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The Strait of Hormuz remains open to all shipping ​except vessels linked to "Iran's enemies", Iranian media reports ‌published on Sunday quoted Iran's representative to the U.N. maritime agency as saying.

Ali Mousavi's comments came from an interview ​published on Friday by Chinese news agency Xinhua, ​before U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to target ⁠Iranian power plants if the strait was not "fully ​open" within 48 hours.

The threat of Iranian attacks during ​the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has kept most ships from getting through the narrow strait, the conduit for around a fifth ​of global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies, ​threatening a global energy shock.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Is all this happening because trump brutally raped those girls?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

No, the child rape done by the current president is completely incidental

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 hours ago

Mainly because he's too much of a coward to admit it

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 204 points 1 day ago (6 children)

We've effectively put sanctions on ourselves, amazing.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 hours ago

And with the tarrifs he imposed you’re taxing yourselves too!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 127 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump's tariffs on the whole world are also effectively self-imposed sanctions on the USA.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Shart and the heel

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 81 points 1 day ago (3 children)

P2025 is literally all about bankrupting the USA and selling it to billionaires and enslaving the population.

This is just part of the plan

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

And then the country collapsing because they are short-sighted as fuck

They really think that all this destruction will be better for them, huh?

[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

It will be. They pay a lot of money to insulate themselves from the only real consequences from these actions. It's true that capitalists are incapable of longterm planning, but the wealthiest only really have to worry about a potential assailant more than anything else since the economy and legal system is oriented toward their interests. The death cult thing is not a joke, these people think that any level of destruction to the world can't penetrate a bunker.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Use AI with the help of social media to control us.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago

Which is just the latest iteration of the 1971 business roundtable that made this long game to seize control.

Art of the deal.

[–] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

I am so tired of all the winning!

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not just ourselves, anyone that's an ally.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They’ve mined the strait, so it really is everyone.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Non Western aligned vessels are getting through albeit slowly. Several Asian countries have received deliveries of liquid petroleum gas and China is still getting oil. In fact Iran has said they will let oil tankers through if the oil is purchased in yuan (to undermine the petrodollar).

Reportedly there is a secure channel between the island of Qeshm and Larak that they are using to get these ships through.

[–] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago

There are navigators/guides that board the ships and guide them through safely... at least the ones that are approved. It is a very well-paid position that comes with high fees.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anyone that mines waters keeps charts to navigate through. Since mines were invented. I remember reading about the Japanese getting the Russian charts in 1911 or whatever around then, to invade the far east, where they wiped out the russian fleet, the arrogant russians not fearing a non white country, despite their astronomic industrialization with the help of european powers, and ingenious finance arraangements building industries with government capital then auctioning them to private industry and using that money to start the next industrialization. The most rapid development of any country ever as I read it.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If the solutions are already invented and for sale and you can see what the opium wars looked like...yeah, they better be as fast as possible.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago

Hai gai jin.