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The far-left network that helped put Alex Pretti in harm’s way, then made him a martyr
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The skirmish that led to Saturday’s fatal shooting of an agitator by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis and the response that followed were driven by a complex network of far-left organizations with a wide range of causes, a Fox News Digital investigation found.
A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE «Abductors» in a sophisticated database reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that agitators were already mobilized at the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed minutes before any shots were fired. ICE and Border Patrol agents were there to arrest an illegal immigrant criminal, and Pretti and others were there, outside a donut shop, to meet them as part of a strategic pattern of organized interference with law enforcement operations.
Over the following hours, a national network of socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist cells in the United States leveraged the tragic fatality into a nationwide protest operation. While grief and outrage over Pretti’s death is genuine, the network’s real-time rapid response, using short sensational video clips and emojis as weapons of propaganda, offers a window into the disciplined logistics, messaging and coordination of far-left warriors fomenting insurgency-like confrontation with authorities.
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«Rapid Responders» swarmed to the site of Glam Doll Donuts before the shooting occurred and afterward, documenting alleged ICE vehicles in the area in a sophisticated tracking database. The times in this database are Central Time, one hour behind Eastern Time.
«This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities,» Vice President JD Vance observed in a Sunday post on X.
The encrypted Signal messages obtained by Fox News Digital in real time show that anti-ICE «rapid responders» were actively tracking, broadcasting and summoning «backup» around federal agents outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue, where the shooting occurred. Local «rapid responders» made at least 26 entries into a database called «MN ICE Plates» in the critical hours before and after the killing, documenting the license plate numbers and details of alleged ICE vehicles they claimed to see around Nicollet Avenue.
The entry at row 344 read, «At the nicollet [sic] murder,» chronicling a black Jeep Wagoneer at the location with agents allegedly «involved in shooting.» Row 338 had a «Glam Doll Donuts» entry, tracking a black Ford Taurus.
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Members of an ICE Watch «Rapid Response» team tracked federal agents to the street, calling on more protesters to come to the street, where an anti-ICE demonstrator was killed minutes later.
At 9:50 a.m. ET, just before the killing, a user identified as «Willow» shared a 22-second video on an encrypted Signal chat for anti-ICE «rapid responders.»
«26and 3rd,» wrote «Willow,» quickly following up with, «Outside Glam Doll.»
The video showed two agents, one wearing a vest marked «POLICE,» studying the front door of Glam Doll before walking away, past a sign in the window that read, «ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA.»
As the camera rolled, the person filming yelled, «No!»
The camera followed the agents as they returned to a maroon Dodge Durango, passing another sign in the window that read, «ALL WELCOME HERE.»
In the video, someone shouted, «Get out of here!»
Just three minutes later, at 9:53 a.m. ET, a second Signal user, «Salacious B. Crumb,» escalated the alert, summoning additional responders and citing the same vehicle and agents.
«Backup needed at the Black Forest Inn parking lot on Nicollet Ave just south of 26th Street,» the message read.
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«Multiple vehicles with many agents appear to be staging there,» the alert continued. «One confirmed ICE vehicle seen was a maroon Dodge Durango [plate number], but it has driven away northbound on Nicollet.» Fox News Digital has redacted the Florida license plate number included in the original message.
ICE Assistant Director Marcos Charles said Sunday that the violence on the streets was «not a coincidence,» considering the «chaos and mayhem» that agitators are fomenting in Minneapolis. At the same press conference, Customs and Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino confirmed that Pretti was «on the scene several minutes» before the fatal shooting.
Video of the scene shows that as Pretti stepped into the middle of Nicolle Street to direct traffic, fellow agitators could be heard blowing whistles to alert locals that ICE officers were around. Soon after, Pretti ended up in a street confrontation with Customs and Border Patrol agents, across the street from Glam Doll Donuts outside a worn storefront marked «NEW AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER,» a nonprofit focused on immigration entry programs for Somalis.
Within minutes, at about 10:05 a.m. ET, at least one Customs and Border Patrol agent shot Pretti, killing him.
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At 10:18 a.m. ET, the Signal network erupted.
