Iranians rescued Russians from tanker 11 attacked in the Gulf of Oman

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation confirmed that all 11 Russian sailors who were crews of tankers attacked today in the Gulf of Oman were rescued by the coast guard of Iran. According to diplomats, all the saved are safe.

Iranians rescued Russians from tanker 11 attacked in the Gulf of Oman




Around 40, people taken from tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman were taken by the coast guard of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the port city of Jask. In the course of screening procedures and establishing national identity, it turned out that the 11 of the rescued were Russians.

The Embassy of the Russian Federation is doing everything possible to return our citizens to their homeland.

- informs the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Two tankers were attacked


Tankers from which the sailors were evacuated transported oil in the waters of the Gulf of Oman. The Iranian television channel Press TV reported that two explosions had thundered in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday morning. Norwegian tanker Front Altair, carrying 75.000 tons of oil, caught fire and sank, and a fire broke out on the second vessel, Kokuka Courageous, heading from Saudi Arabia to Singapore with a load of methanol on board.

The attack caused an increase in oil prices by 4%. As CNN later reported, sailors from the USS Bainbridge destroyer, the US Navy, found an unused magnetic mine fixed aboard one of the attacked tankers.

US accused of attacking Iran


Meanwhile, the United States directly accused Iran of organizing a ship bombing. Washington's opinion was voiced by the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

According to Pompeo, at the next meeting of the UN Security Council, the United States is going to voice its accusations. According to the Secretary of State, in Washington they concluded that Iran was guilty by summing up intelligence data, information gathered on the course of the training, and also based on an investigation of previous attacks.

The US government believes that Iran is responsible for today's attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman.

- the state secretary emphasized.

In addition, the United States said that information about the rescue of seafarers by Iranians could be a lie, since, for example, only the crew of the United States missile destroyer Bainbridge saved an 21 man. Pompeo also announced that, according to the White House, the attack on tankers was caused by Iran’s attempts to cause an increase in tension in the region.
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  1. +37
    14 June 2019 02: 52
    Old songs about the main thing. We have evidence, but we will not show them to you, take your word for it. If there were US destroyers nearby, then you don’t need to go to the fortuneteller, whose hands are clear.
    1. -37
      14 June 2019 03: 17
      And why cannot it be the work of Iran, which resists US pressure and is not afraid to assert its sovereignty in the face of severe sanctions, does not allow itself to dance to the tune of the State Department?
      1. +59
        14 June 2019 03: 22
        Because blowing up civilian ships (aircraft) is the "prerogative" of the United States.
        1. -14
          14 June 2019 04: 21
          The shooting of peaceful tourists at the airport of Burgas, too lol
          1. +10
            14 June 2019 04: 32
            As terrorists in Burgas were citizens of Sweden, Canada, Australia.
            1. +1
              14 June 2019 04: 39
              The suicide bomber was a citizen of Sweden. And a descendant of the Vikings! Mehdi Yezali, 33, of Algerian descent))
              On February 5, 2013, Bulgaria published an official report on the results of the investigation, which blamed the Hezbollah terrorist group.
              And the citizens of which countries were the organizers - this is the tenth matter.
              1. +4
                14 June 2019 11: 46
                No investigation was conducted. Conclusion on the belonging of terrorists to Lebanese group "Hezbola" - Bulgarians made on the basis of the statement of the Prime Minister of Israel. There is no other reason.
                This is another armored cruiser "Maine".
                1. -1
                  14 June 2019 11: 50
                  How was this not done? )))
                  Just blurt out to please the Jews?
                  And the attack in Buenos Aires in 1994 is also not Iran? And the abduction of Israeli reservists on the border in 2006 - is also not zigzag?
                  1. +3
                    14 June 2019 11: 59
                    Once again, the investigation was not carried out! No evidence was presented, it was directly stated that the conclusions were drawn on the basis of the Israeli side.
                    I did not know who they wanted to please. And whom did the Bulgarians want to please by abandoning the South Stream ?! (now how bites your elbows). I think that the Bulgarian owner lives in Washington and wears a funny hairstyle.
                    1. 0
                      14 June 2019 12: 01
                      I read another. Well, okay - we can’t convince each other hi
                      1. +3
                        14 June 2019 12: 10
                        May be! But if you "read", you should have noticed that before announcing the results of the "investigation", the Bulgarian Foreign Minister took the "draft investigation" to Israel! (If I remember this, there is even Wikipedia and both the Israeli press, not without pride, and the Bulgarian editions wrote about it)
                        And now QUESTION - ISN’T IT FUNNY ?!
                        hi
                      2. +1
                        14 June 2019 12: 46
                        Do you doubt that I read about it? Including in Israeli sources, which are proud, and so - the information about the investigation into the circumstances of your citizens' death on someone else’s territory should be taken by the “hospitable” owner of the scene - that's understandable)). In general, Mossad immediately gets into these matters, because Israel’s overseas attack has been a national pain point since Black September. It’s just that if the next “Brigade of Martyrs of the PGT Kryzhopol” did this, I don’t think the Israelis would hide it in order to tarnish the bright face of Hezbollah - everyone already knows that the next war with them, everyone remembers about the border with Lebanon in 2006, about Buenos Aires in 1994, well, in the zig-zag of the Nasralovskaya team, sho Israel is published in the open press, sho West is the question. On a fig Bulgarians / Jews to lie?
                      3. +1
                        14 June 2019 13: 13
                        Well, you imagine (I do not say):
                        1. The terrorist attack was organized by the CIA, for them this is a normal scenario - and that Israel will break off the US’s relations with a country that guarantees their security in anger ?!
                        2. Terrorist attack - filled with ki "loners" - Israel, of course, they, and maybe their families, will soak. But why not blame Iran too !?
                        3. The terrorist attack was organized by the Saudis to once again push their enemies with their foreheads.

