An undated picture of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy patrol craft.
A senior Iranian military source denied allegations made by the United States Navy that Iranian naval vessels attempted to seize two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz on July 5.
The U.S. Navy claimed that Iranian vessels attempted to seize a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker TRF Moss in the Gulf of Oman, and after about three hours, the vessels tried to seize the tanker Richmond Voyager that flies the flag of the Bahamas. After failing to approach the second tanker, Iranian sailors opened fire. However, there were no casualties or major damage.
Iranian media did not provide any details but quoted an unnamed military source as denying that any such incident took place.
In an attempt to back its claims, the U.S. Navy released video footage of the alleged incidents near the Strait of Hormuz. However, the footage was not clear.
About a fifth of global shipments of crude oil and petroleum products pass through the Strait of Hormuz, according to data from analytics firm Vortexa.
Tensions have been mounting in the strategic naval route since Iran seized two oil tankers on April 27 and May 3. The tankers were reportedly captured in response to the seizure of a China-bound Iranian oil shipment by the U.S. near southern Africa on April 22.
The U.S. retaliated by announcing on May 12 that it will increase the rotation of ships and aircraft patrolling in and around the Strait of Hormuz.
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lmao how do you know that footage is authentic and from that time frame the us claimed? how about you submit it to the un so everyone gets a good look at it and see if it’s authentic and the time frame is as you described
lol the un, you still have much to learn.
it’s like asking a convicted pedophile whether or not drag queens messing around with children can be considered grooming.
sounds like you have a lot of experience messing around drag queens
the proof is proof it is all a farce.
saddam hussein be like: let them kill each other!
you have blue-water navies, you have brown-water navies, and then you have outboard-navies… 😂😂😂😂😂😂
blowhard iranians are getting squeezed. they are unable to sell oil. and that means collapse for them. they are inbred and very lazy. talk about complete imability to do anything productive. 😂😂😂😂😂
http://www.ft com/content/807b8a7b-b831-4b09-a061-23a2cc7cab71
is that why they have joined the sco and are close to china? not everything is about the west, you know.
well said, am
i see that the trolls have hit this page ‘en masse’.
basement dwellers also. these people are sociopaths.
yes ..the zio terrorist jew pig scum are active today….i’ve noticed as well
more so called evidence by usa. lmao
more non evidence coming from established deceivers.
should manyfacture and deplay dora guns with fattah misisles ammo .. just in case … need to close the straight … open sorce blue print or … hanlde it self ?!
what is going on in the un this week and who needs to made things tough for iran? believe iran more than i believe the us.
nazi usa telling absolute bullshit, iran never tried to seize them and the biggest thing that gives this story from nazi usa a big bullshit is that iran always seizes by landing troops on deck of the tankers by commando raid from a helicopter never have iran tried to seize a tanker by speedboats as there is no way onto the ship by speedboat iran have 100% always seized any tanker when it has to by helicopter, landing commando’s on to the deck. nazi usa are a bunch of lying cowards as usual. =z=
iran never try and seize a tanker by speed boat they always use helicopters to land commando’s onto the deck so this bullshit story by nazi usa is bullshit as usual. we support you iran here in australia and long live iran =z=
yes, but i as greek see iran as too close to turkey.
pitiful sawyer lgbt lies made by disney
what a farce! make up a reason to annoy everyone. put some flashes on a dim viddeo of a ship at sea.
usa need to make up a story where they actually win. 😆😆😆
i see an iranian vessel monitoring a united snakes tanker. it makes no attempt to get close, hence no wakes in water. the lieing zio terrorist jew slaves again…lies