Pentagon: Iran’s revolutionary guards behind ship sabotage off UAE coast as Abu Dhabi Mum
‘Well who the hell cares about Abu Dhabi’s mum, who the fuck’s she to us, anway?’ hollered Rear Admiral Michael Gilday. General Rear Gild-the-Lily blustered on: ‘Who the fuck needs ‘evidence’, when we have Intel from Mossad? And they say those terr’ists had attached magnetic limpet mines, those evil devils. I don’t know how they delivered them; bathyscaphes or those friggin’ Russian spy dolphins for all I know, but who the hell cares? We know because Mossad told us so.
But The President had warned you that if they fuck with our interests anywhere around the globe, there’ll be hell to pay! And our interests have a long reach, and don’t you forget it.
Well anyway, on Friday our great Commander-in-Chief ordered 1500 more troops, including a Patriot missile battery and a squadron of fighter jets, supplements the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group sent to the region earlier this month. It also includes the sending of additional reconnaissance and engineering support staff. to the region to protect our interests. Take that, Iran! We’ll get you in the end, mark my words! We’re going to keep the peace if we have to Bomb the World!
More from wsws, May 25:
“Moreover, the Pentagon has already deployed nuclear capable B-52’s, F-16C fighter jets and Marines to the Middle East, while drawing up plans to send a further 120,000 military personnel to the region to attack Iran.”
“Should Iran be blamed for an attack on “US interests,” which could include anything from Saudi oil platforms to CIA-backed ISIS terrorist groups in Syria, the troops being sent to the Middle East would rapidly be thrown into a war.
“In addition to preparing for a direct clash with Iran, US imperialism is also arming its regional allies for war. The same day the latest troop increase was announced, the Trump administration released a “Memorandum of Justification” detailing plans to circumvent congressional oversight in order to sell US weapons to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Jordan. The memorandum invoked an emergency under the Arms Export Control Act, permitting the executive branch to authorize weapons transfers. The weapons to be sent to the despotic Saudi regime and Gulf allies reportedly include laser-guided bombs. In total, US firms will sell more than $8 billion worth of arms to the three regimes.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who reportedly took the lead within the administration in advocating the sending of additional US troops, said the sale of billions of dollars of US weaponry to Washington’s allies was necessary to guard against “Iranian aggression.”
The statement announcing the weapons sales also justified the illegal transfer of bombs to the despotic Saudi regime as a counter to the “fundamental threat of malign Iranian activity” across the Middle East. This threat included an unsubstantiated allegation that Iran was responsible for the deaths of “over 600” US military personnel in Iraq.”
“The US war drive in the Middle East does not arise from the personal proclivities of Trump, his attack dog Pompeo, or his hawkish National Security Adviser John Bolton, who has been urging the US to bomb Iran for years. Rather, it is part of the US ruling elite’s effort to consolidate its unchallenged domination over the energy-rich and geo-strategically critical Middle East, and push back the influence of its chief rivals, above all Russia and China.
The reality is that Washington’s reckless escalation of military tensions with Iran enjoys bipartisan support. Ahead of this week’s State Department threat against Syria for alleged chemical weapons use, leading Democrats in both houses of Congress signed an appeal demanding that the White House “increase pressure on Iran and Russia with respect to activities in Syria.”
US Seeks War to Save Waning Middle East Influence
(six mins; the links are under the video on youtube; ‘Eye-raq, Eye-ran’, eeep.)
#USNavy photos of the day: Sailors conduct flight deck operations aboard #USSAbrahamLincoln, Sailors remove an ordnance from an F/A-18E Super Hornet, Marines fast-rope from an MH-60S Sea Hawk, and more.
info and download: https://t.co/S1Z9adKjyB pic.twitter.com/1BFjCv8uiQ— U.S. Navy (@USNavy) May 25, 2019
(cross-posted from Café Babylon)
Comments
Begs the question "Why would they do something so absolutely
stupid?
This is not like Pearl Harbor or various German incidents pre-WW I and WW II.
Those were world powers flexing their muscles trying to get the other side to back down. This, if actually done by Iran, would be like a mouse biting a lion's lip.
It's obviously false.
EDIT: When Iran's revolutionary government took US hostages, they were facing a USA with weak divided leadership and a country weary of VietNam. It was worth taking a chance and it paid off, sort of. The situation is very opposite now, the belligerent Trump administration is obviously thirsty for war, and absent a draft, the US public is, at a minimum, complacent.
Once on PBS I heard a military expert say that five nukes would obliterate 90% of the Iranian population. Jimmy Carter would never do that. The xenophobic Trump boasts of it. Why would they give Trump an excuse?
EDIT2:
IMHO this is like the SS troops dressing in Polish uniforms, crossing the Elbe twice to blow up their own radio station, than retaliating for the Polish "invasion".