                        Neither the Bulgarian nor the Israeli side provided any evidence. You can fantasize as you like. The situation is exactly the same as with the Skripals.
                        In any case, why should Iran!
                        To get another sanction !?
                      4. 0
                        14 June 2019 14: 04
                        1) The CIA in Bulgaria against the Israelis? Meaning? On the territory of the Russian Federation, China - is still understandable. And if it opens - given the Jewish-evangelical lobby in the States - there are consequences for intelligence, for the administration ...
                        2) Do you know how the Israelis got agitated at the assassination of Abu Jihad? Valnuli him in Tunisia, the Palestinians blame the Mossad, and the Jews to them-this is your internal showdown and conflict. Then all the Arabs began to laugh in the voice - if our soaked him, there would have been a murder not in front of the family, but with the family. So do not confuse Xionyun with Mujahiddin. hi
                        3) Saudis, Cathars, others - it’s quite possible for yourself. They financed most of the anti-Israeli attacks, it is. But why blame the already famous enemy, the Persians?
                        4) evidence - Natanyahu brought down Sulejmani with the IRGC, and eventually found on the bag, EMNIP, a DNA trait terrorist who trained at Hezbollah camp in Lebanon, was previously wanted in Europe. The CIA officers dug up on their own agents and issued that it was Hezbollah without any connection with the IRGC. They waited and avenged Mugnia, who was slammed by Mossad. The Bulgarian investigator, who chatted about the identities of the terrorists identified by Israeli experts along with the Bulgarian police, was fired. Etc. Those. the investigation was, sooner or later these guys would be killed.
                        5) And what about Iran? Why the hell did he have a terrorist attack in 1994? Why expose Hezbollah? They gave the Persian intelligence the go-ahead of Nasral for a terrorist attack and that’s all!
                      5. +1
                        14 June 2019 14: 26
                        Reynold Gesner and Fritz Mandel, Max Warburg, Oscar Wasserman and Hans Privin, Gustav Krupp and J.P. Morgan - these Jews sponsored Hitler until 1944 - why would they! Then they organized Israel.
                        In their world, human life, even if Jewish, costs nothing.
                        Why do they need Israel? Certainly not in order for the Jews to find the "promised land" - this is just another hotbed of tension, a springboard for the seizure (control) of resources. They have long lived according to the Lyautet principle.
                      6. 0
                        14 June 2019 14: 50
                        Warburg generally left for the states at the end of 30 due to the persecution of Jews in company management. Krupp dynasty which side to the Jews. Etc. etc...
                      7. +1
                        14 June 2019 14: 57
                        laughing
                        All clear hi
                        1) J.P. Morgan - not a Jew, died in 1913
                        2) Gustav Krupp - not a Jew, from a family of nobles, still sponsored Hitler, died in 1950, to the creation of Israel - zero to the mass
                        3) Hans Privin - I have not heard of this
                        4) Max Warburg is a Jew, he didn’t finance Hitler, he was removed from the board of all companies due to racial laws of Nazi Germany, in 1938 he managed to escape to the States, had nothing to do with the creation of Israel
                        5) Fritz Mandel, an Austrian fascist, did not finance Hitler, did not like the Nazis, not a Jew. He had nothing to do with the creation of Israel
                        6) Reynold Gesner - I do not know this
                        Read less bullshit))
        2. +6
          14 June 2019 05: 10
          Quote: Valery Valery
          Because, the undermining of civilian ships (aircraft)

