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#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-10 01:53 PM
Pres Trump says that the US is in full control of the Strait...
As I have explained before, if a sentence starts with "Trump says..." you can safely ignore the rest of it.
Now Iran may be starting to realize that control of the Strait is a better way to get global attention than having a nuke.
Entirely different purposes and timelines:
1. Unlike Trump, Iran doesn't really want "attention" - they want real regional power - that's why until recently they waged terrorist war against Israel through multiple proxies, like Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah (Lebanese and Syrian), Houthis et al, helped by Soviet Union / Russia.
Tenuous "control" of the Strait of Hormuz is, at best, a desperate short-term opportunity to "haggle" with Trump by making temporary inconvenience to our regional allies and Trump in an election year (and, most importantly for him, interrupting his numerous "concepts of plans" to enrich and ingratiate himself through various grifts while attempting to insulate himself and family from consequences).
There are plans and game's afoot already of countries in the region for alternatives, land-based bypass routes and/or pipelines, some of which may include Turkiye and Israel, e.g.:
www.aljazeera.com - Saudi, UAE, Iraq: Can three pipelines help oil escape Strait of Hormuz? - Al Jazeera, 2026-03-27
www.pipeline-journal.net - Gulf States Fast-Track Pipeline Projects to Bypass Volatile Strait of Hormuz - 2026-04-07
www.nextbigfuture.com - Other Pipelines and Projects to Bypass Oil From Hormuz - 2026-05-05
This will take some time, but Iran understands that time of having whatever "control of Strait" they want everyone to think they have is not on their side... and when it goes poof they may not be able to ship their own oil through... which will not go well for their economy and will make their main buyers very unhappy.
2. On the other hand, possession of nuclear (and/or chemical) weapons, is Iran's long-held goal with designs of controlling entire, mostly Sunni Muslim Middle East countries, with whom Shi'a Muslims have been waging 14-centuries old war, and would facilitate the ability to enact at least one part of long-stated desire of "Death to Israel! Death to America!" which the original Ayatollah (1979 edition) endearingly named "Little Satan" and "Great Satan."
jewishonliner.org - How Iran's "Great Satan" Doctrine Still Shapes the Regime - 2026-03-02
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