This is a huge deal, if it’s true. 
The above claim has been repeated multiple times on X, and by some news outlets I have not heard of.
I cannot find a mainstream news source.
Passage of Japan Ships in Strait of Hormuz
The Straits Times comments Iran ready to help passage of Japan ships in Strait of Hormuz, says foreign minister. The same story is on Japan Wire and Argus Media.
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has said Tehran is ready to facilitate the passage of Japanese vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, a key artery for global energy shipments, and that negotiations with Japan on the issue are ongoing.
“We have not closed the strait. It is open,” Mr Araqchi said in a telephone interview with Kyodo News on March 21.
He also stressed that Iran, which was attacked by the US and Israel on Feb 28, is seeking “not a ceasefire, but a complete, comprehensive and lasting end to the war”.
Mr Araqchi said Iran has not closed the strategic waterway but has imposed restrictions on vessels belonging to countries involved in attacks against Iran, while offering assistance to others amid heightened security concerns.
He added that Iran is prepared to ensure safe passage for countries such as Japan if they coordinate with Tehran.
Japan relies on the Middle East for more than 90 per cent of its crude oil imports, most of which travel through the strait.
The issue of navigation through the strait by Japanese vessels was discussed in his recent talks with Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Mr Araqchi said, noting that discussions are continuing, but the details cannot be disclosed.
Mr Araqchi, a former ambassador to Japan, has held phone talks with Mr Motegi twice since the war began. The top Iranian diplomat said he had discussed the passage of Japanese ships through the strait with Mr Motegi.
In Tokyo, a Foreign Ministry official said Japan will carefully assess Mr Araqchi’s remarks, adding that, even if Japanese vessels are able to sail through, the surge in energy prices will remain.
A Japanese government official said “directly negotiating with the Iranian side” is the “most effective way” to lift the blockade of the strait, while noting the need to avoid provoking the US.
Iran has rejected calls for a temporary truce, insisting that any resolution must include guarantees against future attacks, as well as compensation for the damage inflicted during the conflict.
Mr Araqchi described the war as “imposed on Iran”, saying Tehran had been engaged in negotiations with the US when the attacks began.
“This was an illegal, unprovoked act of aggression,” he said, adding that Iran’s response constitutes self-defence and will continue “for as long as it takes”.
He called on the international community, including Japan, to take a stand against the attacks, while expressing appreciation for Tokyo’s traditionally “balanced and fair” position and longstanding friendly ties with Iran.
Mr Araqchi noted that several countries are attempting to mediate an end to the conflict and said Iran is “open to any initiative” and willing to consider proposals.
At the same time, he suggested that while diplomatic efforts are ongoing, the US has yet to demonstrate its readiness for a genuine resolution. KYODO NEWS
Fact or Fiction?
That reeks of propaganda, but I see no official denials. Mainstream media has no coverage at all.
It’s a logical development for both countries. But that does not make the story true.
Lack of mainstream media reports makes me suspicious, but that does not make the story false.
Petrodollar, Petroyuan Yet Again
A Japan-Iran deal would be very big, but yuan has little to do with it.
The importance is two-fold and major: It would kill the US role as guardian of the Strait. And the flow of money to Iran is potentially huge.
Iran Not Close to Collapse
Trump Does Not Understand Markets
Peace Talks?
That’s from Axios, with an official denial. The denial is by Trump.
And Iran says it is not at all interested in talks. In this case, actions speak louder than words. I believe Iran.
China Selling Gold?
Today is a great day for rumors. They are really flying.
Gasoline Prices
Daniel Davis Deep Dive
I generally agree with that assessment and so does a British defense analyst.
Mexico Sending Oil to Cuba?
That’s another rumor. President Sheinbaum said Mexico is ‘looking into different possibilities’ to resume fuel shipments to Cuba; she did not announce oil deliveries or that the U.S. embargo has ended.
That said. I doubt Trump would sink or capture any Mexican ships delivering oil to Cuba.
Got Helium?
Addendum
Discussion real, details on fees exaggerated
Grok
Iran’s FM Araghchi confirmed in Kyodo interview: Tehran ready to facilitate safe Japanese vessel passage through Hormuz post-talks with Tokyo. “Strait not closed,” details ongoing but undisclosed. Bloomberg, Japan Times, Reuters echo this exactly. No mainstream source backs specific 10% toll/$800B “oil-for-fee” with Japan—that’s viral exaggeration. Separate recent Iranian lawmaker proposals for general strait tolls exist (unlinked). Significant if expanded, but verified piece is passage aid only.
