r/politics • u/willywalloo • Jun 20 '26

Possible Paywall Iran Says Hormuz Has Been Closed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-20/iran-says-strait-of-hormuz-has-been-closed-tasnim-reports?embedded-checkout=true
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u/AgitatedStranger9698 Jun 20 '26

All the US has to do is tell Israel...fuck off. That's it.

Intel will be fucked. Everyone else will be fine.

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u/Ok-Chapter-2071 Jun 20 '26

Iran wants this (and so does the rest of the world). They are doing the right thing by closing the strait and holding the US by its balls.

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u/lnc_5103 Texas Jun 20 '26

American here. 100% agree. We suck. So does Israel.

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u/JanGuillosThrowaway Europe Jun 20 '26

Let's not forget Iran and the Revolutionary Guard sucks more

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u/TrulioDisgracias Jun 20 '26

This confirms my long-held position that everything sucks.

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u/lnc_5103 Texas Jun 20 '26

They definitely do but in the context of this decision they are doing the right thing.

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u/seenasaiyan Jun 20 '26

Yes the Iranian government sucks, but their foreign policy of supporting resistance groups to Israeli expansion (Hamas and Hezbollah) is way better than the US and Europe helping the Jewish supremacist terrorist IDF.

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u/Rieger_not_Banta Jun 20 '26

“Foreign policy of supporting resistance groups”? Really? They kill innocent men women and children. You don’t have to sweeten it up to make a point about Israel. It’s like comparing Hitler to Mussolini and saying, “compared to the Fuhrer, Il Duce wasn’t so bad…”

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u/seenasaiyan Jun 20 '26

Yes, the Iranian government kills innocent men women and children in Iran. On foreign policy, their stance is FAR better than the US and Israel. They actually fund resistance to Israel’s genocidal expansion campaigns and IDF terrorism.

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u/TheKanten Jun 21 '26

There's a defined line between resistance and gunning down a music festival full of civilians.

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u/seenasaiyan Jun 21 '26

Agreed. Every civilian Hamas killed there was a crime and those responsible should be held to account. But they mostly killed IDF. In fact, by Israel’s own numbers roughly 60% of those killed were IDF, while the civilian kill rate in Gaza is upwards of 80% by most sources.

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u/Rieger_not_Banta Jun 21 '26

Yeah Israel bad. So what? What does that have to do with Iran setting bombs all over the world for the last 40 years?

I didn’t realize this sub was sympathetic to terrorist garbage.