United States’ attempts to challenge Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz are causing increasing tensions and jeopardizing the recent memorandum of understanding to end the war.
The escalation began on June 23, when Oman announced an alternative route through the waterway along its shoreline in cooperation with the International Maritime Organization.
Two days after the announcement, a cargo ship, the Ever Lovely, was damaged in an attack off the Omani coast. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) held Iran responsible for the attack and used it as an excuse to escalate, ignoring the recent deal.
The command’s forces struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites the overnight of June 26 and 27. The strikes hit Sirik County and Qeshm Island in southern Iran.
The response from the Islamic Republic came fast. Within a few hours of the U.S. strikes, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy attacked “U.S. Army deployment sites in the region.” Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet base, acknowledged that it was attacked by Iranian drones.
The U.S. strikes didn’t deter Iran, however. Later on June 27, a tanker, the Kiku, was struck near Hormuz after attempting to pass without coordinating with the authorities of the Islamic Republic.
Overnight into June 28, CENTCOM announced another round of strikes against Iran, targeting surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and minelayer capabilities. Sirik County and Qeshm Island were again hit.
The IRGC Navy and Aerospace Forces responded with full force within a few hours, targeting Ali al-Salem base in Kuwait and at the Fifth Fleet naval base in Bahrain with missiles and drones. Both countries admitted coming under attack.
Later on June 28, it was reported that both the U.S. and Iran agreed to halt attacks, and will meet again in Qatar to discuss the Strait of Hormuz.
The escalation by the U.S. didn’t stop. On June 30, CENTCOM confirmed that the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit of the U.S Marine Corps arrived in the Middle East, in a stark violation of the recent deal with Iran which prohibits further military buildup as talks take place.
One the same day, a report by the Wall Street Journal revealed that U.S. President Donald Trump IS considering options for a return to full-scale war in Iran.
Indirect talks took place in the Qatari capital, Doha, on July 1, with Trump later even reporting progress. Nevertheless, the two sides didn’t agree on the future of the Strait of Hormuz or core nuclear issues. More escalation is to be expected and a return to a full-scale war remains likely.
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sometimes “colorful” language can be justified:
iran has got trump by the balls.
i hope they squeeze really hard and crush them.
make him squeal like the war pig he is.
netanyahoo too.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
they are fucking going desperate, imagining things, full blown psychosis on the wahhabis side.
the u.$. markets tell you everything you need to know.
but also the price at german gas stations!!!
what ever the us decide, iran still has full control of the hormoz bottle neck, and the two shipping lanes.
the crimes of the jooz and their amerikunt whores are unprecedented and unconscionable. and they will pay for them. bigly. long into the future.
the amerikunt war machine has long been nothing more than dumb goy muscle serving the criminal wars of aggression of the jooz – iran, iraq, libya, syria, yemen. the pet golem of the jooz. now they are trying to take over the whole of the amerikunt military and its 1500 billion budget by sneaking legislation through the congress without any debate which hands over control to them. they will take direct control of the amerikunt military and its budget.
the jooz are planning further wars of aggression against egypt, turkey, syria, lebanon, jordan, iraq and saudi arabia. they are planning to steal territory from all of them, with further campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the pipeline. they intend to hijack the amerikunt war machine to achieve this. the whores in congress, the amerikunt president and population will have no say in this whatsoever. the rabid zio psychos are planning the biggest joo coup in history.
what a load of tom tit! israel wants to send troops! american troops against iran to die on behalf of these degenerates. american senators keep sending these sons of americans and hiding the numbers of the dead! your sons and daughters you’re daft enough to be kept in the dark and fed sh1t, you deserve nothing less
humiliated by superior persians all us americunts desperate for persian jew jizz to be derped in our incel anuz
97+ feedback score for you, and all others reset to zero? sure thing clyde. goyim people can’t see that… only the supreme jews can, right?
sonar21 are a funny site 😂 some mafiosos there feel so sorry for the poor murderers in the working slave cast. the poor murderers must be allowed to murder ! then the cannibals can print zeros to them 😂 humans are the most stupid of any animals, controlled by the one ring, the zero, and its stupid brain, totally absorbed by the simulation.
“how can china/russia usher in a more civilised future when they overlook the gaza holocaust?” sonar21. short answer; they cant. a more civilised future should demand missile strikes on the “un” skyscraper.
“you can’t defeat a nuclear power, because the nukes are there in case of an existential crisis.” sonar21. are you absolutely sure about that ? then the nazis can never be defeated 😂 exactly what they, and the mentally ill nazi einstein want you to believe. only launch all sarmat-2 missiles, and in best possible case, you defeat two “nuclear power” in one strike. but much more probably, the shit does not work 😂 people will die from laughter.
strange they didnt in “moon landings”, 9/11 or “pandemic” 😂
“nobody will throw a nuke on the usa.” sonar21. ??? do that several times a day. you should not use only one “nuke”. extinct the hollywood apes.
“this is getting boring. for every bomb the us drops you kill one american. what’s the point in bombing evacuated military bases that serves never a purpose in this war for the zillion time?” sonar21. mathematics by the zero. kill thousand. or one million. as sooner you get rid of them.
morte à israel e à ucrãnia nazista matem zelensky
erase the “american” settler colony in the middle east. and bomb “us” away from the surface. people are stupid as hell, every ethnicity kills some other ethnicity, and them self, but not the faked ethnicitys that are the root cause to all wars. voting for russians could as well be done in new york 😂 “you have get viruses” 😂 please kill your self 😂
both russia and china take part in the charade. humans are dependent on healtcare. their genetic are full of fails. lloyd pie. and now they obviously expect a “multipolar world” somehow happening with non-humans ruling it from “un” 😂 whats needed are a collapse of the non-civilization. not visit it in alaska.
“it is no wonder so many wax nostalgic for russia because russia is what america was. stalwart, competent, fair. as much as those relative generalizations resemble actual truth.” sonar21. yes ! genocide closest kidnapped tribe remembers a lot ! the native americans was of course kidnapped by agreements, it was not called “deals” in those old days.