When an Iranian official this week laid out a list of demands to end the war started by the United States and Israel, he added an item that hadn’t been on Tehran’s list before: recognition of Iran’s sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.
The narrow waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) ordinarily passes has emerged as the Islamic Republic’s most potent weapon. And it is now seeking to turn into both a source of potentially billions of dollars in annual revenue and a pressure point on the global economy.
Iran has long threatened to close the strait in case of an attack, but few expected it to follow through – or for it to prove so effective in disrupting global trade flows. The scale of the impact appears to have expanded Tehran’s ambitions, with the new demands suggesting it is seeking to turn that leverage into something more durable.
Iran should include demanding the release of all Epstein documents.
They would just do the whole “we don’t negotiate with terrorists spiel”
But, we are the terrorists.
I’m just saying what narrative they will spin
Iran is a UN recognized state. They aren’t terrorists.
My comment wasn’t about what is or isn’t. It was about what narrative will be spun.
The US is, too, but its government is clearly terrorists.
Those are war criminals.
Yes, as is Iran’s government.
I’ll admit I’m not well versed in recent Iranian foreign affairs. What war crimes have they committed?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Iranian_war_crimes
Maybe doesn’t qualify as a war crime, but they have mass murdered their own protesting citizens.
But you should also read up on their role in funding militias around the arab world, about sunnis and shias, about operation AJAX, and about their authoritarian regime.
That might ultimatelly be good for America and Americans, so why would Iran ever do something like that?
I mean, if America was a society with humanitarian values were what’s happenned now with Trump was an exception, it would make sense, but historically the US has been in war most of its existence, of late most of it being in the Middle East causing the deaths of millions of civilians, and very few people in the US were actually against it as a question of principle and even now most are only against it because “American money”, “American lives” or “Gas prices in America” so it’s clearly not a society of good people who normally uphold good values and is just momentarilly under the control of evil people.
The US is not a society where most people think that innocent lives are sacred, be it at home or abroad.
Because it’s basically a big “Fuck You” to Trump that they know he will never willingly agree to. So a tit-for-tat to Trump’s insane and unrealistic demands for Iran.
Trump would happily throw us all at killbots before that happened
Iran should demand Trump himself be turned over to stand trial
Probably get better results taking Netanyahu, but they should really do both.