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The Strait of Hormuz is closed again.:
Iran fully closes Strait of Hormuz over US blockade and fires on ships
April 18, 2026
CAIRO (AP) — The standoff over the Strait of Hormuz escalated again Saturday as Iran reversed its reopening of the crucial waterway and fired on ships attempting to pass, in retaliation after the United States pressed ahead with its blockade of Iranian ports.
The strait is closed until the U.S. blockade is lifted, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard navy said Saturday night, warning that “no vessel should make any movement from its anchorage in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, and approaching the Strait of Hormuz will be considered as cooperation with the enemy” and be targeted.
New attacks on the strait, through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil normally passes, threatened to deepen the global energy crisis and push the countries into renewed conflict as the war entered its eighth week.
A fragile ceasefire is due to run out by Wednesday. https://apnews.com/article/us-iran-war-israel-hormuz-18-april-2026-ab475cb979825b956a10d60103026b37
There are a lot of potential prophetic ramifications for a closed Strait of Hormuz.
Could we see a Hormuzageddon?
Notice the following:
Hormuz Blockade, Fertilizer Shock, Food Crisis — What Most People Don’t See Coming
by Chris MacIntosh April 17, 2026
Kind of scary, isn’t it? …
Super phosphate is the backbone of fertilisers used on farms.
Superphosphate and nitrogen fertilisers serve distinct, complementary roles: superphosphate (P, S, Ca) boosts root development, legume growth, and long-term soil fertility without altering pH. Nitrogen (N) — e.g., urea — drives rapid, leafy vegetative growth, stem development, and overall plant greenness.
In essence, nitrogen makes things grow fast… gives plants a quick growing boost.
However, if the soil is not fertile (lacks nutrients) it won’t grow. So you need to have applied super first to give plants their nutrient base. Then, just prior to harvesting, farmers will apply nitrogen to give plants a quick growing boost.
Super phosphate is made by reacting finely ground phosphate rock with sulphuric acid. Sulphuric acid comes from sulphur (via the Contact Process). …
Some 15% of the world’s phosphate rock is produced by Middle Eastern countries and must pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
By now you have probably figured out where this line of thinking is going…
The blocking of the Strait is going to be way more devastating to farming/crop production than what the vast majority is being led to believe.
A global food crisis… and when the masses go hungry!
The problem is that this will all be a delayed response. Folks won’t see the results of this show up until year-end. …
If you want to understand where trends like a Hormuz disruption could lead — and how a serious investor might think about navigating them — take a few minutes to watch this private conversation featuring Doug Casey and renowned contrarian hedge fund manager Chris MacIntosh. email 4/17/2026 4:15:24 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Europe has been concerned:
Europe to accelerate effort to secure Hormuz despite Trump’s order to stay away
More than 30 leaders joined a video conference call on Friday to map out an international mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz.
17 April 2026
PARIS — European leaders pledged to rapidly ramp up a multinational effort to secure the Strait of Hormuz after Iran said it would reopen the vital waterway to maritime traffic, even if Donald Trump doesn’t want their help.
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the prime ministers of Italy and the United Kingdom, Giorgia Meloni and Keir Starmer, jointly announced Friday that they would be spearheading what Starmer called a “defensive” mission to ensure freedom of navigation in the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas travels. …
After announcing that Tehran had agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz following Israel and Lebanon’s agreement on a 10-day ceasefire, Trump wrote Friday on his Truth Social account that his NATO allies were “useless” and weren’t needed.
“I received a call from NATO asking if we would need some help. I TOLD THEM TO STAY AWAY, UNLESS THEY JUST WANT TO LOAD UP THEIR SHIPS WITH OIL,” he wrote. …
After the meeting in Paris on Friday, which included leaders from more than two dozen countries via videoconference, Meloni offered to deploy Italian frigates to the region. Germany on Thursday said it would contribute minesweepers.
“It’s going in the right direction, even if the opening of Hormuz is conditional to coordination by the Iranian authorities and the United States has said it is going to maintain a targeted blockade,” Macron said.
“Recent developments are encouraging but we must take them with caution,” the French leader added.
But Europeans are at odds about whether the United States should be included in the mission, with France insisting the mission should only include non-belligerent countries, https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-to-accelerate-effort-secure-hormuz-despite-donald-trump-order-to-stay-away/
The closing of the Strait by Iran will likely even further motivate European resolve.
Oil and fertilizer shortages tend to be inflationary and this could also result in starvation in some areas.
While this is also pushing Europe further away from the USA–prophetically, that will not end well for the USA (cf. Lamentations 1:1-2l; Daniel 11:39; Isaiah 10:5-11).
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