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
hmmm. well, i dunno if
we'll ever know the truth about the iranian hostages, but the winner was of course: ronald reagan. this isn't pearl harbor as per the axis of powers, but the new axis of evil as per dubya, david frum, et. al: any nation who opposed USian power.
gadzukes, though; i thought folks might have appreciated my spontaneous satire. but as mr. wd says, i'm like red skelton who'd laughed the hardest at his own jokes. ah, well. so it goes...
Loved this article, Wendy! Don't Stop.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
lol.
one way or another, for better or worse, for richer or poorer...er... i can't seem to stop!
and you may have missed my satire, but as the first comment in, you blessedly hadn't said: 'this is too long; can you break it up into parts?' nor 'could you please not use words like rada and such that i don't understand?' ; )
It's a transparent lie
They didn't even bother to come up with a good lie because they respect us so little
Sure, Iran did it. That's sooo believable.
It's like totally believable that Iran would attack 4 ships with carefully placed bombs THAT KILLED NO ONE, SANK NO SHIPS, and caused damages that can be repaired easily and quickly at low cost. What a minimal impact way to start a war!!
So US intel could not detect three near catastrophic acts?
u s intel
may be an oxymoron, but in any event: who's in charge of the war rooms? that's where we get into 'competing deep states', and all that jazz. but that's the reason so many 'anonymous pentagon generals/insiders' and 'anonymous CIA agents/insiders' are quoted in the papers of record (NYT an WaPo, srew the guardian pupppet), no? think they might have an agenda?
gotta go get me some rest.
yeah, it's a fooking con,
and it doesn't even reach the level of a 'false flag'. the port master at abu dhabi had even noted: 'no explosions, calms waters' etc. someone couldda even made the holes from inside the ships.
but i got to remembering this you'd had some fun with: 'US 'sees signs' Damascus 'may' have used chlorine in Idlib, threatens ‘quick & appropriate’ response'. now that was another false flag. but this is hilarious, and my guess this what the dude had said (via RTcom):
federico pieraccini’s
got it pretty close to right in his ‘Shielding the World From US Chaos Is No Easy Task’ at strategic culture, although it ain’t over till its over.
the bolded is certainly the big question.
closing time for me.
i'll end with this quote via john wight on his 'end nato' piece at rt last week:
and from john trudell: Rich Man's Wars', and they're all...rich man's wars. who will stop the hegemon? those who can..and must. g' night.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDOZ00A1aos]
Iran just proved they can shut that whole thing down
Oil delivery not through the Strait of Hormuz. When Trump pulled his tiny from the Nuke Deal and applied sanctions, they said "If we can't sell oil, no one can sell oil." They are continuing their stated "War on Oil" to destabilize oil markets and damage the U.S. economy, that's what I think. winning
Next, I see Trump bombing something to smithereens in retaliation because of course. A baby man with multiple personality disorders and his finger tweeting MAGA all day. Of course.
I believe the pentagon is correct, that sabotage did occur and send a bigly message, the U.S. has lost this proxy war too. The United States of Loser War Mongering Chicken Shit Bomb Droppers. whoop de do LOSERS It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. Send in the Navy now, the most chickenshit of all, yeah that'll work. big bombs tiny minds
The blowback from Trump and his Axis of Congressional Assholes is gonna be yuge, and last forever. And he still thinks he is "winning", that is the tiresome part. yawn
good luck planet
PEACE
now i may not be catching
your drift, and yes, iranian FM javad zarif has said that iran could close the strait by sinking a ship, but as i remember it, he'd noted that one of their old ships could be sunk.
it gets a bit confusing due to the varied coverage, but i'd thought that iran's demands that would guaranttee they wouldn't enrich high-grade uranium were: that the EU nations would keep to the JCPOA, keep buying iranian oil, and pressure trump to extend the expired waivers as well as back off on his war-by-other-means sanctions.
but the big news today is 'Iran proposes ‘non-aggression pact’ to Gulf neighbors as regional tensions soar', RT.com
"Iran has proposed signing a non-aggression pact to its neighbors, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said. At the same time, the country is ready to defend itself from any attack, be it “an economic war or a military one.”
i did poke about to see if there were any more explicit lists, etc., but i did come across this interesting meeting as well:
'Russia welcomes Iran nonaggression initiative with Gulf, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Iran's non-aggression initiative can become step to detente', aa.com.tr
now the creepy, but unsurprising news is that the T admin has approved the sale of 105 stealth bombers to japan, which is re-militarizing at an alarming rate, i expect because: north korea and china, but i may be wrong on that math. ah, there's more, but that's good for now.
OFM:
from b at moon of alabama:
New York Times Supports False Trump Claims About An "Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program" That Does Not Exist, today, may 27
he opens:
(the video)