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Was Iran Behind the Oman Tanker Attacks? A Look at the Evidence
Internet databases confirm much about the incident, but the Trump administration hasn’t provided convincing evidence of Tehran’s culpability.
By Eliot Higgins
Mr. Higgins is the managing director of the investigative collective Bellingcat.
June 14, 2019
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An image provided by an Iranian news agency showing an oil tanker burning in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday.CreditCreditIranian Students’ News Agency, via Reuters
There has been considerable cynicism worldwide about American claims that the attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday were conducted by Iran.
Iran has denied the accusation, and on Twitter, the term “Gulf of Tonkin” trended alongside the “Gulf of Oman.”
That historical reference is telling. It was in citing the “Gulf of Tonkin incident” — the North Vietnamese were accused of attacking American destroyers in that gulf in 1964 — that President Lyndon B. Johnson persuaded the Congress to authorize greater American military involvement in Vietnam. Historians have concluded that the attack never happened and Johnson’s ploy is now seen as the quintessential false flag operation.
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Yet what the videos and photographs published by the United States don’t show us is more important. While the object on the side of the Kokuka Courageous is described as a “likely limpet mine” the images presented aren’t clear enough to verify that.
Nothing presented as evidence proves that the object was placed there by the Iranians. The video shows only that the Iranians chose to remove it for an as yet unknown reason.
This is especially important in light of a statement by Yukata Katada, the president of the operator of the Kokuka Courageous, that the crew had reported that the ship was attacked by a “flying object.” Mr. Katada added, “I do not think there was a time bomb or an object attached to the side of the ship.”
While we cannot be sure whether this is a Gulf of Tonkin-style incident, we can say for certain this is not the slam-dunk evidence that some would like to claim it is. In the escalating conflict between the United States and Iran we have to work on all the information available, not just what one side presents.
cited from New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/opinion/iran-tanker-attacks.html
The most important fact is that the attack occurred while Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan was visiting Iran, and although the big fire came out the tanker vessel which is said to be carrying naphtha had not been damaged more than that.
It can be said that both the USA and Iran governments know what is really going behind the news. That means they know what the two vessels were carrying, and the winner who takes all if a conflict occurred between both countries.
I hope them to know, however, the existence that is called 'KAMI' in the winner's country will never allow the inhuman deed that has been repeated for these decades, and from now on move to eliminate the national people who've been against the sacred doctrines of the country.
ホルムズ海峡で起きた詳細不明のタンカー攻撃に関する New York Times の意見記事ですが、たいへん冷静に状況を俯瞰できています。英語の得意な方は是非全文を読んでいただきたいです。イランの策動か米国の陰謀か、これについては次の2点をよく考えれば真のフィクサーがいったい誰なのか明らかでしょう。
・安倍首相がイランを訪問している時に発生した
・大きく発火してるのに、積荷(ナフサ)に引火していない
そのヒントは次の過去記事にも掲載しています。
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「JAL123便墜落事故－真相を追う－蘇る亡霊(20) 石油と日本」より
海上タンカーの積荷は必ずしも石油製品とは限らないということです。
P.S.
Please do not forget UNESCO/UNICEF are also behind the incident. They assist the winner to import bloody "Creation Core" from the OPEC countries for the production of artificial crude oil.
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Unicef at middle east Asia
With lots of love
The Sun, The Moon and The Earth
Written on the ground of Jesus Christ
Was Iran Behind the Oman Tanker Attacks? A Look at the Evidence
Internet databases confirm much about the incident, but the Trump administration hasn’t provided convincing evidence of Tehran’s culpability.
By Eliot Higgins
Mr. Higgins is the managing director of the investigative collective Bellingcat.
June 14, 2019
An image provided by an Iranian news agency showing an oil tanker burning in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday.CreditCreditIranian Students’ News Agency, via Reuters
There has been considerable cynicism worldwide about American claims that the attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday were conducted by Iran.
Iran has denied the accusation, and on Twitter, the term “Gulf of Tonkin” trended alongside the “Gulf of Oman.”
That historical reference is telling. It was in citing the “Gulf of Tonkin incident” — the North Vietnamese were accused of attacking American destroyers in that gulf in 1964 — that President Lyndon B. Johnson persuaded the Congress to authorize greater American military involvement in Vietnam. Historians have concluded that the attack never happened and Johnson’s ploy is now seen as the quintessential false flag operation.
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Yet what the videos and photographs published by the United States don’t show us is more important. While the object on the side of the Kokuka Courageous is described as a “likely limpet mine” the images presented aren’t clear enough to verify that.
Nothing presented as evidence proves that the object was placed there by the Iranians. The video shows only that the Iranians chose to remove it for an as yet unknown reason.
This is especially important in light of a statement by Yukata Katada, the president of the operator of the Kokuka Courageous, that the crew had reported that the ship was attacked by a “flying object.” Mr. Katada added, “I do not think there was a time bomb or an object attached to the side of the ship.”
While we cannot be sure whether this is a Gulf of Tonkin-style incident, we can say for certain this is not the slam-dunk evidence that some would like to claim it is. In the escalating conflict between the United States and Iran we have to work on all the information available, not just what one side presents.
cited from New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/opinion/iran-tanker-attacks.html
The most important fact is that the attack occurred while Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan was visiting Iran, and although the big fire came out the tanker vessel which is said to be carrying naphtha had not been damaged more than that.
It can be said that both the USA and Iran governments know what is really going behind the news. That means they know what the two vessels were carrying, and the winner who takes all if a conflict occurred between both countries.
I hope them to know, however, the existence that is called 'KAMI' in the winner's country will never allow the inhuman deed that has been repeated for these decades, and from now on move to eliminate the national people who've been against the sacred doctrines of the country.
ホルムズ海峡で起きた詳細不明のタンカー攻撃に関する New York Times の意見記事ですが、たいへん冷静に状況を俯瞰できています。英語の得意な方は是非全文を読んでいただきたいです。イランの策動か米国の陰謀か、これについては次の2点をよく考えれば真のフィクサーがいったい誰なのか明らかでしょう。
・安倍首相がイランを訪問している時に発生した
・大きく発火してるのに、積荷(ナフサ)に引火していない
そのヒントは次の過去記事にも掲載しています。
「JAL123便墜落事故－真相を追う－蘇る亡霊(20) 石油と日本」より
海上タンカーの積荷は必ずしも石油製品とは限らないということです。
P.S.
Please do not forget UNESCO/UNICEF are also behind the incident. They assist the winner to import bloody "Creation Core" from the OPEC countries for the production of artificial crude oil.
Unicef at middle east Asia
With lots of love
The Sun, The Moon and The Earth
Written on the ground of Jesus Christ