Iran verlangt im Rahmen seines Friedensplans eine Schiffsgebühr von 2 Mio. US-Dollar für die Durchfahrt durch die Straße von Hormus

Trump: „Why didn’t I think of that!“

*starts charging for Panama Canal access*

EDIT – Thanks to those in the comments explaining this already occurred, I did not know about this, so good to learn.

Prewar there was about 140 ships moving through the strait per day. That works out to 102B per year at 2m per. Iranian GDP is about 375B. Their military spending last year was targeting at about 40B.

BILLIONS AND BILLIONS AND BILLIONS

Panama and suez are infrastructure that were built and maintained. The straight is a navigable natural waterbody.

Aside from international treaties, what little they are worth, every choke point country should feel free to reciprocate. South africa with the Cape, Chile with the Magellan, Malaysia/Indonesia with Malacca, Turkish straits, Danish strait, Gibraltar, el-Mandeb, etc.

UNCLOS freedom of navigation exercises can sit down if this flies.

What is even the GOP argument? So this is a war to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war started? Or is the goal to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which they were not able to obtain under JCPOa – which Trump tore up.

I have more respect for people like Rubio who say „We’re doing this for Israel,“ which is clearly what’s happening here, than whatever this is.

Why do they keep showing that guys mug? He’s literally a vegetable, had zero input to this ‚peace plan‘

They got the lesson from trump, after trump wanted to charge cargo ships docking fees.

Trump must be pissed they stole his idea to just extort the sh*t out of everyone.

I believe that is fee is only for big oil tankers, not all ships which has a pre war daily average if 20 – 25 a day for $18 billion a year.

No chance of the GCC agreeing with this. This would be a perfect set-up for perpetual conflict and the Gulf simply building pipelines across the peninsula to avoid having to send jack shit into the Gulf. Especially KSA and UAE can build pipelines without crossing any other country’s territory

$2.00 seems cheap as a min.

Cost of replacing their defenses and infrastructure. Didn’t Isreal take out bridges and/or railways? We did this because we were stupid to listen to Israel where past 30 years all administrations including this one told them to go pound sand. Bring our troops home and let Israel finish what they started. ROW will pay for it with their own GDP. Best not take this to where there’s no turning back. Israel has heartened nukes and they seem unhinged enough.

Oh so the same deal, these market manipulation articles are running out of ways to spin the same thing.

Not going to mention that they also want Israel out of Lebanon?

Does Iran „own“ this strait ?

So that’s like 1/2 of a cruise missile?

And Trump was bitching about Iranian funds being freed up as part of the nuclear deal. Now they’ll be getting s major financial boost that will buff their military and militia budgets many times over. Great deal ya made there, Daiper Don.

trump should have to pay it for every country, it ain’t the other countries fault.

It’s a shame the US have such a braindead president… that caused the issue in the first place.

George Bush 1 was able to unite the whole world against Iraq for much less. Under good world leadership this is a non-starter. This is Iran trying to make the rest of the world pay another Trump tax.

This seems like it could’ve been easily avoided 40 days ago

The world needs to move away from middle east oil, just like the world needs to isolate America. There’s way too much reliance on unstable characters and countries that puts the world at risk. Find your oil elsewhere, there’s plenty of other sources.