          Best student and follower, urcaine
          1. 0
            14 June 2019 08: 06
            Quote: Lipchanin
            Best student and follower, urcaine

            there is no such name.
            And you can always remember the method of "Ryazan sugar"
            but not the essence, mutual accusations. (for someone it is important or not important to drag and prick a neighbor)
            This bay is the price of oil.
            And by turning the faucet handle (Strait of Hormuz) it is easy to adjust the price and risks (which affect the price)
            and this is not the first case.
            1. 0
              14 June 2019 08: 15
              Quote: Antares
              but not the essence, mutual accusations. (for someone it is important or not important to drag and prick a neighbor)

              Urkaines have no experience of shooting down passenger planes?
              And by turning the faucet handle (Strait of Hormuz) it is easy to adjust the price and risks (which affect the price)
              and this is not the first case.

              And why impose sanctions on Iran?
              And when they do not work "accidentally" the destroyer appears?
              1. -7
                14 June 2019 08: 25
                Quote: Lipchanin
                Urkaines have no experience of shooting down passenger planes?

                I don’t know among the "Urkainites";
                Quote: Lipchanin
                And why impose sanctions on Iran?
                And when they do not work "accidentally" the destroyer appears?

                sanctions work. Other methods are also in action.
                Sanctions are just one of the methods.
                1. +3
                  14 June 2019 09: 06
                  Quote: Antares
                  Ukrainians do not.

                  The disaster over the Black Sea, which was forgotten due to the prescription of years, which resulted in the death of 78 from the Tel Aviv-Novosibirsk flight, has not yet found its logical conclusion. Having admitted her guilt, Ukraine did not pay compensation to the Russian airline Siberia in the amount of 15 million dollars, limiting itself to paying 200 000 dollars for each Israeli and Russian killed. Knock-knocked down, but we will not answer in full - this is in the style of the current policy of Kiev.

                  https://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201710041446-7fl5.htm
                  And have you forgotten about the Malaysian Boeing?
                  Other methods are also in action.

                  Which ones and how?
                  Sanctions are just one of the methods.

                  And yesterday’s provocation is one of the methods.
                  Forgot about the test tube?
                  1. -1
                    14 June 2019 11: 52
                    +1
                    Are you interested in arguing with the next Bandera !? Brost you this business. By the way, about the "Ukrainian" Boeing - there is an interesting version of A.I. Fursova - I recommend. hi
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        3. +2
          14 June 2019 09: 37
          And not just civilians. In 1898, in the bay of Havana and in 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin, they did not spare their sailors. And with Pearl Harbor, not everything is simple.
          But at the beginning of the XIX century, one congressman announced a formula, I don’t remember the exact quote, but roughly: for the sake of the interests of the US state, you can take any steps and measures. So they go to the set-ups, provocations, murders ... At the same time, by the state they mean not the people and the country, but the power elites.
          1. +3
            14 June 2019 10: 18
            Quote: PalBor
            for the interests of the US state, you can take any steps and measures. So they go to the setups, provocations, murders ...

