Officials in Tehran have drafted legislation to create a toll system where ships pay for safe passage through the waterway, Iranian media reported.

Iran is preparing legislation that would impose tolls on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iranian state-aligned media.

Traffic in the waterway, a critical shipping route, has effectively come to a standstill since the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran began almost four weeks ago. Subsequent supply constraints, along with attacks on energy facilities and regional production shutdowns, have pushed oil prices into triple digits.

Revolutionary Guard-aligned news agency Fars said overnight that a lawmaker had told its reporter the plans to impose tolls were also a bid to officialize Iranian supervision over the Strait of Hormuz.

  • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    How do think a ground invasion of Iran, the famously impossible to invade area for literally thousands of years, would go?

    There were a couple of mongol and Turkish invasion, as well as the Islamic Conquest. Last century the Soviets and British invaded Iran rather easily during WW2 as well.

    Do you think that it would be like Iraq where the USA blitzkrieged with tanks through to the capital?

    You use helicopters and paratroopers to take an airport close to Theran and then land troops with planes. That is how the US would invade. Iran has lost its air defense, so that is possible.

    I honestly have very little doubt, that the US can take Iran, if they wanted too. The issue is leaving it is a decent state after the war. However Israel does not care about that.

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      Oops I mined the runway. Oops a drone hit the runway. Oops the air defense isn’t actually all out and now 300 American paratroopers are dead.

      If we bent our entire economy around it, yeah maybe. We’re not doing that and that wouldn’t be a “success.” It would be a phyrric victory AT BEST.