Iran re-closed the Strait of Hormuz Friday instead of heading to Switzerland for nuclear negotiations, citing Israel’s refusal to pull forces out of southern Lebanon and US forces’ ongoing presence in the region.

In a statement read over maritime radio channels, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the US was in violation of the memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran, which President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed Wednesday.

“Since Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, the complete lifting of the naval blockade, and the withdrawal of American terrorist forces from the Persian Gulf and the region are among the main conditions of the agreement between Iran and the United States, the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until these conditions are met,” it said. “All ships are requested, for the sake of their security and safety, not to approach the Strait of Hormuz. Any vessel that defies this directive will be targeted.”

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      USA and UK created Israel for a reason, and they’re fine with Israel’s actions.

      Israel is doing what it was created to do.

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        The Soviet Union was the first country to recognise Israel as a state, and the biggest original supporter. Link

        The US became a pivotal supporter only after 1967. (And that’s when Israel allegedly became an asset)

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        Hanlons razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity [or incompetence].”

        The US and the UK just didnt care about the Palestine area. It was a mess and had little strategic value. Israel is not some puppet of the west, thats absurd, and your stance has always been a way to wash Israelis hands of their own war crimes by attributing it to others.

        Either way we can both agree that Israel and the US/UK should NOT be politically aligned and should go their own way. And whichever of those countries then violates universal human rights should be dealt with very harshly by the entire international community. Held at gunpoint North Korea style until they grow the eff up. agreed?

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      Israel has Epstein’s blackmail against Trump.

      The only way the US withdrawals support from Israel is after Trump either leaves office or croaks. He doesn’t care if the entire country runs out of oil in >4 weeks. He’ll destroy the country forever, all because he’s a child rapist.

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        America needs sweeping changes for sure. Hoping for a collapse would be catastrophic to 300million, and life alerting for even more. They don’t exist in a vacuum.

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          Sure, you can reform the country founded on genocide and slavery, which still practices both to this day. Good luck!

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    Watching the US get its economy shredded by a pedophile would be a lot more entertaining if I wasn’t a participant in that economy.

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    Trump claims Iran deal is ‘unconditional surrender,’ says his power has ‘no limits’

    did not help either

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    On the bright side, green energy is looking better and better each day the straight remains closed.

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      It’s amazing that people don’t recognize the actual freedom that generating your own power gives your country

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      Yeah, Trump may unintentionally start the end for the fossil industry. Which is kinda ironic.

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      In other news “Americans to see extreme spike in electricity costs”.

      I guess I will just die. Might be cheaper.

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        The closure of the strait impacts helium supplies used for chip manufacturing which will impact data center build-out, so maybe the result is lower electricity costs overall.

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      If the straight remain closed, gay sex should look better and better, too /j

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    Israel is the Main Culprit keeping the ECONOMICALLY NECESSARY Straight of Hormuz closed? And because of that the US Economy is going to be DEVESTATED? Quick! We MUST give the Israelis MORE US Taxdollars and MORE US Military Intelligence!

    -The US Congress LITERALLY!

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      Those days are over! Say no to Israeli funding and YES to merging the military industrial complexes together so that you’ll never know where the money goes, let alone stop it.

      AIPAC is also dead! Long live a thousand innocent sounding organizations with “fundraisers” instead. Nothing nefarious, all above board. The most moral people work in the darkness in case you didn’t know.

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    The US is less than 4 weeks away from losing all of its oil reserves.

    If the Zionist pieces of shit thought support for Israel was obliterated before, its about to be 0% for anyone who isn’t a billionaire

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      I can’t fucking wait. The US will treat distance the same way Europe does when oil prices skyrocket. Then maybe we will see the end of urban sprawl.

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        Imagine if Iran is the one that forces the US to build public transport networks.

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      Oil reserves? The US is a net exporter of oil. The prices are only up because our government prioritizes oligarch profits over the people’s well-being.

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        The US exports the wrong type of oil that they’re running out of. Their refineries are built specifically for the oil extracted from the Middle East and retooling them to accept American oil is just out of the question since it’ll take too long before they run out stockpiles.

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        Sure, and the Irish were still exporting massive amounts of food during the great hunger.

        Both exporting oil and nearly depleted reserves can be true at the same time because of the absolute global refusal to learn from history.

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          Same with China under Mao’s Great Leap where the country was exporting wheat to the USSR during a massive famine.

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    Nukes are so 20th century. Who needs nukes when you can literally shut down the global economy with a phone call?

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      A phone call, an armada of speed boats, thousands of sea mines, and a mosaic defense strategy that allows for the continuous firing of ballistic missiles after suffering $1T in infrastructure damage.

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    While this seems plausible — likely even — it appears this is only being reported by the NY Post, a known neonazi propaganda rag. I would wait for more confirmation.

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    Good for them. If the US and Israel cant keep their word then treat them like it.

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    Powerful and resourceful gangsters have banded together to make war upon the whole human race

    FDR, Dec 9, 1941

    Give them hell Iran.

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    The title has since changed:

    Iran Foreign Ministry says Strait of Hormuz is open after IRGC warned it was closed — sparking confusion

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    Netanyahu literally cannot pull his troops back. Any peace time for Israel means autopsies on the conflict and the whole Israeli government getting charged for war crimes. Governments understand this and it’s going to be Western governments stepping aside and withdrawing their money to allow Israel to get flattened by the regional powers. I don’t like the Israeli government, and there certainly are a lot of supporters in the region (probably over 50%), but we’re probably about to see a whole bunch of innocent Israel citizens being vaporized as well.

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      but we’re probably about to see a whole bunch of innocent Israel citizens being vaporized as well.

      Maybe they shouldn’t have been openly celebrating in the streets when they were bombing Gaza.

      What goes around comes around.

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      I think you have an oversized confidence in our international justice system. When the good guys commit genocide or war crimes, no one goes to the Hague. Cases in point: Indonesia (twice over), Guatemala, the war on “terror”.

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      It’s not even that complicated. If he lets Israel off a war footing, he’s in front of the corruption court that he’s attempted to subvert multiple times.

      If Israel ever charges anyone over the actual war crimes, I’ll eat a bug.

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      There are no innocent Israeli scum. They are all guilty of the rape and genocide of real Semites (Palestinians).

      Israel can have its peace when every last motherfucking zionist is all dead.

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          wiping out evil isn’t genocide. it’s justice.

          or are you pro genocide of brown people?

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              I’m pro genocide of all zionists. that includes the filthy subhuman Israeli rapists, the jihadist Muslims, zionist Hindus, zionist Buddhists, and the zionist Christians (most of MAGA fits into that last category).

              if every last zionist abomination in the world died tomorrow. the world would be a much safer and peaceful place.