            Therefore, with the "Twin Towers" is not so simple
            There are many people who argue that this is the work of the American intelligence services.
      2. +28
        14 June 2019 04: 08
        ... And who is directly waiting for him to be first sanctioned, and then bombed. Just like Assad. He, too, when aircraft carriers appear, for some reason begins to poison everyone with chlorine around. He also loves sanctions and bombing.
        Don't you think that these are excuses in the style of an owl stretched across the globe?
      3. +8
        14 June 2019 04: 58
        because even Amerov media trumpet that Iran does not need this.
        1. 0
          14 June 2019 05: 12
          Quote: Bull Terrier
          because even Amerov media trumpet that Iran does not need this.

          Strange ....
          "And then something went wrong ..."
          1. 0
            14 June 2019 05: 16
            myself in shock) https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/13/middleeast/iran-gulf-of-oman-attacks-analysis-intl/index.html
            1. -1
              14 June 2019 05: 20
              Quote: Bull Terrier
              https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/13/middleeast/iran-gulf-of-oman-attacks-analysis-intl/index.html

              I don’t sleep in aglitski laughing
      4. +10
        14 June 2019 08: 14
        History teaches us.
        In the port of Havana, an American warship was blown up - the US-Spanish war began. They blamed Spain, although it was proved that the explosion occurred inside the ship.
        Further, the incident in the Thin Gulf. A Vietnamese ship "fired" on an American destroyer - the war in Vietnam began.
        Powers test tube at the UN, we all remember how it ended, no need to be reminded.
        To achieve its goals, the United States will not stop at nothing.
        Examples can probably be cited.
        1. +1
          14 June 2019 09: 45
          Quote: Blacksmith 55
          In the port of Havana, an American warship was blown up - the US-Spanish war began. They blamed Spain, although it was proved that the explosion occurred inside the ship.

          while on board the "Maine" there was not a single white man - all blacks ...
    2. +9
      14 June 2019 03: 21
      Quote: pexotinec
      If there were US destroyers nearby, then you don’t need to go to the fortuneteller, whose hands are clear.

      But people also think so:
      TASS, June 13th. The incident with two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, which were allegedly attacked, "suspiciously coincided" with a visit to Iran by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The attention was paid to this fact on Thursday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic Javad Zarif.
      "We are deeply concerned about this incident, which suspiciously coincided with the visit to Tehran of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe," Zarifa was quoted by Al Mayadeen.
      The minister blamed the United States for escalating tensions in the region, which is "waging an economic war against Iran."
    3. +9
      14 June 2019 04: 01
      Hundreds of Hollywood films, computer games inspire the whole world that only the United States has underwater saboteurs, and even all as one Rambo. Which can mine the ship on the go. We believe well. Now how do you explain the presence of your ship near the scene? As soon as he appeared there, it immediately happened. And before that there were no such cases, with such a handwriting.
      1. 0
        14 June 2019 05: 01
        yes they could be charged anywhere. at least in the port of dispatch. only someone who profited from this can explain this.
    4. 0
      14 June 2019 05: 09
      Quote: pexotinec
      If there were US destroyers nearby,

      Aha. Piano in the bushes.
      Passed by accident
    5. +4
      14 June 2019 05: 35
      "We need to look for those who benefit" Mark Tulei Cicero
      1. +1
        14 June 2019 09: 22
        Quote: CERBERFOL
        "We need to look for those who benefit" Mark Tulei Cicero

