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[-] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it sounds like Iran might retaliate for the embassy and is making it widely known, and the US is signalling it would stay neutral as long as appearances were kept up.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago

Not an embassy. Iran has made it clear that should the US push too far their plan is to start blowing up the hundreds of billions of dollars of US industrial infrastructure (oil, refineries, docks, etc) in the Gulf region and North Africa. Most of those state oil companies have their infrastructure owned and operated by US companies like Exxon who then cut them a percentage of the profits.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

This is good for the climate, fight me

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In a now famous interview with the Iraqi leader, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie told Saddam, '[W]e have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait. ' The U.S. State Department had earlier told Saddam that Washington had 'no special defense or security commitments to Kuwait.

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