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Posted on 04/05/2026 2:57:59 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Five weeks into a war that has sent oil prices soaring and left global shipping in disarray, Tehran just blinked. At least for one country. Iran announced on April 5 that it is exempting one of its closest neighbors from the Strait of Hormuz restrictions that have strangled global energy supplies since the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran on February 28, according to Al Jazeera. Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said restrictions would only apply to “enemy countries.”
“Brotherly Iraq is exempt from any restrictions we have imposed on the Strait of Hormuz,” Iran’s military spokesman said in an Arabic-language video statement published by state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, as reported by Fortune.
The announcement has the potential to unleash as much as 3 million barrels a day of Iraqi oil cargoes back into global markets. That matters because Iraq’s oil sector has been devastated by the conflict. Iraqi oil exports plunged roughly 97% in March to a daily average of just 99,000 barrels, down from 3.4 million barrels before the war. Iraq’s Ministry of Oil said production itself had fallen to 1.2 million barrels a day, down from 4.3 million, according to Al Jazeera...
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Bomb
Destroy
I don’t think this meets the criteria that Trump is demanding.
No Iranian oil sales from now on.
Period.
We should seize and board every
Iranian oil shipment
and seize it.
They won’t take care of themselves,
why should the world expect them to
be “Civil”.
Moslem’s all have a death wish.
Grant it.
It’s a trick to try to get Iraq on their side in case of invadion.
Apparently some Shia Iraqi militia nutjobs entered Iran to help hold the majority of Persians down.
Not good enough.
Bomb them until they scream “Uncle!”
Then bomb them some more.
L
The fact that these pirates think they can block and unblock a key waterway is outrageous in the first place.
A stall and delay tactic by Iran. Do, or do not. There is no try. Open it.
They think they can avoid the bombing by a small marginal and meaningless concession. They think they are clever. It is a cynical and insulting move. I hope it makes the President bomb them even harder but I’m not sure that is what will happen.
Oil is fungible. Whether it’s Iraqi, or Iranian, or Russian, it helps relieve the pressure on the supply side. This weakens Iran’s position. Furthermore, guess how much Kuwait oil will get comingled with the Iraqi oil. Smuggling is perfected in that part of the world.
I agree that this is unlikely to satisfy the President. Check my math, but Iran’s oil represents about 2% of the world’s supply. About 20% of the world’s supply transits the Strait of Hormuz. What is stopping us from destroying Iran’s ability to produce oil? The IRGC is the main beneficiary of oil revenue. It seems to me a valid argument to take that away from them. It might be enough to tip the regime over, and it would certainly hamper their network of terror proxies. Let’s stop giving them deadlines, which only allow them to try to run out the clock.
Destroy the oil production we throw away all leverage to affect the regime’s behavior. The strait will not be open for months maybe years.
“Do we bomb or not?”
Partially.
lol !!!
Iraq is basically an Iranian puppet state at this point, at least in some respects. Would not be surprised if revenue from Iraqi oil wound up being used to prop up the Iranian regime.
“It’s a trick to try to get Iraq on their side in case of invasion.”
I bet you’re right!
They’re trying to get Pakistan to fight with them too by saying the US will destroy Pakistan’s nukes.
This obviously means Russia and the CCP won’t send their troops to help out.
The CCP hasn’t sent troops to help Russia either. Putin will be a dead duck unless he disaligns himself from the kook muslims and the conniving chinks.
BRICS will be the end of Russia.
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