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.
Or the oiloglopoly setting us up for higher oil prices...