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2025-06-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran's parliment votes to mine the Strait of Hormuz

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Posted by Lord Garth 2025-06-23 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [279 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Rubio: Iran Closing Strait of Hormuz Would Be ‘Massive Escalation’

Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-23 06:47|| 2025-06-23 06:47|| Front Page Top

#2 The Houthis, using Iranian hardware, menaged to close Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Arabian Sea.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-06-23 06:50|| 2025-06-23 06:50|| Front Page Top

#3 US asks China to stop Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz

Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-23 07:06|| 2025-06-23 07:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Misleading headline

Posted by Itsoktobewhite 2025-06-23 10:04|| 2025-06-23 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Considering China gets the majority of their oil from Iran and the gulf... that will definitely piss the CCP off.

Posted by DarthVader 2025-06-23 12:36|| 2025-06-23 12:36|| Front Page Top

#6 You really want Kharq Island demolished? This'll get it. Bandar Abbas too.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-06-23 12:39|| 2025-06-23 12:39|| Front Page Top

#7 The Strait of Hormuz would be a bitch to control. Reason: The Oman side is just a small piece of Oman cut off from the rest of Oman. They have never tried to make it all Oman proper - terrain and peoples are "different".
Lots of Iranian spec-ops types are more embedded in that region than "pure Omani" troops. So essentially Iran already controls both sides of the strait. How to clear out the Omani side would be combat in marshes and islets filled with snakes and other nasty critters.
We don't need that oil. China, Asia and Japan do need it along with India. The Arabian States should build a pipeline into Oman proper to some (or a new) Omani port on the Indian Ocean so bypassing the strait. (long term solution.)
The missiles falling today on Qatar might incentivize a long term solution or might not.
A good long term solution regarding Qater might be to give India or China our base there and get the hell out of the Persian Gulf.

Posted by 3dc 2025-06-23 13:56|| 2025-06-23 13:56|| Front Page Top

#8 India, sure — they’re not expansionist, but are happy to buy Iranian oil at cut-rate prices. China, in the hegemonic mood they’ve been in since Bill Clinton was president? That doesn’t seem prudent.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-06-23 14:02|| 2025-06-23 14:02|| Front Page Top

#9 I'd be happy for India to have to have that base just to watch Pakistan's mustaches twirl.

Posted by Secret Master 2025-06-23 16:28|| 2025-06-23 16:28|| Front Page Top

#10
GA./SC (CSRA) local vehicle prices jump $0.40 a gallon for gas overnight.

Car 87E fuel at $2.99 to $3.09.
Truck Fuel up $0.10 now $3.49
Car 87 Ethanol-free gas now $3.49 also

Posted by NN2N1 2025-06-23 18:14|| 2025-06-23 18:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Checkout Flightaware.com

CCP Commercial Jets are landing in Tehran
and others again using the Airspace.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-06-23 20:15|| 2025-06-23 20:15|| Front Page Top

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