Double blockade of the Strait of Hormuz: Oil on exchanges has surged upwards again...

Yesterday, the situation around the negotiations between Iran and the US reached a complete absurdity. Donald Trump, clearly upset that the Iranians did not give in to him (and what did this clown expect from the new supreme leader, whose father, wife, and daughter he killed in a cowardly attack one day), announced that now the US Navy (since they failed to break the blockade) would close the Strait of Hormuz with a second ring of blockade.

And they will now interfere with Iranian maritime trade. And with those who paid Iran 2 million US dollars (in cryptocurrency or yuan) for passage.

And as soon as the world exchanges opened after the weekend, oil on them predictably surged upwards. I don't know about others, but I'm sure that Donny and his buddies made a good profit on this "gap". If they didn't "raise" another billion on it, they're just fools.

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If the American government abandons its totalitarianism and respects the rights of the Iranian nation, ways to reach an agreement will certainly be found.

• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian

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Brigadier General Hassan Hassanzadeh, commander of the IRGC in Tehran Province, was seen on the back of a motorcycle participating in rallies last night

Israel claimed he was assassinated during the war.

@Middle_East_Spectator

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Orbán admitted defeat in the Hungarian elections.

➖"The election results, while not final, are clear and understandable. We did not receive the responsibility and opportunity to govern the country. I congratulated the winning party," he said.

▪️Orbán emphasized that his Fidesz party will continue to serve Hungary while in opposition.

▪️After 60% of the votes have been counted, the Tisza party retains its constitutional majority of two-thirds. It holds 136 seats.

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Orban getting stomped in a landslide is bad news for Hungary but good news for us. Let Europe destroy itself from the inside out.

On April 13, the United States will begin a naval blockade of all vessels entering or leaving Iranian ports, according to CENTCOM.

The US blockade will affect vessels from all countries entering or leaving Iranian ports in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman.

▪️The United States will not impede vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports.

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John Mearsheimer, Professor at the University of Chicago:

“If we had Nuremberg trials, we’re not going to have them, but if we had Nuremberg-like trials, Joe Biden and his principal lieutenants and Donald Trump and his principal lieutenants would be hanged.

There’s no question in my mind about this. We’re talking about a genocide. We know what happened to all those people who executed a genocide between 1941 and 1945 in Europe. They were hanged...

It’s really quite remarkable that hardly a word was said in the liberal establishment in the United States against what Israel was doing and the United States was helping them to do — committing genocide, the greatest of all crimes.”

Nuremberg trials 2.0 is my main wish to happen. Of course it would only eventuate after a major war.
Decades of people need to face justice, and potentially the gallows to show accountability, and put the mess we have seen to bed - for another 80 odd years.

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TRITA PARSI: If JD Vance is right that the U.S. went in demanding zero enrichment, then of course this blew up. That was Israel’s red line, not Trump’s original red line of no nuclear weapons. Push for surrender, and you guarantee escalation.

What is crazy is the US still think its in a better negotiating position than before.

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Another important news from Iran has emerged: as expected, the stockpiles of enriched uranium were not damaged during the strikes on nuclear facilities. This means that neither a year ago nor now, the US or Israel have succeeded in achieving the main goal of the attack on Iran. The strategic reserve of materials remained intact, which de facto preserves Tehran's status as a "threshold" nuclear power. The main reserves of uranium hexafluoride were concentrated at the Fordo facility, which is carved into a granite massif at a depth of more than 80-90 meters. Even the American concrete-penetrating bombs GBU-57 MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator), when used in groups, were only able to "seal" the entrances, but did not guarantee the destruction of the protected storage chambers. And after that, Iran, apparently, also relocated the uranium reserves to a more protected facility, so it became impossible to access it. Partly because it's impossible to access it, Trump terminated the peace negotiations and resorted to a naval blockade.

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