VIDEO at link..................
You are playing with fire this morning, badger...
Wasn’t that John Kerry Standing on the front of that boat near the end of the video??
Not our circus, not our monkeys. These vessels were Japanese and Norwegian. Let them attack Iran. Unless our vessels or assets are attacked, we should stay out.
That doesn’t say that we shouldn’t have a few trolling missions ongoing, however...
Foolish people on here think it’s just a coincidence that the Iranians being the wonderful do gooders they are were on the scene and decided to dispatch an immediate demolition crew to help the wounded tanker.
It would be better if they had a vid of them putting one in.
What specifically would Iran gain by doing this? I don’t have a good answer for that.
Two things I find odd.
1. That patrol boat was packed. Just how many people are needed to remove a mine?
2. The video starts with the patrol boat alongside the ship. Why is there no video of the patrol boat approaching the ship?
One possible conclusion: That patrol boat was there to rescue the ship’s crew.
As Iran is an allie of Russia expect Putin puffers to twist this story around. They will say anything.
Shades of the USS Cole?
1. Can we say, with anywhere near 100% certainty, that no other nation, or group, has possesion or ownership of an IRGC Gashti class patrol boat? Don't some other countries own and operate some of our military hardware? Yes. Something to consider.
2. Were the operators of that patrol boat detained and positively identified as being Iranian military? If not, how can we be any where near 100% certain they were Iranian military?
3. Has it been verified beyond a doubt that those mine(s) were recently placed on those tankers, or in the surrounding waters and not remnants from a while ago?
Then we've got: "The Japanese owner of the Kokuka Courageous, one of two oil tankers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz, said Friday that sailors on board saw "flying objects" just before it was hit, suggesting the vessel wasn't damaged by mines."[1]
And initially, it was reported that torpedo's hit the tankers. [2]
So we've had torpedos as the cause, "flying objects" as the cause and the fed gov (which is never wrong) saying that it was deffinately the Iranian military who planted mines that caused the damage within 24 hours of it happening.
Now, the Iranian regime is evil and must be hit hard with economic sanctions, but the U.S. better not get involved in a shooting war with Iran. Those were not our tankers and there is no known proof that those tanker explosions we the result of Iranian military action.
BBC had an idiot on saying Trump will have to negotiate with Iran or it will get very messy ,LOL the Mess will be in Iran
Are you telling me that the mine didn’t explode? Or was not detonated on purpose for some diplomatic reason, with their crews removing it as a photo op? Go figure. Not sure if the Straights are too narrow to contain international waters and am wondering about the legality of the capture of the crew. Why is this not an act of piracy?