Unclear if threat has been carried out or if move will jeopardise talks with US scheduled for Sunday

Iran has said it is closing the strait of Hormuz after waves of Israeli strikes in Lebanon in a move that threatens to derail the fragile interim peace deal with the US, signed just days ago.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned ships not to approach the strategic waterway, which before the war carried a fifth of global oil and liquid gas supplies, citing what it called Israeli crimes in Lebanon and a US violation of commitments to establish a ceasefire there.

It was unclear if the threat had been carried out, or if it would jeopardise talks in Switzerland scheduled for Sunday that were supposed to start the process of turning the current interim agreement between the US and Iran signed this week into a more detailed deal covering Iran’s nuclear programme.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    18 minutes ago

    All you need to know:

    Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has vowed to keep Israeli forces in southern Lebanon until any threat to Israel is eliminated. Hezbollah has refused to halt its attacks unless Israel commits to withdrawing from Lebanon, which Iran says is also a condition of the deal.

    All this chaos cause Israel thinks it can take land to stop attacks instead of triggering more attacks.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    The Guardian:

    Iran has said it is closing the strait of Hormuz after waves of Israeli strikes in Lebanon in a move that threatens to derail the fragile interim peace deal with the US, signed just days ago.

    So, Israel doing the very thing which was explicitly in the peace deal as something that couldn’t happen isn’t at all the “move that threatens to derail the fragile interim peace deal”, it’s Iran reacting to the peace-deal itself being broken that’s the thing threatening it.

    A some people actually think this Manufacturing Consent specialist pro-Zionist English newspaper is left-of-center …

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    7 hours ago

    Iran being a guarantor of collective security and enforcer of international law was not on my bingo card.

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    7 hours ago

    Fair enough. Fucks us all economically, but that’s a lot ofl lives currently at risk in Lebanon.

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      7 hours ago

      It’s not about Lebanon. It’s about peace in the Middle East or bombed out desalination plants and mass migrations into Europe.

      The sooner people start realizing this the sooner Hormuz opens.

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    6 hours ago

    As soon a s the Stock Market goes DOWN enough to buy cheap then the strait will open so they can sell those stocks they bought.

    Buy low, sell high. There is no other way to do it.