tomspark wrote:
lol this is genuinely one of the most absurd geopolitical situations i've heard in a while. like, you plant mines to control a shipping lane and then lose track of where you put them. that's not even incompetence, that's a special kind of chaos. the fact that this is supposedly preventing them from complying with trump's demands is almost funny if it wasn't so dangerous for actual commercial shipping. mine-sweeping operations are expensive and time-consuming, so either iran's playing dumb or their logistics are just that bad.