Posted on 09/05/2026 1:09:51 PM PDT by Libloather
The United States military destroyed three Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps crude oil tankers in the Persian Gulf Saturday – after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two US Navy vessels.
Footage shows large tankers blown up in flames, as a thick plume of black smoke rise off the sea.
A US military aircraft crew can be heard over radio warning an oil tanker near Kharg Island, before unleashing a barrage of missiles that lit the vessel in flames.
“I’m preparing to fire. …You have three minutes to clear the crew,” the US is heard in a video filmed aboard a nearby vessel, obtained by Iran International.
Crew members can be heard speaking in Persian and Urdu, and asking whether the ship’s captain was at his post — before realizing he was still asleep.
“This was your final warning,” the US crew says before firing at the tanker, which was first sanctioned by Washington in 2018. “Get into your lifeboats and abandon the ship immediately.”
Two of the struck ships were in the Gulf of Oman, and the third was anchored off Kharg Island — Iran’s key export hub through which 90% of its crude exports flowed before the war.
Earlier Saturday, Iran reported four missiles struck one of its oil tankers anchored six miles from the island, according to state media Tasnim.
“You have three minutes to clear the crew,” the US is heard warning in a video obtained by Iran International.
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The Iranians will retaliate now. Just a matter of how.
So?
Destroyed how? Disabled? Set on fire? Sunk?
We gave 'em a lot more than that during Operation Praying Mantis. I guess Reagan was a wimp ...
Those "B&W images" look like IR, to me ... and they're remarkably clear. Our tech seems to have greatly improved of late.
2 loaded tankers disabled (stern hits). 1 empty (or very nearly so) tanker critically hit, major fires, very likely to sink.
Analysis @ What’s Going on With Shipping? below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0J3P9HnJHQ
“The United States military destroyed three Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps crude oil tankers in the Persian Gulf Saturday – after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two US Navy vessels.”
FAFO ...
“The Iranians will retaliate now. Just a matter of how.z”
ROTFLOL!
here’s how that retaliation is gonna work:
1. IRGC fires more ballistic missiles at US Navy in retaliation
2. US Navy sinks three more IRGC oil tankers
3. IRGC fires more ballistic missiles at US Navy in retaliation
4. US Navy sinks three more IRGC oil tankers
5. IRGC fires more ballistic missiles at US Navy in retaliation
6. US Navy sinks three more IRGC oil tankers
and so on ...
see how that works?
Amen!
Jimmuh Carter, a Navy man no less, should have taken care of business
Crude prices will flesh this out. Needless to say, Howard on Team Trump is loving every aspect of higher crude prices.
Kruge: “I give two minutes for you and your gallant crew.”
Logically, you're probably right, but you just KNOW that, if we took the tankers, the UN, and international courts, and even domestic judges and courts would insert themselves into the situation and make it as muddled and difficult as possible. Better to sink them and tell the international and domestic critics to go pound sand.
Our ships are pretty busy right now. The loaded tankers are now disabled (not destroyed) and not going anywhere, anyway. The one with the big hits was not loaded.
Good! Sink em all.
RE: You have three minutes....
So make the most of them.
A Lot of Livin To Do
—Sammy Davis Jr. version.
Life’s a ball, if only you’d know it 🎶
And it’s all just waiting for you
You’re alive, so come on and show it.🎶
There’s such a lot of livin’, such a lot of livin’,🎶
Such a lot of livin’ to do.🎶
Excellent. Excellent news for the world. We are not going to put upmwith this crap anymore from them, regardless if their people decide to remove them or not, arguably whether they can or not without massive help.
Ghost fleets, they also have friends who’d loan them ships.
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