Saagar Enjeti
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This was an enforcement action.
This was an action towards the enforcement of their blockade.
Now, we have our own blockade of the Strait.
So when we attack, now they've changed it.
Now it's attacked and boarded.
So an editor there had a cup of coffee and was like, wait a minute, hold on.
Get the Western propaganda language back into there.
So, yes, so this comes and it appears that the U.S.
attack on the Iranian ship in the Strait of Hormuz that took place over the weekend.
was quite debilitating to the ceasefire talks.
It does seem like the Iranians who had been suspicious of the seriousness of the White House used that as more evidence to say, these guys aren't serious.
They're firing on our ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
They don't
they don't recognize Donald Trump's naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz as remotely legitimate.
They say this is not international waters, and I think we don't need to get into the technicalities of it, but it's basically not.
It's far enough inland.
It'd be like trying to blockade the Mississippi because it pours into the Gulf of America and say, well, Mississippi is international waters.
It's like, no, bro.
This is Mississippi.
You can't do this.