        Who benefits from the fact that oil jumped in price after the attacks?
        1. +3
          14 June 2019 12: 49
          To the states, the Russian Federation, importers to Russia, exporters from the States ... to a fig who.
  2. +14
    14 June 2019 02: 58
    Well, this is no way ... At such a pace in a couple of weeks they and their destroyer will undermine.
    1. +7
      14 June 2019 03: 26
      Well, on the Pentagon, the Kyrgyz Republic did not hesitate to shoot already, and other cases.
    2. +16
      14 June 2019 03: 39
      There was such a case, with the battleship "Maine" in 1898, no one else in the world, not once. The United States blew up its battleship and started a war with Spain
      1. +7
        14 June 2019 05: 19
        Quote: CERBERFOL
        There was such a case, with the battleship "Maine" in 1898,

        Provocation in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964
        Most recently, a statement was released in the United States by independent researcher Matthew Aide, who specializes in the history of the National Security Agency (US intelligence agency and counterintelligence), that key intelligence about the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, which served as the reason for the US invasion of Vietnam, was falsified. The basis was the report of the NSA staff historian Robert Heynok, compiled in the 2001 year and declassified on the basis of the Freedom of Information Act (adopted by Congress in the 1966 year). It follows from the report that the NSA officers made an unintentional mistake in translating the information received as a result of the radio interception. Senior officers, who discovered the mistake almost immediately, decided to hide it by correcting all the necessary documents so that they indicated the reality of the attack on the Americans. High-ranking officials repeatedly referred to these false data in their speeches.
        1. 0
          14 June 2019 08: 11
          Quote: Lipchanin
          Quote: CERBERFOL
          There was such a case, with the battleship "Maine" in 1898,

          Provocation in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964
          Most recently, a statement was released in the United States by independent researcher Matthew Aide, who specializes in the history of the National Security Agency (US intelligence agency and counterintelligence), that key intelligence about the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, which served as the reason for the US invasion of Vietnam, was falsified. The basis was the report of the NSA staff historian Robert Heynok, compiled in the 2001 year and declassified on the basis of the Freedom of Information Act (adopted by Congress in the 1966 year). It follows from the report that the NSA officers made an unintentional mistake in translating the information received as a result of the radio interception. Senior officers, who discovered the mistake almost immediately, decided to hide it by correcting all the necessary documents so that they indicated the reality of the attack on the Americans. High-ranking officials repeatedly referred to these false data in their speeches.

          what’s funny in this story is that the Americans themselves are investigating their riddles. And they can.
          In our countries, this is impossible.
          1. 0
            14 June 2019 08: 19
            Quote: Antares
            O Americans themselves are investigating their riddles.

            very quick
            Most recently, a statement was released in the United States by independent researcher Matthew Aide, who specializes in the history of the National Security Agency (the US intelligence agency and counterintelligence) that key intelligence about the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964,

            First, they started the war, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, and then, decades later, they began to "investigate"
            In our countries, this is impossible.

            In this we are different from these scoundrels
      2. +2
        14 June 2019 09: 49
        Quote: CERBERFOL
        There was such a case, with the battleship "Maine" in 1898, no one else in the world, not once. The United States blew up its battleship and started a war with Spain

        On September 11, 2001, 2 skyscrapers were blown up and ravaged the whole Middle East under the guise of a war with bin Laden and Co ...
  3. +8
    14 June 2019 02: 59
    US accused of attacking Iran

    Pompeo, and the whole of America, has forgotten the American proverb: "If something looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."
  4. -5
    14 June 2019 03: 14
    A month ago, Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz. Oh, these hybrid wars. I'm not me and not my hut.
  5. +1
    14 June 2019 03: 22
    Russia and the European Union intend to abandon settlements in dollars due to trade disagreements with the United States.
    The US government believes that Iran is responsible for today's attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman.

    These are the two news. I wonder how far the United States is prepared to go in saving the dollar.
    1. +2
      14 June 2019 06: 27
      Quote: Prjanik
      Russia and the European Union intend to abandon settlements in dollars due to trade disagreements with the United States.
      The US government believes that Iran is responsible for today's attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman.

      These are the two news. I wonder how far the United States is prepared to go in saving the dollar.

