The situation in the Middle East is furiously escalating with each passing day.
While today’s news of Israeli financial support for Syrian insurgents came out of left field, our earlier assessment following the report of “turmoiling” Syrian rebels in the aftermath of the Qatar crisis still stands, namely that “the next major regional conflict appears set to be between Saudi Arabia and Iran. All it needs is a catalyst.”
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That catalyst nearly presented itself overnight, when the Saudi information ministry said the Saudi Royal Navy allegedly foiled an attempted terrorist attack on a major offshore oilfield in the Persian Gulf on June 16, when it captured three members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps from a boat as it approached the kingdom’s offshore Marjan oilfield. The Saudi Center for International Communications added that the boat carried explosives, and the Iranians aboard “intended to carry out terrorist act in Saudi territorial waters.”
Quoting an “official source”, the Saudi SPA news agency said that just after midnight on June 16, 2017, three boats bearing flags in white and red flags rushed to the Marjan offshore oil field off the Eastern Province. The navy fired warning shots but were these were ignored by the assault boats. It said one of the boats was subsequently seized and found to be “carrying weapons for a sabotage target.” The other two boats escaped.
“This was one of three vessels which were intercepted by Saudi forces. It was captured with the three men on board, the other two escaped,” a statement from the ministry’s center for international communications said.
“The three captured members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard are now being questioned by Saudi authorities,” it said, citing a Saudi official and added that the vessel was carrying explosives and intended to conduct a “terrorist act” in Saudi territorial waters.
The Saudi Press Agency also reported that the Saudi Navy fired warning shots at the two boats that managed to escape.
According to Reuters, on Saturday Iran’s Tasnim news agency said that Saudi border guards had opened fire on an Iranian fishing boat in the Gulf on Friday, killing a fisherman. It said the boat was one of two Iranian boats fishing in the Gulf that had been pushed off course by waves.
The alleged attempt to carry out a terrorist attack on Saudi oil facilities takes place as tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia have steadily deteriorated, and follow a pari of suicide bombings and shootings in Tehran killed which killed 17 people in Tehran in the first week of June. Iran repeated accusations that Saudi Arabia funds Sunni Islamist militants, including Islamic State.
It the Saudi account of events is accurate, and if Iran is indeed preparing to take out Saudi oil infrastructure in retaliation or otherwise, the simmering cold war between Saudi Arabia and Iran is about to get very hot.
All the other news reports I could find (including SPA) said “unknown enemies” or “boats with weapons”.
Who is slinging the misinformation today?
Is it SPA, Oilprice.com, MSN, Investing.com, Reuters, Rigzone, or ZeroHedge?
Anybody got a guess?
Really, the big news is that Israel is funding, supplying, and probably training, islamic terrorists. This is hilarious.
One can only wonder what their motive might be, and why the sudden friendliness with the Saudis came into being.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar%E2%80%93Turkey_pipeline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_gas_field
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamar_gas_field
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_and_Myra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanin_gas_field
Total mystery.
Israel training and funding terrorists is only a surprise to those who view Israel through rose-colored glasses.
The United States trains and funds terrorists.
What the fuck else do you expect Israel’s bitch to do?
Just more of Tylers shoring up support for the deep states attack on Iran.
“Iranian Terror Attack” using well marked Iranian guard boats with Iranian guards aboard who will now confess to committing 911 on orders from the Ayatollah himself.
Anything that gets Mohammedans killing each other is a good thing.
I’d agree if we weren’t hip deep in it. Why are we taking the Sunni side in Syria? I thought Trump wanted to leave Assad alone.
The Near-Eastern Affairs Bureau of the State Department is nearly entirely Israeli-aligned. Jared Kushner is too. Trump’s other advisors on the region appear to be similarly aligned.
We’re taking the Sunni side in Syria because it benefits Israel, despite the fact that doing so is not at all in America’s best interest. Our government is infected with Toxoplasma israelii, resulting in its irrational conduct.
http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/2010/05/rewiring-the-brain-insanity-by-parasite/
I know what you mean. I thought Trump was a sentient human being once, but he has turned out to be nearly as retarded as W. Apparently, what Trump wants nowadays is to be president and have millions of people kissing his ass. He’s even fucking that up. Soon enough, he’ll have broken enough of his pledges that he only has a few thousand people kissing his ass, then a few hundred, then a few individual retards who are the sort that wouldn’t wake up if you set their hair on fire.
After that, he won’t be president anymore and he can go back to having to pay people to kiss his ass.
Too bad they were not here on 9-11. Wait let me try that again.
A few weeks ago Trump did a major weapons deal with the Saudis, then Iran supposedly had a terror attack, which they blamed on the Saudis. TPTB are either preparing to start another big war, or they are trying to increase the price of oil.
The price of oil is down about 50% from its most recent high. That’s primarily due to robust oil production around the world, which has been met with less than anticipated demand. This is causing pain for oil producers while providing needed relief for oil consumers.
However, this trend could reverse very quickly if a problem were to occur, such as a shipping accident, natural disaster, military conflict or terrorism, at one of the world’s seven critical choke points along the major supply routes for oil.
Here’s a look at these choke points that if blocked could cause a super spike in the price of oil as it would cause major supply disruptions within the market.
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This is an article from a few years ago, but this security risk will continue as long as we depend on foreign oil…
Here: https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/03/29/security-risk-7-critical-choke-points-that-could-c.aspx
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