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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[–] 155 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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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  • [–] 103 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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

    did not help either

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    [+] 262 points 4 months ago (30 children)
  • [–] 42 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [+] 44 points 4 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 79 points 4 months ago (20 children)

    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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  • [–] 46 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    Correct. It's not just Trump, it's an entire generations-long policy norm to suppress peace and sovereignty across the middle east that passively scapegoats and endangers jews all over the world as consequence, perhaps intentionally. Pretty sure that Israeli money still funds the majority of both Republican and Democrat campaigns in congress. We need a whole-house cleaning, Israeli lobby funds from any sources need to be popularly seen by voters as a hard disqualification. Jewish voices that oppose genocidal Israeli domination narratives need to be amplified and normalized.

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    All of the red you see is a politician who takes money from AIPAC

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah it is kinda interesting to see people act like Israel has suddenly commandeered the US, as if they aren't both colonial projects acting like colonizers, and building mural alliance on the grounds that you know, they wanna do colonialism shit

    Theres a guy I follow online who always describes it as "the tail doesnt wag the dog", where the US is the dog, and Israel is the tail, which is an interesting metaphor I haven't heard much before,

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    There's a movie named after the saying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog

    I haven't seen it. Not sure how well it's held up.

    Edit: There's a wiki page on the political term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_dog

    Hmmm, I'm not sure why each of those links takes me to a different wiki even though they're identical. I imagine it doesn't work the same for everyone else. I'll just link to the disambiguation:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog_%28disambiguation%29

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Britain literally created the state, of course they recognized them first, lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    Britain got tired of having their people killed by the local terrorists and left. That's not pre-recognition of the government that those terrorists later set up.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Hopefully when American strategic reserves run dry, America goes into a depression and collapses!

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  • [–] 80 points 4 months ago (12 children)

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

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  • [–] 63 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

    I guess I will just die. Might be cheaper.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    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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  • [–] 74 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Iran did the most hilarious thing possible! They're going to bend Trump over backwards for the rest of his life.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago

    Which won't be long, hopefully.
    Come on, Death, do your fucking job!!

    (Though an excruciatingly painful and debilitating illness is much preferred. I'd wish a long life to the Donvict if that happens)

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    As much as I fear the consequences this will have for the economies of the world, especially poor countries who will get hit the hardest, I enjoy watching Trump and his friends get humiliated. They deserve it.

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  • [–] 63 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Nypost? Seriously? There are dozens... hundreds of more reputable source to choose from.

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  • [–] 90 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    id say this is 3d chess but its more like being a nation-state 101. Iran expertly played israel and america off eachother to get exactly what they wanted and give neither america or israel anything, all while driving a wedge between these two assholes.

    it would be impressive if they pulled this off against highly-capable nations with well developed diplomatic corps. As it stands it kind of feels mean to big up Iran for dunking on what are effectively two asshole toddlers screaming about their toys

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  • [–] 41 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    American diplomacy had been obliterated in past 10 years

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  • [–] 59 points 4 months ago

    It's more and more clear that the Wikipedia editors made the right choice in deciding that the US lost the war:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago

    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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    All of Lebanon is included in the map of Greater Israel. God’s Chosen Master Race aren’t going to stop until they’ve genocided every last Arab and Muslim and anyone else who tries to stop them. Unless someone actually makes Israel stop.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    But now Trump can try to shift blame for the war onto Israel and Netanyahu.

    Of course, this won’t work, but that’s why these stupid idiots picked this course of action. They knew they couldn’t stop Israel from being insane assholes, so they tried to figure out a way to shift a blame to Israel.

    Oops!

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  • [–] 67 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    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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  • [–] 59 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 50 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I'd love to understand the logic behind creating an industry where we don't refine our own oil and instead export it, and choose to import other oil that we do refine. It seems very counterintuitive.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 41 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    From taco Tuesday to fuck that guy Friday (you know who I mean)

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago

    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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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    While I can't root for any party involved in this, I have to say I'm really glad to see someone is holding America by the balls big time.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    So the American surrender didn't do squat, eh?

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    When you negotiate with lying egomaniacal assholes who never say the same thing twice .... what do you expect is going to happen?

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Well just male it the Gay of Hormuz and then everyone wins.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    Peace when markets are open and war when markets are closed.

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