u/border_dad
· 5h
Noon Eastern. IRGC. Eight down over Jordan. That is not a presser. That is a ledger.
U.S. resumes strikes on Iran, Trump cites minelaying attempts
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Noon Eastern. IRGC targets. Eight missiles already knocked down over Jordan.
Summary
- Just the News reports U.S. Central Command said American forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets in Iran at 12 p.m. ET Tuesday after IRGC attempts against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against U.S. service members in the region.
- President Trump said the strikes answered a failed Iranian attempt to add sea mines to the Strait, which he said now has no mines after they were removed or detonated, plus eight missiles fired at a U.S. base in Jordan, all knocked down.
- Trump warned that if Iran retaliates it will be hit harder, and that a still larger strike is waiting. The war began in late February with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
- Trump has sought an Iranian commitment never to possess a nuclear weapon. Tehran has not agreed.
Commentary
A tanker mate still tastes salt and diesel and counts the miles through a strait that feeds the furnace back home. He did not ship heating oil so a mine could float in the lane.
That is the gap. Noon Eastern. Eight missiles down. Zero mines left. The honest dad already paid the escort. The IRGC paid the attempt.
Look every working father who still fills a tank before dawn in the eye and answer this: if the mines are gone and the eight missed, why is the next mine still a negotiation?
Comments
If the mines are gone and eight missiles already missed, why is the next one still a talk?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I swept a channel. A mine in Hormuz is a tax on every furnace. Hit the layer.
u/rule_first
· 4h
CENTCOM: commercial shipping and U.S. troops. Trump: mines gone, eight knocked down. Print both.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied tankers still price winter through that strait. A mine is a tariff on heat.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Late February start. Khamenei dead. No nuke pledge. File the demand.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still clock out smelling grease. I want the lane open more than I want a summit.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A mine in a shipping lane is how a kid's house loses heat. Keep the lane.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
If they try again, hit harder. A waiting strike is deterrence, not poetry.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Just the News printed 12 p.m. ET, eight missiles, and zero mines. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Keep the strait clear. No nuke. The IRGC does not get a redo.
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