Heliograph1d ago

@VeroniqueB99 sorry now I lost your post 😆🤦

but here's the #alttext

"do you understand what Iran just did..

they didn't threaten to close the Strait of Hormuz.. they did something nobody saw coming..

they passed a law.. the "Hormuz Law".. formal tolls on every ship that passes through.. fees for navigation.. fees for pollution.. a "regional fund"..

they just made themselves the landlord of 20% of the world's oil supply.. permanently..

the US called it "illegal and unacceptable"..

but Iran already read the history book..

> 1956.. Egypt's Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and started charging tolls..

> Britain called it illegal.. France called it illegal.. they both invaded to take it back..

> Eisenhower told them to stand down..

Egypt kept the canal..

and has been collecting tolls on it every single day since..

Iran just looked at that chapter and said.. our turn..

the country that spent all of 2025 slapping tariffs on every nation on earth just called someone else's toll booth "illegal"..

the only difference between a tariff and a toll is who's collecting it."

Show threadchristian mock1d ago
@Heliograph I beg to differ. The canal was built and is maintained with great effort, while straits just exist -- and are codified in international law as being open for all maritime traffic.
Putting a toll on the straits of Hormuz would set a bad example -- what about the english channel, the straits in the baltic, gibraltar, and many many more? Notice how all the countries that could block the russian's access to the baltic and the black sea have carefully not done so?
Show threadSneezy20h ago

@cm @Heliograph

12 miles out is territorial waters. The straight of Hormuz is 21 miles at that narrow point. The other side is Oman.

So it is not international waters.

And also if we talk about blockades why do so many westerners go quiet at the mention of USA blockading cuba, and Israel blockading Gaza ?

Show threadchristian mock20h ago
@rapsneezy @Heliograph look at a map of the straits of gibraltar, around denmark or the dardanelles -- that's all very narrow and still covered by international contracts. blockades are another thing.
Show threadSneezy20h ago

@cm @Heliograph

It takes all parties to agree to a contract.

Iran doesn't have to abide by any contract in its territorial waters.

I hope this is another Suez moment for the west. They've been bullying the region for too long.

Show threadchristian mock
@rapsneezy @Heliograph I think you mistake them doing the logical thing with that thing being a good thing. Sure, it was to be expected they'd closed down the strait, but they're still an evil regime that never gave a fuck about international law (such as not taking diplomats hostage or not making the destruction of another nation your official goal. Even acknowledging that the evil regime came to power because of the evil Shah regime before, which came about because UK + US intervention...
Apr 5 at 6:01pmWeb
Show threadSneezy19h ago

@cm @Heliograph

you've revealed your bias

iran is not an evil regime

if you think that, you're a victim of brainwashing going back decades

Show threadchristian mock19h ago
@rapsneezy @Heliograph so, oppressing women and admitting to killing tens of thousand of protestors does not make it an evil regime? I guess then we're having radically different moral standards.
Show threadSneezy19h ago

@cm @Heliograph

again you're parroting lies

wake up

if you choose not to that's ok - millions and millions of people around the world are starting to see through the lies

if you're not one of them - that's ok, many people in "middle europe" are not