Update: The Front Altair, the Marshall Islands flag tanker damaged in Thursday’s attacks, has now sunk, according to Iranian television. Later, others denied these reports.
.. If accurate, the sinking could have a serious impact on oil prices and the environment, as the ship contained twice the amount of oil as Exxon-Valdez.
While some sources cited torpedoes as the weapons used in the attacks, another said officials suspected the use of a magnetic mine, similar to the devices used during last month’s attacks.
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And just like that…war with Iran is now almost assured.
Roughly one month after the US accused Iran of attacking Saudi- and UAE-docked oil tankers with naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz, two oil tankers were attacked in the Sea of Oman (not far from where the prior attacks occurred), leaving both ships seriously damaged, Bloomberg reports.
So far, no casualties have been reported. The attack left one of the ships “ablaze and adrift,” according to the Associated Press.
Sailors from both vessels were being evacuated as the US Navy rushed to assist.
The Bahrain-based US Fifth Fleet said it received distress signals from the two ships roughly 50 minutes apart. As BBG reports, the incident will almost certainly “inflame” tensions between the US and its Arab allies on one hand, and Iran on the other.
The development will inflame already-rising political tensions in the region weeks after four vessels, including two Saudi oil tankers, were sabotaged in what the U.S. said was an Iranian attack using naval mines. Tehran denied the charge.
The Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet said it received two separate distress signals at 6:12 a.m. and about 7:00 a.m. local time. “U.S. Navy ships are in the area and are rendering assistance,” Commander Josh Frey, a spokesman, said. Iran said it has rescued 44 sailors.
Though a suspected aggressor has not yet been officially named, and an investigation into the cause of the incident has only just begun, the notion that Iran will be implicated looks extremely likely, even as South Korean and Iranian ships helped rescue all 44 sailors who were aboard the two ships. Iran has already denied responsibility for the attack.
Tanker owners have confirmed the attacks were from a “blast” and “shell”, though details remain vague.
The manager of one of the tankers, the Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous, which had been carrying a cargo of methanol from Saudi Arabia to Singapore, said the vessel had been damaged as the result of “a suspected attack,” though the manager added that the ship’s cargo was secure.
“The hull has been breached above the water line on the starboard side,” Bernhard Schulte GmbH & Co KG said in a statement on its website.
Another tanker, Norwegian-owned and Marshall Islands-flagged Front Altair, sent a distress signal to the UAE port of Fujairah. It had loaded an oil shipment in Abu Dhabi not long before the incident. The ship was reportedly hit with three explosions.
Officials said it appeared the ships had been attacked with torpedoes. Another report cited officials saying three detonations had been heard.
The Front Altair was delivering a cargo of naphtha to Taiwan refiner CPC Corp, one company official said. The cargo was supplied by Abu Dhabi’s Adnoc.
Considering the involvement of the Japan-flagged vessel, the timing of the incident would be ironic. The suspected attacks unfolded as Japanese PM Shinzo Abe met with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday, the second and final day of his visit, which was intended to de-escalate tensions in the region. There were no immediate details about what they discussed.
Oil prices are popping higher on the news, as the latest replay of one of history’s most famous false-flag naval attacks, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which helped precipitate the Vietnam war, ratchets up tensions in the region. At one point, Brent crude was up as much as 4% to over $62 a barrel.
At the very least, the US military will use the attack as an excuse to continue its escalation of personnel in one of the most sensitive waterways for the global oil trade. One-third of all oil traded by sea passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
Worst case, it looks like NSA John Bolton may have just gotten the excuse he needs to justify a full-scale invasion of Iran, which we imagine will soon be confirmed as being behind the attacks.
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Gotta keep them oil prices up…
“Oil soars!” lol definately a zero hedge title. Oil hasnt even risen above its 20 day moving average let alone the 50 or 200.
https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities
Methanol?
Exactly. Probably erroneous reporting.
Shipping cow farts from the middle east sounds feasible.
Pathetic false flags, probably by Israel…but maybe US…
USA on behalf of Israel, most likely, but only a matter of hours till MSM reports Iran did it.
