The mullahs know the Biden regime is weak and so treasonous and appeasement-minded that it just sent them $10 billion. So they know that the U.S. will do nothing.
“‘Unauthorized’ men in military garb take over contentious oil tanker in Gulf of Oman — one day after Houthi rebels strike in full-scale drone, missile attack,” Associated Press, January 11, 2024:
Iran’s navy seized an oil tanker on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman that once was at the center of a major crisis between Tehran and Washington, officials said, a seizure that further escalates tensions in the Mideast waterways.
The vessel was once known as the Suez Rajan and was involved in a yearlong dispute that ultimately saw the U.S. Justice Department seize 1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil on it.
The seizure also comes after weeks of attacks by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea, including their largest barrage ever of drones and missiles launched late Tuesday.
That has raised the risk of possible retaliatory strikes by U.S.-led forces now patrolling the vital waterway, especially after a United Nations Security Council vote on Wednesday condemning the Houthis and as American and British officials warned of potential consequences over the attacks.
Iran’s state-run television acknowledged the seizure late Thursday afternoon, hours after armed men boarded it.
The oil tanker was boarded in the Gulf of Oman by “unauthorized” people in military uniforms early on Thursday morning.
“The violating oil tanker Suez Rajan … stole Iranian oil by leading it to the Americans and delivered it to the Americans,” state TV said.
It said Iran’s navy, rather than its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, conducted the seizure….
Hudders. says
Classic Islamic rebublic of Iran. Bitterness & vindictive retribution.
It would be laughable, if their pettiness wasn’t so dangerous in this current climate.
What’s worse is despite the current political posturing of US officials regarding Iran, it is the Obama/Biden led administration led huge financial support for the terrorist supporting state, that has equipped, enabled & encouraged them on this recent beligerent behaviour & outright acts of criminal evil worldwide.
Yes Iran & hellish proxies are a clear & present danger to global security as we speak, yet the blame must be placed at the feet of the hypocritical, traitor riddled US Govt, for their complicity.
A few drone strikes in belated response is not convincing anyone that the US, or friends REALLY wish to see an end to the Islamic republic of Iran’s actions.
Meanwhile, whilst the world has been suitably distracted of late; the completion of that Iranian nuclear weapons programme, draws dangerously closer to completion.
If we think Iran is being naughty now, imagineTHAT nightmare. A literal Hell on earth.
All supported in large part to the treasonous actions of compromised US political criminals.
& very good reason to be worried indeed over one distant seized tanker methinks too.
bill says
I am starting to wonder if the Mullahs in Iran have something on Biden. What else can explain his pusillanimous dealings with them. Trump would have swatted them hard and held on to the sanctions. Who can suggest we are not at war with Iran
Tony Rice says
The answer is OBAMA, power behind Biden, Obama self confessed Muslim, Russian plant, born in Kenya, and who did the first Agreement with Iran re nuclear development, and which Obama did not even get the Iranians to sign, so no wonder they did not abide by it’s regulations, why should they ?
aum says
Mullahs need to be dealt with.