Using a red phone emoji to signal an all-points alert, a message blasted out: «☎️ easy. URGENT: observers urgently requested at glam doll donuts @ 26th & nicollet [sic],» the alert continued. «an observer has been shot by ice, unknown condition, emts [emergency medical technicians] present, please be safe. EDIT: medics requested to join perimeter in case agents start gassing. be aware there are many agents and mpd [Minneapolis Police Department] officers present.»
Within minutes, far-left activists descended on Nicollet Avenue. Soon after, a video showed corrugated boxes of supplies apparently lined up on a Minneapolis sidewalk for protesters, including boxes marked «DESINER MASKS» [sic] and «FREE WINTER HATS,» next to piles of bottled water.
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Within hours, socialist leaders turbocharged their «rapid responders» in Minneapolis and mobilized street protesters from New York City to Los Angeles.
Media outlets, including CNN and MSNOW, described «angry protesters» but failed to identify the ideological networks behind the mobilization, even as protesters flashed their signs with their logos and names, touting socialism, communism and Marxism, on camera.
The Minneapolis activation marked the beginning of an almost instantaneous weekend surge by far-left organizations, including hardened socialist and communist groups operating in an ecosystem that national security experts describe as an insurgent-style operation designed to exploit tragedy to wage a domestic political war.
The strategy mirrors past mobilizations, including the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in May 2020, and exploits well-intentioned public sympathy by rapidly framing Pretti — an intensive care unit nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital — as a symbol of resistance, much like Renee Good, the first victim of an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
Just as they responded in real-time to mobilize «comrades» to march on the streets within 12 hours of the U.S. arrest of Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Maduro in early January, socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist groups now frame their activation as an action within the «belly of the beast» against the «hyperimperialism» of the United States.
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Propagandists for socialist groups, including BreakThrough News, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, sprang to action to demonize federal officials after a killing in Minneapolis. (BreakThrough News/X, Party for Socialism and Liberation/X, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, X)
Based on a digital analysis of scores of rapid-response messages following the killing on Saturday, a hub of communist and socialist nonprofit organizations emerged as key organizers of the protests, many of them funded by an American-born billionaire Neville Roy Singham, a self-declared Marxist-Leninist living in Shanghai, and offshoots of the People’s Forum Inc., a nonprofit hub Singham has funded in New York City since 2017 as an «incubator» for socialist and communist groups. The People’s Forum has declined requests for comment.
At 10:48 a.m. ET, BreakThrough News, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and propaganda arm of the People’s Forum, broke the news widely of the killing, sharing a video recorded from inside the Glam Doll Donut shot of the tussle outside, punctuated by gun shots and frantic narration, «Holy s**t. What the f***!…Did they f***ing kill that guy? F***ing kidding me, dude.»
BreakThrough News put a dramatic black-and-white caption over the video: «BREAKING: Another CPB Shooting in Minneapolis.» By Sunday afternoon, the video had 4.1 million views, alongside the outlet’s calls to support the People’s Republic of China, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and the communist revolution in Cuba.
Before the video cuts off, someone can be heard saying, «Yo, we need people on site!»
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation turned Alex Pretti into a poster boy for its protests.in quick graphics for its anti-ICE efforts. (Party for Socialism and Liberation/X)
At 11:40 a.m., BreakThrough News broadcast a 39-second video showing Minnesota National Guard soldiers charging across a street with batons, some falling as clouds of breath rose in the cold air.
Soon after, at 12:24 p.m., the Party for Socialism and Liberation – a political wing of the movement, working with shared leadership at the People’s Forum – published a quickly-made graphic, «CPB MURDERS ANOTHER IN MINNEAPOLIS,» and the message, «EXPAND THE GENERAL STRIKE!»
The call for a «general strike,» a classic communist tactic, refers to coordinated mass work stoppages aimed at paralyzing civil society to force political – and economic – outcomes.
At 12:33 p.m., the People’s Forum blasted out a bold red-and-white poster to followers, calling for an «EMERGENCY PROTEST» at 4 p.m. ET at Union Square in midtown Manhattan, with the message, «STOP ICE TERROR.»
