Iran seizes tanker

pol is too busy with trump/aoc, so I'm posting here.

Iran has seized a UAE/Panama tanker and took it into Iranian waters. No report from the crew in 48 hours.

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Why are they just going for random tankers?

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If true, Iran really are just getting stupider.

>Trump/AOC
What happened?

Imagine how hard John Bolton is now at the thought of Americans dying to protect Israel.

Basically Trump made fun of AOC on Twitter and the media exploded yet again.

they want to use the oil everyone needs as leverage to get what they want.

How can a country get this desperate? Did they run out of gibs for citizens or something?

Trying to disrupt oil flows and punish western economies + Saudis.

Could also be revenge for their seized tanker.

I suspect it's an effort to save face after the Royal Navy cockblocked them from seizing a British tanker.

He doubled down on his statements and the "Aoc squad" quadrupled down on theirs calling him a racist and that he should be impeached.
Same old shit really

I kind of wish every crewmember on it is dead, and that pisses off some real adult in the Pentagon who slaps Bolton so hard his moustache comes off, and that's the end of unkillable neocon insanity. But there are no adults in the Pentagon. Should we keep this completely pointless distraction going to the familiar point of taking out each other's civilian airliners? There's some 80s nostalgia.

Telling American citizens to not criticize Israel or their government because...you know--saying mean things hurts his feefees.

He even made sure Israel came first when he mentioned the countries AoC should apologize to.

We're crippling their economy with sanctions, soon they will run out of options and go to war or collapse.

>UAE tanker
Does the UAE have a substantial military? Could they retake it? Or are they gonna ask the US for free reinforcements?

Fighting Iran is in American's interests. We tore up the Iran deal and now they're acting like animals.

Good for them. If the JEWest makes up rules as they go along Iran also has that right.

Yes. They were having food riots some months ago. If we keep up the sanctions then they'll come down like a house of cards- no need for military action.

UAE has a fairly modern military, but I doubt it's strong enough to engage Iran on their home turf. It is very likely they'll go to the US for assistance considering both nations have pretty close ties.

(((you)))

I think you underestimate the willingness of people to sacrifice and suffer if you give them something to believe in--see rural America.

Cool.
Fuck Israel, fuck Zionists, fuck Neocons.
Sanctions are an act of war and they can do anything they fucking want while ZOG is ZOGging them as far as im concerned.
Pray for nukes falling on Israel.

CNN reporter backed the news with US Intel.

Again, the news does not care because of DRUMF

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Don't fucking say mean things about Israel, fucking Communist.

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Real Americans love Israel

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>implying Communism isn't as Jewish as a matza dreidel

Respect your president, cuck.

>they'll come down like a house of cards
checkmate!

CNN Reporter Barbara Starr confirms.

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I respect Andrew Jackson. Zion Don can eat a circumcised dick.

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>If true, Iran really are just getting stupider.

And they will still say the dindu nuffin when they blew up those tankers

hopefully this ends with the theocratic leadership of Iran getting airstriked and Isreal getting nuked

bonus if the Saudis catch a few nukes too

>Britain seizes Iran oil tanker
>Iran seizes a UAE tanker in return

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u bet frien

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>believing Iran would sabotage a meeting they're having with Japan DURING the meeting
The ZOG indoctrinated mutt, everybody.

they are just pisse dthe brits wont give back their oil

i hope we bomb those fucking muslims

Online damage control just as bad as the Iranian Navy's. The IRGC did something retarded and went after a Japanese tanker then tried to go "Haha did you really think we would be so stupid to do that? Attacka ship from a nation we are talking with right now? That sure would be awkward... It was Mossad and the CIA trying to frame us!"

go back to r/thedonald

But what’d Panama do? I guess the UAE connection makes them a bit more of a target. The Iranians know they’d get fucked if they took a Saudi one, but the UAE is a Sunni-dominated country that they can push around with fewer consequences.

Good, fuck the UAE, and fuck the US backed cabal, CIA niggers glow in the dark.

God i love this woman more everyday, cant wait for the SC to declare shit like the SAFE act illegal, so i can vote for socialists without having to worry about gun control.

inb4 international naval task force sent in to escort tankers

The US has been calling for that for a few weeks. Iran seems to be doing a good job reminding the world why that’s a good idea.

Modern military staffed by typically low-IQ, tribalistic, gutless Arabs. Iranians are NOT Arabs and this is exactly the problem for Israel...

>Iranians are not Arabs
They’re worse. They somehow managed to get conquered by Arabs. RIP Zoroastrianism.

>giving ammunition to the neocons
This is literally the stupidest thing Iran could have done. All they had to do was sit back and make the US look like a warmonger, now they're fucked.

That’s kinda the IRGC’s goal. They don’t want a US military response, but they absolutely want to look like they’re strong enough to act unilaterally. It’s kind of dumb, though, because the Brits were just offering to return their tanker yesterday.

Yea yea yea, let me guess, Assad gassed his own people too? KYS

Could be a perfect opportunity to use the LCS for what they were intended for. Quickly getting across the ocean and into shallow waters and deterring attack boats.

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I wouldn’t want to be on a ship in the Gulf without an Aegis radar and some SM-2s.

>goes into iranian territorial waters alone and unannounced
>gets blown up and used as target practice by iranian missile forces or navy or captured
Doesnt sound like very goid plan

On the plus side, it’d give the US cassus belli to cut the Iranians back down to size.

I don't think Panama is directly involved, the ship would have been flagged as Panamanian for tax reasons.

Why are the Iranians seizing shit all of a sudden?

Strait of Hormuz is international waters. That's why the IRGC threatening, attacking, and seizing ships in it is pissing everyone off.

Kek

Good point.

Mostly IRGC posturing. The elected part of the government seems less eager to escalate things.

>The elected part of the government seems less eager to escalate things.

Is this some shit along the lines of the Imperial Japanese Army starting wars in Manchuria in spite of what their government wanted?

How good really is the IRGC and how much can America bitch slap them?

Id be a lose-lose situation. Trumps doing what he can to avoid war right now and not following through on such an event would make us look like flops. We dont need another MENA/SW Asia war right now. Id be very unpopular and add more denbts to our nation.
Going into shallow water as implied would likely be beyond the limitations of the straight. Trade can pass through but it doesnt mean we can get right on their coast with millitary vessels.

The political situation on Iran gets more convoluted every time I see it explained more. The IRGC does things that shoot the republic's government in the foot. Iran tries to negotiate and show they don't want to be hostile, then the militant fanatics that believe their own propaganda start trying to escalate things and pick fights.

It’s more that the hardliners that support the Ayatollah and IRGC are able to consolidate control when tensions are high, and moderates are able to gain ground when things are peaceful. As you can imagine, it’s in the best interests of the IRGC to justify their existence as much as possible without actually causing a war they know they’d lose. It’s also worth noting that both the moderates and hardliners support some form of theocracy/IRGC control to varying degrees, and the reformist politicians that wanted to transition to a full democracy were mostly arrested a couple years ago.

Pretty much this desu

>Sanctions are an act of war and they can do anything they fucking want
Ok, but don't blame the rest of the world when they support an intervention in order to stabilize oil prices. Same thing happened with the Gulf War.

They interviened to keep iraq from being blockaded by the iranian navy.

This is going to happen again.

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