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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Question is whether they paid or not.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago

Modern cargo carriers are sized upwards of 2 million barrels. If you can reduce the oil price to back where it was before the war started, there is a looot of money you can pay Iran to grease the wheels of the Strait. And we know from other ships they demand about $2M per vessel, totally worth it.

It's going to be an increasing problem for the United States. Since they refused to reopen the Strait, the Iranians control it de facto. Which means any hostile act by the United States against Iran turns into an expensive price hike for countries around the world.

That is absolutely a great way to turn allies into enemies.

[–] Hlodwig@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dont know for others, but concerning France they have mobilised their military navy there, pretty sure that Iran was not willing to engage war with another country and therefore agreed to let France go freely.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 3 points 1 week ago

Ah I didn't hear about that. Interesting.