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Democratic Socialists of America, People’s Forum and other groups that identify as Marxist-Leninist activated foot soldiers to protest the U.S. Political operative Linda Sarsour yelled at a protest, «We will bring this country to a halt!» (Democratic Socialists of America/X, People’s Forum/X, Defend 512/Instagram)
In lockstep, at 12:57 p.m., Democratic Socialists of America, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, posted a stark black-and-white graphic on X, calling the killing an «execution» and demanding, «ABOLISH ICE NOW.»
At the protest, Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian political operative who has led virulently anti-Israel protests with socialist organizations after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel by Hamas terrorists, rallied the crowd at the 4 p.m. protest, yelling, «We will bring this country to a halt!» The People’s Forum shared the 22-second video clip with the caption: «🚨HAPPENING NOW IN NYC.»
Other groups mobilized simultaneously, including Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a self-described Marxist-Leninist group that has waved its red flag with its acronym, «FRSO,» in the middle of the protests since Good’s killing.
Also active: the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, which has led many of the rapid-response efforts and Black Lives Matter chapters, which led the recent stampede through a local Christian church.
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By early evening, the narrative had coalesced into a chorus of voices within the far-left propaganda apparatus, adopting charged historical language to brand federal officials as Nazi-like figures. At 4:12 p.m. ET, Calla Walsh, a controversial communist activist filmed this past summer in Iran shouting, «Death to America! Death to Israel!» shared a 32-second video showing barricades built with Republic Services dumpsters.
She wrote, «People of Minneapolis build barricades, trapping ICE Gestapo at the scene of their latest murder in broad daylight. Not far from where they killed Renee Good a couple weeks ago, not far from where George Floyd was killed in 2020.»
By evening, CNN was reporting from the 4 p.m. protest in New York City but did not identify the ideological affiliations of the organizers, even as activists openly carried signs from the Party for Socialism and Liberation, with the group’s full name printed across the bottom.
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Another CNN segment from Minneapolis interviewed Chris Gray, describing him only as Pretti’s «next-door neighbor.» Gray spoke about Pretti while delivering a well-scripted appeal for a general strike to dismantle the «Trump regime» and promote «non-violent resistance.» The segment did not disclose that Gray is a member of Socialist Alternative, the U.S. affiliate of the International Socialist Alternative, a «global fighting organization of workers, young people, and all those oppressed by capitalism and imperialism,» seeking to create a «socialist world.»
Soon after, however, Socialist Alternative shared the interview proudly on Instagram, noting, «Chris Gray, Socialist Alternative member and next-door neighbor of Alex Pretti, speaks out.»
By evening’s end, at 9:44 p.m. ET, Gloria La Riva, a co-founder of the Party for Socialism and Liberation who has described herself as «a communist,» posted a message on X, using the inflammatory language now normalized: «Alex Pretti was murdered in cold blood, everyone knows that. 10 shots in his back. All of Trump’s, Noem’s, Bovino’s lies cannot cover it up. The people’s struggle will only grow!»
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«Rapid Responders» in Minneapolis track the vehicles they suspect belong to federal officials, including ICE agents, and upload details about their alleged vehicles in a database, «MN ICE PLATES AIRTABLE DATABASE,» labeling alleged ICE agents as «Abductors.» («MN ICE PLATES AIRTABLE DATABASE»)
The maroon Dodge Durango in the early Signal alerts from Saturday morning is Entry No. 2069 in the publicly shared database, «MN ICE PLATES,» publicly shared for any user with the link. It included a gallery of photos of alleged ICE vehicles.
At last count on Sunday, the database has 4,626 records of license plate numbers organized as «Highly Suspected ICE,» «Confirmed ICE,» «Suspected ICE,» «Cleared – Not ICE» and «Unknown.»
The total number of «Confirmed ICE» entries is 2,933 records. The total number of records labeled «Abductors» is 455.
A fine-print disclaimer states that the data is «for informational purposes only» and that its organizers «do not condone its use to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede or interfere with the official duties of any officer or employee of the United States, or of any agency in any branch of the United States Government, while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties.»
