Valnao@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoDeadline passes for US blockade of Iran's ports, Tehran threatens to retaliatewww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up129
arrow-up129external-linkDeadline passes for US blockade of Iran's ports, Tehran threatens to retaliatewww.reuters.comValnao@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square9linkfedilink
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month ago It’s game over. That hinges on if the US Navy will board and/or fire on a 3rd party tanker that Iran is letting pass. Shippers have insurance now and they don’t care about the lives of their crews With the price of gas, someone will order their ship to test it. If one goes thru, then a bunch will go at once. Edit: Hard to read around paywall, but article says trump is only “blockading” things going to/from an Iranian port… Shit will just touch a port in another country first, not change cargo, and then sail right past… Easy loophole, and still puts how bad this is, on if US ships will actually try to enforce anything
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoFor me opening in private tab is enough to get access.
minus-squaresmeg@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agohttps://removepaywalls.com/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-blockade-iran-after-talks-fail-yield-a-deal-2026-04-13/
minus-squareNOT_RICK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago Shippers have insurance now and they don’t care about the lives of their crews Are insurance companies willing to pay out for any ship running a blockade? They seem exceedingly risk averse.
That hinges on if the US Navy will board and/or fire on a 3rd party tanker that Iran is letting pass.
Shippers have insurance now and they don’t care about the lives of their crews
With the price of gas, someone will order their ship to test it. If one goes thru, then a bunch will go at once.
Edit:
Hard to read around paywall, but article says trump is only “blockading” things going to/from an Iranian port…
Shit will just touch a port in another country first, not change cargo, and then sail right past…
Easy loophole, and still puts how bad this is, on if US ships will actually try to enforce anything
For me opening in private tab is enough to get access.
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-blockade-iran-after-talks-fail-yield-a-deal-2026-04-13/
Are insurance companies willing to pay out for any ship running a blockade? They seem exceedingly risk averse.