Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/12/world/iran-war-news-trump-oil-israel

U.S. Officials Say Iran Is Laying Mines in Key Oil Route
Iran is using smaller boats, not naval vessels, for the operation in the Strait of Hormuz, an American official said. Israeli airstrikes pounded the Lebanese and Iranian capitals on the 13th day of fighting.

Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf channel that carries 20 percent of the world’s oil, according to U.S. officials, a move that could exacerbate the disruptions to global shipping and further rattle the global economy.

While the U.S. military said it had destroyed larger Iranian naval vessels, Iran began using smaller boats to lay mines on Thursday, according to a U.S. official briefed on the intelligence.

Earlier on Thursday, Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader, had vowed to keep blocking the strait. Striking a defiant tone in his first public statement since succeeding his father, who was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes on Feb. 28, he promised to avenge “the blood of the martyrs.”

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[msongs]

1. people with a strong belief system vs people who dont give a crap about anything

too bad everybody else is caught between

[usonian]

2. Sailors laying mines versus Scumbags laying minors.

Utter depraved raping morons in control of deadly weapons. Wonderful. Start shit and chuckle it away.

And scientists and military officers hand them the weapons.



"It's just a science experiment."

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. I really don't know what these fools expected.

This whole thing is idiotic. Is it possible that they really expected to drop some bombs and Iran would just give up and hand power over to the western imperialists?


Iraq was stupid but this is on a whole different level. There doesn’t appear to be any plan at all.