Alleged ICE vehicles outside the shooting were included in a database compiled by Minneapolis citizens who have joined a «Rapid Response» team to track the movements of federal officials. They had swarmed the street minutes before the shooting occurred Saturday morning.
One guide, «Best Practices Guide for Neighborhood or Area Patrol / Monitors: 612,» includes a key to emojis and the jobs they represent for rapid responders:
«🚗💨= Mobile Patrol / Commuter – In a vehicle driving around, looking for agents»
«🚗📍= Stationary Patrol/Monitor – In a vehicle positioned at key places in the area, looking for agents»
«🏃🏻♀️= Foot Patrol – On foot, looking for agents»
«☎️ = Dispatch – Live on the Monitor / Patrol group call»
«📟 = Hyper-local group messenger – Ready to pass on word to individual neighborhoods and blocks»
‘🦺 = School / event safety spotters – Assigned and connected to a specific school or event»
«🍽️ = License plate checker – Ready to check a plate against the list of known license plates’;
«⛑️ = Medic – Ready to offer medical care»
«❤️🩹 = Aftercare provider – Available to connect with responders after an event»
The maroon Dodge Durango that was allegedly outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue is listed with three prior sightings: Jan. 11 at 3 p.m. at the Whipple federal detention facility, Jan. 13 at 1:15 p.m. and a final sighting at Powderhorn Park parking lot on 35th Street and 14th Avenue.
It’s listed with the tags, «Seen in a convoy, Tinted/blacked-out windows, ICE agent(s) seen in vehicle,» and a final verdict: «Confirmed ICE.»
As socialist organizations continued to dispatch their foot soldiers to Nicollet Avenue on Sunday evening, the Signal groups were as active as ever on Sunday, an alert going out at 4:37 p.m. ET, with rapid responders now chasing a black Dodge Durango around town.
«2 confirmed ICE vehicles,» the alert read, «…at least 2 agents in each vehicle.»
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Jackson-Kavanaugh tensions surface in candid exchange over Supreme Court ‘shadow docket’
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Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh had a dispute over the high court’s approach to its emergency docket in a rare, candid discussion during an event Monday night.
Jackson, a Biden appointee, signaled that the high court’s willingness to side with President Donald Trump most of the time when it comes to the emergency docket, sometimes known as the «shadow docket,» was a «problem.» The liberal justice is one of three, and all have frequently sided against Trump in emergency decisions, which have often broken 6-3 in favor of the president.
«The administration is making new policy … and then insisting the new policy take effect immediately, before the challenge is decided,» Jackson said, according to reports from the Associated Press and NBC News. «This uptick in the court’s willingness to get involved in cases on the emergency docket is a real unfortunate problem.»
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Jackson said: «It’s not serving the court or this country well.»
Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, countered that the Supreme Court’s approach to emergency requests was not unique to the Trump administration and that the high court handled the Biden administration the same way, despite there being fewer interim requests under the former president.
Kavanaugh said presidents «push the envelope» more with executive orders because Congress is passing less legislation.
«Some are lawful, some are not,» Kavanaugh said, later adding, «None of us enjoy this.»
The pair spoke in a courtroom during an annual lecture honoring the late Judge Thomas Flannery of the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C., while several federal judges, including high-profile ones like Judge James Boasberg, looked on.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh speaking at microphone. (Reuters)
Jackson’s criticism is not new; she has been perhaps the most vocal dissenter in emergency docket cases.
In August, she lambasted the Supreme Court majority for «lawmaking» from the bench in a dissent to an emergency decision to temporarily allow the National Institutes of Health’s cancellation of about $738 million in grant money.
«This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins,» Jackson wrote.
The Trump administration has faced hundreds of lawsuits and adverse rulings in the lower courts, and the Department of Justice’s solicitor general’s office, which represents the government before the Supreme Court, often does not elevate cases to that level.
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he Supreme Court is seen, Jan. 13, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
Such emergency requests allow the government to bypass the lengthy court process, involving extensive briefings and oral arguments, to seek immediate relief in the face of restraining orders and injunctions in the lower courts.
