Emboldened by Biden’s handlers’ manifest weakness.
“Iran releases video of their soldiers seizing an oil tanker and training machine guns on two US destroyers that came to the scene but didn’t intervene: Another US warship is swarmed by Iranian drones,” by Michelle Thompson and Rob Crilly, Daily Mail, November 3, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
Iran released a video Wednesday of their soldiers seizing a Vietnam-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman and their troops training machine guns on two US destroyers that were deployed to the scene but did not intervene.
The dramatic takeover happened last week as tension between the countries intensifies, and reports of Iranian drones approaching a US warship in the Strait of Hormuz surfaced.
The Iranian government said in a statement Wednesday that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was foiling a US attempt to seize an Iranian oil tanker.
US officials denied Iran’s account, and said America did not try to take over the vessel, Reuters reported.
Sources said in reality, the Iranian forces took control of the Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker MV Southys on October 24 at gunpoint and still holds the vessel off Bandar Abbas.
U.S. forces had monitored the seizure, but ultimately didn’t take action as the vessel went into Iranian waters.
The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran said in a statement that Americans ‘seized an Iranian oil tanker in the Sea of Oman, transferred its oil to another tanker, and taken the tanker to an unknown place.
‘The IRGC forces in a heliborne operation took control of the tanker. Then the American forces pursued the tanker by helicopters and warships but failed to capture it.’
Video footage of the takeover shows gun-toting IRGC troops landing a helicopter on the tanker and storming out to seize control of the oil carrier.
Another video showed the IRGC canvasing the waters in catamarans as troops pointed their machine guns on the US’s massive warship, which dwarfed Iran’s vessels.
A Reuters report Wednesday indicated that Iranian drones had approached the U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship Essex in the Strait of Hormuz.
The drones had ‘unsafe and unprofessional interactions with the USS Essex warship,’ in the past 24 hours, Reuters reporter Idrees Ali said Wednesday morning on Twitter.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden said Sunday that Iran will pay ‘economically’ if they do not resume negotiations on the nuclear deal….
PRCS says
Yes, yes.
Do please fire off a few rounds at that Destroyer
Please!
Infidel says
That destroyer will surrender, given orders from Millie. Also, how woke and CRT infested are that ship’s crew? They may all kneel and do the fist bump and denounce their White privilege – including BIPOC crew members, and prodded enough, may even recite the shehada
What you’re suggesting would have worked under President Trump. Not Brandon!
Westman says
As a war manual, the Quran instructs about strength, no respect for weakness, terror, and subterfuge – and to never stop aggressively spreading Islam.
Iran’s dictators will keep testing Biden’s US weakness until they think the cost of more direct measures against Israel is manageable, or, they overstep, like disabling Saudi oil fields or shutting down the Gulf, and then the US is forced to make a military response(uh, maybe).
The apparent weakness of the Biden admin is dangerous to the economy of the entire free world and to the existence of Israel. The Mullahs demand a kiss on the behind and the Biden admin asks, “Where and how often?”
Jim says
Joe Biden is crazy. How can he think of an agreement on nuclear weapons with the terrorists in Iran? They would never keep any promise, and Joe Brandon would simply give them hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes, but get nothing but empty lying promises. He should resign and go into retirement. Let’s go Brandon!
Walter Sieruk says
That fiendish new President of Iran ,Raisi now in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran, So it’s now a rather appropriate time to bring out the fact that if the founder of the current Islamic tyranny ,Ayatollah Khomeini would still be alive today ,he would spit on Joe Biden.
Actually, the idea of spiting on Joe Biden is very understandable; still the reason that Khomeini would do so is rather interesting and even enlightening.
The reason is that Biden had publicly declared and claimed, “Islam is a non-violent religion” In other words he said that “Islam is not a religion of violence.”
Pseudo President Biden is a liar and the Muslim clerics of Iran know that.
For as Ayatollah Khomeini had clearly announced that “Those who know nothing about Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….There are hundreds psalms and hadiths urging of Muslims to value war and to fight. …I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1]
There are also many places in the Qu ‘ran that instruct in violence and killing for the cause of Islam.
As found in ,for example Surah 2:191. 4:89.. 5:33. 9:5, 111,112 ,123. 47:4.
Therefore if Khomeini alive and well in this year of 2021 he would spit upon Joe Biden.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 339.
Walter Sieruk says
That aggressive and hostile tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran will continue in its belligerent behavior especially more so now since that weak and appeasement minded lap dog ,Joe Biden of Iran’s President Rasis , still sitting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a genuine President of the United States.
gravenimage says
Iran releases video of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps seizing oil tanker, training machine guns on US destroyers
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Biden must be so proud!