Iran will not let up until they have financial interest over the Strait

If you start working out financial arrangements with the IRGC then all you are doing is paying ransom. We know how well that works out. The price keeps going up until one day you can’t pay it anymore.

Iran is about out of options. They aren't going to have any chips left. This is how it should be. Unconditional surrender is all we should even talk about..

This would be the ultimate disaster... the world giving in. I'm already pissed at Omar for (someone over their) stating they would support the plan.

A few leftover errant rockets and lots of small drones will never give them that 'financial interest' on their own. It is why, even during the ceasefire, I would have (at least) inspected cargo bound for Iran, to prevent them from rebuilding & re-stocking weapons.

Iran is not the people shutting down the Strait and never has been. The Insurance companies that hold policies on those ships sailing through the Strait is the people that is closing it for Iran. As long as the IRGC is in charge then it doesn’t matter how many weapons they really have or what they are really still capable of doing as far as launching attacks. All they have to do is publicly threaten shipping or say they mined the Strait and the insurance companies will tell these ships to stop and hold place or risk not being covered if they lose a ship and its cargo. Bottom line is as long as the IRGC has an internet connection they can make threats and shipping stops. That affects global prices and markets. The IRGC could be completely out of weapons but it doesn’t matter because the threats and claims they make backs them up because no knows what they have or don’t have left so what they say must be taken seriously. There is not many ways around this problem so we just have to go through it. It sucks I know. Nobody wants war but these people ultimately need to be removed so they can’t cause all this mischief. Now that they know they can do this and have this affect on world markets they will be doing this all the time until someone finally gets fed up and goes over and stops them once and for all.

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The IRGC could be completely out of weapons but it doesn’t matter because the threats and claims they make backs them up because no knows what they have or don’t have left so what they say must be taken seriously.

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Problem is, they're not out of missiles and mines. They keep popping them off.
What else should and insurance carrier of shipping carrier do?Sail right into an active combat zone?

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Just set up a permanent military base on Kharg island. Take all the oil. Make the straight ours permanently. Negotiations off the table.

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Taking Kharg wouldn’t do anything towards taking the strait.

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Iran will not let up until they have financial interest over the Strait

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or until they are all dead

I mean, isn’t being able to freely export their crooked oil and import whatever they import from their own ports and such, without impediment of the U.S. Navy heavily influencing their critical usage of those locations and resources, as has quite seriously been the case here of late, isn’t that a “financial interest” directly related to the strait (and then some)? Seems to me they have more to gain by negotiating away our influence mentioned above, thus regaining the lifeline of their economy and thus of their entire country -rather than- stonewalling because tolls produce more spoils.

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May this quagmire

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You have a very low bar for use of this term.

Then we pound them till the convince us we have to nuke them.

Then we nuke them.