A huge percent of the world’s oil traverses that strait; what if oil tankers refuse to go through it or insurers refuse to insure them? Or if war starts and Iran mines it or torpedoes tankers? Oil should be zooming, but it’s up less than 4% so far. Makes absolutely no sense. War with Iran has severe implications for the entire world economy, yet everything is calm so far. If this happened several years back, oil and gold would’ve skyrocketed and stocks would’ve tanked (instead S&P futures are up!), but all “markets” are well controlled now.
No reason Iran would try to start a war with any country. Higher oil prices are good for them but a war would destroy their country. It’s all lies and false flags. I don’t trust a damn thing that comes from our MSM . Jew owned and run by lying pieces of shit …white liberals progressives .
This is the only site I trust. Says alot for you guys and gals here at the Burning Platform.
And so it begins….I was waiting for a false flag and here it is.
The Japanese and Iranians are meeting today. It was a Japanese owned tanker that was carrying methanol that was hit, the other tanker is Danish owned.
Also happening today is:
Mr Boyd from DOJ announced yesterday top CIA officers to be questioned in Russiagate, several more whistleblowers from FBI have now come forward to Senate intel Committee and we learned yesterday more direct evidence has been provided Horowitz to which his team of 700 investigators are now following up.
And…
Shale producers are going tits up in the red….recent articles state as much….
Lots of possibilities to chew on….Qui Bono?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limpet_mine
Aha! My conjecture about limpet mines was correct.
Wait, look over here…
The coup instigators will not be held accountable.
But, we gotta get the war with Iran going!
My vote is John Bolton is somehow behind this.
Islamic religious fanaticism is as capable of creating idiot thinking as DC bureaucracy, so right now it could go either way.
I’ll wait a bit before deciding what happened – jumping to conclusions is not a healthy form of exercise.
Hope some more info comes out soon, so we can get a better idea of what’s going down.
Follow-up thought found on a retired USN officer’s site: no US ships, citizens, or cargo were involved=NOT OUR PROBLEM.
Still waiting on a retired spook’s take on it.
Why would anybody down vote BB on that comment? You know he is almost assuredly correct as is mygirl. The one boat reports, in the media, that it was hit above the waterline. Not a torpedo. Not a mine. Above the waterline. Missile for sure. The reason that the us navy was so close is because they can’t hit anything unless they are right on it. “here, have a missile. Oh and would you like us to help evacuate you now that we have shot you?”
Very true, BB. In fact, Iran hasn’t started a war in over 500 years, though they have defended themselves.
I haven’t read ANYWHERE that a tanker sank. Typical ZH yellow journalism.
Ah Crap I got a son and two son-in-laws draft age.
So do I. And didn’t they change it to make young women subject to the draft? Look, there’s not going to be any draft, and there’s not going to be any war with Iran. I’m sure Netanyahu and much of the American military industrial complex want one (and were probably behind these and other recent attacks on ships in the Gulf), but they’re not going to get it – just like they didn’t get – and won’t – their US invasion of Syria or Venezuela.
The left will side with the neocons and neolibs only to the be a pain to Trump. They can disingenuously accuse him of inaction in Syria (after the false flag gas attacks) or elsewhere, but if he sent in any more than a token number of troops to any of these places, the left would add that to the pile of reasons they already hate him. And Trump knows that most of his base would abandon him overnight. This is the guy who – on the eve of the Republican primary in SC accused W of lying us into Iraq. The constituency for war with Iran is tiny. He head fakes them to keep them off guard. If the CIA is involved here, it’s probably part of an effort to distract from their plot to spy on Trump and get him impeached.
It’s not that Trump has valiantly led America toward anti-interventionism. It’s that he promised Americans what they already wanted – which is to mind our own fucking business. This is isn’t 1966. Nobody trusts the media or the government. TBP readers are, despite suppression efforts, typical of a significant plurality of Americans. There’s not going to be any war with Iran. I’m glad people are worried about it. That’s why it won’t happen.
Opps, that also makes three draft age daughters. Dammit where are the hippy war protests! Oh I know, they’re out protecting Illegal Aliens.
