🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US just struck Iranian territory tonight. The whole ceasefire theater keeps getting exposed. Manipulating markets and no offramp are the reality.

Explosions tore across Qeshm Island and the coast at Bandar Abbas as American forces hammered what they called launch sites. Air defenses lit up the night sky over western Tehran in response, while an unidentified object was tracked and engaged in the darkness above Sirik right at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz.

But according to Iranian reporting, Washington fired the first shot, attacking an Iranian oil tanker moving through waters the empire has tried but failed to illegally choke off.

The IRGC answered the way a sovereign power defends itself: missiles slammed into American warships in the Strait. Only after taking those hits did the U.S. escalate again with direct strikes on Iranian soil.

This is how the empire keeps restarting the very war it claims it wants to end. One illegal blockade which is a porous farce, one tanker hit, one act of aggression after another and all while pretending Iran is the problem.

Tehran of course didn’t flinch. It responded with speed and force, then stood its ground when the counter punch came.

The owners of the Gulf have made it crystal clear for years: these waters belong to them, not to distant fleets trying to redraw the map with illegal wars of aggression that only serve Israeli interests.

Natural consequences don’t negotiate with blockades or ceasefire theater. They answer with resolve and Iran has plenty of both.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Three American destroyers just took a second brutal pounding in the Strait of Hormuz.

The USS Truxtun, USS Mason, and USS Rafael Peralta came under what U.S. officials themselves called a fiercer, more sustained Iranian assault than the barrage they faced only hours earlier. Missiles, drones, and swarms of fast attack boats closed in tight enough that the warships had to unload everything they had — five inch naval guns, CIWS, Hellfire missiles from Apache helicopters, .50 caliber machine guns on deck — for hours just to hold the line. No damage reported on their side as of yet, they insist. Hard to believe....

This wasn’t the opening move. It followed Washington’s strikes on Iranian launch sites around Qeshm Island and Bandar Abbas, after the U.S. had already fired on an Iranian oil tanker trying to move through waters the empire has no right to blockade. Iran answered the way a sovereign nation defends its own backyard when someone tries to choke it off.

All of this while the same administration swears a ceasefire (theater) is still in place and “Project Freedom” is paused for talks that never seem to materialize. The Strait — which carries one fifth of the world’s oil — isn’t some neutral shipping lane. It’s Iran’s front door, and the owners of the Gulf just reminded everyone what happens when you keep trying to kick it in.

The empire keeps testing the same red line and keeps getting the same answer. Iran won't play ceasefire theater. They answer force with force and Iran just delivered round two.

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