Iran war: US official denies claims Washington agreed to unfreeze Iranian assets

Ok I’ll bite. It’s possible to rank things based on reliability/trustworthyness, all I’m saying is that a pirate ranks higher than the admin you’re completely right in the point you make

For every story about the Lincoln sinking, there’s more lies from the ‘we can end this war if they reopen the strait tha they only closed because we attacked - a straight we could open if we wanted to but choose not to because we have no help from the allies who who didn’t plan this with but now want them to sacrifice soldiers… and we don’t care they don’t want to reopen the strait but we are taking names, and we will remember! We need to write this down though because we are busy holding political rallies in Hungary to prove we hate foreign election interference.’ So yeah, the whole point of gambling is you win more than you lose. Sometimes there is actual verifiable proof one way or the other, and that’s not a case where trust is relevant. But when it’s trust based? Even courts have started saying they no longer give the DoJ any presumption of honesty… why shouldn’t news consumers follow that lead?

No, because I know that unless Iran was getting Russian or Chinese missiles they wouldn't really be able to sink the USS Abraham Lincoln, but I can't trust the US Government to report on losses and incidents correctly either. You are telling me that a fire in a laundry room, on the USS Gerald R. Ford, caused a two day delay in flight operations. That doesn't sound like a simple laundry room fire, that sounds like a hanger fire or worse.

It's not a leap, you're saying if Iran makes an outrageous claim and the US denies it you believe it because Trump is a PoS. It's an incredibly childish way to parse news.

You are right it is not hard to understand, the Straight was open and free to navigate through until Trump and Israel attacked. Trump and Israel didn't communicate with European leaders, so why should Europe support a surprise attack on a nation that has not attacked them? I am done responding to you after this, because it is clear that facts are not important to you. You can't even answer a simple question, why did we attack Iran. Was it a regime change, imminent threat to Israel, their nuclear program was completely wiped out back in Operation Midnight Hammer, so it can't be to stop them from getting nuclear weapons, you can't rebuild that in less than a year.