Iran’s parliament speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has shared yet another meme on the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, this time making a reference to Schrödinger’s cat.

“It’s Schrödinger: the empire is in the SOH [Strait of Hormuz] cabinet with falling plates, projecting hegemony but fully exposed, trying to suffocate Iran without blowback (impossible),” he wrote on X.

“This endgame cannot be modelled. It will be opened, and Iran’s hand is already on the lever,” Ghalibaf said, sharing a recent note by JPMorgan wherein analysts said they “simply don’t know how to model the ​endgame” to the oil market crisis.

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