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He says other nations will have to guard and police the Strait of Hormuz as necessary, after his attacks on the country prompted Iran to target vessels in the crucial world shipping lane. Mark Stone analyses the Truth Social post.

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

If you're iran, what's stopping you from charging a toll for anyone using the strait?

Oh, you want your oil tanker to leave the gulf? That'll be one million dollars.

Make an exemption for oil traded in non-usd for maximum fun.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you’re iran, what’s stopping you from charging a toll for anyone using the strait?

Literally nothing. Trump proved time and time again that you can be the most brazen scumbag on the planet and suffer no consequences.

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

No consequences yet. I'm hopeful some kind of Iranian batman will show up and settle the score.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago

They've already pitched the idea of a 10% toll

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Basically incompetence. Iran (and Houtis) have been hitting ships they clearly were not supposed to hit. It is not necessarily easy to figure out which ship is which. So even ships that are allowed by Iran are scared of crossing rn. Also, mines don't discriminate.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is current state of shipping in SoH. Everyone who goes through has some deal with Iran to pass safely. Iran has offered an "Islamic assembly" (UN/NATO like) peace deal for neighbours. Backup plan if GCC does not ally with Iran is to keep the toll system.

Oh, you want your oil tanker to leave the gulf? That’ll be one million dollars.

One ship reportedly paid Iran $BritishPounds2B to go through. $ and Euro are worthless to Iran because of corrupt banking system. All payments in CNY already.

[–] CXORA@aussie.zone 2 points 21 hours ago

If youre ona phone keyboard holding "$" should give you other currency symbol options. £, €, ₩ etc. Otherwise the usual syntax to denote pounds is to leave off the symbol and append GBP. Eg £2B or 2B GBP are easier to read and easier to type.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's kind of what they are already doing.

[–] Janx@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Source? Not saying you're wrong, but I haven't heard this anywhere.