JD Vance tough talk will not re-open the Strait. Neither will threats to cut off weapons. Neither will cutting off 1 or 2 shipments. The only way to avert global economic depression is no more weapons. Israel is addicted to murder. Addicts need to be completely cut off.
I don't think that the European elites understand just how bad the optics are.
They might as well just admit that they are trying to desperately sabotage China.
We're fast heading into a world where Europe needs China and will urgently need to stay in China's good graces.
WSJ now reports:
“After an uptick in the number of tankers sailing through the strait in both directions Thursday, traffic dwindled Friday”
“ships attempting to pass through the waterway said they were turned back by the Iranian navy”
Iran’s navy?? https://t.co/X8e1oMhjNr
Since when do corporate lobby groups get to dictate the quality of our food?
CLICK THE LINK to tell Big Pork to stop trying to eliminate state's rights to demand better food!
https://t.co/I1kIE2OaLZ
Iran says it is closing the vital Strait of Hormuz after what it described as Israeli ceasefire violations in Lebanon and a failure by the US to implement a tentative agreement to end the war. Follow live updates. https://t.co/JE0n5iDLwm
These attacks on our villages and towns across south Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley are in direct response to multiple "security incidents" involving Israeli forces and the Lebanese Resistance, including one reported "mass casualty" event near Ali al-Tahir Hill today. Just days ago Hezbollah resistance operations along the hill's axis made direct impact with their tanks as they attempted to advance, killing 4 Israeli soldiers.
Sheltering from airstrikes in Arab Salim yesterday, I kept thinking that I was just feet from where Israel killed my aunt, Huda.
Huda Chamseddine was only a teenager, sitting beneath an olive grove, during the occupation of south Lebanon in the 80s. I, like many southerners, was born into the void she left behind, deprived of ever knowing her. Our grief is an inheritance, a generations-long loss that cannot be quantified.
🔴The Lebanese ministry of health has announced that in total, 83 civilians were killed and 141 were wounded in one of the deadliest days since March 2nd.
@MouinRabbani The Israelis also, *allegedly*, ended up selling the technology filled with vital US components to China, who then went on to build the J-10 fighter jet.
@MouinRabbani "The United States funded over 90 percent of the development costs for the Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) Lavi fighter jet in the 1980s." These people have no shame.
Posturing is easy. Facts are more challenging.
The US shut down Israel's Lavi fighter program for two very simple reasons:
1. It was an extraordinarily expensive program and the US was expected to pay for it.
2. It relied on key US components and technologies. It literally couldn't taxi out of a hangar without these US inputs. Yet it would have directly competed with US aircraft, inflicting yet further losses on the US economy.
Short version: The US shut down the Lavi because it was basically a US program.
Next time also have the integrity to tell your readers how Israel sold key technologies involved in the cancelled Lavi program, including US technologies, to China.
For further details see Dov Zakheim, Flight of The Lavi (1996). Zakheim was a senior Pentagon official during the Reagan administration tasked with investigating this program and played a key role in shutting it down.
🚨 "The Strait of Hormuz is closed" — Central Headquarters of Iran's Hazrat Khatam al-Anbiya.
"Due to the blatant breach and violation by the United States of the first clause of the ceasefire agreement, and in response to the continuous and relentless violations of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime in southern Lebanon, the merciless killing and displacement of hundreds of thousands of oppressed people of this land, and also considering the failure of the Zionist occupying forces to withdraw from southern Lebanon, it is declared that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed to vessel traffic.
It is noted that this is the first step in response to the enemy's breach of covenant, and if the aggression continues, further steps will be planned and taken to compel the enemy to fulfill its commitments." — IRIB
فوری: قرارگاه مرکزی خاتمالانبیا در واکنش به بدعهدی آمریکا در تفاهمنامه پایان جنگ و تداوم نقض آتشبس و عدم عقبنشینی اسرائیل در جنوب لبنان، از بسته شدن تنگه هرمز به روی تمامی شناورها خبر داد. این قرارگاه هشدار داد که این اقدام تنها «گام اول» در پاسخ به عهدشکنی دشمن است.
#ایران
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