Iran Announces Switch from Defense to Offense in Strait of Hormuz
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Iran threatens to go on offensive in Strait of Hormuz if diplomacy with US fails reut.rs/4gBQZuw[image or embed] -- Reuters (@reuters.com) 9:50 AM · Aug 17, 2026
Iran threatens to go on offensive in Strait of Hormuz if diplomacy with US fails reut.rs/4gBQZuw[image or embed]
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The Persians, whose civilization goes back 5,000 years and gave the world chess, world class wrestlers, delicious cuisine, exotic musical syncopations, and the concept "zig-zag" -- supported militarily by China and Russia -- are going to punish Dummkopf Trumpf mightily for his intergalactic folly and manifest incompetence.
#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-18 02:23 AM | Reply
Obligatory.
x.com
#2 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-18 02:28 AM | Reply
#2
"The Senile Satan."
Ha!
Memnun, Persians, I shall use that in future OPs.
#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-18 02:34 AM | Reply
From the cited article ...
... Iran will shift to a "fully offensive" military posture because efforts to negotiate a permanent end to the war with the U.S. have stalled, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday, as Washington ruled out extending a temporary ceasefire agreement. Outward progress towards peace talks and a resumption of oil tanker traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz has ground to a halt, threatening to extend the conflict that the U.S. and Israel launched with attacks on Iran on February 28. ...
Outward progress towards peace talks and a resumption of oil tanker traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz has ground to a halt, threatening to extend the conflict that the U.S. and Israel launched with attacks on Iran on February 28. ...
So, Iran is now saying publicly something that Pres Trump has taught them...
The Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz may be a more potent force to face the world than Iran possessing a nuclear bomb.
Yeah for Pres Trump!
Donald Trump Says 'We Won' Iran War (March 11, 2026) www.newsweek.com
... President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the war with Iran had already been decided in America's favor. He told supporters in Hebron, Kentucky, that the conflict was effectively over almost as soon as it began. Trump said U.S. forces knocked out 58 Iranian naval vessels and eliminated the country's air force. "Let me say we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won, in the first hour it was over, but we won," the president said. ...
He told supporters in Hebron, Kentucky, that the conflict was effectively over almost as soon as it began. Trump said U.S. forces knocked out 58 Iranian naval vessels and eliminated the country's air force.
"Let me say we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won, in the first hour it was over, but we won," the president said. ...
#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-18 03:14 AM | Reply
They were just waiting for the US to run out of defensive missiles.
#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-08-18 08:08 AM | Reply
Dotard Donnie ----- his pants again.
#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-08-18 04:03 PM | Reply
i.4cdn.org
waah! we don't like that source!
#7 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-08-18 10:54 PM | Reply
It's the New World Order.
1. Everybody else. 2. The United States.
#8 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-18 10:55 PM | Reply
I wonder if MAGA would like to weigh in and explain the rationality behind our support of the apartheid nation, Israel, as if it is our 51st state, and them maybe explain that sneak attack that murdered over 80 of the Iranian leaders, meeting at our direction to hammer out another agreement.
#9 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-08-19 06:45 AM | Reply
Trump thinks, and announced just recently, that the Strait of Hormuz is now a U.S. Territory.
I wonder when some brave staffer is going to tell him?
Or is it big men, white coats and rubber room time?
#10 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-08-19 07:21 AM | Reply
NIXON @ #5
"They were just waiting for the US to run out of defensive missiles."
They certainly appeared to be waiting for signs of weakness.
And dumbass Trump delivered, as if on que.
Now the tables have turned.
#11 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-08-19 07:29 AM | Reply
TWINPAC - Is it true the announcement emanated from a crusty Trump Shuttle coffee-tea-me cart groaning under the weight of its load: a pliable valet and washed-up caddy plus Baldo & Binkie?
#12 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-19 07:30 AM | Reply
#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-18 03:14 AM | Reply | Flag:
"may", like a headline that ends with a ?
Infrastructure routes around the Strait over time, the strategic value is depreciating and will continue to accelerate away from it. Saudi moved 60% of their exports out through Yanbu using the "Petroline". Houthis were supposed to suppress that, ended up getting blown up by the Yemeni National Army that's now chasing them with Ukrainian FPV drones.
#13 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-08-19 07:47 AM | Reply
#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-08-18 08:08 AM | Reply | Flag:
"We're waiting for you to run out of missiles, by not making you use much of them for several months and spending our time droning Kurds instead."
#14 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-08-19 07:56 AM | Reply
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