US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

Romania’s top defence body has approved a U.S. request to expand the use of its airbases in support of operations in the Middle East.

Incredible assisting the the genocidal state and Daddy who have carried out 2 illegal, unprovoked acts of aggression on a country that was partaking in negotiations to resolve issues.

They should be sanctioning them both not helping them. Now they are getting sanctioned even more.

Iran says it won't allow 'a single litre of oil' to pass through Strait of Hormuz

Iran says its policy for reciprocal strikes "has ended", a spokesman for Tehran's Khatam al-Anbiya military command headquarters says in a statement.

Tehran's policy now will be "strike upon strike," spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaqari says.

Tehran will "not allow even a single litre of oil" to pass through the Strait of Hormuz to reach the US, Israel and their partners, Zolfaqari adds. "Any vessel or tanker bound to them will be a legitimate target."

"Get ready for the oil barrel to be at $200 because the oil price depends on the regional security which you have destabilised," the spokesman adds.

So the same applies to ireland then? Im sure if Shannon was attacked you'd be all ah sure, we kind of deserve it? I guess even the tsa pre clearance area in Dublin is fair game as a target then given that its technically a US border. Im sure you would get the idiots cheering this on actually if it meant being able to blame Israel somehow.

Interesting dynamic starting to evolve regarding the continued shipments of crude to China from Iran's southern ports beyond the strait. Lots of international crude carriers that were "waiting for orders" have now flagged as on order to Chinese ports. Actually Chinese flagged ships have passed through the strait without problem since the Israeli/US attacks began.

Trump risks setting up a direct confrontation with China if the US navy attacks a Chinese flagged ship or any vessel on hire to China in an Iranian port. The supposed summit between Xi and Trump in Beijing has already been reduced to one day by the hosts as they cite the White House's unwillingness to engage in an agenda for the summit (which is an established diplomatic norm) as unproductive.

Thanks to China's build out of its strategic crude reserves it can play the longest waiting game in this current drama while still topping up with Iranian supplies which it already gets a 12% discount on.

Calm down, no one will be cheering any loss of lives.

Unlike the rogue states you are constantly on here defending.

But to broaden your question, there is debate whether Shannon or specifically what passes through Shannon would be a legitimate target under international laws.

They are afraid that the team wouldn't come home and that would be a huge propaganda defeat. We saw the Iranian women had to be corralled by officials in Australia last week.

Imagine Trump welcoming the team to stay in America because of their oppression. In order to avoid that possibility, the Iranian regime will destroy the dreams of their own people.

That shows a level of ignorance of what happens in Iran that is staggering.

You mean citizens being executed in the streets?

A person can acknowledge the extreme dysfunction in the US right now under Trump without having to resort of extreme hyperbole that it's somehow equivocal with the experience of life in Iran.

Just last night the head of Iranian police threatened that any protestors would be shot and treated as the enemy. This a very short time after the hard fact that a minimum of thousands were killed by the regime for protesting.

It reminds me of that video of the college students reluctantly and awkwardly saying they'd rather live in Iran than Israel when asked.

For some reason it didn't seem to occur to them at all that it's perfectly fine and consistent to just say "I'd rather live here/there but that doesn't justify the terrible things this/that country is doing".

Your position is that because Trump's goons unlawfully killed a few people, it's directly equivocal with Iran shooting dead thousands of people for protesting?

Surely you must understand that being a basis of "the US is just as oppressive a place as Iran" that's not remotely logical or rational.

The problem with the US is a backslide on rights in recent years.

The problem with Iran is that people there effectively have never had any rights of any kind at all for decades.

For the last few years all anti-semitism has just been waved away or laughed at and justified

No it hasn't.

The Israel Regime has redefined anti-semitism as anyone that calls out their brutal genocidal regime.