Iran says Hormuz open to all but ‘enemy-linked’ ships amid US threat
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-says-hormuz-open-all-enemy-linked-ships-amid-us-threat-2026-03-22/?taid=69bf9392a072250001e9c3d2&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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So…what did the US accomplish?
So then ship registrations all just change to non “enemy linked” countries, like the shadow fleet.
That is a great response to be honest. With us or against us.
This is the justification that Trump will use to say “mission accomplished” in about 48 hours
Let’s be honest, what this means is if you pay your oil with the petrodollar, your consider an enemy.
Spoken by a UN representative from Iran who does not hold any power over the IRGC decisions.
The strait is closed to +90% of ship traffic. This idea of having a toll system and registration is not going to be accepted by the Gulf countries or US.
I would expect more false de-escalation news to try to prop capital markets up today into tomorrow.
Would not be surprised that IRGC coordinates a volley of missiles and drones before the US stock market opens.
Nobody wins a war over Hormuz.
It just turns global trade into collateral damage for a conflict most countries didn’t choose.
Are they still coordinated enough to implement this? Like who’s going to decide the allowed ships?
If you put mines down, the mines don’t know the difference
Just put a other flag on it , like russia is doing…
Would be so good if the tankers going to europe were let through.
They said they had nothing to do with the Houthis, they have a same weapons and attack civilian “enemy ships”. What a joke, I hope they get exactly what they have been exporting for the past decades. Better yet, I hope it is erased entirely. I know it sounds harsh, you try being displaced/running for 11 years. Screw Iran.
I kinda want to root for Iran because it’s the first country that stood up to the orange turd (maybe except for Canada) but then I realize it’s just a clash of fundamentalism and idiocy and I choose to root for both sides.
Never stop 2 enemies when they are fighting.
I said this very thing to someone today.
“What if they just let the oil through for non-US aligned nations? Would Trump just order Hegseth to pirate the world’s oil exports, like a cartoon villain?”
So far as this writing, only the first half appears to have taken place. Somebody reply to me later, when we have reports of it (actual US-led piracy on the high seas) happening.
This feels like the part of that old End of Ze World youtube video where us Aussies just go “WTF Mate”
We are a continent sized nation that runs on trucks! Goddamn Pine Gap…
How do you selectively open the strait to certain ships but not others after you’ve used sea mines to close it?
* Edit: Typo corrected: “I” -> “How”
That’s not how mines work
Us Aussies get our oil from Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, and Japan. What flagged ships do they use through the strait? Anything to distant ourselves from the shitshow the US are, the better.
Weekend oil prices are still going higher.
https://www.ig.com/en/indices/markets-indices/weekend-oil—us-crude
a pretty masterful move, if they consider most of NATO non-enemies for not joining the US.
This war is one of the most stupidest thing Trump has done in past 1 year. He has done lots and lots of stupid things but this one tops the list by a huge margin
Iran knows Trump is weak
Russia’s best customer is China, and China gets nearly half its oil through Hormuz. If the strait actually closes for any serious stretch, China takes a massive hit and suddenly has very different views on what Russian “friendship” is worth.
Russia benefits from price spikes but needs a functional global economy to cash the checks. $150+ oil that triggers a global recession helps nobody sell anything, including Russia.
I can’t see a list of enemy-linked ships. I would love to know if German ships are “enemy-linked” for example.
Germany does not support the attacks, neither with logistics, militarily nor morally. > not “enemy-linked”
Germany does host bases, watches American shows and largely speaks english. Are we now “enemy-linked” ?
Clearly not true, there are just 2 ships a day transiting.
Are they saying that all the other Gulf states need to do to resume making trillions of dollars a day is to kick the US forces out of their territories?
Trump reunited NATO and now is pushing the world towards renewable energy.
The level on incompetence is amazing.
Then why did they sink that Thai ship?
Suddenly the American tanker is remade as a mobile sound stage filming a science fiction movie on a water-world with a middle eastern theme.
Trump literally trying to start workd war 3 to stop people from talking about those ep files
How is anyone, enemy or not, supposed to pass through a minefield?