The Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:
"Egypt charges hundreds of thousands of dollars for every passage through the Suez Canal, with fees exceeding one million dollars for large container ships and tankers. Turkey imposes transit fees for vessels passing through the Bosphorus Strait. Canada charges fees for the St. Lawrence Seaway. Panama collects hundreds of thousands of dollars per transit, reaching up to 500,000 dollars for large Neo-Panamax vessels. The United States also charges fees related to the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Yet when Iran keeps the Strait of Hormuz open for free passage for decades, without imposing any transit fees, despite facing sanctions, isolation, and relentless accusations, it is portrayed as the problem.
Isn’t it hypocritical to condemn Iran while ignoring the fact that many other countries profit from controlling vital waterways? And you still expect me to believe that Iran is the ‘bad guy’ here?"
What has Iran really done that is so unforgivable?
Did it invade continents?
Colonize half the earth?
Drop atomic bombs on civilians?
Build military bases around the globe?
Topple governments by the dozen?
Starve nations with sanctions and call it diplomacy?
No.
Its unforgivable act was simpler.
It refused to become manageable.
And for some rulers in the Muslim world, that refusal is more offensive than any Western crime, because it threatens the very terms of their own survival.
@goodbye56789@AliMajid44@jacksonhinkle Stop acting like it’s just this Israeli leadership when it has been every leadership since its inception and the public overwhelmingly support the genocide
This is the genocidal piece of shit that all the American senators are crying over.
Let me remind you he wanted to drop a Nuclear bomb on Gaza.
Fuck him and anyone who’s crying over this monster.
Hope his passing was a painful 1.
What is happening in the Persian Gulf has little to do with paragraph 5 of the MoU. That is a diversion. The real problem is that Washington cannot accept the new reality in the Strait of Hormuz: the era of uncontested US command is over.
There is a new sheriff in the Strait, and it is not prepared to bow to American hegemony, absorb threats in silence, or allow US forces to dictate the rules of passage as if the Gulf were still an American lake. The issue is not navigation, legality or paragraph 5. The issue is power.
The United States is struggling to digest the fact that its bases, fleets and command centres across the region and also its allies are no longer untouchable and have no immunity.
Iran has made clear that wherever American drones, missiles and aircraft can reach, Iranian drones and missiles can reach too. That is the real equation Washington refuses to accept: deterrence in the Gulf is no longer one-way.
Imagine the significance of what Donald Trump said about the Golan!
The President of the United States effectively reaffirmed Israel's occupation and annexation of the Golan Heights while Abu Mohammad al-Julani sat beside him without a single objection, not even a reminder that the Golan is occupied Syrian territory.
Silence at a moment like this is state policy.
When the U.S. president declares the Golan to be Israeli territory and the self-proclaimed "President of Syria" says nothing, the world is bound to interpret that silence as acceptance of the status quo.
@alon_mizrahi Iran and the few allies it has R literally the only thing preventing the birth of PAX Judaica as a global empire in control of energy flows, and Israel knows this. Israel also knows US is falling apart, so this is their chance at wrecking Iran.