▲ 147 ▼ French ship crosses Strait of Hormuz after Macron backs Iran's sovereignty (www.wionews.com) submitted 7 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml 16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml [S] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children) Why would Iran mine the strait? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 months ago (1 child) Mines don't need to be maintained actively, so it would make sense if Iran were about to lose its capacity to sink ships in the strait by other means. As the US said would happen a few weeks ago. So US media said Iran would or did mine the strait. And sometimes people believe propaganda even if they know better than to trust it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yogthos@lemmy.ml [S] 13 points 7 months ago Right, that was the point I was making there. The only scenario where it would make sense for Iran to mine the strait would be if they couldn't control it otherwise, and it's pretty clear they're in firm control right now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 months ago (1 child) Mines don't need to be maintained actively, so it would make sense if Iran were about to lose its capacity to sink ships in the strait by other means. As the US said would happen a few weeks ago. So US media said Iran would or did mine the strait. And sometimes people believe propaganda even if they know better than to trust it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yogthos@lemmy.ml [S] 13 points 7 months ago Right, that was the point I was making there. The only scenario where it would make sense for Iran to mine the strait would be if they couldn't control it otherwise, and it's pretty clear they're in firm control right now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml [S] 13 points 7 months ago Right, that was the point I was making there. The only scenario where it would make sense for Iran to mine the strait would be if they couldn't control it otherwise, and it's pretty clear they're in firm control right now. permalink fedilink source parent