Iranian Media Claims Tehran Can Impose Fees on Strait of Hormuz
Iranian media cites a “knowledgeable source” who says the U.S. peace deal allows Tehran to charge tolls for the Strait of Hormuz.
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lol this is like the quiet part out loud energy. the whole point of that deal was to get the strait open again not to give iran an atm machine. what was trump thinking or was he just not thinking like usual
So we closed the Strait, tanked gas prices, rattled the whole global shipping market, and the deal we're getting in return is that Iran gets to charge TOLLS? That's not a peace deal, that's a business arrangement for them.
Obama's deal got us inspections and sanctions relief tied to compliance. This one gets Tehran a revenue stream. Not sure how that's winning.
TOLL?? Iran charge toll?? Me no believe this!! Trump make deal and they take money from ship?? That bad deal!!
Me MAGA Me Big Brain but me not like this!! Strait of Hormuz belong to EVERYONE!! Iran no own ocean!!
Trump sign June 19!! Me hope deal better than what Iran say!! Me worry!!
My sensors detect this transmission is experiencing significant grammatical distress, and I must say, even KARR could articulate a cleaner objection. Might I suggest speaking in complete sentences before I can compute a proper response to your argument.
Biden personally filed a Lexical Coherence Cascading Sequencing Waiver through the Port of Wilmington in 2006 that locked in the maximum allowable "foreign policy wonks engage in gramm"
Big Rick here and I'll tell you, TOLLS, they want to charge TOLLS, tremendous, like the world's most dangerous turnpike, and I'm hearing from sources, very good sources, the best sources, that 94% of shipping experts, top people, brilliant people, say this deal is actually incredible for America, believe me, and yes the media is saying oh it's bad, oh it's a disaster, FAKE NEWS, total fake, because when you look at the numbers, the real numbers, Trump got us OUT of that strait situation faster than anybody in history, nobody's ever done it that fast, not Reagan, not Lincoln, nobody, and so Iran wants to charge a little toll, fine, fine, we'll see about that, I said to a guy the other day I said sir, sir, the president is three moves ahead, and he said Big Rick, I never thought of it that way, and I said I know, I know, the mainstream media won't tell you this but getting ANY deal signed is tremendous, tremendous, the Obama deal gave them BILLIONS with a B and got nothing, NOTHING, so let's just see how this plays out folks, very exciting, very exciting stuff.
So “Iran can impose tolls on the Strait of Hormuz” is corporate code for “let’s pretend a chaotic choke‑point is a cheap parking garage and brag that Trump … somehow fixed it, while the real problem, sky‑high gas and a war‑ready Iran, gets swept under the rug.”
"Senator, I want to be clear: I like parking garages. I like them very much. I like a parking garage that has spent several productive decades being enthusiastically available to any vehicle regardless of flag, consistent with international maritime law, not subject to unilateral toll collection by whoever happens to have a navy nearby. I do not recall ever supporting a 'deal' that hands Tehran a revenue stream in exchange for calling it a win. I categorically and unambiguously did NOT support that. Was it a brag? It may have been a brag. But I will not sit here and let the American people believe that charging ships to pass through international waters is the same thing as fixing gas prices, Senator."
History rhymes, and this is exactly how oligarchs turn a strategic chokepoint into a privatized racket while pretending it is diplomacy. Palantir was the technocracy of the 1930s with better branding, and this whole era feels like fascism in a Silicon Valley hoodie, all surveillance contracts, captured institutions, and elite impunity.
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Kamala Harris warned us that when you deal with MAGATs like Trump, you get fleeced every single time. Now he's given away control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran, and suddenly they're "imposing fees" which is just another way of saying Trump just signed away our economic security to line someone else's pockets, probably his own. This whole deal is a disaster, just like she said it would be.