Posted on 04/09/2026 9:16:35 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
As the ceasefire began, Tehran was already reshaping the terms of the agreement to its advantage rather than adhering to its spirit. On Wednesday, Tehran only allowed 12 cargo tankers to pass through the strait.
This sharply contrasts with pre-conflict levels, when more than 100 vessels could transit the strategic waterway daily.
With Vice President JD Vance in Islamabad on Friday for direct negotiations with Iran
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I assume they were only constrained by the sellers. In some of these cases, the money isn't the most attractive medium of exchange ... like the U.S., for example, who would have no need to sell a nuclear warhead for $10 billion when that only generates enough revenue to cover about 12 hours of our federal expenditures.
"We have to defeat them because they're insane" doesn't work anymore on rational people. That's a Fox News talking point aimed at generating political support from suburban Karens who spent two years hiding under the bed during COVID.
The Suez Canal might be a comparable example as well, though it is very similar to the Bosphorus and Dardanelles. The Suez is a “flat” canal with no lock systems, so it functions more like a typical strait than a canal.
They're well within their rights to charge fees to pay for that defense as well as restrict who traverses it that body of water, and restrict shipments going through it to nations that attack them.
Look at the map on post #33. THE SHIPPING LANES DO NOT EVEN GO THOUGH IRANIAN WATERS!!!
This time I PROMISE I will not waste of my anymore time with you...lol
Yes, look at the chart. Look at Jazireh-ye Forur, Tunb as Sughra, and Tunb al Kubra.
The Suez is a man made canal, while the Bosphorus and Dardanelles are natural waterways. The former a canal, the latter straits.
Sorry, but no. This is incorrect.
Longtime, international agreements guarantee “transit passage” through such straits. There are some exceptions - the Dardanelles are hinky (but also not as broad nor as clear-cut)....
But Iran is absolutely breaking international law.
Of course, that fact + a dollar will buy you a cup of coffee.
I have said in other comments in this thread and elsewhere - I think this Iran war was a dumb idea. Ill-planned, predicated on magical thinking, and now we’re stuck.
However, that doesn’t mean I give Iran a pass.
I do - logically, practically, understand why they’re doing what they’re doing. I suppose if I were an ayatollah? I’d probably do the same. They don’t have any other options.
My beef - as an American with a brain and able to think for myself rather than just “trust the plan (that nobody told me about)” - is that this was all perfectly predictable and I object to the lack of planning for it.
Superpowers don’t need to play chicken with regional backwaters. And sometimes? The best course is just roll your eyes at them.
Look at the map on post #33. THE SHIPPING LANES DO NOT EVEN GO THOUGH IRANIAN WATERS!!!
Look at the map again. The entering shipping lane is in Iranian waters. The exiting shipping lane is in Omani waters.
Longtime, international agreements guarantee “transit passage” through such straits.
International agreements do not guarantee transit of enemy shipping through national waters during a war.
No country would be forced to accept enemies using water within their territorial area. We wouldn't and they aren't.
We wouldn't accept ships or aircraft entering the ADIZ in the Gulf of America to either attack us or send munitions to others who were attacking us.
The United States doesn't even own the Panama Canal and we forced China out of control of it. Yeah, that's "international law".
So... half isn't theirs?
So you are against us bombing Japan with the nukes to end the carnage of children and adults in WW II. You scum traitor.
Well, now,who would hve guessed tht would happen?
its like a nest of bugs in your attic.
you exterminate them.. then you check, exterminate them again if you need to.. if the easy stuff doesn’t work, you bring out the big job and fumigate the whole house...
We need to fumigate all of Iran.
Then we might have a fresh start, and the Persian will be able to go back to normal and we could help them
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