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Can Iran be trusted? Iran has a strong trade relation of military equipment for oil with China. Japan is not too happy about Chinese aggression, so why would Japan make itself indirectly vulnerable to China, much like Europe made itself vulnerable to Russia through the NordStream II gas line?
Japan needs lots of oil fast. They could go to Russia, but I think they would prefer to be dependent on Iran for now. Where else do they go?
Explainer: The price of a commodity is set by the last unit (barrel in this case) traded. That “last unit” is the last “marginal” barrel traded. Currently for oil, the last marginal barrel trading is in essence the last barrel to trade – aka: the “at the margin barrel”. The LAST Marginal barrel is the most expensive one – the one ‘at the margin’ drivin to the margin by the SOH panic.
Those are the barrels that test how deep the bidder is willing to pay.
ICE to airports tomorrow. Head of ICE says airports have the most illegals. One step closer to martial law by election day.
I’m surprised they didn’t go there a long time ago as states have no jurisdiction there.
The obvious solution is for Trump to blow up tanker ships in the Strait of Hormuz until all nations kiss his bare ass. On live TV. With the uglies, of course, blurred out. Followed by celebrations around the world of his greatness. The Navy Seals and Delta Force, etc. can learn insanely difficult dance routines and perform with Bad Bunny.
It would not surprise me if an unhinged Trump foolishly destroyed Kharg Island just to show countries that going around him will not be tolerated. He would turn the entire world further against us, more than his tariff idiocy already has if he does. He would also create a world oil shortage with all those ramifications for years to come if he did it.
It would not surprise me if he doesn’t. Occupying it is much better.
I am reminded of the scene in Rocky II where Apollo Creed’s trainer pleads against a rematch with Rocky Balboa saying, “I saw you beat that man like I’ve seen no man get beat before AND THE MAN KEPT COMING AFTER YOU. Now we don’t need THAT kind of man in our lives.”
Do you think movies are reality?
The Kharg Island fantasy
“How are you going to take Kharg Island? You have no ships in the Persian Gulf.”
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/the-kharg-fantasy-lethalitymaxxing?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=bzs8&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
History of Pearl Harbor comes to mind when I read that Iran might allow Japan to pay a bribe to get some Oil. Pearl Harbor came about after America cut off all Oil to Japan who needed it badly. Japan was desperate and attacked America in 1941 in response to Americas blockade.
Japan then got a Hiroshima Bomb or 2 from America and obviously gave up. Iran is more flexible than America as they will accept bribes which is better then how America is still treating many countries. Mexico is now supposedly even ignoring America and shipping Oil to Cuba. Maybe most Countries will gradually start ignoring America and start dealing with more flexible Nations?
Negotiations with the US are a waste of time because Trump will TACO.
Old meme from the middle of last year. Dropped by the consultants because it wasn’t achieving the desired effect. Please use the new one.
Interviews with the Japanese leaders and the Japanese archives has shown that Japan had already planned the sweep to the south a couple of years before FDR’s embargo. The embargo caught them by surprise because they thought the administration was looking to the elections and wouldn’t do anything to hurt their chances of winning the election such as an embargo would hinder. FDR did it anyway and Japan had to act six months before they were ready. Sound familiar?
Like always the stupid leader giving ultimatum that none gives a shite we have a real problem there’s no leader to negotiate with, if anybody on the Iran militia decides no deal rockets will fly so oil to stay high for a long time….
Correct, and the US, Israeli attackers have already bombed Irans water desalinization plant ~ which is yet another war crime.
It would seem likely that Israels water infrastructure has become fair game as well. Trump was stupid enough to take BiBi’s bait that this would be easy. It will not be easy, as they have attacked an entire religion/theocracy that has many more believers than theirs.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst and with Trump at the helm? Expect the great American experiment with freedom, peace and prosperity to be steered directly onto the rocks at the request of the Israeli theocracy.
Frosty,
I firmly believe the experiment ended a long time ago when the federal government escaped the chains of the Constitution. We can debate at what point the experiment effectively ended – with establishment of one of the 1st two central banks, Marbury v Madison, the Civil War, the establishment of an income tax, having Senators popularly elected instead of being appointed by state legislatures, the assassination of Kennedy, Nixon closing the gold window in 1971, the unhindered growth of federal laws, the establishment of the surveillance state, etc. – but nobody is free to effectively experiment anymore.
The threats and escalations continue. Trump threatens to hit all of Iran’s power plants. Iran responds that it will irreversibly destroy all oil and gas infrastructure in the middle east.
Global depression guaranteed if this happens. Millions die.
