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Why is Iran targeting ships again? | DW News

Just weeks after Washington and Tehran agreed to a ceasefire, ships are under attack again. The aim is to show that if Iran faces pressure, the global economy may feel it too. How much leverage does T

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Why would anyone ever engage in "symmetrical warfare"?
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Southern corridor is illegal under the mou
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The strait was open before US attacked
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I knew it would fail
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Who attacked first? 😂😂😂
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Being dependant.
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Why do you think ppl can't read?
There's MOU online and ppl can read, that's crazy.
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They said ships needed to clear passage with them.
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Chatham House? Really?
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And now I need to pay ridiculous prices for my flight tickets
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Burning fire ball by now
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So Oman has no control at all according to Iran?! That doesn't make sense.
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Shouldn't it be clear that agreements are not just for one side to be uphold?
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Why:
"...the Strait operates for decades..."
instead of:
"as every passage on water in the world"
except obviously the Panama Canal or Suez Canal built by men and the very disturbing anomaly since 1936 of turkish Dardanelles Strait as established by Montreux Convention, which even prohibits the passage to certain military ship!!!
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No negotiating
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He handed them a weapon, leverage over the entire world economy
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What a mess
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Time to bring back armed merchant vessels.
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War topic aside.. i just realized that southern shore that bordering the strait of hormuz is belong to Oman, not UAE. I didn't know Oman have an exclave territory outside their main one.
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@dwnews From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 17
The US has also revoked a temporary sanctions waiver on Iranian oil exports it issued two weeks ago.