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To: GardenerForLife

I believe its arms embargo international agreements under the UN and probably a US law on sanctions against Iran. As much as we all despise the UN, it does provide some cover for US actions against bad actor nations on the high seas.


16 posted on 05/10/2021 8:28:16 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Magnum44
I believe its arms embargo international agreements under the UN and probably a US law on sanctions against Iran. As much as we all despise the UN, it does provide some cover for US actions against bad actor nations on the high seas.

Sounds like the US Navy are now pirates. I mean when I was in, we used to fly the skull and crossed bones flag sometimes... so...
17 posted on 05/10/2021 8:47:15 AM PDT by GardenerForLife
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To: Magnum44
it does provide some cover for US actions against bad actor nations on the high seas

So Yemen is at war with Saudi Arabia.

Who is the "bad actor" here? We should be working to make sure they both lose.

21 posted on 05/10/2021 8:52:39 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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