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  • Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatened this week to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the trade chokepoint at the southern end of the Red Sea.
  • The Bab el-Mandeb has acted as crucial relief valve for the oil market as exports have plunged through the Strait of Hormuz during the U.S.-Iran war.
  • Saudi Arabia has redirected millions of barrels from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea. Attacks on ships through the Bab el-Mandeb would cut those barrels off.

Iran's threats against this Red Sea chokepoint are a big vulnerability for the oil market

Oil prices would spike if Iran's Houthi allies started attacking ships passing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
www.cnbc.com
 
searcher said:
Make of this what you will.


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If what Pepe says is true, then all that serves to do is to prove that Trump was corrrect.

Because if at this point they can have a nuke assembled in just two weeks, they could have done the same back in January. Ie: they really were on the verge of having a nuke, and does anyone really want a nuke-armed Iran? All the dems have said for years now that they do not want Iran to have a nuke, and all the Repubs have said that too.

So if they truly are days to two weeks from having one, (or multiples) stopping now would be beyond stupid.
 
After repeated israeli violations of the ceasefire, Iran has launched missiles at israeli targets...Trump fails again.
 

Ex-Israeli official decodes Trump's early morning demand​

A former Israeli diplomat reacted in real time to a social media post by President Donald Trump on the latest developments in the Iran war.

The 79-year-old president demanded "Israel and Iran must immediately stop 'shooting,'" and former Israeli consul general Alon Pinkas appeared minutes later on CNN to offer his analysis of the extremely short Truth Social post.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...y-morning-demand/ar-AA255SwC?ocid=socialshare
 
Fatrat said:
It means we forced them to...
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You actually think we forced Iran to go nuclear ?

So far the only impact this so called "Vietnam type war" is having is Biden era gasoline prices. How it is like Vietnam is beyond me since we aren't taking any casualties. That, and its obvious Trump is playing the long game by putting extreme economic pressure on Iran instead of extreme casualties on us.

Tankers are getting thru. Not a lot, but some. If our allies weren't so worthless we'd of wrapped this up by now. Trump could always go back to bombing but there are few military targets left in Iran so we'd end up punishing their civilians, who hate the Ayatollahs even more then we do, by taking out their infrustructure. Which would make in impossible for them to recover from this.

That and a dieing Iran would flail and shoot off everything they have left at the vital installations of our Gulf allies. The thing is Trump has to sit down and explain all this to the American people. He's failing in the communication war. After all this he can't pull a Biden cut and run like what happened in Afghanistan and the American people will understand.

I dont think he expected NATO to be such a bunch of cowards.
 
They have no choice now, the only way we stop is if iran produces a nuke weapon, and Turkey has gotten the message too. Trump wants out of NATO because israel intends to attack Turkey down the line.
This is Trump's boondoggle, his sucking of zionist cock is on him.
 
Show us where Iran touched you.
 
Seems the Brits have been the 'hidden hand' in world politics for 300 years

“There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” Woodrow Wilson

London Ran Fake Banks To Launder Drug Money - Trump Found The Receipts​

0:00 Trump, the cartels and the City of London
0:32 How Britain hooked China on opium
1:42 Chiang Kai-shek, Helliwell and funding Operation Gladio
3:37 The post-war drug map, Nixon's fake war and the CIA's airlines
7:49 The operation moves to Latin America
10:08 How Trump is taking it down: the boats and the money trail
12:18 The laundering banks: HSBC, Nugan Hand, BCCI and Castle Bank
18:05 Arms, trafficking and the generals running the banks
21:39 The Spain connection: Franco, Skorzeny and Gladio
25:17 Venezuela, black-market oil and the narco-elite
28:57 Smuggling routes: clandestine airstrips and protected planes
31:25 Cleaning house: the DEA chief and Iran-Contra ghosts
34:39 Fentanyl: the chemical weapon and who supplies it
40:19 The real gangsters: the cartel, the mafia and the Escobar lesson
 
HIDDEN, those evil bastards ran the world and caused famines...
 
Viking said:
Show us where Iran touched you.
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The bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut on October 23, 1983, was a pivotal event in U.S. military history. This tragic incident resulted in the deaths of 241 American servicemen, making it one of the deadliest attacks against U.S. forces since World War II.

Details of the Attack

A truck bomb, loaded with approximately 2,000 pounds of explosives, was driven into the barracks, causing a massive explosion that destroyed the building and killed many Marines instantly
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The attack was attributed to Hezbollah, with support from Iran, marking a significant escalation in anti-American sentiment in the region
 
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