• Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    8 hours ago

    This is the current headline

    Trump says US ‘not finished yet’ in Iran as Israel launches new strikes at Lebanon

    I wish I could draw cause I picture Israel as a giant child just playing with missiles like toys to finally strike every country around it it has wanted to for years now and Trump is the neglectful parent just supplying more and not caring that there is very real fire spreading.

    Its truly wild how much above us and detached our most influential are these days.

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    15 hours ago

    Despite the propaganda from the West, Iran is keeping the Straits closed indefinitely (except for their allies). This was signposted by Iran to try to deter the Zionist neocon warmongers but clearly they didn’t care or take it seriously. Now we will all pay for Netanyahu’s insane war with higher energy and food prices.

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        There are a variety of reasons to be confused, even the entire oil market is confused.

        Here are some reasons for confusion:

        • The Bendy of Hormuz is not closed, it’s just closed to ships Iran doesn’t like. Iran has somehow actually exported more oil since the war began.
        • Iran has told GCC countries they can use the Bendy if they don’t allow US troops to stage attacks from their countries.
        • The maritime data is being spoofed. Pretty sure it’s US allies doing the spoofing, they were making it look like there was a line of ships ready to cross, when in actuality they weren’t even there.
        • The Trump admin straight up lied the other day and said they safley escorted a ship.
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          I don’t know where you’re getting your information, but it’s mostly incorrect. From the BBC link above, scroll down to find it:

          Only four vessels identified passing through Strait of Hormuz this week - published at 16:01 By Joshua Cheetham

          The latest data from the ship tracking firm MarineTraffic has identified a total of four vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz since Monday, including two making the journey today [March 11, 2026].

          From the same source, it’s not spoofing, but jamming and disabled trackers causing the problem with actual ship tracking:

          Tracking of these ships has been difficult as some may have been turning off their onboard trackers as Iran continues to target vessels in the region. Signal jamming in the region is also causing many ships to give misleading location data.

          I can find no source that says anything about any line of ships waiting to cross, real or not. Probably because they don’t want to get caught in the crossfire.

          What crossfire? Iran is actively firing missiles at neighboring countries and hitting ships already in the Strait of Hormuz.

          All that’s a far cry from the selective closing you described, and I can’t find any source that confirms any such deal as you assert between Iran and any country, GCC or not, that allows current access to the Strait of Hormuz.

          But Trump did lie about escorting a ship, so you got that part right.

          Why did you even bother? Were you just wondering how long it would take for someone to notice and correct you?

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              In your world, where inanimate ships “feel” and that means something, there are no sources at all, and you can’t provide any.

              In the real world of legitimate news and actual sources, I was unable to find any source describing or relying on “confidence,” but it doesn’t even matter. Any confidence was unjustified. From the same source:

              Four commercial vessels have reportedly been attacked in the region since the early hours of Wednesday, according to the maritime intelligence company Vanguard. Vanguard reports that Iran’s military has said two of these vessels - Mayuree Naree and Express Rome - ignored warnings not to transit the Strait without permission.

              So much for confidence. Speaking of which, your ass is not a reliable source of information.

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          7 hours ago

          Iran has ports east of the strait, directly in the gulf of Oman

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        12 hours ago

        Do you think the Asian slaves on these ships are keeping up to global news on social media?

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            16 hours ago

            I’m not sure if you’re making a joke that the rockets are the explosives or if they actually have rockets they launch that are like cluster munitions that drop a bunch of mines in to the water.

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              As far as I know, they have the capability to deploy minefields by rocket from long range. I’m not sure if we’re talking the bigger MLRS or the smaller ballistic missiles, but it’s certainly possible.

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                I know that for land mines this is true.

                However it’d be interesting to know if its also possible for naval mines… which are a few magnitudes bigger and also usually rely on an anker (ofter heavy) to stay in position.

                Given the high weight I’m sceptical if a naval minefield can be achieved by missle transport.

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                  A missile could carry something as light as nothing or as heavy as ISS modules. And anchors don’t even have to be that heavy, they just need to be denser than water and generate enough friction with the bottom to keep whatever is attached from moving too far.

                  Though they could even use catapults or trebechets mounted to the backs of trucks to mine it.

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                  I’m going to have to look into it further. If it’s a drifting mine, it could be a lot more compact and still do a lot of damage to ships. They would be less effective in theory, but all they really need is for the strait to be nominally mined.

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          Mines, USVs (the suicide kind and the mine-laying kind), UUVs, Speedboats, drones, rockets, missiles. Before you shit-talk speedboats Iran has already tried and succeeded at attaching limpet mines onto the hulls of US ships (kinda as a joke/exercise) before this.

          Oh and all of this is in tunnels, not sitting around on the water surface waiting to get blown up.