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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | April 25th, 2026: Iran Talks Collapse—What Happens Next? · 25 Apr 2026 podcast

And so that's additional resources, additional platforms to both enforce a blockade, but also to conduct maritime operations through the Strait of Hormuz and into the other side of the Gulf.

So if we have undersea vehicles right now doing hunting for mines, if we are intending to do any sort of convoy operation or pilots, and you want more firepower to defend against missile and drone threats and these small boat attacks,

That would make sense to increase your numbers there.

There is a lot of floating oil storage in the Gulf of Oman.

These are tankers that the Iranians filled up and just moved out.

This is all illicit oil, right?

All Iranian oil is under U.S.

sanctions and has been for several years now.

Really, only the Chinese, through these so-called teapot refineries,

that have taken the offtake, and we've never really climbed the ladder all the way up to the state-owned enterprises who then take the offtake from these teapot refineries, which we could at any point.

So until they're able to sell that oil illicitly, they kind of sit around in different places, a lot of it in the Gulf of Oman.

We can go take that oil.

You've seen the Navy already on the Indian Ocean, apparently, interdicting, I think, a report of three tankers so far from Iran's ghost fleet.

I would imagine we are also taking the oil on board those VLCCs.

That is something that you can do with your Navy that will have an effect.

It can also have a short-term positive effect on the market of releasing more oil to the market.

But, you know, as far as how long you can sustain that for, obviously, part of that is a logistics question.

Think of the Ford, obviously, that had already had to turn around, go to Suda Bay, get some repairs and come back.

At some point, you know, there is an expectation that maybe the Bush is relieving the Ford at some point.

The Ford is way overdue.

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