There’s no draft so there’s no protesting. That’s all that the protesting was about in the ’60s and early 70s, to keep their own asses out of war. Why do you think they all starting wanting to go to college all of a sudden? But they could care less if war was going on otherwise. Just like today.
You can bet that it is a false flag operation that will be blamed on Iran.
I am 100% convinced that either the USA or israel is involved.
What better way to start WW3 and insure israel’s conquest of Iran…
The israeli’s have no interest in a ‘conquest’ of Iran. You’re missing the point of all this. The goal is to have the US bust up middle eastern countries until they are nothing but disorganized failed states, broken up into tribal factions where the various tribes of Sunni/Shia/Kurd/Coptic et al are all in their own little warring enclaves and there are no more actual functional countries in the region that are able to pose a threat to Israel. They have no interest in a ‘conquest’ or takeover of Iran. They just want to lead the dumbass American government (and citizen) into attacking its enemies there and expend our blood and treasure getting rid of anyone the Israeli’s don’t like. The goal is regional dominance, at our expense, not an actual conquest. Thats for us dumbass Americans to do. They just get to sit back and watch and enjoy continuing adulation from the world for the poor, innocent jews that everyone is picking on for no reason whatsoever.
Wonder if OPEC or Saudi’s were just trying to boost prices of oil? Nah, they got nothing to gain from this
If it wasn’t the CIA and/or Israel, it was the Saudis.
It’s actually surprising the Saudis arent hiring dozens of terrorist crews to sail around blowing up tankers. It would be a 1000% return on investment!
But that’s if they have the oil to sell. I’ve seen some articles that say the Saudi’s oil reserves are being depleted, which is why they’re looking for other energy options. But who knows what to believe.
If war with Iran breaks out expect-Russia to invade from Canada, spetznaz to destroy urban comms and grid infrastructure, a massive invasion from the south comprised of a muslim/communist/terrorist/cartel coalition, China will invade via west coast seaports (which they already own), and MS-13 will serve as your 5th column. I’m afraid a bow and arrow isn’t going to get you through what’s coming.
Enough with the Dave Hodges and Paul Martin bs.
Russian troops are already here.
I honestly didn’t know there were so many fans of the bow and arrow on TBP.
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……and miraculously they found an Iranian passport in near perfect shape floating next to the damaged ship!
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Thinking the same thing, Steve.
Even the US Navy now admits the Gulf of Tonkin was if not an outright false flag highly exaggerated and used to justify the war in Vietnam. This is just such an obvious false flag. Qui Buono. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2008/february/truth-about-tonkin
If this is a false-flag meant to implicate Iran, it’s ham-handed as hell.
Ham-handed is how they roll. They think we’re that stupid. There’s a lotta stupid in this country, but not THAT goddamn much stupid. Which is why their impeachment plot is going nowhere.
Oh, bullshit! There is at least that much stupid just coming from your letter alone. Don’t misunderestimate yourself, Waran!
“The hull has been breached above the water line on the starboard side”. What they call “torpedoes” can only blow holes above the water line if they jump out of the water just prior to detonation.
“The development will inflame already-rising political tensions in the region weeks after four vessels, including two Saudi oil tankers, were sabotaged in what the U.S. said was an Iranian attack using naval mines. Tehran denied the charge.” Naval mines don’t jump out of the water, either.
Yep, this is a false flag and these quotes are probably the first of many inconsistencies in their “narrative”. We will all be called conspiracy theorists for pointing this out.
If these acts lead to war with Iran then we will know whose side Mr. Trump is on.
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” so says the Wizard of Oz.
I have not been one who is knee jerk anti war. False flag theories about starting wars have never held much water for me . This smells I don’t believe in coincidence. No love at all for Iran or mohammedans but I on’t believe they are stupid enough to poke a bear with a stick when the only weapon you have is the stick.
Damn, grandson jus tgot out of Army. He is still in Individual Ready Reserve. Apache mechanic.
