U.S. military turned back six ships in first 24 hours of Iranian port blockade

No. But they were wearing gigantic ship sized suits.

I doubt the USA navy is going’ to shoot those ships even if they ignore the blockade

My god. How do they keep the water out?

But what is that in football fields?

Boats per Scaramucci please?

if that frequency starts to resonate everything blows up

Good thing he cut social programs and billionaires don’t pay taxes. Using 100 military aircraft to send warnings to six vessels sounds cost effective. Do you think they were towing banners like you see at the beach? I feel bad for Americans aware of how fucked up this serial sex offender protecting regime is and how badly they are f****** everything about the United States up.

If you went to an Iranian port then yes unless you use another port in the straight to get home over land/air.

You seem angry. But did you see that the Dow Jones was 48.500+ today?

Wait you talking to the united states or Iran?

Well, there isn't one. JD Vance in an interview yesterday said what Iran is doing is a form of economic terrorism and thst two can play at that game.

One difference is that the US blockade is a "normal" blockade. The US has naval forces out there enforcing it. The IR method involves randomly firing on enough ships to scare off (terrorize) the rest. Ultimately though, the strategy is the same. It's a mutual blockade. Allow shipping from Arab ports or no ships to Iranian ports. Only the tactics differ. 

Blockading a belligerent state is legal, blockading the high seas and especially hitting non belligerent ships isn't.

One has Trump Jesus

these are only targetting ships using iranian ports or paying iranian fees, aka a blockade of iran. at least going by the previous news about the blockade

Iran attack them without warning and target everyone that dosent come and leaves iran. The USA is blocking them and target only ships going to iran.

US says all must go through without a toll. And during the war Iran exports can't go through. Iran says only those who paid the toll can go through and won't let us friendly ships even pay the toll. That's the difference but I don't expect listnookors posting at 1am to understand what that means

The US treats women a bit better and doesn't execute gay people.

The US is more successful at international terrorism, while Iran is a bit more successful at domestic terrorism

The color of the flag.

We arent going to shoot a civilian cargo ship. We board them.

The US is bigger bully - the biggest kid on the block and his father is the local cop.

How is India different than terrorists?

None, but Americans will come in here to justify it with their 2003 playbook. The Americans could nuke Israel and half the population would justify it. On the flip side, imma be making Yank vs FPV drone to dubstep songs this time next year when they’ve got boots on the ground on combat footage subs

USA isreal and west has killed over millions of people in Middle East i dont hear people calling any of them terrorists

It's a logical step. If the freedom of navigation is not being guaranteed by one side there is no reason the other side shouldn't do the same.

Like any spoiled toddler, the Orange Paedo has decided that if he can't have it no one can.

This is several steps behind bombing a country. It's not an escalation, it's returning to steps that should have been taken first. 

Wait till you hear about what we have been AND ARE STILL DOING to Cuba...

If you think a naval blockade to prevent oil tankers from trading is a significant escalation over dropping bombs on girls schools you’ve really let the oil industry slip into your moral compass.

Didn’t the US just block Cuban ports too?

It’s not just one country. Pincer point on UAE, Saudi (eastern ports), Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Iraq as well

Happened with Cuba in the 60’s

It's actually weird how easily other countries use the internet for propaganda, if you just used listnook you would think an Iranian flag is flying over the White House after they won the war. 

We’re at war to open the straight because Iran closed the straight in response to the bombings which were necessary because of their nuclear capabilities that we ‘totally obliterated’ months ago in the ‘most successful military operation in history’ which was necessary because there wasn’t an agreement in place for the USA to monitor Iran’s nuclear capabilities which was necessary because the former agreement had to be thrown out due to its effectiveness and the fact that a Black man’s administration drafted it.

Epstein

Distraction and a mad man's power fantasy

Israel

This is pure hopium. It didn't work out for them last time. Has anything changed?

iran wont agree why would they agree to limiting their nuke production which they can use as a deterrent from future US& Israeli attacks

Hopefully the JCPOA plus Iran giving up supporting its terror proxies

Doubt itll be as good. Last time Iran got rid of 97% of their nuclear material, then Trump pulled out of the deal and betrayed them. No way they fall for that again. Trump is untrustworthy.

wtf would they? They hold way more cards and influence than when JCPOA was negotiated and ratified. Tearing it up because Trump hate’s black men who were more liked and respected by the global political class. Last part was my take. Goog yourself the amount of revenue that was flowing into Iranian coffers when he abruptly ripped it up til now. Then add how many agreements and joint ventures they signed on to with the conflicts since then til now. Geopolitical experts have already filed this as the worst handling of any modern conflict. Trump has effectively shown the world how crucial the straight is to trade and food production, how entrenched the largest military is to outdated doctrine, and the world police status is effectively a paper tiger (much like Russia in Ukraine). It’s irreversible. The world scrambled to form different alliances and partners in record time. It’s over. And we’re not even seeing part 2 yet.

That would require them to actually ask questions instead of just go by what “Trump/U.S. says”.

This comment aged well. Mission Accomplished! Trump is now looking forward to the big hug he is going to get from Xi.

Listnook is full of Chinese and Iranian bots trying to shift the narrative on this massive US win and huge China loss. I hope regular people see through it all and recognize how the US is the undisputed w***** here.

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The very same pants you were returning.

We’re not closing the strait. That’s fake news. We’re blocking the ports of a belligerent nation. 

Last time that happened the ship was chased after trying to flee, and then seized and Russia did nothing. That was about 2 months ago, maybe less, btw. But ok 👍🏼

To win the war.... That they already won without the help of allies that they don't need but did ask for after attacking a country that had it's nuclear program that wasn't a threat destroyed for almost having a nuke. All done by a man who wanted the peace prize for all of his peace work who promptly invaded and attacked 2 countries and threatening multiple others with takeover.

Article has been bumped to 9 by now.

Well each ship’s cargo is worth about $90 million dollars to Iran. So stopping 9 a day is costing them $800 million. That said, Iran normally only ships about 1.5 million barrels per day at about $10 less per barrel than traded on world market, so blockade realistically costs Iran $120-$150 million a day. Our Navy ships are going to be deployed somewhere anyways, and sailors already have salary allocated. The only real increased cost is each sailor gets like an extra $500 a month for hazard and combat theater pay. For 10,000 sailors, that is only an increased cost of about $170,000 a day for the Navy to enforce the blockade if they aren’t firing off weapons.

We’re back to using this excuse now huh…