      Well, look at the exchange rates and answer, does it even care about anyone? But no, all for fi gu wink
  6. 0
    14 June 2019 03: 27
    Fluctuations on exchanges are beneficial to those who trade there, the only way you can earn big money there.
  7. +6
    14 June 2019 03: 49
    It was necessary to stoke your destroyer.
    1. +4
      14 June 2019 05: 23
      Quote: aiden
      It was necessary to stoke your destroyer.

      Well, if the room with the tankers doesn’t work, the destroyer will get to
  8. +1
    14 June 2019 04: 10
    The US government believes that Iran is responsible for today's attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman.

    Well, yes, what doubt can there be if a provocation was organized for this purpose?
    A month ago, it was not possible to undermine the situation, I had to do a double two.
    One thing is good - if you decide to attract the UN Security Council, then they will not bomb immediately.
    1. +4
      14 June 2019 04: 23
      Security Council - Russia, China - veto.
      1. +1
        14 June 2019 05: 19
        Americans are not so stupid as not to foresee this option. Therefore, they probably stocked up with some other trump cards. Therefore, at the moment, it matters only that they did not immediately bomb.
        1. +2
          14 June 2019 05: 24
          That's it. Moreover, they are smart. They are heating up the situation for future negotiations with the Persians - IMHO.
          1. +2
            14 June 2019 06: 02
            Quote: Krasnodar
            Tense atmosphere for future negotiations with the Persians

            If so, then the methods of "preparing for negotiations" are already a crime.
            1. +2
              14 June 2019 06: 03
              So our Trampushka))
      2. +1
        14 June 2019 05: 26
        Quote: Krasnodar
        Security Council - Russia, China - veto.

        And what's the use?
        What will prevent the felons from repeating the Yugoslav scenario?
    2. +2
      14 June 2019 05: 24
      Quote: Polymer
      One thing is good - if you decide to attract the UN Security Council, then they will not bomb immediately.

      Remember Yugoslavia.
      The Security Council did not give permission for the bombing.
      Did it stop NAT?
      1. +3
        14 June 2019 05: 55
        But here, apart from Trump, no one will stop anything - and he will draw a maximum of Tomahawks. Well, if the Iranians snap back, then the bombing and stuff. No invasion.
      2. +3
        14 June 2019 05: 58
        Quote: Lipchanin
        Remember Yugoslavia.

        Hope everyone remembers. The postponement does not guarantee non-aggression, but only the time for taking countermeasures.
        1. 0
          14 June 2019 09: 52
          Quote: Polymer
          The postponement does not guarantee non-aggression, but only the time for taking countermeasures.

          Are you talking about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 23, 1939?
          1. +1
            14 June 2019 10: 06
            Not only about him.
  9. 0
    14 June 2019 04: 41
    And the mine was not an American magnetic case? They themselves mined themselves saved.
    1. 0
      14 June 2019 05: 02
      no matter whose. it’s easy to get away from it. too much of the world is for sale.
      1. +2
        14 June 2019 05: 26
        Quote: Bull Terrier
        it’s easy to get away from it. too much of the world is for sale.

        They put on it citizens of the Russian Federation
  10. +1
    14 June 2019 04: 48
    Norwegian tanker Front Altair, carrying 75.000 tons of oil, caught fire and sank

    It seems like afloat yet ...
    1. 0
      14 June 2019 12: 40
      Quote: Moore
      Norwegian tanker Front Altair, carrying 75.000 tons of oil, caught fire and sank

      It seems like afloat yet ...

