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By Seth J. Frantzman @ JerusalemPost.com, June 13
An incident in the Gulf of Oman was reported by Iranian media on Thursday morning and a UK maritime safety group warned of “extreme caution” in the area.
It comes a month after an attack on four oil tankers off the UAE in the Gulf of Oman. The US blamed Iran for that attack. Iran’s Al-Alam TV said that there had been “two explosions.” Two oil tankers reportedly sent distress signals. Pakistan sources also reported the incident, Iran’s Tasnim News reported [....]
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@ The Guardian.com/Business: Oil price jumps after Gulf of Oman tanker 'attacks' - business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as tanker fires send crude prices soaring
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/13/2019 - 4:21am
NYTimes' "visual investigations" pro posts the Centcom video supposedly showing Iranian Republican guard patrol boat, with "if true" cavaet:
He also put up this:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 12:21am
cross link to NCD's thread with WaPo article and comments
OIL TANKERS ATTACKED IN THE GULF OF TONKIN
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 12:24am
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 1:52pm
Trump has spent his entire so called presidency saying he doesn't believe deep state left wing Hillary supporting US intelligence agencies.
Now that he has political hacks in charge of them he pretends they are unquestionable fountains of truth immune to political influence.
by NCD on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 4:17pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 9:01pm
Half of the crew was Russian, half Filipino - any relationship to Trump's friendship with Putin & Duterte?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 6:48am
Not saying I get what it is, but just seems like there's a clue here:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 9:07pm
The eminent international conflict journalist C.J. Chivers retweeted these two on topic:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/14/2019 - 9:46pm
looks like several journos on the national security beat are making fun of Centcom's latest with a "caption contest" on Twitter:
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/17/2019 - 5:44pm
Here a piece on the new Centcom chief, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie:
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/17/2019 - 6:32pm
Disgusting apologists for Iranian aggression. Clearly they are all suicide bombers. Notice the bright orange bomb vest they're wearing. And there are two small nuclear bombs in the back of the boat. Iran had time to develop them because Obama signed the the nuclear deal.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 06/17/2019 - 8:23pm
a thousand more troops (to keep the White House out of their hair?)
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/17/2019 - 6:25pm
Stable genius, friend of Kim, interested in nukes, hotels and airplanes, oil tankers-not so much, etc.:
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 5:53am
fuggeabout all the kabuki shows, glad I didn't waste time reading about the drone:
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/20/2019 - 4:55pm
Trump admin. = laughing stock. Just sanctioned a dead Khomeini. Note this is not Trump alone: he's reading from something someone else wrote for him.
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 6:45pm
Why Trump Is So Confused About His Own Iran Policy by Jonathan Chait
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 6:47pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/28/2019 - 11:30pm
All 40 votes for war were Republicans.
by NCD on Fri, 06/28/2019 - 11:53pm
I would say worse than "for war", more like to allow an unstable non-genius to be free to go to war with Iran when he has the whim
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/29/2019 - 12:26am