And even if Iran does fully open Hormuz – without conditioning passage on tolls or other payments – its ability to control the key geopolitical chokepoint is more clear now than ever.
In a statement after Trump’s ceasefire message, Iranian foreign minister Seyed Aragchi said that Iran would halt its “defensive operations” and allow safe passage through the Hormuz “via coordination with Iran’s armed forces”. He added that the US had accepted the “general framework” of the Iranian 10-point plan.
That plan includes the US withdrawing its military forces from the region, lifting economic sanctions on Iran, paying compensation for war damages and allowing Iran to maintain control over Hormuz. It is hard to imagine Trump actually agreeing to any of those conditions – a sign that the next two weeks of negotiations could be treacherous.
Such a partial pyrrhic victory.
How is it a victory if the best case scenario is exactly the state of affairs prior (ie. the strait of hormuz being open) to the start of this war? Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say nothing was accomplished? I wouldn’t be suprised if Iran leverages greater geopolitical influence from this, that’s how incompetent Trump and the group of great American intellectuals currently in his government are.
It sounds like affairs are exactly as they were prior except Iran got a bunch of stuff that they didn’t have previously.
It did what it was supposed to, which was distract from the Epstein files. The cost to us plebs is of no consequence to them.
nothing was accomplished
Well we did murder a couple hundred school children, so there’s that.
It’s telling that all of the coverage of the ceasefire has basically omitted the role that the Prime Minister of Pakistan played in making it happen.
Fuck Western media. Propaganda machines for the oligarchy.
Honestly the best thing to come out of this shitshow of a war is the absolutely hilarious trolling that Iranian embassies fired off at orangeboi
Art of the deal
- Tony Schwartz