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

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[-] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 3 days ago

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

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 50 points 3 days ago

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

[-] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 41 points 3 days 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.

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 38 points 3 days ago

data-laughing

[-] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 3 days ago

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

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Lols!

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

[-] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 3 days 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.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago

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

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Running out the clock?

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 3 days ago

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

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The backup if needed after the event would be crucial.

[-] enmanue1250@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 days 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

[+] fort_burp@feddit.nl -22 points 3 days 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.

[-] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 3 days 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 -22 points 3 days ago

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[-] m532@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 -5 points 2 days 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.

[-] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 3 days 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?

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