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Posted on 08/08/2026 10:38:16 AM PDT by thegagline
An Iranian military spokesman said Saturday that Tehran's control over the Strait of Hormuz is "irreversible," warning that the United States must accept the new status quo or face even greater costs.
"The Iranian order prevailing over the Strait of Hormuz is irreversible," Iranian army spokesman Brig. Gen. Amir Akraminia said, according to Iran's Fars news agency.
"Today, the Iranian order prevails in the Strait of Hormuz, and the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran stand firm until this order is fully established," Akraminia said.
He said Iran's armed forces have the will and military capabilities necessary to enforce Tehran's position.
"The United States has no choice but to accept the status quo, otherwise it will incur costs far greater than in the past," Akraminia said.
His comments came as Iran said Saturday it was close to reaching an agreement with Oman on a new shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz, although Tehran said a deal alone would not be enough to fully reopen the strategic waterway.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Iran and Oman were "very close" to an agreement on a temporary route while technical and legal issues surrounding a permanent arrangement are resolved.
But Araqchi said reopening the strait would depend on other conditions, including compensation from the United States. ***
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This is the Iranian’s win. They can easily disrupt shipping. But, if what I’m seeing is true, in a few years, pipelines will make the strait irrelevant. The Iranians have cut their own throat.
Would the World miss Iran if it were gone?
I don't suppose Mr. Akraminia knows that he is quite reversible.
A long dirt nap is suggested as therapeutic.
“Would the World miss Iran if it were gone?”
Absolutely not.
Day 160 of this.
Freedom of Navigation.
Drop their bridges.
Bomb the electricity turbines.
Nothing moves.
Stone Age.
Part of our strategic objective was to make sure the Iran Mullahs had full control of the straits.
We are winning!
Lol.
As Randy Newman put it, let’s drop the big one and see what happens.
Secretary of State Scott Bessent gets it. When asked about the Strait of Hormuz, Bessent notes that yes, things will likely never return to the way they were before; however, there is a distinction that must be applied.
Even if Iran completely acquiesced to all of the most stringent terms and conditions requested by President Trump, they will never again recapture the position they held with the Strait of Hormuz as a chokepoint.
Capital markets respond to risk in the medium and long term; risks are always mitigated. With the Strait now identified as a strategic risk, the emphasis will be on forever neutralizing that risk and avoiding the issue in the future. As a consequence, Iran’s strongest point of leverage is disappearing now and will continue to disappear.
WATCH (prompted):
Mark Curtis sits down with Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent
As further explained by James Thorne on X:
“By repeatedly signaling its willingness to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran hasn’t strengthened its hand, it has accelerated the market’s exit. Capital does not tolerate chokepoints; it routes around them.
Saudi Arabia is expanding its East-West pipeline. The UAE has already built out Fujairah as a bypass. Iraq is revisiting overland export corridors. Every marginal dollar now flows toward redundancy, not reliance. What was once a geopolitical lever is being engineered into irrelevance. Bessent gets it: markets don’t absorb coercion; they arbitrage it away.
Energy markets are not static, and they are not sentimental. The shale revolution already diluted OPEC’s grip. LNG has globalized gas. Now infrastructure is doing the same to maritime risk. Once these pipelines are built, they don’t get unbuilt. Volume shifts become permanent. Pricing power follows.
Tehran’s miscalculation is classic: overplay a scarce asset, and the world invests to make it abundant. The more Iran rattles Hormuz, the faster it erodes the very leverage it seeks to exploit.
In the end, this is not deterrence. Its substitution and substitution, once funded, is irreversible. Iran is underwriting its own marginalization.“
A 40-year generational problem is being resolved forever!
no one would miss the IRGC, but there’s a lot of interesting history in Iran
I was going to ask if this was even more winning.
You are correct. In addition, the ONLY leverage they had over ANYONE will disappear, and Gulf states who might have been grudging or reluctant allies, whom Iran has repeatedly attacked (with some of them striking back) will no longer be subject to extortion or threats.
Soon, Iran will just be another oil producing country, with sanctions against it.
Of course, too many both here on Free Republic (who appear to be salivating for a US defeat) and elsewhere are too shallow to understand this.
Too many dimwits on this site don’t see this dynamic. They seem to just want a US defeat and a Trump loss of prestige.
Well, if that is how they pleasure themselves, who are we to dissuade them?
sure. /s
Most of the oil will now be shipped thru pipeline to other port making Hormuz and particularly Iran, even less relevant as 50-70% of the oil moves away from the necessity of Hormuz.
Good job Mullah’s. You won....You effed around and now can watch other states make necessary adjustments...
And that is the way it is. Walter
Give it two yrs, the Strait of Hormuz will be irrelevant, then they wont have a stronghold anymore
It’s total win.
Iran just effed themselves forever
> in a few years, pipelines will make the strait irrelevant <
I doubt if a sabotage team could wreck part of that pipeline, then escape cleanly.
But what about a suicide team? Or worse, drones?
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