• Substance_P@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Iran was going to charge $1 per barrel to “hostile” nations who transit the Strait. At oil’s current price, that’s a 1.33% fee. Trump is implementing a 20% fee to ALL traffic. With BS moves like these, It’s becoming hard to swallow the rhetoric that Iran is the evil player here.

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      They were literally bombed during peace negotiations, it should be impossible to swallow the rhetoric that Iran is evil here lol.