Bessent: Transporting Oil via Pipelines Will Neutralize the "Hormuz Card" U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent directly told the media: The Strait of Hormuz will never return to its former state. Because Iranians have already (or attempted) to turn it into a strategic target.
He explicitly stated: In the next two years, this strait will become irrelevant, reduced to ordinary waters. Currently transported energy passing through here—over 50% to 70%—will shift underground via pipelines.
This is no empty talk—it's a calculated strategy being advanced by the Trump administration: using pipelines to completely neutralize Iran's energy blackmail weapon.
Iran’s “Hormuz card” is gradually being dismantled.
Transporting oil via pipelines isn't a particularly novel idea and immediately raises many questions.
Won’t Iranians and Houthis sabotage the pipelines?
Perhaps underground pipelines would be harder to destroy.
Does this mean everyone must prepare for another two years of high oil prices? Relief may only come after the pipelines are built.
It also requires assuming that Iran hasn't discovered the pipelines and won't bomb the terminal ports at either end.
Such an assumption sounds utterly implausible.
Let’s be frank: Bessent is effectively admitting that the U.S. cannot secure the Strait of Hormuz—indirectly conceding defeat.
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