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The Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen released on October 3 video footage documenting their attack on the Panama-flagged oil tanker Cordelia Moon in the Red Sea.
The Cordelia Moon was attacked by an uncrewed suicide boat some 64 nautical miles northwest of the Yemeni Red Sea port of al-Hodeidah, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, a detachment of the Royal Navy, reported on October 1.
The tanker, which was in ballast condition, was damaged on its port side tank, British security firm Ambrey and the United States Navy-run Joint Maritime Information Center said, adding that it was proceeding to its next port of call.
The Houthis alleged that the Cordelia Moon was owned by the UK. The group said that the oil tanker was targeted in support of the Gaza Strip and Lebanese as well as in response to recent American and British strikes on Yemen.
The footage released by the Houthis shows a large fireball bursting out of the vessel’s port side tank, sending a thick column of dark smoke into the air.
Since November, the Houthis, who are backed by Iran, have attacked dozens of vessels affiliated with Israel or owned by the U.S. and the UK in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
The group also launched dozens of drones and missiles at Israel and shot down at least eleven American-made combat drones over Yemen and nearby waters.
The U.S. and the UK have carried out hundreds of strikes against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen since January. Israel also launched two waves of strikes against civilian infrastructure in the western Yemeni province of al-Hodeidah in July and September. However, the group remains undeterred as evident by its recent attacks.
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i have one crucial question for all these super smart anal ists on the south front. everyone knows that iran will be bombed to atoms in the coming days. i wonder where the houthis will get more missiles when they have only one source – iran. as far as i know, they are not friends of russia, china, india, turkey or other countries that have better technology than stone and rope.
who would have thought that baghdad bob invented 5th generation warfare ? because all the west can do now is lie and troll to distract from the complete loss pretty much everywhere. still they can murder defenceless people, granted. this won’t win wars.
your outlook is dimmed by your low iq, british shorsize numbers. iran has the world economy in its hands, close the hormuz and close bab el mandeb and wall street will suffocate and the immense numbers of credit swaps held by the us banks will cause a depression in the us and the western world of such proportion that the banking system willfail and all your savings will be gone in a flash of a second – neither trump nor cackle will want that. jump from a bridge pls!
it does not matter how much the brits, americants and israelis try to bang their way out of this pickle. they will never win. the reisistance will always be greater and outlast these stinky racist colonialist cancers!
or iran is playing diplomacy like a fiddle and throwing the palestinians under the bus: there won’t be any large-scale middle war as iranian authorities are dealing with the us to exchange normalized international relations against letting go of their lebanese proxy, which was probably the plan all along.
don’t be dupe of the circus show, which is all fluff for the dim-witted.
because the west is that trustworthy … just ask the iranians !
israel and america….messianic experiments failing big time. racist supremacists eventually implode. hezbollah continues to bleed the invaders. many israeli commandos have been slain. the jews expend so many bombs and get so little in return.
that’s nothing. in my opinion if israel strikes iran’s oil infrastructure. ships will be sunk on a daily basis in the persian gulf, the hormuz strait will be mined, be shut, arabic gulf oil facilities and us bases will receive missile saturation attacks like what happened to israel recently and trump will win, and so will putin.
ukraine is kaput
nuclear facilities of iran will not being attacked because , also, israel have nuclear power plant and enrichment plant and these are exposed to iran missiles. this vulnerability make the iran cannot being attacked at all.
notice the only silution the psychos in us and uk and eu see is overwhelming force of retaliation. all they need to do is stop their proxy psychos in the mid east to stand down, cease fire and stop invading, assasinating and slaughtering foreign nations and people.