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Iran Now Threatening To Close Bab Al-Mandeb Strait After Trump Threats (www.forbes.com)

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Although Iran does not border the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, Yemen does, and Iran is closely allied with the Houthis, the Yemeni militant group that previously conducted dozens of strikes against Israel-linked vessels in the Red Sea in 2023 and 2024 in response to the war in Gaza.

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[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 12 points 4 hours ago

If anyone wants a good video covering this strait and other important ones, here's one by TLDR News Global:

Mapping the World’s (other) Maritime Chokepoints - YouTube

Something like 16 % of all sea‑borne trade by value passes through the Bab‑el‑Mandeb compared to about 6 % for the Strait of Hormuz.
In normal times something like 20 % of all oil and gas trade consumed by the world passes through the Strait of Hormuz compared to more like 10 % for the Bab‑el‑Mandeb.
Saudi Arabia started relying more heavily on exports via the Red Sea which mostly flow out towards Asia via the Bab‑el‑Mandeb
Most sea‑borne trade between Europe and Asia passes through the Bab‑el‑Mandeb.
The next most direct maritime route includes an 8,000 km detour around Africa.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 45 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The drone revolution is truly something to behold.

[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 1 points 45 minutes ago

Genocide begets resistance and technology closes the gaps between rich states and oppressed ones.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 37 points 7 hours ago

[+] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk -51 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Funny little old article from 2025:

On Sunday, the head of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami, denied his country was involved in the Houthis’ attacks, saying it “plays no role in setting the national or operational policies” of the militant groups it is allied with across the region, according to state-run TV.

Because of course Iran had previously blatantly falsely claimed that they had no control over their proxies, the Houthis.

While fuck Trump and his war crimes in all kinds of way, this war is ultimately a result of Iran playing stupid games with their terrorist proxies. Whether Iran will win stupid prizes, we will see.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Dude that’s not even the proximate case

[+] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk -26 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

So Iranian proxies attacking Israel for years was completely irrelevant to Israel attacking Iran? Bullshit.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 35 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

So Israel entrenching their apartheid state for decades instead of working towards a more collaborative and egalitarian future with their neighboring countries and cultures was completely irrelevant to Israel attacking Iran? Bullshit.

You’re cherry-picking one-off justifications in a context that has history going back for literal millennia.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

instead of working towards a more collaborative and egalitarian future with their neighboring countries and cultures

You mean the ones that have "death to Israel" as a slogan? C'mon people. Don't lionize Iran just because you're angry at Israel and the US.

[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Did you ever stop to think why they say that?

Counldnt have anything to do with the way Isriel has treated muslim neighbours could it now.

Edit: let me be clear.

Fuck the Iranian government and its burtal oppression of its people.

But fuck the US for making it worse.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

They've said it since the '70s. Maybe instead of entrenching their theocratic dictatorship for decades they should be working towards a more collaborative and egalitarian future with their neighboring countries and cultures.

[–] Tolc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Israel has no right to exist, its a literal nazi state, fuck you for defending its existence and fuck everyone else who does so

[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

what else happened about then.....

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

And what happened before that? And before that? And before that? This is how all these discussions go. But you blame Israel for not "cozing up" to a regime that literally does not recognize their legitimacy and has done so for 50 years while it has also funded terror groups to attack them.

I'm sorry but there is not black and white here.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 hours ago

Iran is right not to recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli state, because it was recently created via a violent settler-colonial occupation culminating in a genocide. It's not black and white, but it isn't completely fucking gray either, and there are some parts of this that are black and white.

From the American Declaration of Independence:

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Israel de facto governs the Palestinian people without their consent, depriving them of all rights and treating them as disposable. In this case where Israel has refused all attempts of the Palestinians to alter this arrangement the only path that remains to them is to abolish the Israeli state, as is their right. Israel does not have a right to exist and no other state does either. The existence of any state is a privilege derived from the consent of the governed.

[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Your right, there's tons of historical context here.

You act like this attitude twords the US and its allies are in a vacuum.

You act like Israel doesn't have nukes treating them as well, funding terror in the region themselves. Gaza and Lebanon come to mind.

Why should Iran cozy up to such a hostile nation?

They're not. There rooted in the blood spilled by those same countries.

If the US is hated, it's probably justified.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If the US is hated, it’s probably justified.

I'm not saying it isn't. I'm saying, and did say, not to lionize Iran just because you're mad at Israel and the US.

[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I can be mad at both, and still believe Iran is in the right to defend itself from American and Israeli imperialism first.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I can't support any state that has supported terrorism the way Iran has. There is no justification for that.

[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

What about the american terrorism? Glossing over that?

What I'm pointing out here,

Is that Americans and Israels have been the terrorist for decades in that region. Assisinating generals they feel like, bombing schools, developing nukes, the list goes on so much more than Iran and its proxies. So o don't understand how you can primailry denounce the little guy, at the expense of the angry shark in the room.

Because there likely wouldn't be as much terrorism, if not for the decades of antagonist behaviours.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

What about the american terrorism? Glossing over that?

Nope.

Because there likely wouldn’t be as much terrorism, if not for the decades of antagonist behaviours.

look what you made me do!

[–] Tolc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

look what you made me do!

such a stupid gotcha, would hate holocaust survivor jews for hating all germans or not?

[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Look at what you made me do

So you are saying the us shouldn't have launched the campaign? Because that sounds exactly like how your responding as well. They're all terrorists, look at what you made me do......

What makes Iran terorists and the us not one?

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

So you are saying the us shouldn’t have launched the campaign?

Yes. I haven't said otherwise - y'all just assume I'm saying whatever the straw-man in your head has ready arguments for.

That said - terrorism is always the greater evil than military attacking military. You can justify war as "politics through other means" but when you start attacking non-combatant populations you're in a world of wrong. There is no justification for it. That was Iran's choice. That they fought back isn't (necessarily) wrong, but that they have chosen terrorism as their means is.

[–] wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 hours ago

You say that like the greatest terrorist organisation isnt the US military.

What I'm pushing agaisnt is who your letting define twrrosit, because to most west asia (and even east Asia), the terorista are the US military.

[–] Tolc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

so US cant be terrorist because it has military org? and bunch of peasants and farmers rising up against imperialism is terrorism? lol you are in deep amrikkkan

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours ago

I’m not glorifying or supporting nihilistic slogans like that. I’m saying that there’s a reason they became popular, and it’s the same reason they have tended to grow in popularity.

As in: if Israel had maintained a strong defense force, acknowledged and made attempts to rectify mistakes from their past, and simultaneously tried their best to get along with and form economic and cultural ties with the surrounding countries and cultures instead of resorting to military adventurism every time they felt a bit squeamish, perhaps they wouldn’t be in the extremely fucky and deeply, darkly ironic position they’re in today.

[–] Tolc@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Those are not terror proxies but freedom fighters, hope that helps