Illustrative image. (U.S. Central Command)
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on June 8 that its forces had disabled an unladen oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman.
In a statement, the command said that the tanker, the Palau-flagged Marivex, violated the ongoing blockade against Iran by attempting to sail to an Iranian port.
An F/A-18 Super Hornet from USS Abraham Lincoln fired a “precision munition” into the Marivex’s engineering and steering spaces after the crew failed to comply with directions from U.S. forces, the command added, noting that the tanker is no longer sailing to Iran.
“CENTCOM forces have disabled seven non-compliant vessels, redirected 134 ships that complied, and allowed 42 vessels supporting humanitarian aid to pass since initiating the blockade on April 13,” it concluded.
The strike was first reported by the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), which said in an advisory notice that the tanker caught fire, and that its crew were forced to evacuate.
Videos showing the aftermath of the strike surfaced online later. Notably, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock can be seen sailing next to the Marivex in one of the videos.
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the blockade on Iranian ports just four days after the ceasefire went into effect, in response to the Islamic Republic’s restriction on maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz — a checkpoint for around 20 percent of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments.
Iran has warned more than once in recent weeks that it would respond to U.S. attacks on vessels heading to its ports. The Islamic Republic has already hit back more than once, not only by attacking vessels it deemed in violation of its measures in the waterway, but also by targeting U.S. warships. It has even renewed strikes on bases hosting U.S. forces in neighboring Gulf states.
Given the high tensions, Iran’s response will likely come within hours, not days. With the recent exchange of strikes with Israel, war could resume at any moment.
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my americunt anuz attacked in trailer w hebrew jizz yesterday derp derp incel
good morning clyde. another day of zionist filth distraction?
inferior species feminized americunt rob easily distracted
are slavs really just slaves? will 2024 and the kazan betrayal of all brics values really be forgotten? what putin and erdoğan did at the brics meeting in kazan should never, ever be forgotten. the only one who would pay for this act fairly and rebalance the balance of power would be ante gotovina if he moved the border between nato and russia to the urals.
after all this, israel now dares to constantly attack iran, dump dared to kill their top boss. it would be nice if in moscow sometime in 2030, assad’s daughter came to her father and brought her breasts and intestines in her hands and said. polish and baltic women are complete psychopaths. the male soldiers behaved normally, but the women are pure crazy sadists without any intelligence. first they offered me cookies, and when i refused, they cut me up.
i hope that the traitors of syria will be tried by polish, armenian, lithuanian, ukrainian, latvian and estonian soldiers on the streets of moscow. this means that they will be hung from traffic lights and overpasses like they are doing in mexico city and tijuana.
this is quite normal behaviour for the epstein joo brigade.
endless forever war for mafia oligarchy. no end will come until the people overthrow their foolish masters. red sea closure will starve the eu populations. free palestine !
the main one is the russian mafia. i hope the nato mafia burns russia down to the urals and hangs them from the overpasses.
the red sea and suez will now close to the amerikunts and their whores.
yet the oil from baku is still flowing to israel through turkey. it only affects us and not the jews. its time we do the right thing and that is exterminate all these jews from our governments and cut off the flow of oil to israel
please good god, can you make in any way that the polish army marches into moscow and slaughters both putin and assad. because their treachery caused the massive environmental damage that bibi and dump are now doing.
i am god. the answer is no !
so how is the 3-day smo ‘epstein fury’ going? have we won yet? yes , no, wtf
without putin and assad’s betrayal of syria, dump would never have dared to destroy the environment so brazenly. i hope that nato will remove mark rutte from leadership and install ante gotovina. because just moving the border between nato and russia to the urals would be a fitting punishment for such dirty betrayal. if the revolutionary guard is to blame for banning barehead women and dogs on the streets of tehran, then why is dump destroying the environment that belongs to the entire world?
today is 59 anniversary of attack on uss liberty. false flag done by demonic entity.
only mirko norac and nikol pashinyan would know how to properly deal with the traitors responsible for the trump attack on iran. this is because jure francetić and rafael boban are unfortunately dead and we would not put them in charge of the treacherous kazan and moscow.what happened in 2024 at the brics meeting in kazan must be paid for properly. but russia would only get paid for properly if either azov or the ustashas or mirko norac stepped into moscow and kazan.
pin prick us anti shipping strikes will infuriate the world. complete us regional withdrawal appears to become a better option