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US airstrikes hit tankers trying to break blockade of Iranian ports, official says
The U.S. military carried out airstrikes Friday on several tankers trying to run the blockade on Iranian ports, a U.S. official told Fox News.
The official said “these were Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC)... massive, empty ships trying to make it back to Iran” and that they “attempted to run the blockade.”
The official added that several tankers were hit.
These empty oil tankers could have been trying to make it back to Iran to buy more time for oil storage.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior fellow Miad Maleki told Fox News earlier this week that Iran only has 13 days worth of traditional oil storage, but has been buying more time using empty oil tankers for storage.
“They have a few days of the onshore storage capacity left, and then another 30 to 45 days of tankers to fill up,” Maleki said.
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country…”
What is happening in the Persian golf right now should’ve happened decades ago, not months ago. We have a President who is less concerned with being reelected, and more concerned with doing what is right, not only for this country, but an ungrateful global community in general.
The fact that there are so many people in our Republic today who are deterred from doing what is right and just, not by bloody footprints in the snow, or a series of defeats on a battlefield, but by the prospect of higher gasoline prices, or the fear of a defeat in midterm elections defined exactly the kind of modern “Summer Soldiers” and “Sunshine Patriots” that we see both on this forum, and in the modern world today.
They are the kinds of kind of “soldiers” who would turn and run not at the approach of a glistening steel bayonet on the end of a barrel of a Brown Bess musket, but at the mere prospect of a gas station sign being changed upwards by a gas station employee.
so basically another two months potentially before anything hits the fan for them. Taking us to July 4th? Meaning the IRG will still be in power as we celebrate 250 here. I do not think that was the President’s plan.
I hope the US military has been able to rebuild weapons stocks in the down time... plus some for Cuba.
““these were Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC)... massive, empty ships trying to make it back to Iran”
Israeli Oil Transport Ltd., how may I help you?
Have Israeli mariners capture the ships and put them to profitable use.