There are no winners here.
Since the goal was ever always only to turn Iran into a failed state (like was done to Iraq, Libya and Syria) this was always baked in the cake.
Don’t forget what happened from the failed state of Afghanistan in 2001.
Every oil-producing country in the Middle East (all Islamic nations) severely weakened? I’m sure Israel would consider that a win.
That is not a win. It merely guarantees future reprisals against Israel will be even worse.
In the meantime the global economy collapses and millions die.
There is no winning here.
Of course it is true objectively that it is not in Israel’s interest. But that is not what Israel believes, and I have no doubt that Israel would choose that outcome. The destruction of every Islamic country in the Middle East that could ever conceivably be a threat has been Netanyahu’s goal for 40 years.
In th meantime the Gulf Arabs are allied with Israel in this and the important factor is what did not happen. The Arab Street did not erupt to support Iran as Iran expected. It was a major miscalculation on their part. They hadn’t realized that everyone in the region and in Iran itself is sick and tired of them and are not going to follow Iran’s mullahs in their wish to turn the clock back to the 7th century.
If enough people suffer you can expect someone to emerge that will want “Final Solutions” to the problem. The kind of “Final Solutions” that a guy in Germany with a funny mustache wanted to do.
This thing needs to stop now or we’ll all be chipping in for “Holocaust II” memorials except this time it may be the final chapter. It won’t be Schindler’s List it’ll be Schindler, Extra Crispy!
You don’t think Israel wants a Final Solution in Gaza? Lebanon? Iran?
All of this war is based on religious nonsense. I expect to see two large piles of ruble at the end of all of this. At that point in time, humanity is going to have to re-examine all their beliefs since magical deity didn’t come down from heaven to smite the other guy.
AI is the new god anyway, people are already worshiping it like no other god before it.
Most of the Jewish Zionists are atheists. They belief in Jewish supremacy anyway.
If the final solution were to entail just killing all the Zionists in USreal who are slaking the thirst of their bloodlust with all this violence, I don’t think that’d be comparable to the Holocaust. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
The Zionists would immediately throw the other Jews under the bus, then cry antisemitism. It’s their favorite play.
Reminds me of what everyone said when Russian oil was cut off after they invaded Ukraine. Global famine, no more fertilizer, energy prices at $200 and so forth. Companies and markets adapted and life went on.
Bottom line
Evidence of selling is something mysterious called a “price decline”.
Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s infrastructure could well be a war crime if implemented.
An attack is illegal (a war crime) if:
The expected civilian harm is excessive compared to the anticipated military advantage.
So, if destroying a power grid is expected to:
then the attacker must weigh that harm. If it is clearly excessive, the strike is a war crime.
You forgot the tit for tat provision. Since Iran is attacking civilian infrastructure (ie commercial shipping), retaliation is permitted.
War crime. War crime. War crime.
Fed up of hearing of this words.
It doesn’t apply to US and its allies.
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Apparently you don’t think it applies to Iran.
So Gaza?
You’ll get downvotes from the weird Russian bot accounts here, and from their MAGA butt buddies, because that’s been Russia’s main strategy in Ukraine for 5 years now.
Seems like Putins #1 butt buddy Trump has been paying attention and wants to try open warfare against the civilian population.
Keep in mind Trump is the same guy who promised the Iranian people that he would support them if they rose up…. And then sat by idly as the regime murdered them in the streets.
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=butt buddy Trump
it seems you are jealous.
boy friend left you?
Silly Bot.
Of course it’s a war crime. What does anyone propose to do about it?
Winners of military activity decide what constitutes a war crime.
It’s sorta funny that people don’t believe Trump when he says we’ve won. He even asked for Iran to surrender. Iran is still thrashing about and just pissing everyone off.
Come Monday or Tuesday, Trump is simply gonna turn out the lights in Iran. Every conventional power plant and every sub-station in the whole nation is gonna be hit. Sure, there’s gonna be a few individual generators, but they will be scrambling for fuel. If their philosophy is from the 1400’s, Trump can and will put the entire country back to that time.
Then, he might ask again for their surrender.
It is Trump that can escalate…not Iran.
Thats called genocide. Something I prefer our nation avoid participation in.
Leave it to the religious fanatics of the world.
Have you seen the pictures of all the evangelists, touching him looking deep in prayer?
He is definitely playing to the religious kooks here.
Iran will respond in kind. I expect them to target Israel’s offshore gas facilities which fuel 70% of Israel’s electricity. They may even target the Negev Nuclear “research center” directly. Anything Israel or the US hit (and any distinction between the two is phony) will be responded to in kind – including Israel’s desalination plants.
