Iran…Trump…War/Conflict…Evening…9/14/2026…Iran straining on Strait effort?…Gas/Diesel Fuel Prices Keep going UP……

ISW reports that Iran is having internal issues on it’s effort to gain control of the Strait of Hormuz….

Iran is also shooting at other Gulf states that have US assets…..

Those Gulf states do NOT want to PAY Iran to ship their oil abroad ….

Iran seems to be having internal issues with proxies in Iraq…..

Houthi’s are causing the Saudi’s trouble….and Yemen has fought back some of the Houthi’s actions driving towards disrupting Red Sea shipping…..

Reports out on the war material shortages of the US military…..

US gas/oil and diesel fuel costs per gallon continue  to RISE as do US INTEREST rates due to the unstable Trump Foreign Policy …..

 

ISW…..Iran Update, September 14, 2026

1. Iran’s apparent challenges in consolidating control over the Strait of Hormuz are likely driving the regional campaign that Iran is currently waging against the United States and its allies in the region. Iran’s proposal for the management of the strait, which attempts to formalize Iranian control in the strait, has generated significant resistance from other Persian Gulf littoral states. Iran is also attempting to overcome current operational constraints on its ability to control shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
2. Iranian regime media notably acknowledged that Iran’s control over the strait may be waning on September 14, which suggests that some factions within the regime recognize how Iran’s current constraints are impacting its ability to achieve its positive objectives.
3. Yemeni government-aligned forces appear to have halted Houthi advances south along Yemen’s Red Sea coastal plain since September 11. Sustained Houthi control of Dhubab, Mokha, and the Hanish Islands preserves the Houthis’ ability to threaten international shipping in the Red Sea.
4. The Iraqi federal government has taken some recent steps to show that it is taking the threat posed by Iranian-backed Iraqi militias to other countries seriously, including closing border crossings with Iran. These actions are unlikely to stem the flow of Iranian arms to Iranian-backed Iraqi militias that the militias are using to conduct attacks on US regional assets and US allies as a part of Iran’s broader campaign in the US-Iran conflict.
5. Iran is also reportedly prioritizing newly-formed, IRGC-directed Iraqi militia cells over Iran’s historic Iraqi partners to conduct operations against the United States and its allies in the region. Iran may be prioritizing support for these new militia cells due to command-and-control issues that Iran has reportedly faced with some of its historic Iraqi partners. Some Iraqi militias appear dissatisfied with Iran’s development of new networks in Iraq, however….

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AP….

A crucial Saudi oil pipeline that was struck in an attack will be mostly out of service for weeks as the damage is repaired, two regional officials said Monday, as Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized more islands along Red Sea shipping routes in a new blow to Saudi Arabia’s oil exports.

Oil prices gained more than 2% amid growing worries about global petroleum supplies and the effect of the new developments on the ability of the world’s biggest exporter to get its crude to market. The Iran war has forced the kingdom to shift its exports away from the Persian Gulf, since Iranian attacks have stifled shipping through the gulf’s sole exit, the Strait of Hormuz.

So the kingdom has relied on the East-West Pipeline, which runs 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) across the breadth of the country, to move its crude production from Gulf ports to the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea. From there it can be put on tankers for export. But authorities were forced to shut down the pipeline after an attack Thursday …

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AP…..

A U.S. government watchdog released its first report Monday on the impact of the Iran war, acknowledging the military’s advanced weapons shortfalls and offering the first public look at the damage to American aircraft, bases and diplomatic outposts in the Middle East.

Much of the information has been previously reported over the past six months, but the Pentagon inspector general’s report offered the fullest official accounting so far of the conflict’s costs in American lives, taxpayer dollars and physical damage. It included information from the watchdogs for the Defense and State departments as well as the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The report, whose publication was first reported by NBC News, noted that the U.S. war with Iran “has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply” in regard to advanced weapons. Experts have previously said it will take about three yearsfor military contractors to replenish advanced missiles and defensive missile interceptors to prewar levels….