Iran offers to reopen Strait of Hormuz if US lifts its blockade and the war ends, officials say

Everyone knew this even 50 years ago it's just nobody thought someone was stupid enough to actually do it

They already knew. It’s whether or not they had cause to do it. If they didn’t and closed it, the whole world would come down on them.

> Then we really shouldn’t have killed the guy who didn’t want Iran to develop nuclear weapons Thank you for mentioning this. It isn't mentioned enough. I only found out *after* the USA killed him, that Khamenei had **outlawed** the development of nuclear weapons, declaring them "un-Islamic." Doesn't it seem like there should be wider awareness of that fact? Sort of ruins the whole pretext for the war.

Which we lost when Trump ended it in his first term anyways.

And also sanctions on Russian oil have been lifted

> produce fissionable material You mean weapons-grade fissionable material. It did allow enrichment to mild levels for power generation (a few percent), which is why Iran was allowed to have centrifuges for isotopic separation at all.

The sad part is that I'm from Finland, and I don't even follow Trump stuff. He has slithered his way everywhere, even a non native English speaker like me has his stupid f****** voice in my head enough to do a written impression. Sad.

Yep, all wearing suits.

I trust Deeze-nuts-23223 because he was extra condescending and wrote in a very authoritative way.

this must be true because its on the internet

That's how we ended up with Truth social, everything there is 100% vetted and confirmed to be accurate. /S

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I feel like I'm going insane when I see tweets like that with 30,000 upvotes on the front page of listnook, and it's just some random twitter account, no link to any news articles whatsoever

>just because we suspect something the president says is a lie does not mean the most professional move is to not report it. The AP has two official sources speaking on condition of anonymity. I have no issues with them writing a story. My issue is with the headline and the story they chose to write. The headline makes it sound like this is an easy move, US lifts the blockade and the war ends right? Well their own article has this quote > The official, who is involved in mediation efforts, also said Iran insisted on ending the U.S. blockade before new talks and that Pakistan-led mediators are trying to bridge significant gaps between the countries. It sounds to me like the headline could easily have been - *Iran says No Peace talks until US Lifts Blockade* That’s why so many of us feel like the media is working overtime to make it seem like there is a conclusion to this conflict right around the corner. I mean, which is it? Is the straight open and the conflict over if the US lifts the blockade, or is that just the necessary precursor to even *start* talking about a peace? Their headlines, their past failures week after week, and their continued use of extremely optimistic headlines is borderline criminal.

Well, the generals taking greater control than the clerics would likely eventually lead to less direct support of terror proxies but I have a feeling it will also drastically accelerate nuclear proliferation. But I also kinda think that’s unavoidable at this point.

Even Iran wouldn’t put a nuclear bomb in the hands of people they can’t fully control. It would be a way to secure Iran from attacks and give them a better hand when it comes to sanctions and deals, since it has such a strong hold over the strait of Hormuz. Of course it would be entirely smoke, but having a nuclear bomb brings a lot more stability to your nation than not having one and can create some new negotiations. But honestly, it seems like the only reason Iran even wants to have a nuclear bomb is so that it can secure a long term peace deal with potential enemies besides Israel. And with Israel the Iranian government seems to want to have an unstable relationship that is mostly peaceful. Both governments need it since it keeps them in power. Peace between them would see both governments collapse. But overall, even the most h******* Iranian religious nutcase in government knows that giving a nuclear bomb to people they can’t fully control will come to bite them in the ass and destroy the country. They know that once it’s out of their hands, it’s no longer possible to control no matter what and gives the group they hand it to an extremely powerful tool that can be used against Iran. It’s kinda like saying the US would give one of their allies access to nuclear weapons instead of having nuclear weapons in an allies country, but completely under US control.

We’ve also heard from Netanyahu for literally decades now that Iran was weeks out from developing a nuclear weapon. This is clown reasoning from clown supporters of a genocidal regime.

No, it's really not. Iran has a literal state policy of wanting to destroy Israel. They are not even shy about it. Israel has nuclear weapons because it has been surrounded by countries(and Iran) who have at some point or another made it their goal to eradicate Israel. Iran has no such excuse. And being as belligerent as they are, it's pretty damn valid for Israel to not want Iran to have them. Iran literally arms Israel's immediate neighbors with thousands of missiles to fire at Israel. Constantly. This shouldn't be hard to understand at all. Y'all are just really bad at understanding how situations are not all the same, outside some surface element. smh