Even if what you said was realistic, it would do nothing to open the strait or change the regime. One of the few things Trump hasn’t claimed as a victory state is destroying the civilian infrastructure. You thinking it matters or even makes any sense shows that you still haven’t grasped the nature of either the regime’s hold over the Iranian people or their strategic control of the strait.
You’re wrong. Iran will “obliterate” the gulf’s oil production capacity and they won’t need to block the Strait of Hormuz because there won’t be any oil anyway. The gas goes to $10/gallon worldwide and the second great depression happens.
aint no stupid like Maga stupid.
Iran has water desalination plants, power plants and port facilities of Israel and Gulf countries it can hit.
Be careful out there. Hillary Clinton is still not locked up while Maga man Tucker Carlson is being investigated for treason.
Re the Iranian Hormuz shipping tax: it isn’t law yet but is being formally discussed according to Grok.
“Orange Apocalyptic Tel Aviv, getting clobbered by numerous Iranian ballistic/hypersonic missiles. Tel Aviv much like Haifa, Arad looks like hell on earth which is poetically accurate.
Bibi’s 40 year theologically perverse Messianic third temple dream manifesting itself in a way God must see fit? Footage is circa March 20-21.”
https://x.com/IslanderWORLD/status/2035584797519606263
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of ge ocidal supremacists.
Wait what? But I thought some magical deity was going to protect the holy land. What’s going on? I’m seeing missiles slam into Israel all over the place, even ones close to that temple thing.
Some say the AntiChrist is already in the White House and Armageddon is upon us.
Game theory. The Separating Equilibrium that Iran hoped to continue has collapsed into Pooling where the reluctant actors (most of Europe) suddenly realize they are not geographically isolated from the conflict as they had originally thought. The demonstration that Iran could sent a missile 4,000 miles means every European capital can be attained. Cold shower time. Negotiating with Iran over its nuclear weapons program suddenly no longer makes sense. Eliminating it does and Golden Dome looks very attractive. Lots of talk over here about it.
Game theory?
Dumb genocidal fuck.
There is no winning here.
I see you never studied Game Theory so you have no idea what I am talking about. The only thing that interests you is your portfolio and that’s all PapaDave. You have said it many times before so stick with your fake moral position and maybe one day you will believe it.
There’s nothing stopping Iran from hitting Israel with dirty bombs right now. They have the materials, they have the missiles, Israeli air defenses are largely depleted.
Funny, since we are regularly assured that Iran is in the grip of an apocalyptic death cult and cannot be negotiated with.
That is true. It is also true that with the missile that can go 4,000 km they could hit European capitals as well and they have no Iron Dome to protect themselves. It is a sudden and very unpleasant shock to the people here. Should one surrender, fight or make believe we are in 1992?
Trump and his Semitic allies baffled that they can’t find out who Iran’s new leader is (so that they can assassinate him/she/they/zer)
Trump doesn’t like asymmetric warfare and that Iran is fighting back.
Has he ever read a history book (or any book for that matter)…doesn’t he understand that asymmetric tactics are how this country defeated the British?
Ho-leeee, this f’in guy man.
Just watching Ukraine stand up to Russia for five years with drones should have been enough. The ability of smaller states to leverage asymmetric warfare has never been greater than now.
Ukraine never had air superiority nor lasers that will only be getting more powerful as time goes by. It probably isn’t the wave of the future that it is often described to be.
So let me see if I understand:
EVERYTHING Trump says is a lie – CHECK
But,
He says Iran was 2 weeks from a nuke and all of the sudden he’s telling the truth.
erm….OK, got it.
check out real videos rocket hitting Israel! not fun for locals !
but visually it is amazing!
just compare size of Israel and iran.
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any single rocket into Israel makes more damage than 100 into iran
it is like shooting fish in a barrel
that is why Iran already hit most protected object in Israel, nuclear center.
I dont consider any of these US decisions. They are Trump decisions. The biggest beneficiary of these decisions is Putin. Trump is the Mcnchurian President. Putin is literally pulling all the strings now. He controls US policy and Republican party. Only time will tell if if anyone will actually do anything about it. My graduate research in 2012 was on the Russian Intelligence that had interfered in elections everywhere showing that the man who saw the Berlin wall fall from Dresden made a vow to take down NATO and the United States. Putin was overheard telling Xi they had technology that could allow leaders to survive for over 150 years. It truly makes one wonder.
Putin is literally pulling all the strings now. He controls US policy and Republican party.
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wow! as russian i must be proud .
