Saudi Arabia's Oil Pipeline To Red Sea Hit By Drone Attack Just As Hegseth Declares 'Overwhelming Victory' Against Iran

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by Tyler Durden

Wednesday, Apr 08, 2026 - 07:00 AM

Summary:

The Hegseth/Caine presser as expected declared 'victory' in Iran while Gen. Caine emphasized the ceasefire is a "pause" but US forces remain "ready to resume combat." Hegseth says "military will be hanging around in Iran, won't go anywhere, and will make sure Iran complies.

Caine hails that US has destroyed Iran's defense-industrial base, including over 80% of missile facilities gone, and its navy lies at the "bottom of the Arabian Sea". It's clear that after six weeks the Pentagon is trying to put a bow on Operation Epic Fury.

Iran meanwhile demands stiff fees for ships passing through Hormuz during the ceasefire, and says it holds the final authority on which vessels get to pass. Tehran leaders have asserted 'victory' for Iran, amid positive international reaction to the ceasefire.

Attacks on Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia continued on Wednesday, hours after the ceasefire announcement. Also, there's as yet been no significant change in navigation traffic in the Strait of Hormuz today, per Bloomberg satellite data.

Saudi Arabia's vital East-West oil pipeline carrying crude from the Gulf to the Red Sea for export has been attacked at a pumping station, oil rises on the news.

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Saudi Aramco Export Pipeline To Red Sea Struck

A huge, and not very 'ceasefirey' development in Saudi Arabia, per the FT (just as Hegseth was speaking): "A pumping station was hit at 1 p.m. local time, the people told FT. The attack was carried out by a drone and damage was being assessed, one of the people told FT Saudi Aramco, which owns and operates the pipeline." FT continues, "The people said a pumping station, one of several along the 1,200km pipeline that has become an economic lifeline for the kingdom since the near closure of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, was hit at about 1pm local time on Wednesday."

One Gulf based representative and analyst complains, "For a ceasefire, the fire does not seem to be ceasing. The UAE and Kuwait are under attack, and Iran says it is under attack too. Beyond the ceasefire itself, the bigger question is that the plan still looks unclear when it comes to what follows…"

The development pushed oil slightly up…

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-live-hegseth-declares-victory-fragile-iran-ceasefire-hailed-internationally

First Two Ships Pass Through Strait Of Hormuz Since Ceasefire As Iran Demands Payment In Crypto

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Wednesday, Apr 08, 2026 - 07:09 AM

Last night we reported that no less than 800 ships were still trapped in the immediate aftermath of the US-Iran ceasefire agreement, unsure what the fine print of the deal meant for transits. This morning we are down to ~798, after the first two cargo vessels have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the ceasefire, according to ship tracking data.

The Liberia-flagged Daytona Beach, destined for the United Arab Emirates, crossed just before 8am UK time, while the Greek-owned NJ Earth followed about two hours later, with its destination undisclosed, the tracking platform Kpler showed.

The ships are the first large vessels to transit the critical waterway since the agreement of a two-week ceasefire, under which Iran has claimed it would maintain control of the strait. It was unclear if they paid any tolls to make the crossing. Around 175 million barrels of crude and refined products are currently loaded on to 187 tankers in the Gulf, according to Kpler data — which could now start to move, depending on what happens in the strait.

Regarding Hormuz transit, Iran said it will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, as it seeks to retain control over passage through the key waterway during the two-week ceasefire, the FT reported.

Hamid Hosseini, a spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union, told the FT on Wednesday that Iran wanted to collect tolling fees from any tanker passing and to assess each ship.

“Iran needs to monitor what goes in and out of the strait to ensure these two weeks aren’t used for transferring weapons,” said Hosseini, whose industry association works closely with the state. “Everything can pass through, but the procedure will take time for each vessel, and Iran is not in a rush,” he added.

Decisions on the conditions for passing the strait are taken by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. Hosseini’s remarks suggest Iran will require any tankers to use the northerly route close to its coastline, raising questions over whether western or Gulf state-linked vessels will be willing to risk transit.

Hosseini said that each tanker must email authorities about its cargo, after which Iran will inform them of the toll to be paid in digital currencies.

He said that the tariff is $1 per barrel of oil, adding that empty tankers can pass freely.

“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,” Hosseini added.

Speaking to CBS this morning, Trump said that there may be a joint US-Iran venture for Hormuz tolls.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/first-two-ships-pass-through-strait-hormuz-ceasefire

Sen Johnson says staff untangling Biden 'coverup' of COVID vax injuries across millions of files

"We're just scratching the surface in terms of what they covered up," Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations chair says.

ore than a year into the second Trump administration, the Republican chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations says his staff is combing through nearly 11 million pages of documents to unmask the full extent of the Biden administration's "cover-up" of COVID-19 vaccine side effects to maximize shots in arms.

"We're going to continue to dig, but I think […] we're just scratching the surface in terms of what they covered up," Chairman Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin, told Just the News, No Noise this week.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is "trying to get the agencies to respond" to the committee's targeted document requests, but thus far he has only been able to give Johnson's staff a "huge data dump," which even with AI requires them to "know the exact search terms" to find nuggets, Johnson said.

That's how congressional investigators discovered the prior administration's vaccine safety surveillance system had picked up "statistically significant safety signals for ischemic stroke" in elderly people as early as November 2022, he also said.

White House officials responded to the signal by "wordsmith[ing]" the draft warning by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration, Johnson said. The original language described a "moderately elevated" stroke risk following COVID vaccination, but the White House changed it to a "slightly elevated" risk.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/sen-johnson-says-staff-untangling-biden-coverup-covid-vax-injuries-across

Largest Real-World Analysis of Ivermectin + Mebendazole in Cancer Patients Shows 84.4% Clinical Benefit

Nearly HALF report cancer disappearance or regression…

Apr 08, 2026

After just 6 months, 48.4% of cancer patients taking ivermectin and mebendazole reported no evidence of disease (32.8%) or tumor regression (15.6%), while 36.1% reported disease stabilization.

