How Iran is making a mint from the current war

Jimmc414

https://archive.is/IRnul

Synaesthesia

The big loser in this war is Europe and other roil importing nations. The US is a major oil and has producer. It's benefiting from this war of aggression and not even taking any damage. Oil companies and arms manufacturers are having a bonanza. After the violence wracked 20th century I was hopeful the 21st century would be a bit more enlightened ...

krunck

The Economist doesn't know the difference between journalism and opinion. Ignore them.

cm2187

It's a bit absurd to describe all the procedures Iran takes to disguise those ships. It's not like it is hard for the US military to track massive tankers in a small sea (or to intercept them if they wish to). Those tankers are tolerated by the US because they don't want to antagonise China more than they need right now (not the least to keep them out of this conflict), and don't want to add more pressure on the oil market. Not because somehow those ships evaded US vigilance thanks to Iran's cunning skills. But this is a damocles sword hanging over Iran. The US could seize those tankers if they want to apply more pressure.

cogman10

This war has been one of the best things to happen to the IRGC. Oil prices went up, sanctions got lifted, citizens are now united with the goals of the government, dissidents are silenced, the world hates that the US and Israel did this and blames them directly. Really, there's almost no goal of the IRGC that Trump didn't just speed run by starting a war. And this was all for what? The US has yet to articulate an actual reason they did any of this other than "Israel was going to do it, so we went along with them". All the politicians in support of this war flounder and have to rely on "Well, they hate us" as justification for why we are killing school girls and attacking Iran's power grids and desalination plants. I'm not a fan of the IRGC, but this really was the absolute worst way to address them.