Trump announced a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and the pursuit of ...

👀Trump announced a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and the pursuit in international waters of ships that had previously paid Iran for passage through the strait.

A brief retelling of this copypasta: the talks went well, we made friends with the Iranians, but they want nukes and do not want to open the Strait of Hormuz, so now we will be the ones blocking it. We will handle demining, and if they open fire on us, we will bomb them.

The phrases "unblock the strait" and "demine the strait" look strange in the same post, but apparently the point is that since the strait is already closed, Trump wants to close it to Iran as well, so that it cannot extract economic benefit from this. At the same time, the U.S. will try to demine the strait and establish physical control over it in order to ensure passage for ships.

There is a logic of its own in this. The question is whether it will be possible to demine the strait, since the implication is that Iran will strike American ships.

In bullet points:

▪️Iran promised to open the Strait of Hormuz, but did not open it. This created tension around the world.

▪️They had better open this INTERNATIONAL STRAIT, AND SOON! They have violated every rule.

▪️Vance, Witkoff, and Kushner told me everything about the meeting in Pakistan. Pakistan thanks me for saving 30 to 50 million people by preventing a war with India.

▪️The meeting lasted 20 hours. IRAN DOES NOT WANT TO GIVE UP ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS!

▪️Many points were agreed, and that is better than if we had had to carry the military operation through to the end, but nuclear weapons cannot be in the hands of such difficult and unpredictable people.

▪️My representatives became friends with Ghalibaf, Araghchi, and Bagheri, but that does not matter, because IRAN WILL NEVER GET A NUCLEAR WEAPON.

▪️The meeting went well, but the NUCLEAR points were not agreed.

▪️Starting from this moment, the U.S. Navy begins a BLOCKADE of the Strait of Hormuz. At some point all vessels will be able to enter and leave, but Iran did not allow this to happen, saying there are mines everywhere there.

▪️THIS IS GLOBAL BLACKMAIL, and world leaders, and the United States especially, will not allow themselves to be blackmailed.

▪️I have instructed our fleet to search for every ship that paid Iran a fee for passage. No one who paid Iran will receive freedom of movement in international waters.

▪️We will begin demining the strait. Any Iranian who opens fire on our peaceful ships WILL GO TO HELL!

▪️Iran is not allowed to carry out this illegal act of EXTORTION. They want money, they want nukes. We are fully LOCKED AND LOADED, our military will finish off what is left of Iran!

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Ufff... could we at least ask them to write shorter posts?