OUT OF CURIOSITY HOW Putin COMMUNICATES W/ TRUMP?
using doves or fires like Indians?
keep on posting. good humor!
alx
This makes one wonder if the Trump assassination attempt was just a big setup to turn public opinion..
To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt
Story by Catherine Belton
• 21h
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/to-tilt-hungarian-election-russians-proposed-staging-assassination-attempt/ar-AA1Z73je
or no.
MSN!!. USA mass media never lies!!!
btw. how is that Russia COLLUSION GOING ON?
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i know. YOU ARE Ukraine404 BOT! ONLY plausible explanation
still shitting in kitties box in kiev? shame!
Do you honestly think that the US would allow this to happen? Sheese.
did not USA evacuate all military bases in region?
Of non-,military citizens. D’oh.
=non-,military citizens
non-,military citizens ON USA MILITARY BASES in middle east?
KEEP POSTING BOY!
Exactly how would we stop it? Japan and India are not enemies or they weren’t until trump. Maybe we could take the strait militarily but the cost might end the USA. The USA has become a rogue, terrorist nation and an enemy to peace worldwide.
Evil Empire
The US has no effective ability to open the Strait of Hormuz. If it did, it already would have. That’s why Trump is down to telling the Chinese and Europeans the Strait is their problem and that he’s going to bomb Iran’s electricity production facilities. Because we don’t have the power to open the Strait militarily. The world doesn’t work the way you or the Donald thinks it does.
trumpking has already gone, mentally
actually be afraid, really afraid.
we are already crossed ‘ horse in senate’ stage!
“Nobody, and I mean nobody, even guessed” Iran had missiles with that range, said William Alberque, a Europe-based senior fellow at the Pacific Forum. “It means they probably used a modified missile — maybe a prototype,” indicating Tehran still had storage or workshops that could make the alterations.
Weapons with a range of almost 2,500 miles would put major European cities including London and Paris at risk of an attack from Iran.
=“Nobody, and I mean nobody, even guessed” Iran had missiles with that range,
yeah world is different, when you watch it from home in Ny or london
Which means they probably lied about a whole lot of other things that they supposedly weren’t working on. P.T. Barnum was right when he said there is a sucker born every minute. Thankfully, Trump isn’t one of them.
= they probably lied about a whole lot of other things that they supposedly
wow! another CIA induced pearl!
i did not know independent countries must send reports in USA or UN about own rocket progress!
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DO YOU HEAR HOW STUPID YOU ARE ?
i guess you got job on DEI quote. smarter ones already gone , and you left because of brain malfunctioning. out of charity.
alx
Your comments illustrate while almost everyone hates Russians. Keep it up.
ahah ! ahahah!!!!! ahahah!!
nationality attack.. so nice.!! spoken like true NAZI
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you know world does not consist from Europe and N.America,
and some scrubs off British empire..?
it is just 10-12% of of world population!
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FUNNY EVEN HERE you cant NOT lie…
if you take random100 people across the globe and ask what country they hate most – i bet 100$ it will be USA, Britain, etc
keep posting boy
alx
When we didn’t attack Iran, they didn’t use their missiles.
It was already widely expected in military circles but it is a shock to people in Europe watching missiles hitting Israel and the Gulf countries and imagining the same thing happening to them. It is starting to real for them. There is a seismic shift coming.
The UK better hope it’s Iran, not Russia settling scores for MI6 terrorism and war crimes – including Bucha and the Crocus City Hall.
We don’t even know that it was Iran that shot at Diego Garcia.
The U.K. is claiming the missiles were fired by Iran, per most news outlets.
According to Al Jazeera, Iran has denied firing the missiles at Diego Garcia.
I believe Iran over the UK. If Iran had done it, it would be to show that they could. They’d be bragging about it.
I agree.
U.K. decided to start lying like Trump & Co.
So who fired the missiles then?
Trump–Innovator of the Century. Only the Orange Magus could turn previously open seas into Yugely Profitable Toll booths. There’s got to be a Nobel for that, no?
The helium shortage for the world outside the US is going to be debilitating for technology oriented production.
Since the US produces most of the worlds helium, it actually acts as a counter measure to our reliance on rare earths.
Globally, helium has been in short supply for over a decade. Taking out the supply from Qatar is going to disrupt production of chipsets quickly.
Anyone know how long it will take to re-start Qatars helium plants?
Helium production worldwide:
1 – USA
2 – Russia
3 – Algeria
4 – Canada
If anything, the closure of the Gulf will benefit Russia.
YEA RUSSIA!
