{"id":34558,"date":"2026-04-20T03:17:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=34558"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:57:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:57:49","slug":"die-touska-brennt-der-oelpreis-steigt-und-niemand-weiss-ob-noch-verhandelt-wird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/die-touska-brennt-der-oelpreis-steigt-und-niemand-weiss-ob-noch-verhandelt-wird\/","title":{"rendered":"The Touska is burning, oil prices are rising, and no one knows whether negotiations are still happening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kumzar\/Islamabad \u2013 The USS Spruance fires three shots into the engine room of an Iranian cargo ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before that, for six hours, the U.S. Navy had warned the Touska, an Iranian cargo vessel under Iranian flag, loaded in Malaysia, on its way to Bandar Abbas. The Touska did not respond. Then came the final radio call, delivered like a countdown: Clear your engine room, we will open fire. Then the smoke. Then the boarding. The United States calls it proportional and professional. Iran calls it piracy and announces a swift response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With that, the ceasefire that expires on Wednesday is not just under pressure. It is barely recognizable. Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tells his Pakistani counterpart Ishaq Dar that Washington is showing bad intentions and a lack of seriousness in diplomacy. The demands and the threats against Iranian ships and ports are clear signs that the Americans are not acting in good faith. Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian goes further and warns in a call with Pakistan\u2019s prime minister that U.S. actions have driven mistrust in Tehran so far that there is now fear Washington will betray diplomacy once again, as it has before. Iranian state media report on Sunday, without naming official sources, that the planned second round of talks in Islamabad may not take place. From the Iranian side there is no response to Trump\u2019s announcement of new negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then Iran\u2019s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref says openly what until now sat between the lines. On X he writes that global fuel prices can only stabilize if economic and military pressure on Iranian oil exports stops. One cannot restrict Iran\u2019s oil exports and at the same time expect free security for others. The choice is clear: either a free oil market for all or the risk of significant costs for everyone. A sentence that sounds less like diplomacy and more like a bill Tehran is placing on the table for the world. Whoever turns off our tap will pay for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72 moves through the Arabian Sea as the United States blocks Iranian ports and the coastline. More than 10,000 American soldiers, over 12 ships and more than 100 aircraft are enforcing the blockade in regional waters and ensuring that no vessel violates Mr. Trump\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, oil prices rise at a speed that shows how thin confidence has become. U.S. crude jumps 6.4 percent to 87.88 dollars per barrel. Brent climbs 6.5 percent to 96.25 dollars. On Friday, prices had still fallen by more than nine percent after Iran\u2019s foreign minister said the Strait of Hormuz was open again for commercial shipping. Two days of hope, then a collapse back into reality. The market no longer reacts to words. It reacts to gunfire. And Aref\u2019s statement is likely to push it higher on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it does not stop with the Touska. Trump himself writes on Truth Social that Iran has fired on ships in the strait, including a French and a British vessel. The French shipping company CMA CGM confirms that one of its ships, the CMA CGM Everglade, was targeted with warning shots. The International Maritime Organization IMO confirms the incident and places it north of Kumzar in Oman - the container ship was damaged, there were no injuries and no pollution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n