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Posted on 05/08/2026 9:58:48 AM PDT by edwinland
Iranian state media posted a video on Friday that appeared to show Iran’s Navy seizing an oil tanker identified as the Ocean Koi.
The vessel was “exploiting the conditions in the region to harm and disrupt oil exports and the interests of the Iranian nation,” the state news agency IRNA said. The tanker, carrying Iranian oil, was escorted to Iran’s southern coast. Shipping analysts said that the tanker was Chinese-owned.
On Feb. 25 the U.S. Treasury Department identified the vessel as part of a shadow fleet of ships that it said Iran used in violation of U.S. sanctions.
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“Given the vessel’s established history within the Iranian trade ecosystem, this seizure appears to be a performative move likely intended to project regional authority or obscure deeper cooperation,” according to Windward AI, a maritime tracking company.
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My suggestion: to shore up their power against internal opposition.
This would mean they are living on borrowed time.
The Iranians must be listening to that man on the Steve Bannon show that appears daily. He called Trump a TACO yesterday without objection from Bannon.
Unpossible. Trump destroyed the Iranian Navy.
The IRGC knows if they surrender, they are as good as dead. So, they’re going to force Trump, and by extension the US, to kill a lot of innocent people to remove the IRGC.
Approximately 16–18% of Iran’s population lives in the Tehran metropolitan area (around 15 million people), while the city proper houses roughly 9.7 million. Tehran Province serves as the nation’s economic engine, contributing roughly 29-30% of Iran’s GDP and accounting for roughly 40% of its consumer market.
If true then Trump may be allowing the Iranians enough rope to hang themselves.
Article says tanker is Chinese owned. Another article said this occurred in the Gulf of Oman.
I wonder if china is playing along in some weird political theater.
Seized a tanker from their own ally transporting Iranian oil to China that was being used to avoid US sanctions. If this wasn’t a case of Iran accidentally attacking thir own ally, it was probably done to avoid the embarrassment of it being seized by the US. Amazing that anyone would actually attempt to spin this as being some sort of show of strength by iran.
Somebody forget to make a payment or is being required to make an additional payment.
Iranian thugs are making retirement plans, just in case.
Is this the level of the school bully stealing your milk $$😂
Time to commence the total war bombing and end this crap (the other word meant here).
Stopped watching Bannon when he started calling us Israel Firsters. Guess he decides who is in MAGA and who is not. Used to watch him every day and is now unwatchable if you think Israel has the right to exist.
He said he was going to release it, right?
His Epstein Documentary? I guess home movie night would be fun...but I don’t wanna watch his homemade porn.
Steve Bannon’s a fag.
EATING THEIR OWN.
I thought Tehran was running out of water?
“Iran’s Navy”??????
“ I wonder if china is playing along in some weird political theater.”
Just and agreement between two buddies to keep the Chicom assets from being seized or disable by the US.
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