if Iran hit it, it’s because they got a tip Israel or the US’ dickhead billionaires were involved,
Iran's proxy the Houthis made a promise to also only hit enemy ships. And then shot at everything that moved - ships were sunk where people could see no connection.
It is quite reasonable to doubt how precise Iran is here...
Generally it gets a bit muddy at such a stage.
I think international law is actually pretty clear, in general. You don't get to shoot at every ship that moves.
Are trade ships that are trading with the enemy, not expressly and officially guaranteed by Oman not valid targets
Iran is shooting all the ships. It is pretty clear that "legality" is not a concern Iran has.
If anything, Iran, in its desperation, is fighting well against the superest most bigliest ultra fascist state in the making.
This seems to be the root. You see that Trump/USA is evil here, which it is. And then somehow conclude that Iran must be good, if Iran is fighting against Trump.
Iran is evil too. Fucking evil. Killing innocent civilians deliberately and laughing at it evil.
There is a trend of ignoring how evil some of the Muslim groupings in the Middle East are. That has got to stop. It almost seem like "white man's burden" - as if people think Muslims don't have agency to know right from wrong.
They are fully allowed to close it
According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), ships have a right to transit international straits like the Straight of Hormuz. Article 38 to be exact: https://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/unclos_e.pdf
at least on their side of the strait.
And as you say, their side. But it is quite clear that Iran has closed the whole thing, also the part Iran has no right to.
Whether Oman is a party in this war (given their harboring of US bases and military assets) is up to debate.
Has Oman allowed attacks from the bases (I don't actually know)? If not, then Oman is not party to the war. But it seems pretty clear that Iran would not restrain itself in either case, right?
And in any case, this is civilian ships, which are not valid targets even in a war.
There is zero chance that MAGA will look at the Trump quote, and say "you know what, you have a point, I can't be mad at you for celebrating Trump's death without being a hypocrite".
Yes - but you can choose any point to stand on. So all arbitrary separations in to "East" and "West" are equally valid.
You know that Hamas entered Israel and took lots of innocent civilian hostages, right? Which Israel enetered Gaza to get back. Hence, Israel had an extremely good reason to enter Gaza.
How is that relevant?
How exactly were the names "East Antarctica" and "West Antarctica" in that map decided? What does "East" and "West" mean at the South Pole?
Wrestling terminology is once again best for describing MAGA. There are certainly "smarks" who know and don't care, yes. But there is surely also plenty of "marks", who believes it is reality. Remember how stupid the average person is.
Yes the US has fucked up bigly in Iraq and Iran. There is a pattern - fuck Republicans.
But in many cases, the US has also created stability. The 1991 Gulf War was fundamentally a stability exercise - Iraq started that war by invading Kuwait. Likely Saddam would gladly have invaded Saudi Arabia, if the US had not enforced the status quo in the region.
The US was the world's policeman. Sometimes they did some shit, but sometimes they kept the peace. Over all, I think people were glad they were there. But keeping the peace involves force or the threat of force sometimes, and it seems to me that some people only see the violence or threat of violence, and not the peace created. As in the 1991 Gulf War, for example.
Iran's political leadership has shown far more competence than Trump's administration, no question. Trump apparently started this war without knowing that Iran would close the straight of Hormuz, which random people on the street would have known would happen. Trump's administration is literally idiots - not just people I disagree with.