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Protecting shipping would require pulling assets away from offense. Destroying 95% of Iranian weaponry does not matter if they can still threaten ships. Iranian oil ships are still going through the Strait. The US isn't stopping Iranian oil ships.
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It allows Russia and China to go around the world saying how evil the US is, unjustly attacking a global south country. 2/2
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The Iran war has been great for Russia so far. It's oil is worth more thanks to the war. Some sanctions on its oil have been lifted by Trump as he tries to lower gas prices. The many munitions used by the US in the war mean there are fewer for the Europeans to buy for Ukraine. 1/2
The mission of keeping the Strait of Hormuz safe from Iranian attacks on civilian ships is a burdensome and dangerous mission. The US needs to focus on protecting its carriers until the Iranian threat is further diminished.
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The bill now heads to the House, where conservative Republicans have raised objections to a variety of provisions, and divisions between the two chambers could lead to an acrimonious amendment process in the weeks ahead." 5/6
It has drawn concerns that the rules could end up worsening the housing shortage, especially for rentals, by discouraging future investment in the burgeoning build-to-rent business.
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That provision prohibits many large investors from buying single-family homes and requires others to sell off rental home holdings to individuals after seven years. 3/6
tie certain state and local government grants and funding to housing production goals.
... one section of the package could prove deeply divisive. 2/6
"The bill contains a number of provisions designed to lower costs and boost housing supply. Among them are initiatives to change manufactured home requirements to lower their costs, simplify environmental review processes for small building projects, and 1/6
Iran wants to make clear that if you mess with them, they will greatly damage the global economy.
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Iran's regime is fighting for its life. The US is fighting for potential security benefits. The US is likely to give up first even if its military is winning the war. Iran will likely get nukes now, because of this attack. 3/4
Iran has aggressive goals of its own--to convince the gulf states that the US isn't there to protect them, but to act aggressively toward Iran, and to reject US protection in the future. 2/4
Despite Iran's military and leadership being battered badly, Iran is likely willing to outlast the US. Many Iranians, even one's who do not like the regime, may see the US and Israel as trying to destroy Iran, and may support fighting and not giving in to Trump's demands. 1/4
Iran is predictably limiting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz as a result of Trump's attack on Iran, sending oil prices higher. Removing the Jones Act won't move the needle while the war drives oil prices higher.
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Though the motive is still under investigation, authorities are investigating whether the shooter was inspired in part by US and Israeli strikes on Iran that weekend, multiple law enforcement officials briefed on the case said." 8/9
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Less than two weeks earlier in Austin, Texas, a shooter wearing a hoodie emblazoned with the Iranian flag killed three people and injured over a dozen others in the city’s bustling entertainment district. 7/9
Though the motive in the attack is still unknown, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said there is a clear “nexus” between the Iran war and the attack, adding it’s no coincidence the suspect targeted a synagogue named Temple Israel. 6/9
The synagogue had been on high alert for potential violence in the weeks before the building became engulfed in flames after the suspect drove through it with a rifle and a large number of explosives, officials said. 5/9
Then, a vehicle rammed into the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township in an attack the FBI said targeted the Jewish community, carried out by a US citizen who was born in Lebanon, the Department of Homeland Security said. 4/9
The shooting at Virginia’s Old Dominion University was committed by a veteran who was a convicted ISIS supporter. The attacker was able to kill one person and injure two others before a classroom of ROTC students subdued and killed him, the FBI said. 3/9
"First, a deadly shooting being investigated as terrorism devastated a Virginia university in a military town. Hours later, a targeted vehicle-ramming attack on a Michigan synagogue left congregants shaken to their core. 2/9
Traitor terrorists are striking the US homeland, likely inspired by attacks on Iran. These deaths are likely deaths in the war on Iran. 1/9
The deaths add to the seven U.S. service members who have already been killed as part of U.S. operations against Iran which began on February 28." 2/3
"A U.S. military refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, in an incident the military said involved another aircraft but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. 1/3
There's not a clear place or building to take over for Iranian revolutionaries.
Iran has a lot of manpower to suppress protests or revolutionaries.
If factions within the government or militaries want to rebel or implement a coup, they have a chance.
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A 2024 survey of 168 experts, most of whom were epidemiologists and virologists, found on average they viewed zoonosis as 77% likely and a lab leak as 21% likely." 3/3
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