The Trump administration has brought about 30 emergency applications to the Supreme Court and secured victories about 80% of the time, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
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Through the emergency docket, the Supreme Court has greenlit Trump’s mass firings and curtailed nationwide injunctions. The high court has also cleared the way for deportations and immigration stops viewed as controversial by critics of the administration. The justices have also found that the government can, for now, discharge transgender service members from the military.
But Trump has not won out all the time by taking this route. The justices required the administration to give more notice to alleged illegal immigrants being deported under the Alien Enemies Act and agreed with a lower court that the president improperly federalized the National Guard as part of his immigration crackdown in Chicago.
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La mayor petrolera del mundo advirtió sobre consecuencias “catastróficas” de la guerra ante nuevos ataques iraníes a refinerías
Los mercados financieros globales revirtieron parte de su optimismo del martes luego de que una serie de señales contradictorias sobre el curso de la guerra en Oriente Medio volvieron a sembrar la incertidumbre: el ataque con drones a la refinería más grande de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, la advertencia del gigante petrolero Saudi Aramco sobre consecuencias “catastróficas” para la economía mundial y las declaraciones del primer ministro israelí, Benjamín Netanyahu, quien aseguró que la ofensiva militar contra Irán “aún no ha terminado”.
En las primeras operaciones, el Dow Jones cedía un 0,44%, el Nasdaq fluctuaba casi sin cambios y el S&P 500 perdía 0,26%. Los tres índices habían llegado a mostrar caídas más pronunciadas en la preapertura luego de una noche en verde que parecía prever una recuperación.
Pero el detonante negativo fue el reporte de medios estatales iraníes sobre la explosión de un buque cisterna cerca de Abu Dhabi, que agravó las dudas sobre la confianza del presidente Donald Trump en que el conflicto podría terminar “muy pronto”.
A eso se sumó el ataque con drones que provocó un incendio en la zona industrial de Ruwais, en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, y obligó a detener operaciones en la refinería más grande del complejo, operada por la compañía estatal Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC). La planta tiene capacidad para procesar 922.000 barriles de petróleo por día. Las autoridades de Abu Dhabi confirmaron el incendio pero indicaron que no había víctimas.
El incidente se suma a una cadena de ataques contra infraestructura energética en el Golfo Pérsico. Arabia Saudita cerró la semana pasada su mayor refinería tras un bombardeo similar, y Qatar clausuró la mayor planta exportadora de gas natural licuado del mundo.
En ese contexto, el director ejecutivo de Saudi Aramco, Amin Nasser, advirtió en una llamada de resultados que el conflicto tendría “consecuencias catastróficas” para el mercado petrolero y efectos “drásticos” sobre la economía global si se prolongaba. Nasser informó que la compañía trabaja para despachar en los próximos días alrededor del 70% de sus exportaciones habituales a través del puerto de Yanbu, en el Mar Rojo, ruta alternativa ante el bloqueo efectivo del Estrecho de Ormuz, por donde normalmente transita una quinta parte del petróleo mundial.
El crudo, que llegó a rozar los 120 dólares por barril el lunes, operaba este martes sobre los 90 dólares, luego de la caída generada por los comentarios de Trump. El petróleo de referencia estadounidense WTI cotizaba por encima de los 90 dólares por barril, mientras que el Brent internacional superaba los 93 dólares, ambos recuperando parte de las pérdidas nocturnas. Desde el inicio de la guerra, los precios acumulan una suba de alrededor del 34%.
El secretario de Defensa, Pete Hegseth, anunció desde el Pentágono que este martes será “el día más intenso de ataques dentro de Irán” desde el inicio de la guerra. Confirmó que Trump “tiene el control del acelerador” y declinó precisar si la operación está en su inicio, mitad o final. El general Dan Caine agregó que las fuerzas estadounidenses siguen atacando buques minadores iraníes y que la marina de Teherán ha sido golpeada con “artillería, cazas, bombarderos y misiles lanzados desde el mar”. Hegseth acusó además a Irán de desplazar lanzacohetes cerca de escuelas y hospitales para dificultar los ataques estadounidenses.