Russia? Nonsense!
They produce a tiny fraction of what Qatar did, and only 1% of global supply.
We can get all the helium we need from the moon.
Lifting gas counts for 10-15% of all helium usage. No more party balloons for a while.
No more chip production or MRI’s for China is the real issue.
Couple of things to consider.
1) If Japan can pay for oil transit – how long before every cargo is Japanese and the money you receive can not be spent if you are dead. The money will only go to support the IRGC and not any Iranians. My guess is they will use it to flee. Iran’s currency is worthless. Want to buy some Rail? Maybe it will double in value if they can pull this off.
2) People in China buy gold because they know how bad their economy is getting. Gold holds value and China has capital controls. Real estate is not a good investment anymore. Business is shrinking. They may not know it outright but China has to devalue their currency.
3) The reason the war is winding down is the military(s) have already hit 15K targets.
PS. Kharg Island is not the target of a ground invasion; It is Bandar Abbas. Take a look at a map. Airport, port, easily defendable, straight entrance. Take a look at a map.
The war is winding down?
• Strike threat: US President Donald Trump threatened to “hit and obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.
• Iran missiles hit Israel: The Israeli military said it failed to intercept a missile before it struck Dimona, injuring several people and destroying a small building in the home of the country’s nuclear program. Meanwhile in the south, officials declared a mass casualty event as missiles appeared to have pierced the defense array and hit Arad. Israel said strikes on Iran will “increase significantly” this week.
dont bother it is cia bot. he is not even human
“I’m as real as a doughnut, M >>>>. Once upon a time in Hollywood.
Oh gee, Iran Regime manages to get an occasional missile through Israelis Iron Dome, but still not hitting anything actually important
Celebrate! RAH RAH SIS BOOM BAH!
Meanwhile, Tehran s starting to look like Gaza! 🤣🤣🤣
=, Tehran s starting to look like Gaza
spoken like a true NAZI
did you not report somewhere 80% ppl of Iran hates regime?
so you kill people that USA/Israel wants to liberate same time?
wow!!!! cia bot indeed!
=ges to get an occasional missile through Israelis Iron Dome,
dont worry mor1on
just compare size of Israel and iran. yeah yeah i know it is 2th grade math, still try to!
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any single rocket into Israel makes more damage than 100 into iran
it is like shooting fish in a barrel
that is why Iran already hit most protected object in Israel, nuclear center. true story!!
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, and wait when anti rockets batteries are empty eventually ,
real fun will start!
it is not over until fat lady sang .
alx
How does Tehran looking like Gaza benefit the USA? It may satisfy bloodlust from some keyboard warriors, but will have no posititive impact on the stated objectives of the war. It will however harden resolve and rally people around the regime trump meant to change. Big failure, by the USA. Not a surprise, given that there was no plan for this attack, stunningly.
It’s not supposed to benefit the USA. It’s supposed to benefit our Israeli overlords. They just want Iran destroyed – no matter what it costs the USA in money and lives.
Maybe it will motivate the wimpy Iranian opposition to get off their fearful rear ends and start killing IRGC militants! They protest but are unwilling to stand-up to the IRGC and risk being killed. They are unserious.
They don’t have guns? Use knives or swords or baseball bats. Then take the guns from the IRGC that have been killed. Start somewhere.
You want a change of your government and protests aren’t working? Then you need to fight, possibly with just your hands and common house items, and risk possibly risk your life.
JoJo seems to be a Baiter — and reels in many negative responses ?
There you are – Papa strong goes to 12-31-26 -the Oil Investment challenge:
SCO 7.98 down 21%
UCO 42.37 up 24%
Up for now – Happy Trading
=2) People in China buy gold because they know how bad their economy is getting.
if you lived in china or knew mandarin MOR1ON, you would know main vehicle of investing in china is REAL ESTATE – HOUSING /FLATS
as far as =how bad their economy is getting= well, last time i checked china runs huge positive trade balance against pretty much whole world!
+ there is thing called Russia just to the north, biggest commodities producer in world
so keep your mouth closed, and people might think you are not m11ron !
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btw, what county do you live? what is your university diploma?
alx
It isn’t any longer. The Chinese real estate market has crashed. Try to keep up.
WOW! price of housing is getting lower
so did not trump wants same IN usa?
YOU ARE REALLY A MO1RON!!! no real knowledge of life
you are a bot!
Mostly I ignore you. But here’s some education for you. From the NY Times. Much more reliable than RT.com. [rotflol]
NYT !! hhaha! ahhah!! ahah!!!
now do USA coutnry / ppl about =Downward Mobility=!
