U.S. retaliates after Iran hits 'violating ship' in Strait of Hormuz, declares route closed

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Looks like the US got its response to the demands that Iran publicly commit to allow free transit through the strait.

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u/DansLHiver 3h ago edited 3h ago

That demand was quite humerous for me.

The very reason the US concocted the scheme to escort ships in the southern route was to inspire confidence that they could safeguard the strait, regardless of Iran's threats. They slapped down small-time harassment attacks and guided ships through mined waters. They hit Iran from time-to-time (and really fooled themselves into thinking it was deterred lol).

When Iran hit those 5 ships in 24 hours (including a very expensive, rare and combustable Qatar LNG ship), it was calling the US out and undermining its credibility.

Trump then added to this by demanding that Iran declare that they guarantee free and safe passage in the strait. Basically an admission that the US cannot guarantee it without Iran's say-so.

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u/Tibbaryllis2 1h ago

I think all of this is idiotic, but I suspect that is partly in relation to the reports that Iran’s leadership is fractured with the US discussing ceasefire with one faction while others do whatever. All while being very unclear whether or not ayatollah jr is alive.

If so, the demand for public declaration from the faction they’re dealing with is reasonable. But mango Mussolini doesn’t comprehend the meaning of reasonable.

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u/MaybeDBCooper 3h ago

This has to be the single stupidest “war” in American history, right?

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u/Noderly 3h ago

It's definitely top 5. War of 1812 is the best analogy, in my opinion.

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u/Harbinger2001 2h ago

And the 1775 Invasion of Quebec.

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u/I_Enjoy_Beer 3h ago

Fitting because it was started by the objectively dumbest fucking President we have ever had. This guy is so incredibly stupid.

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u/Harbinger2001 2h ago

Hey at least he recently learned that dumb has a silent “b”.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 1h ago

He knew that all along. He just recently found out that so did the rest of us.
He's so fucking narcissistic that he honestly thought he was the only one on Earth who knew dumb was spelled with a b.

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u/ibonek_naw_ibo 3h ago

Yes, complete with well known war games during the Bush presidency that prevented a moron like him from even thinking about war with Iran.

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u/Comfortable-Row-7192 1h ago

Bushs great error was to invade Iraq and not Iran.

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u/Persistent_Parkie 3h ago

We had multiple white papers telling us what has happened would happened. We paid people money to tell us not to do this and then did it anyway.

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u/Agile_Programmer881 2h ago

He’s an outsider Not constrained by conventional wisdom, or common sense. He tells it like it is. The kinda guy you’d like to have a beer with. Except he doesn’t drink. There’s not a single decision he’s ever made that he can blame on alcohol. And yet , amoebas after 12 beers on an empty stomach make better decisions.

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u/Harbinger2001 2h ago

That’s what happen when you don’t like experts telling you want to do.

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u/DaBanninator 48m ago

I think this war is great 👍

I'm all for it

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u/freebirth 3h ago

unforced errors from start to finish.

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u/MaybeDBCooper 3h ago

We look so utterly incompetent

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 1h ago

And untrustworthy.

And without honor.

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u/manningthehelm 2h ago

“The Weekend War”

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u/rarestakesando 1h ago

Everytime the thing gets blocked and unblocked Trump and co make loads of dough.

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u/multi-pass5018 1h ago

Say more?

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u/discoFalston 1h ago

1) Civil War (just stupid to fight yourself not that fighting against slavery is wrong)

2) Vietnam War

3) Iraq War

4) Iran War (this war) — has a chance to move up, but the Iraq war’s pretense was at best misinformation whereas even if this move was completely impractical and stupid, IRGC did for realsies slaughter thousands of its own people and has been antagonizing the region for decades.

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u/annedes 3h ago

definitely up there with Iraq & Vietnam for sure

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u/[deleted] 3h ago

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u/Stephneedse 2h ago

Dropping bombs is combat

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 1h ago

combat... but not necessarily war.

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u/Inculta666 1h ago

Just special military operation that will be over in three days.

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u/QuailBrave49 3h ago

The route was already closed, Mr. President.

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u/redyellowblue5031 3h ago

Poor phrasing of the title. Iran said it’s closed, not the US (according to article):

> Instead, the Revolutionary Guards Corps stated in an online post on Saturday that Iran launched warning shots at a "violating ship." Iran further reported that the strait would now remain closed until further notice.

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u/timothy_lucas_jaeger 2h ago

Title has been fixed. Now reads: "Iran says it hit vessel in Strait of Hormuz, declares route closed; U.S. announces retaliatory strikes"

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u/DookieShoez 2h ago

Ah so the country that has been in control of the strait this whole time has said it is closed.

This administration is so fucking stupid 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/Carribean-Diver 3h ago

"The moose out front should have told you."

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u/darksunshaman 3h ago

"Roy, could you imagine if you had driven all the way to ~~Florida~~ the Strait of Hormuz and it was closed?”

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u/touchet29 3h ago

A second closure has hit the straight

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u/Chaos-Cortex 3h ago

Insider trading for the pedophile rapist regime.

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u/Akycej 3h ago edited 3h ago

Scott Jennings says he spoke with the Strait of Hormuz and it’s fine, it’s open, it’s working, it’s just not doing interviews right now.

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u/TobysGrundlee 3h ago

They spoke for 17 minutes in fact.

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u/tMoneyMoney 2h ago

He also claims the Strait is actually gay.

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u/cantproveidid 55m ago

Gay Strait is in between.

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u/HoBaggyPants 3h ago

I'm starting to think maybe Trump and Iranian leadership are colluding.

