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DAVEVO9
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2,518 posts
136 months
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davepoth
19,878 posts
68 months
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Not really, it's not like there's a door or anything. 
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powerstroke
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29 months
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davepoth said: Not really, it's not like there's a door or anything. Pity!! as it would be fun to see the yanks kick it down with a big warship!! I think it would be dinerjackets last stand as most of the world would lose it if he screwed with the oil supply..
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Esseesse
1,882 posts
77 months
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MonkeyMatt
4,740 posts
76 months
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What do the people on the other side of the straight think about this I wonder?
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muffinmenace
633 posts
57 months
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MonkeyMatt said: What do the people on the other side of the straight think about this I wonder? "Steady as she goes, Oil's going up"
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TheHeretic
67,841 posts
124 months
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It's weird how we view sanctions on someone else as no big deal, but when the other way, it is arms in the air time! 
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DieselGriff
5,160 posts
128 months
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TheHeretic said: It's weird how we view sanctions on someone else as no big deal, but when the other way, it is arms in the air time!Correct in at least two contexts I think. Interesting times (again  )
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Asterix
16,373 posts
97 months
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The GCC wouldn't stand it for a minute, let alone their allies.
Iran is, has been, and will be full of hot air for plenty of time to come.
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DAVEVO9
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136 months
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roachcoach
2,960 posts
24 months
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Probably simply feel that between the tax and the banks the little man over there feels a bit left out of the media.
There's an clear inverse relationship between current global media coverage and likelihood of making an utterly stupid public statement over there.
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Jimbeaux
25,725 posts
100 months
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MonkeyMatt said: What do the people on the other side of the straight think about this I wonder? Obviously, those running Iran don't seem to care what they think.
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Mermaid
12,481 posts
40 months
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TheHeretic said: It's weird how we view sanctions on someone else as no big deal, but when the other way, it is arms in the air time! Guys with the biggest guns are always right and have the high moral ground, didn't you know
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Jimbeaux
25,725 posts
100 months
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Mermaid said: TheHeretic said: It's weird how we view sanctions on someone else as no big deal, but when the other way, it is arms in the air time! Guys with the biggest guns are always right and have the high moral ground, didn't you know That is not an embargo, that is someone closing an international shipping channel.
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TheHeretic
67,841 posts
124 months
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Jimbeaux said: That is not an embargo, that is someone closing an international shipping channel. To ships heading to certain places as far as I know...
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Jimbeaux
25,725 posts
100 months
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TheHeretic said: Jimbeaux said: That is not an embargo, that is someone closing an international shipping channel. To ships heading to certain places as far as I know... Actually for ships coming and going many places, not just certain ones.
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Asterix
16,373 posts
97 months
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I view the modern meaning of an embargo as the goods/arms/oil not even being loaded up on the transport to go to the country in question.
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Jimbeaux
25,725 posts
100 months
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Asterix said: I view the modern meaning of an embargo as the goods/arms/oil not even being loaded up on the transport to go to the country in question. Spot on; closing an international highway is not; that just invites trouble in general.
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TheHeretic
67,841 posts
124 months
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Jimbeaux said: TheHeretic said: Jimbeaux said: That is not an embargo, that is someone closing an international shipping channel. To ships heading to certain places as far as I know... Actually for ships coming and going many places, not just certain ones. Article said: Iran's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has drafted a bill calling for Iran to try to stop oil tankers from shipping crude through the Strait of Hormuz to countries that support sanctions against it.
"There is a bill prepared in the National Security and Foreign Policy committee of Parliament that stresses the blocking of oil tanker traffic carrying oil to countries that have sanctioned Iran," Iranian MP Ibrahim Agha-Mohammadi was quoted by Iran's parliamentary news agency as saying on Monday. Sounds quite specific.
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Jimbeaux
25,725 posts
100 months
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TheHeretic said: Jimbeaux said: TheHeretic said: Jimbeaux said: That is not an embargo, that is someone closing an international shipping channel. To ships heading to certain places as far as I know... Actually for ships coming and going many places, not just certain ones. Article said: Iran's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has drafted a bill calling for Iran to try to stop oil tankers from shipping crude through the Strait of Hormuz to countries that support sanctions against it.
"There is a bill prepared in the National Security and Foreign Policy committee of Parliament that stresses the blocking of oil tanker traffic carrying oil to countries that have sanctioned Iran," Iranian MP Ibrahim Agha-Mohammadi was quoted by Iran's parliamentary news agency as saying on Monday. Sounds quite specific. Are you being serious? If they wish to halt oil to Europe, don't sell it to European nations or load it on their tankers. Closing an international waterway is an act of war, not sanctions. There are other nations that sell oil and use the Strait.
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