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Tankers Off Iran Hit by Suspected Torpedoes
Wall Street Journal ^ | June 13, 2019 10:04 a.m. ET | Rory Jones, Biography @RoryWSJ Rory.Jones@wsj.com Benoit Faucon and Costas Paris

Posted on 06/13/2019 9:04:43 AM PDT by God luvs America

DUBAI—Two tankers were damaged in attacks off the coast of Iran early Thursday, including one operated by a Japanese company, on a day when Tehran rebuffed attempts by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to ease a military standoff with the U.S.

The incidents sent oil prices sharply higher, reigniting fears of trade disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, through which over a third of the world’s seaborne crude oil is shipped. Brent crude, the international benchmark for crude prices, rose 4% on Thursday to $62.37.

The attacks appeared to use relatively sophisticated weapons, according to early assessments, and came within roughly 45 minutes of each other in the Gulf of Oman, where four tankers were attacked last month in an incident the U.S. blamed on Iran, which Tehran denied. The U.S. military has built up its military presence in the Persian Gulf in response to what American officials said were threats from Iran, sending an aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, and its strike group to the region.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government
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To: Revel; bagster; haffast

Small taters, Revel.

Who benefits from War?


41 posted on 06/13/2019 10:10:41 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Did you know that the C_A is the largest venture capital source in the world?)
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To: amorphous; bagster

Who controls NK?
Who REALLY controls NK?
Who controls Iran?

This is just a bunch of Clowns running a Pickle Factory.


42 posted on 06/13/2019 10:12:10 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Did you know that the C_A is the largest venture capital source in the world?)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Who controls the Clowns?

That's the question...

43 posted on 06/13/2019 10:17:17 AM PDT by amorphous
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To: God luvs America

Jay Sekulow reporting Iran very likely the culprit”

Gulf of Tonkin


44 posted on 06/13/2019 10:18:27 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: Revel

Putin’s Russia is the winner.


45 posted on 06/13/2019 10:18:52 AM PDT by joegoeny ("Nuts!")
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To: dp0622

Tonkin Gulf. Remember? That started the war that Bolton declined to fight in


46 posted on 06/13/2019 10:19:19 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: amorphous
I call your "Soros" and counter with...


47 posted on 06/13/2019 10:19:37 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Did you know that the C_A is the largest venture capital source in the world?)
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To: petitfour

Remember the Maine!

Remember Gulf of Tonkin!

Remember Saddam’s wmds!


48 posted on 06/13/2019 10:21:05 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: willyd

The North Vietnamese, just like when they fired on us in the Tonkin Gulf


49 posted on 06/13/2019 10:22:05 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: Karma_Sherab

50 posted on 06/13/2019 10:23:56 AM PDT by z3n
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To: GOPJ

Torpedoes usually mean ‘state actor‘

Saudis want us at war with their enemy Iran.


51 posted on 06/13/2019 10:23:58 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: God luvs America; All

Who gains from this (those that want war against Iran) and who loses (those that are trying to keep the peace)?

Follow the money!

Keep in mind we are 22 Trillion dollars in debt, and the country is sick of war. We have been in a perpetual state of war since World War II.


52 posted on 06/13/2019 10:25:13 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: pfflier

Can you say Gulf of Tonkin?


53 posted on 06/13/2019 10:25:28 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: rintintin

Remember the Maine!

Germans Butchering Belgian Children!


54 posted on 06/13/2019 10:25:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rintintin
Tonkin Gulf. Remember? That started the war that Bolton declined to fight in

He has that in common with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.

55 posted on 06/13/2019 10:26:34 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Enlightened1; pfflier

“Who gains from this (those that want war against Iran)”

Come now, our friends the Saudis would never do such a thing. They don’t want oil prices to rise, they told us so. And never mind about all that beheading they do. It’s a cultural thing, and cultural diversity is wonderful


56 posted on 06/13/2019 10:28:18 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: NorthMountain

He has that in common with Donald Trump“

There’s this difference: Trump doesn’t have a history of wanting to send other people’s kids to reckless foreign wars. Bolton does. He’s fine with shedding people’s blood in nation-building invasions, just not his own blood


57 posted on 06/13/2019 10:30:38 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: dp0622

actually time time to invad Iran was in 1991 when the coalition kicked Hussien out of Kuwait. should have take a right turn and went after the Ayatollah Khomeni

Now they have had 30 year to harden their defenses


58 posted on 06/13/2019 10:30:44 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I’ll call you with Diane Feinstein. Let the red line run through her office.


59 posted on 06/13/2019 10:31:10 AM PDT by magua (It's not racism, it's just that thisBecause itÂ’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015.)
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To: DesertRhino

Yes.....puny torpedo if tankers still afloat....probably houthis using small charges directed by Iranians....


60 posted on 06/13/2019 10:32:21 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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