‘Startlingly dangerous moment’: IRAN SEIZES ANOTHER OIL TANKER in Strait of Hormuz

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Iran seizes another oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz as Gulf crisis erupts

IRAN is believed to have seized another oil tanker passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

By Joey Millar, The Express, Sep 16, 2019

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Iran: ‘Startlingly dangerous moment’ in Middle East says expert

The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation is reporting another ship has been seized in the gulf. Correspondent Amochai Stein said on Twitter: “Iran has seized another oil vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard arrests a vessel and 11 crew on ‘diesel smuggling charges’.”

It comes after Iran said accusations it had a role in the attack on Saudi oil installations were “unacceptable” and “baseless”, after a senior US official said the Islamic Republic was behind it.

On Sunday, a senior US official told reporters that evidence from the attack, which hit the world’s biggest oil-processing facility on Saturday, indicated Iran was behind it, instead of the Yemeni Houthi group that had claimed responsibility.

Donald Trump waded into the row by issuing a fierce warning to Iran that America was “locked and loaded” in a chilling esponse to the oil field attacks.

The US President said on Twitter: “There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of the attack, and under what terms we would proceed.”

He then said the US had ‘PLENTY OF OIL!’ despite the attacks on the fields.

Last night the US issued satellite images an intelligence backing the claim that Iran was behind attacks on major Saudi oil facilities.

According to the New York Times, ABC and Reuters US officials pointed 19 points of impact from bombs or missiles and evidence indicated the attacks had come from a west-north-west direction – not Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen, which lies to the south-west of the Saudi oil facilities.

US officials suggested launch sites in the northern Gulf, Iran or Iraq were a more likely source of the missiles. And a close-up image of damaged tanks at the Abqaiq processing plant seemed to show impact points on the western side.

Donald Trump said the US is “locked and loaded”

Iran’s semi-official Students News agency ISNA reported Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have seized the the vessel for allegedly smuggling 250,000 litres of diesel fuel to the United Arab Emirates.

A reporter for ISNA said: “It was detained near Iran’s Greater Tunb island in the Persian Gulf.

“The crew have been handed over to legal authorities in the southern Hormozgan province.”
Donald Trump would take ‘aggressive’ stance on Iran says expert

Mr Trump said on Monday the United States would help its allies.

Taking to Twitter he said: “We don’t need Middle Eastern Oil & Gas, & in fact have very few tankers there, but will help our Allies!”

The latest reported ship seizure by Iran follows a series of incidents involving shipping around the Gulf after US sanctions on Iranian oil exports took full effect in May.

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Thomas Faddis
Thomas Faddis
4 years ago

Come on iran, poke the bear some more! Lol!

VTS
VTS
4 years ago
Reply to  Thomas Faddis

Just bomb the crap out of them. Don’t send any troops.

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
4 years ago
Reply to  VTS

Just do some precision targeting to take out their filthy rag headed leadership. Most of the decent Iranian population would thank you for that.

Low Bounty Contact
Low Bounty Contact
4 years ago
Reply to  Thomas Faddis

^War Monger^

Thomas Faddis
Thomas Faddis
4 years ago

^terrorist supporter^

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

iran, somalia, tomato, tomatoe, both are shitslamic hell-holes

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

The cruise missiles and/or drone attacks were an attack on Saudi Arabia, not the USA. The USA is a net exporter of oil, and only small amounts of US imported oil comes from the straights of Hormuz. Therefore, it makes sense that the country that should respond should be the Saudis, not the USA.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Exactly.
As far as I know, our ships have an escort.
Why aren’t these ships ARMED?

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

The USA ships in the Gulf are not escorted, because there are very few US ships there. The US imports very little oil via Hormuz now. The USA is a major oil and gas exporter. The question is, why are other nation’s ships not armed? The UK ships are escorted, but not the rest. Arabs and Persians are not very well organized…

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Who owns the oil tanker?
What country are they from?

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

Iran squaring off against the US is the equivalent of a gnat crawling up an elephant’s leg with rape on its mind.

Mike Kevins
Mike Kevins
4 years ago

That entirely depends on our response, doesn’t it? Little old Vietnam comes to mind.

Tom Validakis
Tom Validakis
4 years ago

What’s else is dangerous is MSM siding with Iran and getting triggered over President Trumps lock and load” they are worse then pathetic

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

Long before oil and gas smuggling was the raison d’êtres of f the Gulf states. Still, Iran is being reckless and poking the beast. Perhaps, just a few Persian sailors who needed some diesel.

tom
tom
4 years ago

If only the Saudi royal family of inbred layabouts and the fanatical 7th-century Mullahs who run Iran would go to war and completely destroy each other it would be a win/win for the entire world. They both stink on ice.

cylde
cylde
4 years ago

Something is very wrong with this story. If oil is being smuggled from Iran it must have been in port in Iran. Why not stop it there?? Why would the UAE want any oil?? If it was not loaded in Iran why was it not being escorted??

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