Don’t forget, with today’s weapons, this country itself is a target that can be reached, unlike in major wars of the past. The ocean doesn’t stop anything anymore.
quick draw calls it a false flag, deep thinker calls it anything referencing history. What it is – its a big red flag – how it is handled is most important
Expect the term “false-flag” to be banned as hate speech.
I think you can add Kellogg Brown & Root, Halliburton and the banks to those four defense contractors all of whom benefit greatly rebuilding that which the Pentagon destroys.
At that point, you just call it something else or, FF.
Admin, note updates on ZH story: now they’re reporting that tanker hasn’t been sunk.
If you made a list of all of the countries who might be behind these attacks, Iran would be down somewhere around #183, somewhere after Nepal, Gabon and Lichtenstein.
Clearly, you have access to “No Eyes” National Security Briefings.
“Mr. President, while Shogun Abe was kowtowing to Ayatollah Khomeini, The ‘Crude Cartel’ outsourced its ‘convenient’ tanker sabotage to a dark corner conspiracy run by Tibetan Llamas, gibbons and Alpine Beer Maids. We now have pretext to invade Scotland and annex the St Andrews Golf course.”
Somebody has their ex’s pitching wedge up their ass?
I dunno, Iska . . . those Lichtensteinerians are some hateful SOBs
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Very well done false flag without a doubt!
Same flash bulb goes off for the day when 9-11 went down. Who you gonna call to do this deed? Sneak a boat alongside to plant the charge above the water line at 3 am in the dark when auto pilot is on and bridge watch is asleep is a piece of cake.
1. Open ocean not close to the strait, no danger of land environmental prob.
2. Above the water line, so easy to repair, Lloyd’s of London money.
3. Ships sorta close together for the videos of smoke and flames.
4. Alcohol does not burn black???
5. First thing in the morning to catch the news feeds is a must.
RELATED NEWS: CIA Agent Says Lack of Oxygen Forced Him to Blow Up Only 2 Tankers Instead of 3
“I was gonna do Trump’s yacht too but the fuse got wet”
Now the war raging in Yemen and Syria comes to Iran….the Israeli proxy house of Saud, with all its new billion dollar military hardware were handed the “retaliation” card regardless of the veracity of truth that Iran or someone affiliated with them DID IT.
Let’s not forget this… double whammy!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-13/saudis-release-dramatic-video-iran-ordered-houthi-missile-attack-airport-terminal
Interesting series of unfortunate events for Iran especially considering it was a Japanese oil tanker ?….Bolton and Pompeo get to say, “I told ya so,” ….what a set up….
Pompeo already holding press conference….US Government has determined Iran is the perpetrator of today’s attack……John Bolton was unavailable for comment as he is suffering an extended multi-orgasm and cannot be disturbed. This is so weak it doesn’t even get to the smell test much less pass it…..Since the first false flag tanker attack was insufficient to launch war with Iran….well how about another. 2020 electioneering?
Speaking of deuces that arrive on Israel’s command.
douches?
War is raging? On who’s TV?
It raged nightly on everybody’s TV during the 60’s and 70’s. You could watch American grunts get turned to chopped liver by Viet Cong with your TV dinner during all eleven assaults on Hamburger Hill.
Now, ‘raging’ is a figment of your imagination, a limited one at that. War is always a political construct, and the politics are certainly ‘raging’ but that’s all.
This is bullshit and everybody is tired of the smell coming from Uncle Sam’s ass every time Israel demands a deuce.
Dio,
So exhausting, dealing with you; but i do appreciate the attention you give me.
Makes me feel like we are finally moving past the “ignore” phase of the cointel manual.
I guess I should feel flattered you spend an inordinate amount of time replying to my comments. Much love.
D Dung said,
So, in order for people to be dying and shit to be blown up it has to be televised?! I didn’t know that this was a requirement for war. My apologies and just because there is a campaign going on to black out aspects of the Saudi led Yemen war or the proxy battles in Syria or Missile strikes in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and on and on, doesn’t mean people aren’t dying and some aren’t waging a war.
