Iranian speaker mocks ‘junk’ Trump claim oil wells would explode
Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, dismissed President Donald Trump’s warnings that the U.S. oil blockade could cause catastrophic damage to Iran’s oil infrastructure.He mocked the “three days” timeline, calling the assessment “junk,” adn argued the issue is more about the mindset behind the claims.
Trump had said that excess production and export limits could overwhelm storage capacity, leading to oil lines “explod[ing]” and rendering damage difficult or impossible to repair. Iranian officials responded quickly, with Vice President Esmail Saghab Esfahani warning that any damage would trigger retaliation-claiming Iran would inflict four times the damage in return.
Meanwhile, U.S.officials defend the blockade strategy as working: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cited a worsening economic situation in Iran and said the U.S. is prepared to impose secondary sanctions on entities that keep buying Iranian oil. U.S. Central Command also asserted that enforcement has kept many tanker shipments from bypassing restrictions, leaving tens of millions of barrels stranded and underscoring the blockade’s effectiveness.
Iran‘s parliament speaker dismissed warnings from President Donald Trump that the American blockade could trigger catastrophic damage to the country’s oil infrastructure.
Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the parliament of Iran, mocked claims that Iranian oil lines could explode due to excess production with no exports, calling the assessment “junk” and ridiculing its timeline on Wednesday.
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“Three days in, no well exploded,” Ghalibaf wrote on X. “We could extend to 30 and livestream the well here. That was the kind of junk advice the US admin gets from people like Bessent who also push the blockade theory and cranked oil up to $120+. Next stop:140. The issue isn’t the theory, it’s the mindset.”
His comments come after Trump warned over the weekend that Iran had just days before its oil infrastructure could fail, arguing that excess production combined with export restrictions could overwhelm storage capacity.
“What happens is that line explodes from within. Both mechanically and in the Earth, something happens where it just explodes, and they say they only have about three days left before that happens,” Trump said on Fox News’s The Sunday Briefing. “And when it explodes, you can never rebuild it the way it is.”
Iranian officials quickly fired back. Esmail Saghab Esfahani, an Iranian vice president of energy, warned that any damage to Iran’s oil facilities would prompt retaliatory action against countries backing the blockade.
“If, as Trump claims, any part of our infrastructure … is damaged … we guarantee that four times the damage will be inflicted,” he said, adding, “Our math is different: one oil well equals four oil wells.”
U.S. officials, meanwhile, are defending the pressure campaign as effective. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday the “maximum pressure” strategy has pushed Iran’s economy into crisis, citing a sharply weakened currency, surging inflation, and frozen overseas assets.
“We are sprinting for the finish line,” Bessent said, adding that Washington is prepared to impose secondary sanctions on countries and financial institutions that continue purchasing Iranian oil.
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At sea, U.S. Central Command is touting the U.S. blockade enforcement efforts. Adm. Brad Cooper said American forces have turned away dozens of vessels attempting to bypass restrictions, leaving tens of millions of barrels of oil stranded.
“Right now there are 41 tankers with 69 million barrels of oil that the Iranian regime can’t sell,” Cooper said in a statement posted to X on Wednesday. “That’s an estimated $6 billion-plus. … The blockade is highly effective.”
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