full article
https://archive.ph/dv4az
Introduction-
'When Iran agreed to a two-week cease-fire only hours before President Trump had vowed to unleash punishing new attacks, it was in many ways a moment of triumph for the battered regime.
Tehran emerged from 38 days of war against the U.S. and Israel having won not only its primary goal—its own survival—but also two potential strategic gains and a newly established deterrence against large-scale attacks by its longtime adversaries.
Despite huge military losses, Iran’s stranglehold on the vital waterway for 20% of the world’s oil exports won’t be broken anytime soon.
Tehran’s asymmetric tactics were carefully planned to offset U.S. and Israeli military advantages, raising the pressure on Trump to halt the conflict. The cease-fire went into effect without the U.S. and Israel attaining far-reaching goals such as toppling the regime, eliminating Iran’s nuclear program and ending its ability to threaten its neighbors.'
WSJ
Extorting the strait is highly illegal. Those are neutral waterways for civilian use in international trade.
Unless Saudi Arabia gets a cut of the revenue and payment is demanded in BTC not the RMB. Then collecting a toll might be legal.
So its funny that Iran wants to be paid in BTC, USDT, or USD1.... USDT and USD1 can easily be frozen since they are centralized stablecoins and the US has shown before they can sanction and disrupt Iran's attempts to pay for things in BTC.
What credible source do you have for the assertion they want BTC or stablecoins?
Credibility and context and logic are ignored in your comments...TDS?
Given that Iran has been explicitly excluded from use of USD by the Trump sanctions, the choices they have are limited to crypto or Yuan.
USA/Trump did that, own it!
Lots of countries fall for the USD scam despite it being obviously controlled by the US.
Whatever the deal ends up being, the Yuan isn't involved. The PRC is toxic. Everyone you talk to gets bombed lol. Or loses elections.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/4/9/what-is-irans-strait-of-hormuz-protocol-and-will-other-nations-accept-it
Everyone has their shitcoin phase.
Wrong.
Please get your facts straight.
Neither US or Iran have signed the international convention asserting that.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/4/9/what-is-irans-strait-of-hormuz-protocol-and-will-other-nations-accept-it
'The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) says levies cannot be charged on ships sailing through international straits or territorial seas.
The law allows coastal states to collect fees for services rendered, such as navigation assistance or port use, but not for passage itself.
Neither the US nor Iran has ratified that particular convention, however.
Even if they had, there could be ways to get around this law anyway. Analyst Bhaskar told Al Jazeera that if Iran instead charged fees to de-mine the strait and make it safe for passage again, that could be allowable under maritime laws.'
But the PRC did.
My point is nothing is legal or illegal until Trump signs a deal to make it so. Whatever the PRC asserts is noise. Those are the facts at hand.
What has China got to do with Iran seeking reparations for the unlawful attack on it by Israel and USA by tolling Hormuz?
It is not unlawful for Iran to charge the tolls because they have not signed the convention.
Trumps days of calling all the shots are over.
It's the PRC's fault that we had to bomb Iran. You claiming the attack was unlawful proves that it was necessary. For as long as the US continues existing in some form, we're going to be doubling and quadrupling down on exactly the opposite of whatever you would like to see happen.
Can you please expand on this, I've been following this conflict fairly closely and I have not heard this angle yet.
Also why do you keep saying 'we'? You had nothing to do with it?
I voted for it. I'm a constituent familiar with Trump's thinking.
The PRC's legitimacy is based on an argument that they're making the country rich and safe. If the US can demonstrate by example that in fact the PRC and its proxies are poor and vulnerable, then it defeats the purpose of putting up with a totalitarian regime.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/world-news/360982795/middle-east-conflict-ceasefire-may-have-made-iran-stronger
I guess its also the PRCs fault that USA/CIA removed the democratically elected Mossadegh government in 1953 and CIA sponsored Saddam Husseins invasion of Iran from 1980-88, which ultimately failed...
Poor you- those PRC are so evil.
you decide what is legal obviously
Me and a broad coalition of people who agree with me on key points, yes.
They claim that they're winning because belief is all they have left.
From a financial perspective they definitely did better. We spent so much money throwing expensive toys at them, the commitment and re-stocking costs alone are driving a reorganization of the federal budget to pay for it, to the tune of an additional $500 trillion. Drones cost a hell of a lot less than an AWAC, for example.