We have completed the largest real-world human analysis to date evaluating ivermectin and mebendazole in cancer patients—and the results represent one of the most compelling clinical signals ever documented for repurposed anti-parasitic therapies in oncology.

The manuscript is now available as a preprint on the Zenodo research repository, operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, while undergoing peer review at leading oncology journals: “Real-World Clinical Outcomes of Ivermectin and Mebendazole in Cancer Patients: Results from a Prospective Observational Cohort.”

In this real-world prospective clinical program evaluation, a diverse population of cancer patients (n=197) were prescribed compounded ivermectin–mebendazole, with each capsule containing 25 mg ivermectin and 250 mg mebendazole.

At approximately six months post-treatment initiation, we observed an 84.4% Clinical Benefit Ratio (CBR), with nearly half of cancer patients (48.4%) reporting either no evidence of disease (32.8%) or tumor regression (15.6%). An additional 36.1% reported disease stabilization. This means more than four out of five patients reported either improvement or stabilization of their cancer.

more:

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/largest-real-world-analysis-of-ivermectin

Breaking: “Pfizer Knew the COVID Shot Was a POISON from the Very Beginning” Court Documents Reveal

April 8, 2026

Sasha Latapova, a former a medical device R&D executive who is now a journalist, gave an update on an explosive civil lawsuit in Holland against Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, Bill Gates and Mark Rutte, the head of NATO. She investigated a leaked internal AstraZeneca audio that she says points back to a Pentagon-planned, DARPA-linked pandemic program dating back years before COVID emerged in 2019. She said that in 2017, DARPA approached AstraZeneca and asked it to join a consortium.

DARPA proposed that the military Department of Defense (DoD) would identify potential pandemic viruses and drug manufacturers would make vaccines and therapeutics within 60 days. A key executive of AstraZeneca admitted, on tape, that he knew at the time that the pandemic was fake and they were being fraudulently induced into criminal activity.

On February 4, 2020, the DOD made a phone call to AstraZeneca and other participants of the consortium and told them that COVID was a national security threat. And the project went live.

Bill Gates confirmed in writing, via emails to Epstein, that he wanted to work on the COVID project. Bill Gates, Epstein, and JP Morgan set up a financial structure for massive profits from a pandemic using charitable organizations to avoid taxation.

more:

https://needtoknow.news/2026/04/breaking-pfizer-knew-the-covid-shot-was-a-poison-from-the-very-beginning-court-documents-reveal/

Can you get results using off the shelf sauerkraut…or is juice from live sauerkraut different?

Joel Salatin and Dr. Sinajuice from live sauerkraut McCullough: A Household Food Can Break Down Glyphosate

April 7, 2026

Dr. Sina McCullough said that cows that eat crops sprayed with glyphosate as a desiccant to remove moisture and prevent mold produce manure that contains residue of the glyphosate that contaminates soil, even in organically grown crops and food. She mentioned a case about crops grown in chicken manure that had high levels of glyphosate that disrupted the crops from absorbing certain minerals like copper, manganese and zinc via a disruption of the shikimate pathway that is part of the metabolic system of a plant. Disruption from glyphosate can alter the plant and can ultimately prevent plants from synthesizing proteins and can lead to their death.

Joel Salatin explained that glyphosate can affect microbes in soil, but the good news is that there appears to be a way to remediate the destruction caused by glyphosate. Microbes can consume and neutralize other pollutants, too.

Dr. McCullough said that a number of dairy cows die from botulism. A researcher from Germany used the juice from live sauerkraut in the feed of dairy cattle, and it degraded the glyphosate in the cows’ rumen, preventing the overgrowth of the clostridium botulinum that was causing the botulism.

An experiment using sauerkraut juice in the fields on feed crops resulted in an increase in the corn yields. In a similar dairy study, there was a significant increase in milk production.

https://needtoknow.news/2026/04/joel-salatin-and-dr-sina-mccullough-a-household-food-can-break-down-glyphosate/

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>Can you get results using off the shelf sauerkraut…or is juice from live sauerkraut different?

>Joel Salatin and Dr. Sinajuice from live sauerkraut McCullough: A Household Food Can Break Down Glyphosate

>April 7, 2026

>Dr. Sina McCullough said that cows that eat crops sprayed with glyphosate as a desiccant to remove moisture and prevent mold produce manure that contains residue of the glyphosate that contaminates soil, even in organically grown crops and food. She mentioned a case about crops grown in chicken manure that had high levels of glyphosate that disrupted the crops from absorbing certain minerals like copper, manganese and zinc via a disruption of the shikimate pathway that is part of the metabolic system of a plant. Disruption from glyphosate can alter the plant and can ultimately prevent plants from synthesizing proteins and can lead to their death.

>Joel Salatin explained that glyphosate can affect microbes in soil, but the good news is that there appears to be a way to remediate the destruction caused by glyphosate. Microbes can consume and neutralize other pollutants, too.

>Dr. McCullough said that a number of dairy cows die from botulism. A researcher from Germany used the juice from live sauerkraut in the feed of dairy cattle, and it degraded the glyphosate in the cows’ rumen, preventing the overgrowth of the clostridium botulinum that was causing the botulism.

>An experiment using sauerkraut juice in the fields on feed crops resulted in an increase in the corn yields. In a similar dairy study, there was a significant increase in milk production.

>https://needtoknow.news/2026/04/joel-salatin-and-dr-sina-mccullough-a-household-food-can-break-down-glyphosate/