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The U.S. and Iran reached a fragile ceasefire agreement on Tuesday before President Donald Trump's threat of civilizational annihilation could be put to the test.Trump subsequently noted that the U.S. "will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz. There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made," adding that "this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!"'It is madness.'When asked on Wednesday whether he was amenable to the Iranians charging a toll for all ships that transit the Strait of Hormuz — the body of water between Iran and Oman linking the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman, across which one-fifth of the world's oil customarily travels — Trump told ABC News' Jonathan Karl, "We’re thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It’s a way of securing it — also securing it from lots of other people.""It's a beautiful thing," Trump said, hours before Iran reportedly halted oil tankers attempting to pass through the strait, claiming Israel had violated the ceasefire by firing on Lebanon.While now apparently open to such a partnership with Iran, Trump suggested to reporters on Monday that the U.S. could unilaterally impose tolls on vessels attempting to pass through the strait, reported The Hill.RELATED: Israel ramps up attacks on Middle East target despite US-Iran ceasefire Elif Acar/Anadolu/Getty Images"What about us charging tolls?" said Trump. "Why shouldn’t we? We’re the winner."He also said during the press briefing, "We want free traffic of oil and everything else."Such tolls on vessels transiting a natural strait would seem to run afoul of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea — ratified by the U.S., 170 other nations, and the European Union — which guarantees vessels the "right of transit passage" through straits used for international navigation; bars states bordering straits from hampering transit passage; and states that "no charge may be levied upon foreign ships by reason only of their passage through the territorial sea." Tolls can be levied only at man-made canals, according to the U.N. agreement.Of course, the agreement's authority and enforceability could be tested."All international law, unfortunately, is fragile," Saleem Ali, chair of the University of Delaware's geography department, told the New York Times. Ali noted that international laws depend on mutual respect between nations.Blaze News has reached out to the White House for comment.The idea clearly doesn't resonate with everyone.Karen Young, a senior research scholar at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, told Blaze News, "It is madness to think we are jointly collecting fees to help secure profits to the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]."Former Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy expressed a similar objection, writing, "If President Trump lets the Iranians charge a toll for ships in the Strait of Hormuz, then every time you fill up your car at the pump, you will put money straight in the pockets of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. This would be a humiliating disaster for the US."Joint venture or no, it appears that Iran aspires to keep sweating passersby in the Strait of Hormuz, now for crypto tributes.Hamid Hosseini, a spokesman for Iran's government-linked Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union, told the Financial Times that his nation intends to force ships passing through the strait to pay the cryptocurrency equivalent of $1 per barrel of oil and notify Iranian officials of their cargo during the two-week ceasefire."Once the email arrives and Iran completes its assessment, vessels are given a few seconds to pay in Bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions," said Hosseini. "Everything can pass through, but the procedure will take time for each vessel, and Iran is not in a rush."Reuters estimated last week that if Iran charged each vessel $2 million to transit the Strait of Hormuz, as it had already in one instance, and traffic were restored to prewar volume — 150 ships down the strait — Tehran could bring in around $110 billion annually.According to the European think tank Bruegel, the $2 million per vessel, which "translates to roughly $1 per barrel," would prompt the world oil price to rise "by only $0.05-$0.40 per barrel, relative to the pre-war level," with Gulf exporters absorbing the bulk of the toll.Of course, for Iran to impose tolls, it must first keep the strait open.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!...Read More

 
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Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe said the recovery of a downed U.S. airman in Iran was a "no-fail mission" that required technology available nowhere else in the world.In reference to an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter pilot who was lost in Iran, the CIA boss told reporters on Tuesday that the challenge of finding the pilot was comparable to hunting for a single grain of sand in the desert; but they did it.'If your heart is beating, we will find you.'Director Ratcliffe revealed the agency used human and technical assets and also "executed a deception campaign to confuse the Iranians who were desperately hunting for our airmen."He added, "At the president's direction, we deployed both human assets and exquisite technologies that no other intelligence service in the world possesses."While Ratcliffe stopped short of describing exactly what those "unique capabilities" were, an insider report by the New York Post claims that the CIA implemented a secret technology known as "Ghost Murmur."RELATED: Trump announces CEASEFIRE with Iran ahead of deadline The mountainous yet barren region of the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in Iran offered an ideal setting for the technology's first use, one source reportedly said.The CIA director stated that even though the pilot was hiding and concealed in a mountain crevice, he was still visible to the CIA but "invisible to the enemy."It was "about as clean an environment as you could ask for" due to low electromagnetic interference, the source went on. With "almost no competing human signatures" and a strong "thermal contrast between a living body and the desert floor" at nighttime, operators enjoyed a second layer of confirmation that they had found their man."It's like hearing a voice in a stadium, except the stadium is a thousand square miles of desert," an unnamed source told the Post.The "Ghost Murmur" tech uses long-range quantum magnetometry to identify the electromagnetic pulse of a human heartbeat. The heartbeat's signature is separated from background noise to locate it.The source, allegedly briefed on the CIA program, also said that "in the right conditions, if your heart is beating, we will find you."The source told the Post that the signal of a heartbeat is usually so weak it can only be measured in a hospital-style setting with sensors pressed to a person's chest, however, advances in the technology — chiefly built around finding defects in synthetic diamonds — have made finding such signals more possible."The capability is not omniscient. It works best in remote, low-clutter environments and requires significant processing time," the insider claimed.RELATED: NASA astronaut gives very American response to DEI questioning Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Anadolu/Getty ImagesSecretary of War Pete Hegseth told reporters at the same press conference that the pilot's first message upon finding cover was "God is good.""We leave no man behind. And that is not luck. It's the result of unmatched training, superior technology, unbreakable warrior ethos, and sheer American grit," Hegseth added.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!...Read More

 
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With the whole world holding its breath amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East over the past several weeks, President Trump's ceasefire with Iran has restored some confidence to the markets — though some uncertainty remains.Oil prices dropped and stocks surged after Trump's announcement on Tuesday evening that a ceasefire had been reached with Iran. Oil prices also plummeted as the Strait of Hormuz has been projected to be opened.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose over 1,300 points since the close of market on Tuesday following the announcement of the ceasefire. Likewise, the S&P 500 saw a 2.5% jump from Tuesday to Wednesday in response to the news, moving from just over 6,600 to 6,785 when markets opened on Wednesday.RELATED: Iran reneges on key point of ceasefire amid allegations of broken promises Punit PARANJPE/AFP/Getty ImagesThe NASDAQ also saw a significant leap in response to the news, moving nearly 650 points for an almost 3% positive gain.Oil prices also plummeted as the Strait of Hormuz has been projected to be opened. Crude oil WTI dropped from roughly 112 per barrel to just under 95 per barrel, a 17-point drop overnight.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!...Read More

 
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