40% obese
40 trln fed gov debt
3 trln deficit
1 trln trade deficit
dysfunctional political system!
half of country hater other half, and president.
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no need further comment!
it is called confirmation bias.. IF YOU DONT HAVE ANY BRAINS, YOU search for sources that confirm your stupid views!
it is disease. seek a doctor!
alx
Mostly I ignore you
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why are you telling me that, and still answering on my posts?
=Methinks the lady doth protest too much=
immortal!
i look at author of nyt post
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As a Chinese national, I’ve covered the country for more than two decades. I have written about China’s censorship system, its rise as a technology power, its rivalry with the United States, its #MeToo movement, its draconian “zero-Covid” policy and its slowing economic growth.
Before joining The Times in 2018, I worked at The Wall Street Journal for 14 years in New York, Beijing and Hong Kong. I edited the Journal’s Chinese website for seven years before it was blocked by the Chinese government, which contributed to my deep interest in China’s censorship system.
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she probaly were in china last time 20 ago
she knows nothing about locals now!
Like Gordon Chang who hates the Peoples Republic of China.
=They may not know it outright but China has to devalue their currency.
last time i read 101 economics mo11ron, every export oriented country tries to devalue own currency!
have you heard about plaza accord in 1985?
get lost , cia bot
alx
=hit 15K targets.
hahah!! ahahah!!
mo11ron took magic number from his ass!
jesus. you guys are really idiots!
Bandar Abbas is a city of about 700,000 people. The city is tight against the strait. Any invasion force will be fighting in an urban setting immediately upon landing. I can’t imagine the casualties on both sides and the number of citizens killed might number in the 100s of thousands. This war is just as insane as the criminal in chief trump.
Do you think religious muslims like the Iranian mullahs are WORSE than the Epstein class satanists (including Trump and assorted DEMOCRAT types like Bill Gates) who rape and torture babies to death and then eat their entrails at Epstein Island?
No i know the world is run by corporations now not governments or people. Got to keep the economy going
For many people on earth “keeping the economy going “ means “keep the food and fuel supply”. The economy is not a collection of market Numbers for them. It is life or death.
So Trump bombs Japanese ships next?
Yes. PLUS payback for Pearl Harbor.
You think exactly like Netanyahu. Dropping two nuclear bombs on Japan was just the start of the revenge against Japan for Pearl Harbor? A true psychopath.
Madman Trump just posted on Truth Social:
“If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Trump can blow up the plants, I doubt that will stop the missiles from reigning down on everyone over there. Every time Trump makes a threat he shows he has a weak hand. I thought this war was over already?
Do worry, Trump will find a way to make things even worse.™
War crime, yo. Likely to result in every water desalinization plant in the gulf going up in smoke. But hey, the war is going super well for the US and Israel, right?
“Ahead of schedule”, as Trump says.
Iran’s problem is that they are concerned with the lives of Muslims in Israel and in the region, so they’re reluctant to hit the desalination plants. At some point they may have to. Iran should target Israel’s offshore gas production – which is the source of most of their electricity.
See my P. T. Barnum comment above.
So sue us. [shrug]
He is a madman.
“The best way to stick your hand in a hornet’s nest is to first determine all of the reasons why you shouldn’t.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
he ‘ already gone, mentally
actually be afraid, really afraid.
we are already crossed ‘ horse in senate’ stage!
Mish,
Don’t you consider the ‘Straits Times’ to be mainstream media?
For the benefit of some of your readers, perhaps we should mention that the ‘Straits Times’ is in Singapore, and the “straits” referred to in the name are the Straits of Malacca, not the Strait of Hormuz.
I know the ‘Straits Times’ is a government-censored newspaper, with a representative of the Government of Singapore in the newsroom at all times, but I think it is still more reliable than any Western media I know (Zerohedge excepted).
Perhaps that is why it is reporting this, and the Western media isn’t.
ROFL
Zerohedge … Unbiased reliable propaganda
Like what spews out of your virtual mouth here.
He goes back there to cry and get affirmation when we don’t see him here for a while. They all do.
zh is over. has been for a few years
somehow owner likes russia and hates china
i wonder why
ps
i am russian , no bias
Japan’s mainstream TV ran the story this morning. (Note, I did not see it myself. It was being discussed at the breakfast table.) They have something like 200 ships bottled up in the gulf, and the idea seems to be to let them all get out of the way, but not to let any more enter.
Dear Mish, you should join a place like bellingcat’s discord or project OWL to get good sourcing on things. I think it would be a lot faster for you than looking on Twitter.
