Iran probably did attack the tankers. Consider:
Drone footage. Grainy, black-and-white. Done footage just looks like, they’re using very high power zooms at night.
Coming alongside underway big ships like tankers does take a lot of skill, something Iranians are considered the most trained at and in-line with their asymmetric warfare tactics.
Iran threatened several times that they will shut down exports in the Straits if they can’t export.
But why would Iran damage tankers instead of sinking them? Iran wants to show they have the capability of harming trade but don’t want to push public opinion into a war against them.
Why would Iran attack Japanese tankers when the Japanese prime minister is visiting? That’s a good question which could point towards a false-flag motive…but, what would it matter to anyone false-flagging Japan? It could also just be by chance, there is a lot of traffic going through the straits.
But the crew of one ship saw a flying object. Okay, that could be a missile. There’s nothing at all which says Iran wasn’t also using small missile weapons in the attack.
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In addition to House and Senate leaders of both parties, the White House extended the invitation to the top Democrats and Republicans on the House and Senate intelligence and Armed Services committees. While the US military’s Central Command was adamant that the attack was “unprovoked” and had taken place “in international airspace,” Iranian officials claimed Thursday it had entered Iran’s airspace before it was fired upon. Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, charged on Twitter that the drone had “violated Iranian airspace” and that parts of the aircraft were retrieved “in OUR territorial waters where it was shot down.” The downing of the drone came as Iran was already accused by Washington — as well as allies Saudi Arabia, Germany and others — of having carried out bomb attacks on two oil tankers in the congested Hormuz area. Tehran denies having been behind the attacks but has frequently threatened in the past to block the sea lanes used by ships to move much of the world’s oil exports. It also came after the US military alleged Iran had fired a missile last week at a drone that was responding to an attack on the two oil tankers, and blamed pro-Iran Shiite militias for half a dozen attacks on US installations in Iraq over the past two weeks.
That false flag was called out by Japan.
In recent weeks, the US sped up the deployment of an aircraft carrier battle group to the Mideast and deployed additional troops to the tens of thousands already in the region, amid heightened tensions between the US and Iran following Trump’s decision to withdraw from Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers a year ago. That move led to slapping biting US sanctions on Iran’s oil sector and other industries. Iran recently quadrupled its production of low-enriched uranium and threatened to boost its enrichment closer to weapons-grade levels. After the drone was shot down, the commander of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guard said that the act had sent “a clear message” to America. In comments carried live on Thursday on Iranian state television, Gen. Hossein Salami also said that Tehran does “not have any intention for war with any country, but we are ready for war.”
Salami? Bologna.
Salami, speaking to a crowd in the western city of Sanandaj, described the American drone as “violating our national security border.” “Borders are our red line,” Salami said. “Any enemy that violates the borders will be annihilated.”
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