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Iran ๐ฎ๐ท Giving America a taste of its own medicine
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I can see y'all are a pretty dogmatic bunch, so I'll keep it brief.
The US is (illegally) seizing tankers carrying Venezuelan oil to market, off the coast of Venezuela. Post title "taste of their own medicine", tweet mentions "US-linked" (whatever that means is doing a lot of heavy lifting) tankers. Put them together and it means that Iran is seizing American (linked?) oil tankers (wtf??) off the coast of Iran, to.... steal back the oil.... that they sold to.... someone using US-linked oil tankers?
It's Iranians smuggling cheap diesel out of Iran to sell in foreign currency and convert back to rial (my guess) for big profits. Or just buy stuff in foreign currency, who knows. Anyway, their navy caught them. This is really not any kind of liberation success story, just internal policing in Iran.
I get it though and I'm with you, I'd love to see some justice for, not even historical, but even for just the international law violations the US is committing today, that would be enough. But this ain't it buddy.
Fuel smuggling out of Iran isn't new. Historically Iran doesn't seize the smuggling tankers. They have in the past responded to usa seizing their ships by siezing american ships. Clearly this is not that. So what has changed? What is new is usa doing piracy in the Caribbean. So these tankers being seized is an indirect consequence of america's actions.
The mental gymnastics you are going through to say "nothing to do with usa" is really quite funny considering the comment I responded to called this post Cope.
It would help if you have a source. Though in fairness, the OP's only source posted is a tweet, so that isn't great as a source either. Not sure what you mean by dogmatic though.