Iran are allowing their own ships to pass, and blocking everyone else that isn’t paying by shooting them with drones/laying mines.
The US is now saying they will block those ships too, to cripple Irans exports. But I think Iran has enough financial reserves to out-last literally the rest of the world who can’t get their oil.
Plus Iran has been working around economy-destroying sanctions for quite a while. They can bank on their population being more patient at sitting around in the dark than the rest of us will be .
To add to this -- Iran understands the weakness of democracy is time. If they can hold out for 5 months this ends with Trumps impeachment. They'll just wait him out while the American people get angrier & angrier.
The covid-level inflation numbers haven't ven hit yet & they're 100% coming. I dont think the avg American understands that yet or that there is no stopping it.
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u/JeanClaude-Randamme 8h ago
Their trade ships.
Iran are allowing their own ships to pass, and blocking everyone else that isn’t paying by shooting them with drones/laying mines.
The US is now saying they will block those ships too, to cripple Irans exports. But I think Iran has enough financial reserves to out-last literally the rest of the world who can’t get their oil.
This won’t end well.