Get the fuck outta here with your sophomoric man crush and intellect. It raged on the 60s and 70s on the nightly t.v. to brainwash the American public into the RA RA, my country is kicking your country’s see Olympic nationalism bullshit that was peddled as fact in the public indoctrination centers, that nation states run the world and are trying to rule the world a la Nazi Germany, and to fight the spread of communism while it was instituted and taught HERE!
THE cognitive dissonance is too much for some to bare! So they continue living in their skewed worldviews…FUCK EM!
Give him perfection, PP!
“FUCK EM!”, is it? Really?
You spring wood for me so soon after “So exhausting, dealing with you…”
Like hell, you can’t wait to piss on a flat rock.
Only a sophomoric idiot would claim that TV footage of the butchery on both sides of Vietnam’s war was used to “brainwash the American public into the RA RA, my country…”
It was TV footage that fueled the protests AGAINST the war, dolt.
That’s why nobody could watch Mosul get ‘liberated’ by our total destruction on TV.
Drool much?
Plate of Pubes gives it to you perfectly?
Nobody wonders why he didn’t complain about your man crush.
You’re satisfied with perfectly limp.
Vietnam taught the .gov not to televise war. Those watching had too much sympathy for the dead and injured and then they wanted the war to end. Even Desert Storm was only filmed from far, far away. (Except for the stupid CNN correspondents pretending to duck and cover while in the studio as the desert-wind fan blew on them and the fake palm tree leaves swayed.)
But on TV, you no longer see injured soldiers or parts of the war happening. The dead arrive in their flag-draped coffins in the middle of the night. The arrival of the injured are never announced or highlighted. You’re only highlighted if you’re in one piece and having a surprise homecoming at your child’s school, to highlight the great military.
And yet,
Less noise on this BOMBSHELL and beginning of what seems like a major political topic for presidential debates…
The bullshit Russiagate narrative and the extradition of Julian A ssange to the U.S.
Political Kabuki theater set into motion with this first step in the extradition process:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-13/uk-home-secretary-signs-julian-assange-extradition-order-us
“Don’t let Obama play the Iran card to start a war and get elected”
Donald Trump, 2012. My, how the worm has turned.
Another False Flag, used to justify the endless wars.
Could very well be a message to Japan as well as trying to implicate Iran. Maybe telling Abe to get back in line and quit trying to undermine the Zionists war with Iran agenda? Will be interesting to see what comes out of those meetings between Japan and Iran, I bet not much after this…
Where did this take place? Was it the gulf of Tonkin?
It was Havana Harbor(1898),er…Pearl Harbor(1941), maybe off the coast of Ireland(1915), sinking boats doesn’t have the magic it used to.
In the 21st century, crashing planes into buildings, seems to be the right spell, and video, lots of video, especially video of people desperately jumping out of burning buildings to their death.
This just doesn’t measure up, there will be no war for this.
If it was a homosexual cruise ship and naked homos got blown into the air and dead homos bobbing in the sea, all on YouTube, then I might be nervous…
Deep State aint what it used to be.
The ‘Capital Cartel’ is losing it’s grip?
Say it ain’t so, or PP will pp.
We have provided brail descriptions of these nukes to identify blind anti-Semites, before we check everybody for flesh-enshrouded glans. Vimin too.
Line up in front of the showers.
Sad that my first thought was the CIA doing a false flag op. Never-ending wars.
Gee, why would anyone suspect a False Flag?
The Ever-Growing List of ADMITTED False Flag Attacks
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-07/ever-growing-list-admitted-false-flag-attacks
A list of admitted false flags attacks
https://hangthebankers.com/a-list-of-admitted-false-flags-attacks/
Yes indeed, hang the bankers. Hang the Capital Cartel.
Aha! Centcom has video of a clusterfuck of 10-20 people on a bow of small boat recovering a mine. Sure looks like a clandestine recovery to me (sarc). I’m surprised that they did not recover passports floating in the water an maybe a hull number on the boat.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-13/us-claims-smoking-gun-video-evidence-irans-navy-handling-mine-tanker-hull
I hope Trump sees through this false flag and doesn’t get pushed into war with Iran.
CIA, Deep State at work.
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