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Amid US sanctions, Iran threatens again to close Strait of Hormuz
2018-12-05
[DAWN] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has threatened again to close the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for nearly a third of all oil traded by sea.

State TV quoted Rouhani on Tuesday as saying that "if someday, the United States decides to block Iran's oil (exports), no oil will be exported from the Persian Gulf."

The strait at the mouth of the Persian Gulf is crucial to global energy supplies.

Rouhani also pledged that the US wouldn't be able to prevent Iran from exporting its crude oil.

Rouhani has made similar threats previously, especially after President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
threatened to decrease Iran's oil export to nil.

His threat was welcomed by many Iranian officials, including hard-liners such as Gen Qassem Soleimani
, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard's powerful Quds Force.

Posted by:Fred

#4  These people are long, long overdue for a smoldering kinetic smack down.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-12-05 08:52  

#3  Yes. Let Iran close it. Tell all those affected (Eurines and Gulf oil states) that we'll sell them whatever they want weapons wise to open it back up but everything has a use by date 90 days after delivery.

Then watch the fun...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-12-05 08:50  

#2  American oil producers "Make my day".
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-12-05 07:05  

#1  After Vietnam, the balkans, Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan I hope the US government has given up on all ideas of nation-building after reaching out and "touching" an enemy.

Posted by: 3dc   2018-12-05 06:28  

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