Sputnik: US Official - Iran or Iranian Proxies Damaged Ships in UAE Waters - Report
US officials said Monday that initial assessments of an incident over the weekend in which four oil tankers were damaged by explosions in Emirati waters point to Iranian involvement.
Four oil tankers — two Saudi, one Emirati and one Norwegian — off the coast of the Fujairah, in the United Arab Emirates, suffered on Sunday what the UAE Foreign Ministry called "sabotage operations." The explosion blew a five-to-10 foot hole in each ship near or just below the water line, a US military team told AP Monday.
"Iranian or Iranian-backed proxies" are believed to be behind the attack, according to US officials.
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Update: 'They're not going to be happy.' Trump threatens Iran over reports of sabotaged oil tankers (John Fritze and Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY)
WNU Editor: And so it begins. This is a developing story, and it will be updated by tomorrow morning.
4 comments:
Possibly false flag, but in the end that's irrelevant they are looking for an excuse to spank Iran and looks like they've got one.
Let the escalation begin.
Lame. "... believed to be behind the attack." C'mon warmongers, you can do better than this. Didn't these clowns learn anything from the Gulf of Tonkin?
I mean make up some s#$t about aluminum tubes already.
Aluminum tubes = Trump dossier...
Peace mongers are just as dangerous
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