Posted on 06/13/2019 11:31:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
U.S. Secretary of STate Mike Pompeo has blamed Iran for the "blatant assault" on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman earlier on Thursday.
In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Pompeo said Iran is working to disrupt the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz and are a deliberate part of a campaign to escalate tension.
His comments came shortly after a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News that it saw an unexploded mine attached to the hull of the Panama-listed, Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous ship, one of the two ships attacked. It is the same type of mine used to damage four oil tankers last month in the same area - an attack senior Pentagon officials blamed on Iran.
A spokesman for Taiwan's CPC Corp oil refiner, which chartered the other boat attacked on Thursday morning, the Front Altair, said it was "suspected of being hit by a torpedo", although his not been confirmed.
2 OIL TANKERS DAMAGED IN SUSPECTED ATTACK IN THE GULF OF OMAN, CREW EVACUATED
Whether it be a torpedo or mines, Jakob P. Larsen, head of maritime security for BIMCO, told the Associated Press that the incident brings the region closer to an armed conflict.
The shipping industry views this as an escalation of the situation, and we are just about as close to a conflict without there being an actual armed conflict, so the tensions are very high, he said.
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Not officially.
One of the things I’ve like about President Trump is that he hasn’t seemed to be overly swayed by the neocon warmongers who think we should have an empire (800 bases in 90 countries is an empire) and attack anyone who *might* be a threat to us preemptively.
Then don’t buy it. Plan your next vacation in Iran.
> Plan your next vacation in Iran.
A statement like this is so inappropriate it qualifies as mentally disturbed. Get off the Internet and seek help now.
As if that makes it any more trustworthy. LOL.
I’ll go with your numbers.
“tell them”
We can’t even make eVerify the law of the land.
“rounded up”
We’re releasing them now as they come in.
Build the wall.....
“divert an Iranian mine”
Not what happened, divers somehow attached limpet mines on a moving ship, that’s quite a trick.
“Hezbollah” “a wildcat attack”
Hezbollah does not have a diver support ship in the area, Iran does.
Thanks for setting me straight.
Now India, China and Japan all have economies that critically need oil from the Middle East that is shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.
Now what would be “retarded” about China protecting the flow of non-Iranian oil to their Country, especially if there might be political benefits in relations with other countries?
Hmm. Well, I heard it on Israeli TV.
Sure got the “Never do anything that might result in conflict with the bad guys/let’s just bend over and take it” crowds going....looks like some of them would rather believe that Trump caused it to blame Iran with...we surely have some bona fide morons here
Yeah - just like the “globalist” terrorist that run the place would never do anything to make the rest of the globe upset with them.....riiiiight?
Thanks for posting Ikes prescient words. He saw it coming, as Washington foresaw our R/D Uniparty, warned of in his farewell address.
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel... On that, one thing Ike didnt mention: pubic school indoctrination.
One more thing. Our greatest generation is basically gone. The people that participated in and lived through WWII, and its destruction and death and sadness. Military and gov leaders that wanted no more of that Hell on Earth.
Now, weve got big $$$ operators, and theyll take us into another WW.
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