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Rezaei: Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until wars in Gaza, Lebanon end (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

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Iran’s newly appointed secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, said that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz is strictly contingent upon Washington meeting Tehran’s core demands, including a complete halt to regional conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon.

During a meeting with Chinese Ambassador to Tehran, Cong Peiwu, Rezaei emphasized that the strategic waterway will remain closed unless the United States changes its behavior and accepts Iran’s stipulated conditions, which have been communicated to Washington through intermediaries.

Rezaei reiterated that the U.S. must end its hostile policies, release frozen Iranian assets, and put an immediate end to ongoing wars across the region, specifically highlighting the conflicts in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

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[–] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Enough with the "Trump will TACO" nonsense, this is a genuinely scary moment for all of earth, Trump is too cowardly to back down.

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No he is most certainly not too cowardly to back down. You serious?

He is going to skulk away quietly while global oil stocks deplete, and eventually it will hurt everyone else too much and so other countries will step in to clean up his mess.

[–] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Where is the evidence for Trump acting rationally about this?

[–] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Curious on what's so scary about it for all of earth?

[–] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We are headed into WW3

[–] PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 0 points 1 week ago

Oh like we didn't cut off every path that lead anywhere else years ago. Grow up.

[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trump has to open the straight because of economic necessities and the coming election and Iran is willing to play hardball because they have a good chance if winning which they never really had come close to before.

[–] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Trump does NOT have to act rationally and he rarely does.

[–] PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 3 points 1 week ago

They can't really surrender. There's no assurance they can trust after putting guns down.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"All of Earth" is certainly overselling it, but a whole lot of people do need the oil coming out of Hormuz, for fertilizer if nothing else.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I believe op might have been referring to the very real possibility of the snack trolly troll launching nukes at Iran and sparking off ww3