The idea being to choke off Iran’s ability to use it at all. This kills their remaining income stream and also incents the Chinese and others who thought they had a workaround (the tolls) to instead put pressure on Iran.
Possibly but that would mean the trump admin (and by extension congress) still are operating on less intelligence than anyone with an internet connection.
it wasnt being used all for the most part its not that hard, and not some genius plan by trump. besides russia and china has other ways of getting around it anyways.
The idea being to choke off Iran’s ability to use it at all. This kills their remaining income stream and also incents the Chinese and others who thought they had a workaround (the tolls) to instead put pressure on Iran.
…You understand Iran has more revenue streams and can overland oil and materials to china… right?
The fact that it’s a bad idea doesn’t mean that isn’t the reason
Possibly but that would mean the trump admin (and by extension congress) still are operating on less intelligence than anyone with an internet connection.
This is not news
Are the pipelines still operational?
iran can ship it through central asia, or other asian countries overland .
But that only works if the US is willing to start attacking unarmed oil tankers, which will do no favors for their international support.
If they hadn’t alienated all their allies, they could build an embargo until the straits were opened but that ship had sailed.
The idea being to kill off Iran’s leverage, which is control of the Strait.
it wasnt being used all for the most part its not that hard, and not some genius plan by trump. besides russia and china has other ways of getting around it anyways.