Posted on 05/03/2023 8:23:23 AM PDT by nuconvert
Oil tanker Niovi, sailing under Panamanian flag, captured by Iran in Strait of Hormuz
Iranian forces captured a foreign vessel on Wednesday, the second ship to be harassed and seized by the Middle Eastern country in a week, the U.S. Navy said.
The Niovi, a commercial oil tanker flying the Panama flag, was passing through the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman when it was overtaken by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN)
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Let’s go Brandon
Send the TranSailors! They’ll fix it!
VIDEO AT LINK
Is this the Navy’s Dylan Mulvaney moment? Drag performer Harpy Daniels is Navy’s new ‘digital ambassador’ in bid to boost recruitment that’s set to fall short by 8,000
Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, whose stage name is Harpy Daniels, announced he would be the Navy’s first ‘digital ambassador’
The program was part of the Navy’s efforts to ‘reach a wide range of potential candidates’ as it seeks to recruit more Gen Z sailors
Authorities say the Navy is still expected to fall 8,000 short of its recruitment goals for the year
Reagan bombed a couple of Iranian oil platforms for harassing Kuwaiti tankers. They stopped doing that real quick.
Bidenoptics. A win-win, right?
Biden will send them another plane loaded with cash.....................
That’s a man, baby!
They probably see this kind of thing and think, why not?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4150407/posts
This is what they get for embracing alphabet nazi madness!
Our navy striking fear into our enemies:
‘This will certainly strike fear into our enemies’: Fury over Navy’s first ‘digital ambassador’ - non-binary drag queen Harpy Daniels who was appointed to attract new recruits amid crisis
Once again helping free us from petro dependence. Thanks Iran! For helping branDUHn wean us off of erf killing fluids.
will Harpy Daniels send a letter? or morse code?
Is this the same as the Gulf of Tonkin, where it never happened and was made up? IOW I ain’t buying it.
Do you think that that will push oil price is higher? What is the overall intent of Iran in seizing the tanker? It would seem that that would be hostility towards the producer of the oil shipping it to wherever the destination was going to be. Makes no sense.
The longer they get away with it, the more empowered they get, and will keep doing this. Time to start sinking Iranian patrol boats and arm the tankers with stingers...
He’ll be in the oval office, trying to sound presidential and instead babbling incoherently or making a “joke” about his choice of ice cream.
And they just watched them do it?
OOO how they are sooo scared.
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