The war in Iran (or whose war is it anyways?)

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The Straits of Hormuz are complicated.
They are only 29 miles wide, so are within the 200 mile international boundary of Iran.
But the Straits of Hormuz are governed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) that the UN passed in 1958, but was never ratified by Iran.
However, the UNCLOS then prohibits the US interfering with Iranian commerce, which the US has illegally done ever since it imposed economic sanctions on Iran.

 

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The Straits of Hormuz are complicated.
They are only 29 miles wide, so are within the 200 mile international boundary of Iran.
But the Straits of Hormuz are governed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) that the UN passed in 1958, but was never ratified by Iran.
However, the UNCLOS then prohibits the US interfering with Iranian commerce, which the US has illegally done ever since it imposed economic sanctions on Iran. R5 #201

I did not know that. BUT !
Citing Trump for violating law?
Might as well cite Miss Muffet for eating curds & weigh.


the peril of the homonym
whey (wā, hwā)
n.
The watery part of milk that separates from the curds, as in the process of making cheese.
[Middle English, from Old English hwæg.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.

 

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The US has been burning through weapons in Iran it could need in a war with China. Here are the latest estimates.​

Sinéad Baker / Wed, April 22, 2026 at 1:29 PM GMT-5

• The US has used large amounts of key munitions in its war with Iran, experts assessed.
• It has enough for this fight, but "the risk — which will persist for many years — lies in future wars," they said.
• Many of those munitions would be vital against China, and they take a long time to replenish.

The US has been using critical munitions at such a high rate against Iran that it could face risk in a future war — especially with China, defense experts warned.
US forces "heavily used" seven key munitions in the 39 days of its air and missile campaign against Iran before a fragile ceasefire went into effect, two warfare experts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a new report.
The US military "has enough missiles to continue fighting this war under any plausible scenario," they wrote, looking at munition stockpiles. "The risk — which will persist for many years — lies in future wars."

The US has been burning through weapons in Iran it could need in a war with China. Here are the latest estimates.

The US has heavily expended key munitions. It has enough for the Iran war but risks vulnerability in a future conflict with China, experts warn.

www.yahoo.com

In summary:
Over a period of years President Obama in cooperation with Britain, France, Germany, China, & Russia, succeeded in producing
what President Trump now states as his primary objectives:
- no Iranian nuclear weapons
- open the Strait of Hormuz.

President Trump created this global crisis by unilaterally withdrawing the U.S. from Obama's agreement,
and then waging War on Iran.

Not only has Trump's belligerent foreign policy pulled U.S. farther from Trump's stated objectives.
This policy / conduct has also depleted our military, rendering us needlessly more vulnerable in the future.

And the $cost per gallon of gasoline?

 

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And the $cost per gallon of gasoline?

Every time I turn on the TV I see that more airlines are cutting flights because of the cost of fuel.

 

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"Every time I turn on the TV I see that more airlines are cutting flights because of the cost of fuel." S2 #204

Whether that's Air Canada, or Err USA, not sure. Not sure it matters.

President Trump is waging economic war on the world, reducing the benefit of what we've worked for. There are things that can be done about this, & those responsible for doing them.
By their continued refusal, they are party to the reduction.

 

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Iran escalates Hormuz 'tit-for-tat,' seizes ship tied to billionaire close to Trump, Macron​

The MSC Francesca, carrying about 40 crew members, was taken toward Iran's port of Bandar Abbas​

By Emma Bussey Fox News / Published April 23, 2026 5:45pm EDT
Tensions escalated in the Strait of Hormuz April 22 after Iran’s IRGC seized two vessels in what analysts describe as "tit-for-tat" retaliation against the U.S. And one ship is linked to a billionaire shipping family tied to Presidents Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron.
"Some 20 Iranians armed to the teeth stormed the ship. Sailors are under Iranian control, their movements on the ship are limited but the Iranians are treating them well," a relative of one of the MSC Francesca seafarers told Reuters.

Iran escalates Hormuz 'tit-for-tat,' seizes ship tied to billionaire close to Trump, Macron

Analysts say the IRGC seized two vessels in the Strait of Hormuz in a tit-for-tat move after a U.S. naval blockade and seizure of an Iranian ship.

www.foxnews.com

 

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Iran shuts door on direct talks as U.S. seeks Pakistan's help​

Trump to send envoys to Islamabad as Iran rules out direct talks​

Islamabad hosts backchannel efforts to keep negotiations alive despite deep mistrust between Washington and Tehran.
MUNIR AHMED, SAMY MAGDY, and JON GAMBRELL Fri, April 24, 2026 at 11:13 PM GMT-5

ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.S. envoys are expected to travel to Pakistan on Saturday in a new bid to salvage ceasefire talks with Tehran, even as Iran ruled out direct negotiations with U.S. representatives as its top diplomat arrived in Islamabad.
The latest effort to broker a deal comes as an indefinite ceasefire has paused most fighting, but the economic fallout is still mounting with global energy shipments disrupted by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
On Saturday, Iran resumed commercial flights from Tehran’s international airport for the first time since the conflict with the U.S. and Israel began about two months ago. Iran’s state-run television reported that flights were scheduled to depart for Istanbul, Oman’s capital of Muscat and the Saudi city of Medina. Iran partly reopened its airspace earlier this month amid a ceasefire with the U.S. which halted fighting between the two countries.

Trump to send envoys to Islamabad as Iran rules out direct talks

U.S. envoys are expected to travel to Pakistan on Saturday in a new bid to salvage ceasefire talks with Tehran, even as Iran ruled out direct negotiations with U.S. representatives as its top diplomat...

www.yahoo.com

President Trump is severely compounding his own disgrace, and dragging U.S. down with him.
Trump's U.S. military reportedly killed Iran's supreme leader early in the U.S. assault.
Despite this decapitation Iran continues to politically out-maneuver Trump, exposing Trump's impotence to the world.

This does not make America great again.
It reduces international control / supervision over Iran's nuclear operations over what it was at the end of the Obama administration.
And at the end of the Obama, and Biden administrations, the Strait of Hormuz was open, with global commerce traffic flowing freely there.

This Trump administration mega-bungling has accomplished the opposite of Trump's stated administration objective: more favorable consumer prices.

And the nearest thing to political respite outside an unlikely avalanche of judicial branch rulings to limit Trump's excesses, is the mid-term election, over half a year away.

 

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At 91 years old, Gary Sick has spent decades working on and studying US-Iran relations. He was a key aide to Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan, he met the Shah, and he was in the room as the US scrambled to react to the Islamic revolution and the subsequent hostage crisis. I sat down with him in New York to get his thoughts on this current war and the lessons from history. It’s worth watching in full.

1.2M views · 24K reactions | At 91 years old, Gary Sick has spent decades working on and studying US-Iran relations. He was a key aide to Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan, he met the Shah, and he was in the room as the US scrambled to react to the

At 91 years old, Gary Sick has spent decades working on and studying US-Iran relations. He was a key aide to Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan, he met the Shah, and he was in the room as the US...

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source: DoD & congress / NYT / PBS NH

Do the $math.
$4 $M x 1,200 = $4.8 $Billion

It's not merely that Trump has driven consumer prices suddenly far higher.
It's costing us a fortune.

And contrary to Trump's initial assertions, these consumer prices will not lower to pre-war levels any time soon, if ever.

 

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