Since 2021, Iran has harassed, attacked, or seized nearly 20 internationally flagged merchant vessels, according to the Fifth Fleet.
Sounds like another raghead rubber raft attack
Well, I guess that the Iranian military is not very concerned about the US military - at least, until we get close enough to shoot.
But our big, strong boys in DC will keep the mullahs from hurting anyone by using a safe word, or something.
Why does the DC establishment treat Iran and Russia so very differently?
Why would we merely approach the harassing and attacking Iranian vessels in these circumstances and not sink them instead? Would we not be justified in doing so if the Iranians were firing upon cargo ships in international waters?
I think they are still holding on to some ships they seized a while back. Not that our media would bother to do followup reports.
Iran has been busy seizing ships...
A mysterious fleet is helping Russia ship oil around the world. And it’s growing
edition.cnn.com ^ | March 1, 2023 | Julia Horowitz
Posted on 3/1/2023, 11:03:58 PM by elpadre
London CNN —
Russian oil is still finding its way to buyers around the world. But even those who spend their days tracking its movement across oceans struggle to work out exactly who is ferrying it.
As Western sanctions against Russia have escalated over its invasion of Ukraine, more ships have joined an existing fleet of mysterious tankers, ready to facilitate Russia’s oil exports....
An ACT OF WAR, anyone?
“Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran!”
Reagan bombed a couple of Iran’s oil platforms when they pulled crap like this in the 80s.
Put a stop to that real quick.
Sounds like it is time for an international coalition to destroy the Iranian navy again.
Perhaps a repeat of the 1988 Operation Praying Mantis except including new allies all dependent on Middle East oil, like Japan, India, and hopefully China to sink the entire Iranian Navy and its command and control centers.
These are clearly acts of piracy. The US could legally seize these ships, detain their officers and crew, and transport them to a neutral third country. Once in dock, they could disable the ship in such a way that it could not be easily repaired.
All part of the silly DC world police sanctions game.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/16/iran-confirms-release-of-two-seized-greek-tankers
Greece seized a Russian crewed Iranian tanker for the US.
DOJ seized four Iranian tankers headed to Venezuala.
We need to bomb key Iranian oil platforms and Iranian naval assets along with placing sanctions on the Iranian leadership .
Nice distraction from this....