The United States has suddenly imposed full scale, secondary sanctions upon Iran oil sales.
What this means is that the US tells EVERY other nation in the world, that if they buy __any__ oil from Iran, then their entire country cannot do any business AT ALL with the United States.
This is the kind of economic activity that directly causes a shooting war. The entire country of Iran survives on oil sales. Now, no one else in the world can buy their oil for fear of losing access to US markets.
This is a death stranglehold by the US upon Iran's entire economy.
President Trump made the announcement himself on Social Media:
It appears that something specific may have happened, perhaps with the Houthis in Yemen and our navy ships in the Red Sea, because almost simultaneous to Trump's announcement, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also made a stunning social media posting:
It was the imposition of new sanctions by the USA that caused the pending US-Iran nuclear talks in Rome, scheduled for this weekend, to be "suspended."
UPDATE 2:10 AM EDT (FRIDAY) --
Just found out the real target is: China.
China is the largest buyer of Iran oil, so it is China that is propping-up Iran economically.
By issuing Secondary Sanctions, Trump is making it impossible for China to do __any__ business with the United States.
Some people have speculated that Trump expected China to come to negotiate over Tariffs and the CLAIM is that China didn't even call. I am not certain that's true, because Chinese delegations were seen entering the US Treasury Department last week. They were photographed by someone outside and the Chinese DEMANDED the photos be deleted. They were not.
There were several references by President Trump to China and the US "talking" which were all directly denied by China.
Now I am learning that China has not negotiated and not even called the US about the Tariffs, but I cannot verify those claims.
So these Secondary Sanctions issued by the US against Iran, seem to be trying to compel China to come to the negotiating table with the US under threat of not doing __any__ commerce with the USA, but this will backfire.
About eighty percent (80%) of Pharmaceuticals in US Drug Stores are either made in China, or made in India but SOURCED from China.
If the US were to cut-off all commerce with China (over Iran oil) then those medicines would not be shipped to the US - if they haven't stopped already.
Can you imagine the level of trouble it would cause the US if 80% of its prescription medications stopped coming into the country? Not only would a whole slew of people die, the people who take Psych meds might all start flipping-out from suddenly being cut-off from them. It could be chaos.
More if I get it.
