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LOL.
Not happening.
That's not how navigation of international waterways works. Nobody is paying the Iranians a dime.I mean, you
say that...
Iran reportedly intends to require ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz to pay the cryptocurrency equivalent of $1 per barrel of oil on board during the two-week ceasefire with the U.S.
Hamid Hosseini, a spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union, which works with Iran’s government, told the Financial Times about the requirement on Wednesday.
He said that it will cost $1 per barrel of oil and that ships need to email Iranian authorities about what they are carrying.
“Once the email arrives and Iran completes its assessment, vessels are given a few seconds to pay in bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions,” Hosseini told the newspaper.https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5821...Trump's comments suggest that he's aware of this plan and supports it, as long as the U.S. gets a piece.
You're correct that that's not how navigation of international waterways
used to work. But as someone once said, "we live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power." In our recent war with Iran, Iran was able to seize the Strait and wasn't forced to give it up - so they're going to impose a toll now. That's an enormous strategic asset to them - it lets them put their foot on the neck of the global energy economy
and yields a ton of revenue to finance the rebuilding of all the stuff we blew up. Arguably as big a strategic advantage as their nuclear program is/was:
An adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Iran’s nuclear weapon “is called the Strait of Hormuz” and that the waterway has unlimited potential to be used against the U.S., following a two-week ceasefire deal the U.S. made with the Middle Eastern country.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chair of the Security Council of Russia and the country’s former president, wrote on social platform X that it is “not clear how the truce between Washington and Tehran will play out.”
“But one thing is certain – Iran has tested its nuclear weapons,” he added. “It is called the Strait of Hormuz. Its potential is inexhaustible.”https://thehill.com/policy/international/5821680-i...
