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An explosion rocked the liquid natural gas terminal at Egypt’s Damietta Port as cargo was being unloaded on July 29 afternoon.
According to the Ambrey global security company, a drone hit a United States-owned gas storage tanker, with no injuries reported.
Meanwhile, port services firm Inchcape said in a separate statement that two gas tankers had caught fire at Damietta Port.
The drone hit floating storage tanker Energos Winter, causing a fire that then spread to another vessel, Gaslog Salem, Reuters reported, citing three trading sources familiar with the incident. Two separate security sources say the cause of the blast was a drone strike.
Later, the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources confirmed that a fire had broken out aboard two vessels at Damietta Port, saying in a statement that the situation has been brought under control and that no injuries or human losses have been recorded.
The attack came amid major escalation in the region. Iran resumed strikes after a four-day lull overnight, launching missiles at an air base in Jordan housing American forces. Later in the early morning, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia launched strikes against armed factions backed by the Islamic Republic in Iraq. At least 20 people were killed, with later reports revealing that the casualties included five Iranian military advisors from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
President Donald Trump has since said the U.S. is going to “beat the fucking shit” out of Iran in response to the overnight missile strike.
“We’ll be hitting them hard. They’re going to get a beating,” Trump told Fox News in a phone interview just before the news about the attack in Egypt broke out.
Trump called the Iran strike a “surprise attack” in which American troops had just minutes to shoot down incoming missiles.
Commenting on the strikes in Iraq, Trump claimed they were coordinated with the Iraqi government. He called Iran-backed armed factions there a “cancer on the world.”
The attack on Damietta Port marked the first time Egypt has come under fire since the start of the conflict with Iran. While it is possible that the attack was carried out by the Islamic Republic or one of its regional allies, it is also plausible that the attack was orchestrated by another side attempting to incite Cairo—which has so far adopted a moderate stance on the conflict—against Tehran.
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the american corporate cabal has labored for years to increase international exports of lng to the world at cost to its citizens prosperity. when it is not necessary. the enacters stay blindly drunk on the greed and power of desire. if they lose this capability, heaven will not miss it.
se vê que israel enquanto está calado, está tramando jogando as nações umas contra as outras. a intervenção do paquistão por ordem da arábia saudita quando israel estava prestes a ser destruído pelo irã foi um nakba, uma trajédia. esse cessar-fogo só impediu israel de ser destruído no nosso tempo.
surely selenski didn’t tell his trigger-happy drone operators to spare this one…
hey don don your the cancer of the world please get rid of yourself
i’m glad i don’t own shares in any us businesses. can’t see them staying viable for long. trump is too unstable, can’t honour a treaty and there are too many caveats to bother using the currency… even the fort nox gold isn’t internationally tradable. it is actual depression era dross. worth about 80% of todays bars.
long overdue — about time, iran !
the west immediately blamed iran, but the irgc has not said it was them. so who did it?
this is the rule to follow: everything said by the west is a lie until proven otherwise with evidence (they never do however!) unless one of the civilized countries (like iran or russia) say that they did it. note: iran has openly taken responsibility for all their attacks, i don’t expect them to lie now.
hence i call false flag on this one for now, likely to expand the war.
just stop pussy-footing around and say it, it is israel who attacked egypt and it’s goal is clear:”let the middle east burn in hope israel prevails and emerges as a great israel.
‘no injuries or human losses have been recorded’
gotta try harder next time with something bigger. don’t wait too long, we’re all interested.
i urinate on isra el and then de fe cate on t rump and his circle of circle jerk friends….
trumpy can run but he can’t hide! heheheh