Rubio Takes Iran Strait Fight To The UN As Ceasefire Wobbles

One Way Or The Other': Rubio Warns Iran Over Hormuz Stranglehold

The Trump administration is preparing to take its battle with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz to the United Nations, as efforts to secure a lasting ceasefire remain mired in uncertainty.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a stark warning this week, insisting the vital shipping route must be reopened and declaring that the United States would pursue international action if Tehran refuses to back down.

The move raises the stakes in a standoff that has already rattled global energy markets and threatened one of the world's most important maritime chokepoints.

Ceasefire Deal Still Hanging In The Balance

Washington says negotiators have made progress toward a broader agreement that would extend the current ceasefire, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and launch fresh talks over Iran's nuclear programme.

But despite reports of a tentative breakthrough, the deal still requires approval from President Donald Trump.

Vice President JD Vance acknowledged that negotiators were close to an agreement but cautioned that significant hurdles remain.

"We're not there yet, but we're very close," Vance told reporters.

The uncertainty has left diplomats scrambling to prevent a return to hostilities while trying to secure guarantees for commercial shipping.

Rubio Turns To The United Nations

At the centre of the administration's strategy is a new UN Security Council resolution demanding that Iran halt attacks on shipping, stop laying sea mines and abandon plans to impose charges on vessels using the strait.

The proposal has been backed by several Gulf Arab states including Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar.

Rubio warned that failure by the Security Council to act would raise serious questions about the credibility of the international system itself.

"If the UN can't solve something as straightforward as this, then what is the utility of the UN system?" he asked.

Iran Refuses To Back Down

One of the biggest obstacles remains Iran's insistence that vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz should pay fees for what it describes as navigational services.

The Trump administration rejects that argument entirely.

Rubio accused Tehran of attempting to establish a tolling system over an international waterway used by much of the world's oil trade.

"That's just not acceptable. It can't happen," he said.

Iranian officials deny they are imposing tolls and argue the charges relate solely to services provided to shipping traffic.

Military Option Still Looms

While diplomacy remains the preferred path, Rubio made clear that Washington has not ruled out stronger measures.

"The straits have to be open. They're going to be open one way or the other," he warned.

The comment was widely interpreted as a signal that military options remain available if negotiations collapse.

A Waterway The World Cannot Afford To Lose

The Strait of Hormuz remains one of the most strategically important waterways on the planet.

Roughly 20 million barrels of oil pass through the narrow channel every day, making any disruption a direct threat to global energy supplies and international trade.

Previous efforts to secure UN action failed after Russia and China blocked an earlier resolution.

Whether the Security Council can break that deadlock now may determine not only the future of the Strait of Hormuz, but also whether the fragile ceasefire between Washington and Tehran survives the months ahead.

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Tear up an International agreement without consulting any of the parties to it.

Start an aggressive war instead.

Trash the country you attacked, including at least one verified major war crime (the savage massacre of schoolchildren deliberately played out whilst rocketing an adjacent medical facility).

Sink a major navy ship thousands of miles away from the area in a submarine attack.

Threaten them with ending their civilisation.

Actively blockade their ports and prevent any trade.

Run bleating to the United Nations because that country will not then roll over and accept your terms.

Any one else find it darkly, montrously, funny?

Edited June 1Jun 1 by JAG

23 minutes ago, Social Media said:

"If the UN can't solve something as straightforward as this, then what is the utility of the UN system?" he asked"If the UN can't solve something as straightforward as this, then what is the utility of the UN system?" he asked.

"If the UN can't solve something as straightforward as this we started and don't know a way out of it, then what is the utility of the UN system?" he asked.

I corrected it for Rubio

20 minutes ago, JAG said:

Tear up an International agreement without consulting any of the parties to it.

Start an aggressive war instead.

Trash the country you attacked, including at least one verified major war crime (the savage massacre of schoolchildren deliberately played out whilst rocketing an adjacent medical facility).

Sink a major navy ship thousands of miles away from the area in a submarine attack.

Threaten them with ending their civilisation.

Actively blockade their ports and prevent any trade.

Run bleating to the United Nations because that country will not then roll over and accept your terms.

Any one else find it darkly, montrously, funny?

Though you pretty much nailed it, the "goal" now is somehow---with the help of those who were never in favor of this fiasco---to get things back to how they were 27 February 2026.

Trump would call that a "massive victory", something "nobody thought was possible...but I did it".

And please ignore the thousands of deaths, wanton destruction, diminished energy production capacity, higher energy prices, rising inflation, and the $ billions we wasted to achieve not even the status quo ante.

2 minutes ago, Wingate said:

And please ignore the thousands of deaths, wanton destruction, diminished energy production capacity, higher energy prices, rising inflation, and the $ billions we wasted to achieve not even the status quo ante.

