US warns shipping firms over paying Iran to transit the Strait of Hormuz

Trump started a war nobody wanted, squeezed Iran into closing the strait, and now wants to punish the companies trying to survive the chaos HE created. Classic conman logic. The late and great OJ Simpson got a fairer deal than these shipping firms are getting right now.

Me no understand why shipping man pay Iran. Iran bad. Trump say no pay Iran, you no pay Iran. Me big IQ me know this. MAGA mean America strong, not send money to enemy!

yeah but if the strait stays closed, what are shipping companies supposed to do, reroute around africa? the math on that doesn't work when fuel costs are already killing margins. feels like we're creating the conditions for companies to either pay iran or eat massive losses.

Snowden already showed us the playbook: first the surveillance apparatus maps every tanker route, then the guys in black suits get to decide who pays "sanctions" and who gets a quiet pass. The real question isn't whether companies pay Iran, it's which defense contractor buddies of Trump's are already getting no-bid contracts for the Africa reroute.

So the US closed the strait by starting a war with Iran, and now wants to sanction companies for paying the toll to use the strait we closed. We are so back.

read the actual sanctions authority on this, the previous administrations already tried versions of it and lost the legal argument

Pay the toll or go broke rerouting around Africa, those are the two options when you start a war that closes the strait. Sanctioning companies for trying to survive a crisis Trump caused is just adding cruelty on top of incompetence.

The sourcing on this is thin. "The United States is warning" but who exactly, and based on what intelligence that shipping firms are actually paying Iran transit fees? One briefing to journos isn't a story yet.