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Seems that Iran has closed the strait again, because the US blocked their ships.
To be honest, seems fair. A blockade is an act of war. A ceasefire where one side blocks economic activity while the other does not seems unbalanced. If Trump or Iran had merely blocked weapon systems from passing through the strait, that would be different.
No one ever said this before when anyone did this against ships flagged by or en route to neutral countries.
People are making up a bunch of new rules just to help Iran out.
Also fails to note that the blockade came about after Iran failed to open the strait as agreed as part of the ceasefire. It's conflict theory all the way down, and for many, siding with the IRGC is preferable to siding with Trump.
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'Again' implies that they had stopped closing the strait to regional traffic.
Aside from some high-visibility propoganda passages, the open commercial data of, say, Iraqi trade does not show any such unblocking.
Why NaN, I wasn't expecting a defense of the Trump's blockade from you of all people. Normally I'd have expected a pithy 'but Trump said the strait was open!' to deny the Iranian role in blocking the economic activity they weren't letting pass.
The strait wasn't closed until Iran had multiple leaders assassinated. Now we could say that the original blockade by the US is fine, but maintaining the blockade during a ceasefire while Iran says they'll lift their closure puts the onus on the US again.
You're right here but totally ignoring the point which is that after the war started iranian announcements have claimed the strait to be open countless times and it never has been. Since iran's initial attacks on shipping, the strait has not been open for even a minute.
So Iran's announcement of "reclosing" the strait seems especially empty given it wasn't open in the first place.
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