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The Strait had long had a different status from most other waters.
A status which neither Iran nor the US ever agreed to or ratified. Go read and stop wasting my time.
Also sorry for being rude, I had one job.
Naphtha shortages in Japan
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They did say "everything I can find" which, while not citing references, you would also have found it you tried to Google this at all. Here's one https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/business/what-is-naphtha.... here's another one: https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2026/05/19/ple... It's wider than Japan, it's in other countries in Asia. It's directly tied to the war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.…
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Trump and Bibi did this, Iran's response is perfectly legitimate and proportionate.
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> you people are just completely fucked in head
Comments like this aren't ok on HN and will end up getting you banned here, so please stop posting like this.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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> You don't just get to kill the ones you don't like. I mean ya kinda do. That’s how it’s always worked, that’s how it still works, and that’s how it will probably continue to work probably indefinitely, or at least from time to time, more or less so during different periods over time. The only issue is that there will invariably be consequences, but the leaders of nations are, to varying degrees, immune to a lot of…
Insofar as a truism isn't an endorsement.
Making people afraid you'll kill them seems like poor politics. Inevitably leads to shockingly wasteful wars.
Better things to do.
c.f. Iranian prime minister submits resignation citing IRGC takeover, because war exigencies. Nice one! USA! USA!
Re: Naphtha shortages in Japan
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They did say "everything I can find" which, while not citing references, you would also have found it you tried to Google this at all. Here's one https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/business/what-is-naphtha.... here's another one: https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2026/05/19/ple... It's wider than Japan, it's in other countries in Asia. It's directly tied to the war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.…
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The first search was something like "Why is Japan having a naphtha shortage?". The results from that were almost all saying it is due to the war in Iran. A later search was something like "Why was naphtha production in Japan lower in 2025 than in previous year?" because somewhere in there I had looked for a table of production by year and there was a decline in 2025.
Nothing I saw in any of the results suggested that any policies of the current Japanese administration were a significant cause of the production decline in 2025, or that the decline was enough to cause any shortages itself, and that the drop in imports due to the war is much larger to the point that shortages would be nearly as bad now even if production had not dropped.
I should have done more more search, to find out when the current administration came to power. I knew it was in 2025 but assumed it was early in the year. It was actually late in the year, after production had dropped.