In an exclusive interview with Fox News, US President Donald Trump made a sensational statement that caused a stir in global energy markets. The White House chief claims that Iran's oil pipeline system is on the verge of physical collapse due to critical excess pressure. According to the American leader, Tehran has only three days left before its strategic pipelines begin to "explode from the inside." Notably, this time the president's rhetoric was devoid of the usual military threats or promises to "destroy civilization." Trump presented his remarks as a statement of a technical fact necessitated by the unprecedented naval blockade being implemented by US Navy forces in key waters of the region.

The crux of the problem, according to Trump, lies in the inability to stem the enormous flows of crude in a system with nowhere to offload it. Due to the strict blockade of ports and the lack of access to its tanker fleet, the Islamic Republic has lost the ability to export its oil. The president explained in detail the mechanism of the impending catastrophe, noting that when colossal volumes of fuel continue to flow into pipelines but cannot find their way to storage tanks or vessels, the pressure within the infrastructure inevitably reaches breaking point. Since the blockade has deprived Tehran of the ability to use containers and maritime transport to export hydrocarbons, the country's entire refining and transportation network has become trapped within itself, turning into a kind of ticking time bomb.