran.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which currently holds a security buffer zone inside southern Lebanon, cited multiple ceasefire violations by Hezbollah. “Since the ceasefire came into effect, IDF soldiers south of the Yellow Line in southern Lebanon have identified in several incidents in which terrorists violated the ceasefire understandings by approaching from north of the Yellow Line toward IDF soldiers, posing an immediate threat,” the Israeli military said in a statement on Saturday.
The IDF undertook swift countermeasures to remove the terrorist threat along Israel’s northern border.
“Following their identification, and in order to remove the threat, the Israeli Air Force, together with ground forces, conducted precise strikes against the terrorists,” the IDF continued. “Artillery fire was carried out in support of the ground troops operating in the area, and terrorist infrastructure sites used to facilitate attacks were struck in response to the threats.”
Around 80,000 people were forced to flee their homes in northern Israel after Hezbollah, on October 8, 2023, began firing missiles, rockets, and drones across the border.
While President Trump, on Friday, “prohibited” Israel from carrying out strikes in Lebanon, the U.S.-brokered ceasefire recognizes the country’s “right to take all necessary measures in self-defence, at any time, against planned, imminent, or ongoing attacks.”
With its retaliatory actions, the IDF was acting within the parameters of the ceasefire deal. The military assured that “[a]ctions taken in self-defense and to remove immediate threats are not restricted by the ceasefire.” The IDF troops securing the border were “authorized to take the necessary measures in self-defense against threats, while ensuring the security of Israeli civilians and the soldiers deployed in the area,” it added.
❌ HEZBOLLAH CEASEFIRE VIOLATION: Since the ceasefire came into effect, IDF soldiers south of the Yellow Line in southern Lebanon identified several incidents in which terrorists violated the ceasefire understandings by approaching from north of the Yellow Line toward IDF…
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 18, 2026
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and eurotrash is doing what to protect their own vital interests?
building more wind turbines?
Back in the soup. Just as well. Now it’s up to Trump to seize Kharg and order the helicopters and Warthogs to sink those speedboats.
Seems like good drone training. Is there any legit reason for small vessels to be coming w/in 2 miles of commercial vessels?
I was going to ask the rhetorical question, “Why are those armed fast-boats still floating?”
We’ve been told many times that Iran no longer has a navy; apparently that was a wee bit of exaggeration.
With our satellite/surveillance technology it ought to be a relatively simple thing to find out where those boats dock and have a few dumb bombs (a couple of hundred 500-pounders should do it) dropped on them. Better yet would be to scramble some attack helicopters and sink them with much cheaper mini-gun ammo while they’re making the run out and back from the shipping lanes. Don’t waste now-scarce and very expensive smart weaponry on them, blow the IRGC lunatics to their 72 virgins in the most cost-effective way possible.
In honor of the legacy of Curtis Lemay, bomb them back to the Stone Age. Their ruling culture still lives in the 6th century, so they don’t have that far to go.
Not at all. No need. The IRGC is playing into our hands, probably because there are no cool heads left. Now the U.S., having shown a desire to negotiate, will be justified in sinking every speedboat, occupying Kharg and the oil fields, and sending expeditions in there to get the uranium.
and, Trump should call BiBi and say, “Change in plans. Finish the job on Hezbollah.”
Not sure what is going on exactly but as of now President Trump still seems to be hopeful a resolution can be had. But if not, we need not take any additional military action to cause considerable economic and structural damage to Iran. Kharg island will eventually run out of storage space and idle mature wells will likely permanently damaged. And of course oil exports are absolutely essential to the Iranian economy. The blockade will end them. Only a matter of time. Maybe 2 weeks before well damage and a month to crash the economy. Is Iran really this stupid and suicidal? Maybe.
What’s going on is IRGC is acting like KGB.
They need to be unalived.
So, we are back to bombing I guess
I remember the parody of the Beach Boys song from 1979:
“Bomb, bomb, bomb; bomb, bomb Iran”
And any US response will cause leftists to immediately shriek: “Trump broke the cease fire!!!!!”.
Looks like they may force the issue. No one, in truth, will be able to say they did not get too many benefits of the doubt and chose destruction. Says who they are and another reason why it’s justified.
I think what you are seeing is a fight between dead enders and those that realize what is actually going on. Suicide missions taken by rogue elements will go on until they are all dead.
What? Iran and its proxies didn’t keep their word? Shocking. 🙄
Time for some escorts and allowing tankers to return fire.
“Less than three days into a 10-day ceasefire, the Iranian terror proxy Hezbollah breached the agreement by resuming hostilities against Israel.”
Who DIDN’T have this on their card?
(Look for the square that says FREE SPACE.)
I am annoyed with “Iran” did, “Hezbollah” did, “Hamas” did…
WHO did. Or quit saying “President Trump” did.
The last time Muslims sued for peace and stayed peaceful was after ghengis khan sacked and utterly destroyed Bagdad and most of the Middle ey
I don’t understand how these mini gun boats aren’t annihilated like the drug boats in the Caribbean using hellfire missiles and Apache helicopters. That seems like a good solution.
A pack of Iranian vermin
Declared they were bound and determined
To wrought many a violation
But it brought them annihilation
Tho’ it upset the French and the Gemans