Of course, it is true. This is what Iran contemplated doing all along. Except they expected to have their nuclear weapons in place first. As long as the US stays engaged, Iran will lose the ability to enforce their blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The next step is to seize the Island upon which 90% of Iran’s oil is exported.
Good luck getting all the military equipment needed for this through the Straight of Hormuz!
And resupplying US personnel on Kharg Island without getting the planes shot down. And keeping them alive with Iranian missiles raining down. And what is holding Kharg Island even supposed to accomplish?
Iran has a long-standing fatwa against the production of nuclear weapons. In Islam, it is a sin to attack cities in a way that purposefully kills civilians and destroys infrastructure. You can’t control nuclear weapons in a way to avoid that. Hence the fatwa. Christians, of course, rejoice in it. Hence Trump’s desire to destroy Iran’s power plants.
If Japan doesn’t get oil soon, the whole country will shutdown. Not too many people understand the consequences of a crashed economy in Japan.
They will learn real fast.
Do worry, Trump will find a way to make things even worse.™
hey should have spent more time learning how to build safe nuclear reactors.
Maybe they should join up with SK and attack NK?
= Maybe they should join up with SK and attack NK?
they did , mor1on!
it is called Korean war. USA and allies got asses rected.
you bots need to be trained better!
Their nuclear reactors were designed by American companies.
The toll to be paid in Yuan may be true, but is most likely Persian trolling.
As for pricing/paying the oil in Yuan, this has not been stated by anybody in Iran and seems more like speculation from the sky-is-falling petrodollar brigade.
More likely is that Iran, as did the Houthi, will enforce a selective screening of traffic, based on ties to the Israel+America enemy.
Iran has been selling oil in Yuan and Indian Rupees since the US cut them off from SWIFT. They have bank accounts with Chinese and Indian banks where the oil sales income gets deposited. That money is then used to pay for imports from China and India. The west no longer produces anything that they can’t get from China and India so no need for dollars.
True, but that is their own oil, which is only a slice of the region’s oil exports routed through Hormuz.
the USA is winning?
https://parpanchi.substack.com/p/what-looks-like-resilience-in-iran
nothing says winning like your ally negotiating a trade agreement with the Regime you’re at war with.
it is called 5d chess!
did you not read about in =art of deal= ?
how to wrack half of dozen businesses and came up on top!
/s
alx
I was in disbelief yesterday when I heard Trump (yet again) call on China to help open the Strait.
Can somebody clue Trump in that the Strait is open for China and therefore this is not China’s problem?
Only the U.S. Israel and Europe and any of their supporters have a problem.
BREAKING: Worst attack by Iran on Israel yet. 100 casualties. Iran retaliated for the strike Israel did on Iran’s nuclear site. How far will this escalation go? I guess that’s up to Israel, but this attack looks like things will be taken up a notch.
I check this daily and it’s getting worse not better.
https://www.barchart.com/futures/quotes/QA*0/futures-prices
I hate this war but I love the profits. Demand destruction on the way, United Airlines cutting 5% of flights due to high fuel costs.
$80 futures for next July 2027? I’ll take the over on that one. LOL.
Trump is going to make EV’s great again. oh the irony and hubris is just too much. Lol.
Those poor fools driving F150 trucks and gas guzzling SUVs are going to be in a world of hurt.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/rising-gas-prices-from-iran-war-push-us-consumers-to-find-ways-to-save
paper trading!!
big guns must take positions no matter what!
they hedge production, so sell futures in big amounts on behalf of oil producing countries
funny thing one of biggest player on open market is MEXICO
The Japan rumours kind of make sense – which is why it is getting traction. What would a risk analysis show comparing Hormuz Tariffs vs risk to navy ships and personnel.
Next question: will be the chance of US Navy ships ever docking in Bahrain again?
In what bizzarro world would Iran negotiate with the Zionists Kushner and Witkof
If oil is on a WAVE 3 UP, then things could get very interesting…and not in a good way.
Interesting comment. I will take a look
Chart is a mess. There is no discernable waves in any timeframe that I can see.
The US is simply unreliable, so nations are doing deals with more reliable trading and security partners
Exactly. Russia frequently talk about the importance of trust and stability and by and large they have honored contracts even with Ukraine (i.e. paying Ukraine transit fees on gas until Ukraine terminated gas transit Jan 1 2025). China also uses this language. Go watch “Legend of the Valley of Gold” Chinese media AI video. There are not subtle hints how China is positioning this as an opportunity for the world to circumvent our system of trade control after violations of trust.