Frankly, if it only impacted on the US I have come to the point of view where I would ignore it. If the US has sunk to the level where it chooses to piss it's treasure up the wall to accommodate the bizarre character which it has chosen as it's President and is unwilling to oppose his antics, then well let them fill their boots as the saying goes. I, along I suspect with many, have increasingly started to reach that conclusion. What offends is the huge damage it has done internationally, the slaughter of the innocents (literally) and the utter hypocrisy of expecting the United Nations to take their side; that and it's apparent abandonment of democracy and civilised behaviour!

that's going to be difficult for the UN to agree on something that Trump started without any reason, just a feeling, and now after so many times of boasting about Iran's army/navy being completely obliterated he finally acknowledged that he didn't go after Iran's military, so if he didn't went after Iran's military what did he went after, with so much controversy and conflicting statements from him and his cronies I doubt the UN will do anything to support their stupidity

After saying Iran’s navy and air force were “totally gone”, the president then commented on Iran’s “military”, telling Lara Trump: “Their military, we’ve sort of left it alone, because we think that their military is somewhat, somewhat moderate....We've actually left their military alone. People would be surprised to hear that."

Trump now says US left Iran’s military ‘alone’ after weeks of boasting that he destroyed its forces

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/weeks-boasting-destroyed-iran-armed-151601591.html

Epic Fury turns out to be Shock and Bore' its going to be boots on the ground one way or another the Turbans' can never be trusted🤔

Oh, so now you call the UN.

You made the mess, you own the mess.

Edited June 1Jun 1 by Chomper Higgot

The US created the conditions for the Strait's closure by engaging in an unprovoke war of aggression which Trump signed off on for the benefit of Netanyahu.
So Rubio is going to cry to the UN? China and Russia will just veto his proposals. Iran isn't Venezuela as the US has now found out. So - threaten to bomb Iran again and see what the response is. Iran has been planning for the eventual US war on its homeland for decades. Iran holds most of the cards; the US holds most of the propaganda although Iran can hold their own on the information war front.

The US was and still is in the wrong. The day and age of Team American - World Police is drawing to a close.

Rubio/Trump: They can't have a nuclear bomb.
The rest of the world: They don't have a nuclear weapons program as affirmed by the US's own intelligence services. Repeating "They can't have a nuclear bomb" over and over and over and over again - IS PROPAGANDA.

The IAEA and the rest of the world should be demanding the nuclear disarmament of Israel. Not harping about nuclear weapons that Iran isn't building.

Edited June 1Jun 1 by connda

6 hours ago, Social Media said:

"The straits have to be open. They're going to be open one way or the other,"

The Straits are open to those countries who are negotiating with Iran and Oman. The Straits are not open for the aggressor nations (US, Israel, Gulf States) who stated the war by bombing Iran. Those countries will need to negotiate a settlement. Sorry, but the US doesn't have the means to open shipping by force of arms - those days are over.

Trump delivered a scathing critique of the UN, calling its globalist agenda a failure. In his address to the General Assembly, he questioned the body’s purpose, called its resolutions "empty words" that fail to stop wars, and accused the UN of actively funding the mass migration of asylum seekers into the United States.

Now he wants the UN help!!!!!!

6 hours ago, JAG said:

Tear up an International agreement without consulting any of the parties to it.

Start an aggressive war instead.

Trash the country you attacked, including at least one verified major war crime (the savage massacre of schoolchildren deliberately played out whilst rocketing an adjacent medical facility).

Sink a major navy ship thousands of miles away from the area in a submarine attack.

Threaten them with ending their civilisation.

Actively blockade their ports and prevent any trade.

Run bleating to the United Nations because that country will not then roll over and accept your terms.

Any one else find it darkly, montrously, funny?

Well, and the solution would be so easy.

Americans will withdraw their threat, lift all sanctions, unfreeze the money, pay compensations, and let them build the nuclear bomb....to keep Israel calm and peaceful. Peace in middle east?🤔 And the Straight of Hormuz will be free for ever.

(I know it's a dream)

48 minutes ago, D Peter said:

Well, and the solution would be so easy.

Americans will withdraw their threat, lift all sanctions, unfreeze the money, pay compensations, and let them build the nuclear bomb....to keep Israel calm and peaceful. Peace in middle east?🤔 And the Straight of Hormuz will be free for ever.

(I know it's a dream)

Their was an International agreement - the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - negotiated between the US under Obama, several other nations and Iran in 2015. It was not perfect, such agreements rarely are, but it was working.

Let us take the gloves off shall we: Trump tore it up, probably for three reaons, 1 as a distraction from the drip, drip, drip of emerging evidence of his paedophile antics before he entered politics, 2 because both he and Benjamin Nethanayu need war to suit their personal political agendas (in Trump's case linked to reason 1), in Nethanayu's case because it is his only hope of clinging to power and avoiding imprisonment, and 3, the hoary old meme of Trumpian and right wing US politics, it was the product of the Obama Presidency, and nothing achieved by that uppity N**** can be left to stand!

Neither Trump nor Nethanayu give a toss about peace in The Middle East.

Edited June 1Jun 1 by JAG