Iran labels California its ‘new territory’ after Trump’s Hormuz claim

2 months ago by geneva_convenience to c/nottheonion

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An official Iranian social media account labeled California a “new territory” of Iran on Tuesday in response to US President Donald Trump posting an image portraying the Strait of Hormuz as “NEW U.S. Territory,”

Trump shared the image on his Truth Social account Tuesday, showing a map of the Strait of Hormuz with the strategic waterway circled beneath the words “NEW U.S. Territory,” following up on his earlier remarks saying the strait would be made US territory after the war ends.

The White House later reposted Trump’s post on its official account on US social media platform X.

In response, the official Iran in Hyderabad account on X posted a map of the US showing California highlighted in blue, with the words: “NEW TERRITORY OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN.”

Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, also hit back at Trump’s post, writing on X: “His delusion regarding the Strait of Hormuz will soon either be corrected, or we will correct the delusions of this delusional man.”

Ep1cFac3pa1m 28 points 2 months ago

Has someone pointed out that they picked a blue state because all the red states are even shittier places to live than Iran?

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adarza 23 points 2 months ago

later, from the white house: "we have settled, again, with the great islamic republic of iran. america is victorious! we have deeded to iran not only california, but oregon and washington state, too. in exchange, we have received three barrels of algae-laced seawater for the small sum of $500 billion".

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Malyca 5 points 2 months ago

If they gave cascadia to Canada I'd be so happy

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orc_princess 2 points 2 months ago

"PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP."

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balsoft 6 points 2 months ago

Praise be to Buddha, thank you for your attention.

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Grimy 17 points 2 months ago

Calling it the Gulf of Iran after the whole fiasco with Mexico would have been pretty on point in terms of joke. Missed opportunity.

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20cello 17 points 2 months ago

Lmao, that would be humiliating for trump if he only could understand it

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Swemg 10 points 2 months ago

Gary Newson could do something really funny now

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EmmiLime 9 points 2 months ago

He's too busy destroying homeless camps with glee

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UltraGiGaGigantic 1 point 2 months ago

You dont understand, its his turn!

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RobotToaster 6 points 2 months ago

Seems like a fair trade.

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Donjuanme -16 points 2 months ago

Not going to take time to research for an obvious troll, but I wonder exactly how much of the USA gdp comes from one state...

Although I'm sure wherever you're at you'd probably rather be living in Russia.

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sushiatnight 4 points 2 months ago

jesse-wtf

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Nonconfrontational 2 points 2 months ago

The fuck is your issue? Death to fascist America.

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Jankatarch 6 points 2 months ago

Just to give a perspective on how stupid US military being in middle east is.

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arotrios 4 points 2 months ago

Dammit. I look like shit in a hijab.

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Jankatarch 2 points 2 months ago

We could wear a wig over the hijab. /j

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cypherpunks 3 points 2 months ago

i still don't understand why it is so common for journalists to write a whole article about a single tweet and not link to it.

it's here btw: https://xcancel.com/...

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geneva_convenience 5 points 2 months ago

The tweet does look more hillarious than the article

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UltraGiGaGigantic 3 points 2 months ago

Nation states fighting over parts of the same planet we were all born on is cringe. Humanity is like a toddler that just learned the word "mine".

And yes, I do privately own a toothbrush.

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Nonconfrontational 9 points 2 months ago

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Iran is trolling trump. They're trolling him instead of, you know, bombing their civilians to death, like what the US is doing to them.

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phoenixz -3 points 2 months ago

Fuck the violent theocratic dictatorship in Iran, of course, but I do have to give them kudos for excellent trolling

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davel 3 points 2 months ago

Of course. Of. Course.
Of course 47 years of Western imperialist propaganda—since the Western imperialist puppet regime was overthrown—would still have people saying “of course fuck the theocratic dictatorship.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution

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geneva_convenience 2 points 2 months ago

Fuck [only people in the world fighting the mass murdering imperialist empire]!

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Jankatarch 0 points 2 months ago

Palestine fits too, no?

Sidenote: If anyone wants a genuine middle-eastern cause to support, see Rojava. Secular, feminist, and socialist government with anarchist influences.

(Also Israel's been threatening to invade their host country so prepare for some "manufacturing consent" events very soon)

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