{"id":501374,"date":"2026-03-03T17:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/trump-the-us-navy-will-escort-oil-tankers-through-the-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:13:51","slug":"trump-the-us-navy-will-escort-oil-tankers-through-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/economy\/trump-the-us-navy-will-escort-oil-tankers-through-the-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: \"The US Navy will escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz\""},"content":{"rendered":"Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/116166926920657651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asserted<\/a> that the U.S. Navy is ready to \"escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz\", blocked by Iran following the conflict in the Middle East.\n\n\"If necessary, the U.S. Navy will begin escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible. Whatever happens, the United States will guarantee the free flow of energy to the world,\" wrote the U.S. president on his Truth Social account.\n\n<strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/Trump threatens to cut trade with Spain over its stance on the Iran war\">http:\/\/Trump threatens to cut trade with Spain over its stance on the Iran war<\/a>\n\n\n<p>In this context, Trump declared that he had ordered the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to \"<strong>provide, at a very reasonable price, political risk insurance and guarantees<\/strong>&nbsp;for the financial security of all maritime trade, especially energy, transiting the [Persian] Gulf.\" According to the president, the insurance \"will be available to all shipping companies.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Closure of the Strait of Hormuz<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nThe Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most important maritime passages, through which approximately one-fifth of the world's seaborne oil trade passes, <strong>was closed this Monday<\/strong> by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran (IRGC).\n\n\n<p>\"Anyone who wants to pass, our selfless heroes of the Navy and the IRGC Army will set fire to those ships,\"&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/590282-guardia-revolucionaria-irani-estrecho-ormuz-cerrado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a>&nbsp;Ebrahim Jabbari, a senior commander of the IRGC. \"<strong>Do not come to this region. We will not allow a single drop of oil to leave<\/strong>,\" concluded the commander.<\/p>\n\n\nThe closure of the strait has caused a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/590333-enviado-putin-pronostica-precios-energia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rise<\/a> in energy prices<\/strong> and costs for energy and shipping companies whose ships cannot pass through the strait.\n\n\n<p><em><strong>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/a-fondo\/554476-estrecho-ormuz-verdadera-arma-nuclear-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, Iran's true 'weapon'<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/esrt.space\/actualidad\/589438-israel-lanzar-ataque-teheran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Israel<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/esrt.space\/actualidad\/589465-trump-confirma-agresion-eeuu-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United States<\/a>\u00a0launched a joint attack against Iran in the early hours of Saturday, February 28, with the stated aim of \"eliminating the threats\" of\u00a0the Islamic Republic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The bombings claimed the life of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/442388-fallece-lider-supremo-iran-ali-jamenei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supreme leader<\/a>\u00a0of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and several\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/589814-iran-confirma-muerte-jefe-mayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">high-ranking<\/a>\u00a0military\u00a0officials\u00a0of the country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In response,\u00a0Tehran\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/589486-medios-iran-lanzar-decenas-misiles-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched<\/a>\u00a0several waves of ballistic missiles towards Israel, as well as against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/589511-conflicto-iran-eeuu-israel-oriente-medio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bases<\/a>\u00a0of the United States located in Middle Eastern countries. It also carried out attacks against British military installations in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/esrt.space\/actualidad\/589864-iran-dispara-misiles-chipre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cyprus<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Iranian Revolutionary Guard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/esrt.space\/actualidad\/589772-iran-anunciar-operacion-feroz-historia-israel-eeuu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that it is preparing \"the most devastating offensive operation\" in its history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump asserted that the U.S. Navy is ready to &#8220;escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz&#8221;, blocked by Iran following the conflict in the Middle East. &#8220;If necessary, the U.S. Navy will begin escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible. Whatever happens, the United States will guarantee the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41382,40230],"class_list":{"0":"post-501374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy","7":"tag-ormuz","8":"tag-united-states"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Economy"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501375,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501374\/revisions\/501375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}