Iran continues to tighten its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, despite facing a serious escalation by the United States.
On July 7, the Islamic Republic was accused of targeting three commercial vessels near the strategic waterway. The vessels were passing through the Strait’s Omani route, which the Islamic Republic previously warned against using.
First, the Qatari liquefied natural gas carrier Al Rekayyat was hit about eight nautical miles east of Limah, off the coast of Oman. Later, the Saudi oil supertanker Wedyan was targeted along the very same route. Soon after, a third smaller oil tanker owned by South Korea, the Cyprus Prosperity, was struck there.
The first two vessels sustained significant damage, and Al Rekayyat was even reported to be at risk of exploding.
U.S. media reports said that all three vessels were targeted by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Qatar and Saudi Arabia officially held the Islamic Republic responsible.
In an initial response to the attacks on the vessels, the U.S. revoked a general license that authorized the sale of Iranian oil.
The U.S. escalated further overnight into July 8, launching powerful strikes against Iran. Explosions were heard in areas west and east of the port city of Bandar Abbas in the southern province of Hormozgan. Additional strikes were reported in Sirik County, also located in Hormozgan. Qeshm Island was also hit. More strikes targeted the southern province of Bushehr. Meanwhile, in the city of Bandar-e Mahshahr in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, a service member of the IRGC Navy was killed in a strike.
Later, the Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that it had struck over 80 targets in the Islamic Republic. The targets included air defense systems, command and control networks, coastal radar sites, anti-ship missile capabilities, and more than 60 assets belonging to the IRGC Navy.
CENTCOM said that the strikes were carried out to “degrade Iran’s ability to continue attacking international commerce flowing through the international trade corridor.”
U.S. media reported that the strikes were ordered personally by the U.S. President Donlad Trump, and could continue in coming days.
The response came fast from Iran, with the IRGC announcing that it had struck 85 U.S. military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait. The guards also said that an American MQ-9 Reaper combat drone was shot down over Bushehr. Both Kuwait and Bahrain confirmed coming under attack.
The U.S. strikes were a major violation of the memorandum of understanding to end the war signed last month. A more elaborate response by Iran is to be expected, and the Islamic Republic is unlikely to halt operations in the Strait of Hormuz. Still, the deal is expected to hold up.
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no, the deal cannot hold up, it was never going to last. as should be obvious, it requires the united states to recognise iran not as a defeated supplicant, but as the first successful challenger of imperial power since vietnam.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏falou tudo.
more importantly it requires israel to gtfo of lebanon.
of course ! they do not recognize anything else, than to be killed, and it stopped to soon in nazi germany. you should overkill the state servants.
irã destrua por completo o aeroporto ben gurion de israel, em nome de deus!
last night 3 hebrews tighten my derped americunt anuz w incel jizz
you’re always in demand !
iran is slated for destruction. period. will it survive ? we can see the famine and genocide in palestine for living example.
a collection record of human tragedy archivegenocide.com/. very hard to watch
right now, 90 million iranians are calling for revenge against the joo and amerikunt terrorist murderers.
jews bought out america
i scrub many hebrew toilets in americunt dystopia if jew will derp jizz in my incel mouth
first they discovered it. by jews, i this time mean the narcistic, well over the limit for insanity, european cannibals, converted to judaism, exactly as the khazars.
oh, i thought it was “america” that financed the “jews” 😂
it seems that iran no longer has a coherent government.
are they less “coherent” than what passes for a “government” in the jewsa? chumpo and his repulsive family and cronies in an orgy of nepotism and corruption, rabid warmongers, religious nut jobs, superannuated generals, chancers, grifters, conmen, fraudsters, halfwits, dimwits and certifiable lunatics. a real circus freak show.
god one 🥰 the worst scum the earth can produce, voted to rule the working slave cast. they have a “trial” about the trick movie in the charlie kirk spectacle 😂 cia have spread out more rifles. its no difference from nazi germany. dont be so selective with hanging this time.
“the bullets found in charlie chaplin, sorry, kirks body” 😂 didnt know he was dead ? how do you know that ? was he not “shot” with a moose hunting rifle in the neck ? maybe vertically 😂 but should not the head be in the way then ? its a trick movie ! maybe the public have get a suitcase with dollars each. or are “american” chickens 😂
schrödingers cat 😂 he can be both dead or alive. nobody knows. about that, somebody should open olof palmes and lisa holms graves. you cant really know…
in this scene, charlie chaplin, sorry, kirk, play the famous role of prosit, in “snowwhite and the seven dwarfs”. some malfunction in the equipment make it necessary for the scene workers to drag charlie to a car, under intense spinning of his head, for to try to point it in the right direction 😂
but the irgc are very coherent when serving up shit to ‘murikunt f*ckwits and inbred psychos.
usil fake shahed name lucas. false flag attacks. tankers ignored iran conditions no casualties usil killed civilians planned destruction of iran decades ago. general wesley clarke 2007 interview amy goodman saw septembre 2001 classified memo list 7 countries to be taken out iraq syria lebanon libya somalia sudan iran. aim end support palestine make ‘israel’ only power oded yinon plan «a strategy for israel in the 80’s» february 1982 kivunim, translated israel shahak june 1982.
iran should target the “us” bases in europe. blow them from the surface of the earth. in the mean time, russia can protest in “un”; its against “international law” to mass murder in the hospitals. oh, it was “un” which did it ! i really wonder what russia have become ? suicidal ?
“the recent historical precedent is from 2020-1 when five healthy african presidents in their 50s and 60s who refused the covax initiative died of heart attacks and were replaced by toadies who embraced the covax initiative and the vaccine genocide which followed. john magafuli, rest in peace.” sonar21. i told you so.
“again you are ignoring the critical issue, and that is how many religions specifically instruct their followers to exploit, rape, rob, and kill the rest of humanity? name one besides judaism! you can’t because there are none.” sonar21. must be a “american” writing. they have never hear about the genocide on the north american continent, or the bibles calls for genocide, and baskets with dicks. personally, i think all “religions” with walking cadavers, make people insane.
allegedly, one warship from the “us” settler colony in the middle east are sunk. sink all, including the carriers. its like have rabies infected dogs running around over the whole world, and do nothing about it. fire at first sight !
supporters of the cannibalistic lapps in sweden, which is only possible to have 1000 on a third of sweden, the so called “hunters”, will be kept secret for 20 years 😂 they lie as good as the faked jews, have not herded reindeer on the inland ice, and cant coexist with nature, or humanity. assimilated by the cannibalistic state. farmers are a plague.
“another way to look at this is to assume that the people orchestrating this are intentionally working to destroy christendom” sonar21. christianity are a extremely destructive force from the beginning. christianity are the only “religion” responsible for a genocide on a continent. it should be a blessing if it get wiped from the surface. the jews always run first, and have never done anything evil 😂