BREAKING: IRANIAN PARLIAMENT DRAFTS NEW STRAIT OF HORMUZ LEGISLATION
Iran's parliament has prepared a draft law imposing sweeping new conditions for passage:
🛑 All contracts must use the name "Persian Gulf"
🛑 Tolls paid in Rials before entry (Iran's currency)
🛑 UAE and Bahrain-affiliated ships pay additional compensation on top of tolls
🛑PERMANENT BAN on Israeli-affiliated vessels, ships from sanctioning nations, and U.S. military ships
@congaanel C'est un plan mûri depuis bien avant le pouvoir. Mais il saura que l'électorat a radicalement changé... When you get high on your own supply you fail to see the obvious.
BREAKING: "Rich Starry," a Chinese oil tanker sanctioned for shipping Iranian oil, flying the flag of Malawi — a country with no coastline — just sailed through America's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The Navy, with its many "big beautiful ships," issued repeated warnings. Reportedly, The tanker's captain upgraded to premium to skip the ads.
EDIT: We're being told the blockade only applies to countries the US isn't afraid of. That list used to be long. It now fits on Trump's McDonald's receipt, Delivered by DoorDash.
@congaanel Sauf que c'est une technologie de plus de 80ans. Nous ne sommes pas en 1945 quiconque utilise une arme nucléaire en aura une utilisée contre lui. L'Iran a les moyens d'assembler de d'envoyer une on very short notice.
The most amazing aspect of the ceasefire is that cumulating Iranian pressure on the world economy and the US continues, while the US has ceased imposing any costs on Iran. That tells you a lot about who has the upper hand in the haggling.
Time is Iran’s great power ally.
@MrAdnanRashid From a non sectarian Muslim in another area of the world: like the rest of the global South we sympathize with Iran in this war aggression against them and we have nothing but disgust and scorn for the gcc leadership.
The US does not have a military solution to the problem of reopening Hormuz or subduing Iran.
This will not be the first strategic defeat for the United States. However, this is vastly more significant than Iraq, Afghanistan or Vietnam.
In none of these cases was the US militarily unable to subdue a state. What it was unable to do was subdue guerrilla forces.
In none of these cases did we see a direct denial by a military adversary of a vital function performed by the US in the international system.
In all of these cases, US war aims were too expansive and never had a chance in hell of success largely bc of the unforgiving anthropological terrain. The US was chasing such ludicrous ends that there was no question of ever closing the gap between means and ends.
Strategic defeat, which now awaits the US like a bomb, will therefore be vastly more destructive of US authority and prestige than any of these small wars.