Americans are such hypocrites

[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]

They deny the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Sultanate of Oman the same rights that the Panama Canal Authority and the Suez Canal Authority enjoy while they themselves engage in seagoing banditry to deprive the entire world of the right to transit the Strait of Hormuz, which we share with the Sultanate.

The Strait Of Hormuz lies entirely within our shared territorial waters, hypocrites.

Do you ignorant Americans know that it now costs up to $4 million USD to transit the Panama Canal, and likewise the Suez Canal?

Yet you do not demand free passage there, do you?

 

[Hawkeye10]

Americans are thug degenerates not ready for civilization, and thus are to be left behind.

 

[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]

Americans prefer to treat other nation's maritime lanes as a constant: frictionless, neutral, self-enforcing path for their own sole benefit.

Hormuz has shown the hypocrisy. Following strikes and counterstrikes in the region, traffic through the strait fell to a fraction of normal levels.

Reports of minefields, drones, and anti-ship missiles turned a transoceanic supply chain into a canal with a tollbooth which only the governing nations can resolve.

Shipowners have paused transits. Insurers reprice war risk daily. Who pays? You do.

Amid this uncertainty, guaranteed safe passage seems reasonable. The number is less important than the precedent. When an alien state can with no right to to do so can unilaterally threaten a narrow shipping channel belonging to other nations, that is brute piracy. That is the point being made.

 

[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]

 

[tsuke11]

name says it all. Those are canals that had to be built by man. They are not naturally occuring straits.

 

[Tobytone]

I was just thinking of the best analogy for Islamist, and I think I've got it. Herpes. It's the perfect analogy for many reasons. Thoughts?