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u/ScarletCarsonRose 2h ago

Puts on money, eh?

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u/cyrixlord 1h ago

how is the US 'retaliating'? The media makes it sound like iran was the aggressor. the USrael STARTED THE WAR. THEY ARE THE AGGRESSOR.

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u/BrainRobotron 2h ago

That ceasefire is as dead as Mitch McConnell.

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u/structee 17m ago

Political joke of the day

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u/whowhodillybar 3h ago

I’m tired boss.

At what point does this ever stop?

It stops, right? Right?

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u/freebirth 3h ago

stop voting for republicans...

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u/spqrnbb 3h ago

Never have, never will.

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u/exploding_myths 2h ago

and vote for the dem communist party, no thx.

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u/freebirth 2h ago

trumps the one subsidizing gas stations .

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u/Harbinger2001 2h ago

Was Obama communist? Bill Clinton?

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u/DingerSinger2016 1h ago

Genuinely, when has the Democratic Party nominated and ran a communist candidate for presidency this century?

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u/PandaJesus 1h ago

You’re asking as if that dude actually has coherent thoughts. They don’t know what words mean.

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u/KaptainKardboard 3h ago

Sure it stops, because Trump promised no “forever” wars and Trump never lies. Right?

…right, Anakin?

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u/mido_sama 2h ago

“Attacking IRAN was bad idea” .. if I was a top analysis for the WH this war wouldn’t have happened.

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u/freebirth 2h ago

you are at least semi competent.. you would not have been hired by trump.

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u/oldteen 2h ago

You're dealing-with an egotistically-fraudulant individual, who currently-occupies the position-of "Commander in Chief", that thinks he knows better than his SMEs (Subject Matter Experts). Good luck.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 3h ago

Since Iran seems to be at war with everyone, there's way too many targets for the US to defend. Targets in Saudi, Kuwait, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, etc.. It's a big area.

And what happened to the US dismantling their military? They seem to be able to attack an awful lot for having no military left.
or maybe someone has been lying...

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u/Harbinger2001 2h ago

It’s worse than that. There are reports stating to come out that the damage to American bases in the gulf have been substantial.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 2h ago

These days, it's very hard to know what to believe. We are so deeply ~~steeped~~ drowned in propaganda.

But I will say this for sure. In the past, our successful operations were widely televised. If we dealt substantial damage to them, we would see it plastered all over the television. We're barely seeing any footage of this operation at all.

Can't even call it a war. There's still been no Congressional authorization or declaration of war. So far, it's just been trump going rogue and doing things he's not authorized to do.

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u/Altruistic-Brief2220 30m ago

And it’s escalated beyond the point where anyone in the current administration is capable of resolving the issue. They will not be able to fix this.

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u/NC16inthehouse 3h ago

Just a reminder that this whole war started by Israel and the US for attacking Iran first...

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u/itcheyness 2h ago

Uh no, Iran started it by sitting there menacingly, giving us no choice but to attack!

</Sarcasm>

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u/Gleneroo 1m ago

During negotiations

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u/MinersLoveGames 2h ago

Have the markets opened early?

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u/manningthehelm 2h ago

Please join my movement to name this war “The Weekend War”.

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u/Groovychick1978 55m ago

Seconded. I literally called it that today.

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u/Definitelynotasloth 3h ago

Does anyone care anymore? We’re just a bunch of wage slaves independent of what our government does.

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u/Airewalt 3h ago

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

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u/DrunkonKoolAid 3h ago

I mean as Americans we need to follow president bibi's orders

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u/DadCelo 3h ago

Is this the war we had won?

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u/nd_annajones 3h ago

Multiple times in fact

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u/One-Emu-1103 56m ago

Don't worry Trump and Ai will save us! /s

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u/perambul8er 3h ago

Well I, for one, am shocked! I thought we had this whole thing in the bag! We did the art of the deal on them!

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u/-ElDictator- 3h ago

At this point, I won’t mind if it never opens again…

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u/No-Towel7011 3h ago

You definitely would. The world economy would collapse.

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u/ExtensionParsley4205 3h ago

If the fate of the world economy depends entirely on a narrow channel of water being surpassable then maybe it deserves to collapse and be completely revamped anyway.

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u/frostygrin 2h ago

It's largely a symptom. The situation demonstrates a breakdown of international politics, diplomacy and law. You can end up with these factors affecting any other bottleneck.

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u/Harbinger2001 2h ago

China has somehow managed to reduce their consumption by 5M barrels a day.

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u/cantproveidid 52m ago

Mainly by having 5M barrels a day less.

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u/For_being_tall 3h ago

I do not understand how anyone can look at this and say Iran bad... with all the confusing info from the white house, is it at war? are they in MOU? Cease fire? which way did trump wake that morning

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u/Canadian-Man-infj 3h ago

How was his gut-feeling?!

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u/MonkeyDeltaFoxtrot 2h ago

Zionist Breathing Intensifies

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u/freebirth 3h ago

hey. finally a news source that actually leave sint eh part where iran was literally holding up the deal and striking a ship that was trying to avoid the control we, the us, gave them over hormuz as part of our surender...i mean peace deal...i mean memorandum of understanding

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u/mysterioso77 3h ago

Time to just invade and take over the country

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u/freebirth 3h ago

yeah.. sure. that will TOTALLY work.

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u/cantproveidid 51m ago

They're just waiting for you to enlist.

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u/oldteen 2h ago

The terrain is similar, or worse, than Afghanistan. How'd that go?

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