Iran tensions
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March 4, 2021 at 10:12 am #214810alanjjohnstoneKeymaster
Another pretext?
Israel’s environmental protection minister has said Iran was responsible for a recent oil spill that ravaged its shores and has claimed the incident was a form of “environmental terrorism”. Her ministry had identified a Panama-flagged tanker called Emerald, which was smuggling oil from Iran to Syria in breach of international sanctions.
March 5, 2021 at 2:55 pm #214935alanjjohnstoneKeymasterMore sabre rattling by Israel
And the attacks will not necessarily be all at Iran but includes Lebanon
March 7, 2021 at 11:41 pm #215055alanjjohnstoneKeymasterThe US indulges in some sabre rattling
https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-b52-bombers-mideast-iran-israel
March 12, 2021 at 9:20 am #215201alanjjohnstoneKeymasterDo you find it strange the silence of the media over Israeli attacks on Iranian ships yet highlights a suspected attack on an Israeli ship by Iran
at least a dozen ships en route to Syria during the past two years, most of which have been carrying Iranian oil, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing US and regional officials
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March 22, 2021 at 4:52 am #215785alanjjohnstoneKeymasterDo you trust intelligence sources, after all, it is all about deceiving.
https://apnews.com/article/national-security-iran-only-on-ap-army-1285df40348182e1b74dc403607c5928
Iranian Revolutionary Guards were intending to stage an attack on a Washington DC army base and also plotted to assassinate a US general.
March 22, 2021 at 12:13 pm #215820PartisanZParticipantDo you trust intelligence sources, after all, it is all about deceiving.
https://apnews.com/article/national-security-iran-only-on-ap-army-1285df40348182e1b74dc403607c5928
Iranian Revolutionary Guards were intending to stage an attack on a Washington DC army base and also plotted to assassinate a US general.
No of course not, but I could understand them wanting to get revenge for the scientists and others who had been taken out by US /Israeli ops.
April 7, 2021 at 11:27 am #216683alanjjohnstoneKeymasterNYT reports Israel mines Iranian ship in the Red Sea
A covert tit-for-tat maritime war appears to be ongoing.
April 11, 2021 at 4:25 pm #216804alanjjohnstoneKeymasterhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56708778
A nuclear facility in Iran was hit by a “terrorist act” a day after it unveiled new advanced uranium centrifuges, a suspected cyber attack by Israel
April 16, 2021 at 7:36 am #216963alanjjohnstoneKeymasterApril 21, 2021 at 10:48 pm #217127alanjjohnstoneKeymasterBuilding the case for war
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/21/iran-giving-houthis-significant-and-lethal-support-us-envoy
“What I see is continued aiding and abetting an army of Houthis by the Iranians so that they can continue attacking Saudi Arabia…” US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking said
April 25, 2021 at 2:53 am #217229alanjjohnstoneKeymasterIranian tanker attacked off Syria’s coast
Another blind eye to Israeli aggression in what has become a shadow war
April 27, 2021 at 1:06 pm #217293alanjjohnstoneKeymasterNaval confrontations with the US Navy
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/27/iran-us-warships-in-first-tense-mideast-encounter-in-a-year
May 12, 2021 at 6:15 am #217818alanjjohnstoneKeymasterYet another flash-point
US ship fired about 30 warning shots after 13 vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy came close to US Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz – an account rejected by Tehran.
May 12, 2021 at 3:49 pm #217831AnonymousInactiveConfrontations between capitalists for regional dominations natural resources and the leftwingers call it fighting between imperialists and anti-imperialists
June 20, 2021 at 7:25 am #219292alanjjohnstoneKeymasterWe have a new Israeli prime minister and now a new Iranian president.
Both will have something to prove which may not be good news for the world
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