Doug Holden

@CENTCOM It’s the Persian Gulf, not Arabian!

@CENTCOM Mine clearing by missile guided destroyers? Including seabed pulse mines? 😏🤔

Please tell me these are AI or photoshop? But pre AI and photoshop?

@RenaiXsanceMan And your point having said they were clearing mines when it’s not their job!

@holdasek They are still US Navy.

US Navy begins preparing to clearing mines in the Straits of Hormuz as America and Iran hold peace talks in Pakistan.

@SaeedAssiri @ibukun_afo73618 @Kaleem493 @jacksonhinklle Nonsense. they were guided missile destroyers including the US Michael Murphy that have NO mine sweeping capability. Indeed are very much at risk to undetectable sea bed pulse mines that Iran possesses.

@holdasek @ibukun_afo73618 @Kaleem493 @jacksonhinklle USA has begun clearing mines and ensuring safe ship passage,with no reported interference so far.Since1979,Iran has often acted little devil vs.the big devil responses have frequently.Current reflect escalating tensions and serious consequences. So Iran regime come to end also

🤣🇮🇷🇺🇸 BREAKING: Iranian negotiators REJECTED Trump's proposal for joint management of the Strait of Hormuz - Financial Times

@winkinj @davidfrum There’s a ceasefire at the moment f wit

@holdasek @davidfrum Well the Iranians aren’t shooting at it… so bring in the minesweepers

WSJ report on how Trump's Iran War is ending with the Islamic Republic the tollmaster of the Persian Gulf. wsj.com/articles/the-s… Trump is now trying to recoup at the negotiating table what he lost on the battlefield.

@NadeemMQureshi @CENTCOM they were guided missile destroyers including the US Michael Murphy that have no mine sweeping capability. Indeed are still very much at risk to undetectable sea bed pulse mines that Iran possesses.

@CENTCOM So if clearing mines was just a matter of ordering 2 destroyers into the Strait, why have you waited 40 some days and allowed the global economy to tank before sending them there? Please show some respect for the intelligence of those who follow your posts.

@CapitalistCrus1 @NadeemMQureshi @CENTCOM And they were guided missile destroyers including the US Michael Murphy that have no mine sweeping capability. Indeed are very much at risk to undetectable sea bed pulse mines that Iran possesses.

@NadeemMQureshi @CENTCOM Why would you risk damaging two ships by sending them into a hostile strait? The US economy is not reliant on middle eastern oil, so those ships are more valuable to us than re-opening the straits is.

@aaron_a_t And they were guided missile destroyers including the USS Michael Murphy that have no mine sweeping capability. Indeed are very much at risk to undetectable sea bed pulse mines that Iran possesses.

My take about the USN ships in the Straits: It’s just Trump desperately looking for a victory photo op to tell Fox News that he won the war and opened the straits that had been open prior to the war… In the meantime, no oil tanker can pass without Iranian permission so it’s obviously just a PR stunt, possibly coordinated with Iran to offer Trump a fake victory off ramp while he caves to Iranian demands.

@chrisweston1963 @Wurmserscribit Yes. straits at 2.45 pm today New York time

@Wurmserscribit You do know the Straits aren't open yet, ergo there is no checkmate, just hoped for outcomes by a lot of MAGA fans beginning to notice that their hero is getting ready to chicken out again, and they're feeling short-changed.

I don’t think that people fully understand how much of a strategic check-mate mive this is. All along the only “victory“ that Iran has had was both closing the straits of Hormuz and asserting the fact of sovereignty over it by being the one who has to agree to allow a ship to pass through. It was also Iran’s path economic survival. With about 140 ships on average passing through the streets a day and two million dollars being charged per ship by Iran, that translates into over $100 billion a year. That is how much the Iranian economy has lost in this war. This was their compensation for it. All of a sudden, the United States without coordination with Iran opens a passage during the Straits. This stripped Iran first of a economic necessity, because it is difficult to imagine them economically surviving a loss permanently of 100 to 150,000,000,000 to their GDP, and annulled its sovereignty over the Straits, and of its only claim to have gained a “victory“ over what had been the status quo ante in Feb 2026. Namely its Ace card has just been stripped from its hands in all respects. So they really only have one of two choices. The first is to accept it and admit now that they have not achieved anything in the war that they can point to and to accept the fact that they will lose over 100 billion in revenue per year from this, Or second, they will have to violate the cease-fire to shut the straits, in which case they bear the onus of the collapse of the cease-fire. Basically President Trump has trapped them.

@Chris443541 @bariksis No. Straits at 2.51 pm New York time

@bariksis Looks like those toll ships are busy going through the straits 👀

AH ARE WE TRUSTING THIS INSIDIOUS BITCOIN WEEKEND PUMP FOLKS!?

@winkinj @davidfrum Again - no mine sweeping capability!

@holdasek @davidfrum Same class of vessel that’s in the straits . 2 of them !!!! Where is the Iranian response?

@winkinj @davidfrum That’s the USS John Jones which is in dry dock, San Diego, not in the straits.

@holdasek @davidfrum Iranians not stopping this

@winkinj @davidfrum Do you know what a sea bed pulse mine is?

@avionsunantiqu1 Agreed. Quite possible yes. But lots of folks thinking the ships were sweeping mines. They were very much at risk unless they traversed Oman side.

@holdasek It was there to call Iran's bluff. It turned around rather than keep going all the way through Hormuz. It follows the Iranian account is true and the US account is misleading (at best).

For a moment in HFI's Video, you can see the US Navy Ship in the Straits of Hormuz today (blue triangle in the first F of marinetraffic below the O in Video). Note it is moving East, back out to the Gulf of Oman. This is consistent with being turned back by Iran.#OOTT #Iranwar

@winkinj @davidfrum Not a case of disappointment. Just pointing out the risk involved. And abuse not necessary

@holdasek @davidfrum And yet it went through unscathed. Sorry to disappoint u

@winkinj @davidfrum USS Michael Murphy, a guided missile destroyer, not minesweeper, very susceptible risk by sea bed pulse mines that Iran possesses.

@davidfrum Wrong . Us navy is in the straits .

@Monlave_300 It was USS Michael Murphy a guided missile destroyer, not mine sweeper, very susceptible to undetectable sea bed pulse mines that Iran possesses.

@thomas15254 @vvliiiv The ship was USS Michael Murphy that is a guided missile destroyer, not a minesweeper. It was therefore at risk especially to undetectable sea bed pulse mines that the Iranians possesses.

@vvliiiv Nice deception by Trump- the ceasefire gives them enough time to clear a path through the straits. Nice work President Trump! 👏👏👏

عاجل: خطوة بارعة من وزير الخارجية الإيراني عباس عراقجي للإيقاع بترامب 🔥 ترامب: "على إيران فتح مضيق هرمز مهما كلف الأمر، أنا متأكد تمامًا أنهم سيفعلون ذلك". عراقجي: "لا نستطيع العثور على جميع الألغام المزروعة في مضيق هرمز، ولا نملك أي معدات للعثور عليها. لذا من المستحيل فتح المضيق حاليًا". "زرعت الألغام بسرعة بواسطة زوارق صغيرة تابعة للحرس الثوري الإيراني، وقد انجرف بعضها من مواقعها الأصلية". هذا الرجل يسبق الجميع بخطوات. كلنا نعرف ما يفعله هنا 🫡