Well, as of today, 20 June 2026 (on the North American west coast), the only reason I am looking at the news today is to find out. As of now, Iran says it’s closed, while the US, as usual, is lying and claiming it’s open. I don’t know in what plane of existence the US (and trump) operates, because if I was operating an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, I would steer clear of the Strait of Hormuz.
I’ll just have a quiet word in the ear of donald trump now, if you’ll excuse us. Donald, Israel operates in the real world, where most of their neighbours — that’s the people living next to them — deny that they should exist. That’s pretty serious. That’s like us, the rest of the world, insisting that you (the United States) shouldn’t exist as a country because you’re just a colony of England. Now, to the north of them is a country called Lebanon. You might have heard of it. It contains a city (Beiruit) that was the original “riviera of the Mediterranean” before you re-invented such a thing with AI (that’s all you’ve done) in the Gaza Strip. Imagine, if you had enemies, armed with rockets, across the Potomac in Virginia, and they kept insisting on firing them at you. I don’t think you’d put up with it for long. That’s the situation in which Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself. The untenable position that Israel’s enemies hold that the country shouldn’t exist isn’t going to go away with some magical “memorandum of understanding” between you and Iran, and Netanyahu knows that, and it’s why he insists that Israel holds the right to retaliate against Hezbollah when they launch rockets from Lebanon.
So that’s one of many reasons why none of your predecessors have done what you’ve done, as you so often like to boast. They didn’t want to open the Pandora’s box that you have opened. But you’ve opened it, and so here we are.
And yes, you haven’t handed Iran a plane load of cash, as Obama allegedly did, but you’ve done better, by handing them $300 billion of development money — supposedly not from the American taxpayer — and ended sanctions on them. What more could a murderous regime in Iran (that hasn’t been changed) wish for? You’ve tested Iran’s ability to close the Strait of Hormuz and they (and you) have found that they can indeed close it, and we’re right back to where we were on 27 February (the day before you launched this war, in case you forget), except that we’re now at Iran’s mercy and your real enemies, Russia and China, can attack you at any moment because you’re arsenals are empty. So what have you accomplished in the last almost four months? As I just said, you’ve emptied your arsenal; that’s not even something putin or Xi could have accomplished! And you’ve changed absolutely nothing in the Strait of Hormuz except accumulating ongoing deaths in countries surrounding the Persian Gulf and the ever increasing price of oil.
So no, the Strait of Hormuz is closed to traffic, hundred or thousands of people have died, and the Iranians still have a choke hold on 20% of the world’s oil and the population of Iran, among other things. What, exactly, have the US and Israel accomplished by launching this war on Iran?! Fuck all.