Netanyahu declaró este martes que la ofensiva “aún no ha terminado” e inició una nueva oleada de ataques sobre Teherán, en contraste con el tono más conciliador que Trump había adoptado un día antes al afirmar que consideraba la guerra “prácticamente completa”. Irán, por su parte, mantuvo su desafío: un portavoz de los Guardianes de la Revolución sostuvo que Teherán no permitirá que “ni un litro” de petróleo de la región llegue a Estados Unidos o sus aliados mientras continúen los ataques, y reafirmó que serán ellos quienes “determinen el fin de la guerra”.
Los mercados europeos y asiáticos habían abierto con ganancias, alentados por las palabras de Trump, pero el ánimo fue enfriándose a medida que avanzaba la jornada. El galón de gasolina en Estados Unidos subía este martes a 3,54 dólares en promedio, según el club automovilístico AAA, frente a los menos de 3 dólares registrados antes del inicio del conflicto.
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Vietnam’s trade ministry is urging businesses to encourage employees to work from home to curb fuel consumption as the country grapples with supply disruptions and sharp price increases triggered by the U.S.-Israeli war involving Iran.
In a statement on Tuesday, the government said Vietnam has been among the nations hardest hit by the turmoil due to its heavy reliance on energy imports from the Middle East. Citing a report from the Ministry of Industry and Trade, it called on companies to «encourage work-from-home when possible to reduce the need for travel and transportation.»
Fuel prices have surged since the end of last month, with gasoline up 32%, diesel rising 56% and kerosene climbing 80%, according to data from Petrolimex, the country’s top fuel trader. Long lines of cars and motorbikes were seen at petrol stations in Hanoi on Tuesday.
The ministry also urged businesses and individuals not to hoard or speculate on fuel.
People queue to buy petrol at a petrol station after Vietnam’s trade ministry called on local businesses to encourage their employees to work from home to save fuel amid disruptions in supply and price surges triggered by the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 10, 2026. (REUTERS/Khanh Vu)
GAS PRICES COULD JUMP AS MIDDLE EAST TENSIONS THREATEN GLOBAL OIL SUPPLY
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday held calls with leaders of Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to secure additional fuel and crude oil supplies. The government has also removed import tariffs on fuels through the end of April in a bid to ease pressure on the market.
President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran have made for volatile crude markets, with prices surging to $120 a barrel in the U.S. over the weekend before dipping back to just over $80 on Monday night as Trump spoke to a Republican retreat in Florida.
Prices have stabilized after Trump assured investors the Strait of Hormuz will be safe for oil tankers in the Middle East, a notorious choke point for the largely dismantled Iranian regime.
President Donald Trump addresses reporters aboard Air Force One last week as War Secretary Pete Hegseth looks on. (SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)
TRUMP IS REALIGNING WORLD ENERGY MARKETS AND THE IRAN STRIKES ARE ACTUALLY HELPING
The situation in the region remains tenuous as Iran has announced Mojtaba Khamenei as the next supreme leader, a decision that Trump told Fox News that he «was not happy» about.
«I don’t believe he can live in peace,» Trump said from Air Force One.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Tuesday they would not let any oil out of the Middle East until U.S. and Israeli attacks cease, a threat that had prompted Trump to threaten to hit Iran «20 times harder» if it blocked exports.
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Strikes on the Iranian leadership, the IRGC, and Iranian naval vessels and oil infrastructure have roiled the markets. ( Sasan / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
Despite the defiant rhetoric from both sides, investors placed strong bets Tuesday that Trump would call off his war soon, before the unprecedented disruption it has caused to energy supplies causes a global economic meltdown.
«I’m hearing they want to talk badly,» Trump said, as the Department of War has claimed 50 Iranian naval vessels have been sunk and Trump is suggesting the war objections are weeks ahead of schedule, if not nearly «complete.»
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«It’s possible,» Trump added of engaging the new Iranian leadership, descendants of the deceased leaders, but said it «depends on what terms, possible, only possible.»
«You know, we sort of don’t have to speak anymore, you know, if you really think about it, but it’s possible,» he said.
Fox News’ Trey Yingst and Reuters contributed to this report.
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