112 Friends foreign minister April 8th said that safe passage through Hormuz would be possible “with due consideration of technical limitations,” US officials now confirm he was being literal. The technical limitation is that Iran mined its own strait and lost track of where the mines are. (twitter.com) 🧐 SEE SAUCE! 🤔 posted 104 days ago by catsfive 104 days ago by catsfive +112 / -0 33 comments share 33 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Shipping mines are not just free-floating devices, as I understand them. Aren't they usually tethered to the bottom?
If they're just floating around out there that's one egregious thing, if the IRGC simply doesn't know where they are, that's another.
Either way, the damned Strait has been an IRGC bargaining chip for way too long.