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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