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To: Rashputin; tired&retired; Zhang Fei; pepsionice; Eleutheria5; BenLurkin; L,TOWM; logi_cal869; ...
Doesn't make sense for the Iranians to do this, but it does make sense for the US, Saudis, or their current errand boys to do this and blame the Iranians.--Rashputin, post 36

How a lying pro-Russia scumbag like you is allowed to remain on this site is beyond me. Something really weird is going on...

Iran responsible for ‘blatant assault’ on oil tankers in Gulf of Oman, Mike Pompeo says

Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News
June 13, 2019

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blamed Iran for the “blatant assault” on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman earlier Thursday.

In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Pompeo said:

“This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication.”

He charged that Iran is working to disrupt the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz and this is a deliberate part of a campaign to escalate tension, adding that the U.S. will defend its forces and interests in the region, although he did not elaborate.

His comments came shortly after a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News that the U.S. Navy saw an unexploded mine attached to the hull of the Panama-listed, Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous ship, one of the two ships attacked.

It is the same type of mine used to damage four oil tankers last month in the same area - an attack senior Pentagon officials blamed on Iran. ...”

https://www.foxnews.com/world/highly-likely-iran-responsible-oil-tanker-attack-gulf-oman-defense

112 posted on 06/13/2019 3:03:33 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: ETL

Seriously, its like all the 9-11 truthers have come out with another conspiracy...

We felled the twin towers so we must be blowing up tankers now too.../sarc


114 posted on 06/13/2019 4:02:57 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: ETL

You are not responding to anything I posted. Kindly be more careful in the future.


118 posted on 06/14/2019 3:00:14 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: ETL

As if no one else could build or deploy a limit mine.

Provoking the US is a way to get massive quantities of Iranian hardware turned into scrap and to further damage their own economy.

Someone else is trying to provoke this fight.


120 posted on 06/14/2019 7:53:13 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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