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Khamenei said the Strait of Hormuz must stay closed and that all U.S. military bases in the Middle East should shut immediately, warning of further attacks.
It’s Khamenei’s first public comments since being appointed as Iran’s supreme leader on March 9.
Oil prices extended gains following the comments.
You mean after we killed his father, friends, family members, and bombed his schools that he doesn’t want to play ball? Odd.
Conservative media keeps insisting he’s dead, he doesn’t exist, or he isn’t really in charge.
There was definitely a sense that you could just decapitate the gerontocracy and seize control of the country at gunpoint, much like the US managed in Venezuela, Syria, and Libya. They had Reza Pahlavi all queued up like a next generation Ahmed Chalabi. It does not appear to have fallen out like they’d hoped.
So now Israel and the US are just bombing anything in the country that looks halfway valuable, pretty much out of spite.
This is going to be a war of attrition for the record books. Pure stupidity coming from this criminal administration.
