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Wednesday evening.

Actually, the smart thing to do is probably nothing. No one is dying. We’re not burning through munitions. Just continue the blockade and choke them out.

Bridge and Power Plant Day! Have fun with no oil revenue and power.

It's honest when I'm responding directly to your question. As for the rest, you have no idea what will be in this agreement. Maybe it will be a carbon copy of the JCPOA. Even so, we've improved the situation on the ground tremendously by significantly reducing the military threat and keeping Iran focused on a rebuild instead of gaining new, stronger capabilities. Further, Iran has overplayed their hand and brought the GCC Countries closer together in opposition.

And here's a link from the same site that says you're FOS. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-iran-have-been-close-to-making-a-nuclear-weapon-uranium-enrichment/ You're right. Let's sit on our hands until Europe does something. Jesus...

The "facts" are that they have 970 lbs of 60% enriched uranium. Thank God President Trump acted without NATO to delay increased refinement. Its still there though. Iranian literally fired missiles with the capability of hitting a target 2,500 km downstream. Europe is well within range. Without further intervention, at a time when their air defenses were already in shambles, how much time do you think it would have taken them to reconstitute their enriched uranium and continue to build further reaching ballistic missiles?

I'm not going to get in a back in forth with you over facts. You can look them up for yourself. Basically what you are saying is that we should have "please and thank you'd" our way to Iran stopping their pursuit of long range and nuclear weapons. Or, wait until they actually have them which makes what we've done in 6 weeks (i.e. decimated their military and economy) much, much harder and with the loss of many more American lives. The price of gas, which isn't even sniffing levels under Biden, is worth the price of peace in the ME. NATO can suck a xxxx.

You and your ilk believe it was the worst foreign policy decision in American history. Many others, including me do not. Iran continued to be a major thorn in ME peace. They sponsor terror around the world. They were developing long range missile that could reach Europe and soon us. They were developing nuclear weapons. They're evil. They were at their weakest point. etc. etc. etc. NATO is weak and feckless. I'm sick of Starmer and Macron try to look tough with all the talk and bluster. They weren't going to help us. Screw them.

No, its Iran's doing and, once this war is over and a peace agreement is executed, it will be NATO's responsibility to keep it open. I'd argue that its their responsibility now. How does the US and Iran even have the authority to negotiate operation of an International Waterway? BTW, Iran broke it.

Hormuz is an INTERNATIONAL waterway. Once this is over and the Strait is open, its up to NATO to protect THEIR interests. No longer our problem. In the meantime, the world will look to mitigate risk by finding other ways to move goods without use of the strait.

There was a lot of misinformation surrounding this, beginning with the Rich Starry tanker ship. But it was turned back as well. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/sanctioned-tanker-turns-back-strait-hormuz-day-after-gulf-exit-2026-04-15/ Best I can tell, no ships going to or from Iranian ports have been allowed to cross the strait. https://gulfnews.com/business/energy/more-ships-crossing-the-strait-of-hormuz-despite-blockade-tracking-data-shows-1.500509818 There's speculation that the US may stop shadow fleet ships worldwide.

Like most news coming out on this war, this is only partially correct. It did make it through the strait, then was forced to turn back. It looks like there is a full blockade of all Iran connected shipping. F' China and Iran. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/sanctioned-tanker-turns-back-strait-hormuz-day-after-gulf-exit-2026-04-15/

If the deal was no enrichment for 10 years and Strait goes back to pre-war status for easing of sanctions, would you call that a win? Remember that the JCPOA would have expired last year.

This is probably where you're wrong.

I believe them as well. As of the beginning of this war, I don’t believe Iran was a direct threat (militarily speaking) to the US. But there may not have been a better time to resolve this issue than now. They proved, at least on a minimal level, that their missiles are able to reach Europe. How long until they could hit the US? How many more ballistic missiles and drones would have they stockpiled, how much more deeply would they dig in, and what would the cost to the US be if we chose to wait until they inevitably became an imminent threat? I also believe the attacks on their nuclear facilities were wildly successful. If not for those, imminent threat may have been very close.