Oil crisis looms as Iran announces closure of Hormuz Strait to all shipping
Iran responded this morning to the illegal US-Israel attacks on its facilities and attempts to assassinate its leadership with missile and drone attacks on Israel and on US bases in the region. Tonight, it has announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which runs along a large part of its coastline, to all shipping.
The territorial greed of the US and Israel – and the desire of Donald Trump for a distraction from his Epstein crimes – has put the world on the edge of a global financial meltdown, as well as of outright war.
During the ’12-day war’ of 2025, which saw Iranian retaliation pummel Israel and force back US naval vessels, Iran’s parliament approved the closure of the Strait. It didn’t have to implement it fully – Israel and the US quickly backed down.
Iran’s ability to close the Strait, through which a third of global gas and a quarter of global oil consumption passes, is widely acknowledged. A prolonged closure will mean economic catastrophe impacting billions. All for the sake of a war criminal’s ambitions and an old pervert’s desire to avoid humiliation until he dies.
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In many ways, the furore over the Epstein files – which revealed serious crimes by the ruling class against white, American, teenage girls – was a distraction from the far more serious crimes of Western governments that result in chaos, violence and mass death to men, women and children in the USA and around the planet.
I get what side of the political spectrum this organisation is on! They don’t President Trump so therefore don’t support the removal of an oppressive regime based on a religious fairytale.
It seems I have been reading the wrong news outlets. I hadn’t realised that Trump is trying to remove the Israeli government.
@Philip Smith-Lawrence : Perhaps its more a case of not supporting the World’s biggest two rogue states – America and Israel – as they spread death and oppression around the globe.
Trump is safe in America. Netanyahu has apparently decamped to Greece for the duration. Meanwhile their minions target civilians in Iran and expect them to be grateful – I’m sure the relatives of the 100+ young girls murdered in their school, or the 20 volleyball players killed when a sports hall was targetted have a pretty clear idea of which regime was responsible – the one based on fairytales of bringing democracy to the world, supporting neo-nazis in Ukraine and genocide in Palestine.
Support monsters like Trump and Netanyahu if you must – but please, be honest : no regime change by America or Israel is designed benefit those in the unfortunate countries they target.