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Iran 🇮🇷 Giving America a taste of its own medicine (lemmygrad.ml)

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[-] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 14 hours ago

"u.s doesn't need that stranded tanker anyways..."

[-] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 22 hours ago

Iran: "Wait... piracy is cool now? ok"

[-] enmanue1250@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 22 hours ago

Pirates of the Caribbean (3) vs The World Team (2), LESSSS GO, SEIZE MORE OF THE US SHIT, MAKE THEM PAY, WE ARE GETTING THE WORLD CUP, THE THIRD WORLD WILL REVOLT

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago

data-laughing

[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 36 points 1 day ago

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-says-foreign-tanker-carrying-smuggled-fuel-seized-gulf-2025-12-26/

AND they didn't execute the crew without process.

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 day ago

B-b-b-but that's piracy! They can't do that!

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lols!

I wonder whether Venezuela could do similar or if their military is not as developed.

[-] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 21 hours ago

That would be just what usa wants. usa is trying to provoke Venezuela into giving them casus belli. Doing nothing might make usa think they are weak but its better than giving usa an excuse.

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

Running out the clock?

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 20 points 20 hours ago

smh trump can't even do 9/11 or the gulf of tonkin or the uss maine

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 21 hours ago

You just need am helicopter and a couple of armed guys to take over an oil ship

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The backup if needed after the event would be crucial.

[+] fort_burp@feddit.nl -17 points 1 day ago

Copium. This is Iran trying to stop diesel smuggling out of Iran, not solidarity with Venezuela or anti-imperialist action. It's not even close to America's medicine.

[-] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 18 hours ago

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. If these are indeed US-linked tankers and they are involved in "smuggling diesel out of Iran", would that not be a win for anti-imperialism for Iran to be guarding against the US violating its sovereign rules?

[-] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 21 hours ago

you are the only person saying "solidarity." Don't read things that aren't written.

The post is saying that as usa does illegal piracy Iran has started seizing ships as well. The idiom "giving their own medicine" means, harming someone the same way they harm others.

Any action Iran takes that harms america or american business is by its very nature Anti-imperialist because usa is an empire and Iran is resisting.

[+] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net -19 points 21 hours ago

No, "giving a taste of one's own medicine" is commonly understood to have a connotation of vengeance or justice. Your definition is incorrect, and does not match how the phrase is used.

Don't read things that aren't written.

This is how all human communication works. It is a fundamental aspect of using words. You don't understand how any of this works.

The original comment is right.

[-] m532@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 19 hours ago

That would imply that usa never stole iran's ships.

[-] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

This is how all human communication works.

No that is how miscommunication works. If you project meaning that isn't there into other peoples words you are deluding yourself. You can't read peoples minds. Whatever you think people might mean is just your own ideas.

If you really think what is written means whatever you want it to, you don't deserve to have the word communism in your username. That is the mindset that breeds revisionism like "marx didn't mean violent revolution he meant a gradual revolution in thinking and morality."

[-] fort_burp@feddit.nl 1 points 8 minutes ago

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?

             <looks_inside>

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.

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