Two Saudi Arabian oil tankers suffered significant damage in an attack over the weekend near the Strait of Hormuz, the kingdom’s energy minister said, amid heightened military tensions in the Persian Gulf.
The Saudi tankers were attacked at 6 a.m. Sunday off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates as they prepared to cross into the Persian Gulf, the minister, Khalid al-Falih said Monday. The attack didn’t cause an oil spill, Mr. Falih said through the official Saudi Press Agency, but resulted in “significant damage to the structures of the two vessels.” He referred to the incident as sabotage.
The U.S. said last week that it is sending an aircraft carrier, bombers and a Patriot antimissile battery to the Persian Gulf to counter what the Trump administration says is a growing threat from Iran. Washington has placed crippling economic sanctions on Iran to force it to give up regional influence, scale back its military activities and stop threatening Israel.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi called the incident “dreadful” and called for an investigation into it, according to the semiofficial ISNA news agency.
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So, is this the lame false flag–the moronic neocons are even incompetent at false flags that they have unlimited resources for planning and executing–that’s intended to draw the USA into in a war against Iran?
There are lies
damn lies
and there are false flags.
Israeli “false flag”, anyone?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5FiN26W4AUKFKg?format=jpg&name=360×360
It’s worse than what you think, it is so horrible, such a disaster, that they can only provide a paragraph, with no photos or video of the event, or even the results of the event.
oh, the humanity.
next thing they will tell us is:
“it’s not inflation, there is no inflation, it is those damn chicom tariffs, that is the reason everything is going up in price. Blame the chicoms, and their evil leaders, for your cost of living increases”
Fuck the house of saud!
That.
Consider that the ‘House of Saud’ is just an Israeli sockpuppet.
I call bullshit.
Russia did it! (Please see The Strait Whoremooz dossier.)
It was Putin in scuba gear and a rowboat.