      So a mine above the waterline was set as far as 2 meters, probably it would be more convenient to shoot.
  11. +1
    14 June 2019 05: 14
    If there is a war - oil prices - up. Dollar to ruble - down. Only surrenders to me that Trump ponte.
  12. +2
    14 June 2019 05: 19
    That is, the Yankees are trying with all their might to arrange some kind of provocation with the victims in order to refute their invasion of Iran! I’m here, as they say, all means are good, up to sabotage or frankly intentional destruction of the same tankers!
    1. +2
      14 June 2019 05: 22
      Things will not reach the invasion. Maximum - volley tomahawks. And then the negotiations. Expensive oil will suit the States and Russia. Iran can crash into mattresses on BV and Jews, but even then there will be no invasion. Bombing, KR, etc.
      1. +1
        14 June 2019 06: 12
        Quote: Krasnodar
        Maximum - volley tomahawks. And then the negotiations.

        It depends on how Iran responds to a missile strike. Theoretically, it could destroy an American base, for example, in Bahrain. Then the war.
        1. +1
          14 June 2019 06: 13
          And then, without intrusion.
        2. +1
          14 June 2019 08: 14
          Quote: Polymer
          Then the war.

          economic has been going on for a long time and there Iran loses. Why take the risk? On the contrary, it’s just more stifling. The USA is a master of his craft in this regard.
          And wars are expensive. HERE will accumulate "willing" to fight in the country ... and after September 11, the country needs very weighty events to repeat.
          1. 0
            14 June 2019 10: 06
            Quote: Antares
            Why take the risk?

            Then a missile strike is ruled out.
            But economic war is such a thing ... Not only Iran, others are also being strangled - the DPRK, Venezuela, and the Russian Federation and China among them. So many fronts that a strangler can break down soon.
    2. 0
      14 June 2019 05: 27
      Quote: Thrifty
      I’m here, as they say, all means are good, up to sabotage or frankly intentional destruction of the same tankers!

      Is this not a diversion?
  13. +4
    14 June 2019 05: 25
    Very rough work of the USA and Israel .. Well, absolutely zero fantasy ... The best minds developed this operation .. bully
    And they specifically chose tankers with Russians ..
  14. 0
    14 June 2019 06: 02
    75.000 tons of oil went to the bottom with the ship? Well kapets how bad for the environment.
    1. -5
      14 June 2019 06: 32
      Quote: olhon
      75.000 tons of oil went to the bottom with the ship? Well kapets how bad for the environment.

      one might think Islamic fanatics ecology has ever stopped.
      1. +2
        14 June 2019 08: 52
        American and Jewish you want to say?
    2. 0
      14 June 2019 09: 47
      Quote: olhon
      75.000 tons of oil sank

      Yes, but it could be worse: awesome amount of methanol from another vessel.
      A whole tanker with poison. am Mattresses with "passing losses" were never really considered.
  15. Sly
    +1
    14 June 2019 06: 29
    Quote: RedBul
    And they specifically chose tankers with Russians ..

    oh come on ...
  16. +3
    14 June 2019 06: 53
    it is clear that the USA torpedoed two tankers to create a bellie incident for pressure on Iran. Years go and the modus operand does not change. it is clear to a fool that only the US Navy can afford to torpedo civilian ships on the high seas ...
  17. +1
    14 June 2019 07: 17
    Quote: prodd
    A month ago, Iran threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz. Oh, these hybrid wars. I'm not me and not my hut.

    About twenty years as threatened !!! AND NEVER did anything like that !!!
    And YANKI, their ship "MAN" blew up, Schaub off the overseas territories of Spain .... specific guys, however.
    Everything happens for the first time .... but it is repeated EVEN MORE!
  18. 0
    14 June 2019 07: 30
    Why do you think that this suited the United States, it is not necessary for them to have a hand in it, Israel will do everything if the United States would start a war with Iran. The main beneficiary in this story is Israel.
    1. 0
      14 June 2019 09: 30
      Forgot more major currency players ...
  19. -1
    14 June 2019 09: 22
    A jury trial in the form of a couple of AUG led by the Nimitzs is already on its way to the bay? Will democracy, as always, begin with the bombardment of communications and control of unfading tomahawk axes? Or will Donald Ivanovich calm the congress and the committee of chiefs of staff? Are the whale whales going to bang everyone at once? And Iran and Syria and Turkey to besiege.
  20. +1
    14 June 2019 09: 25
    So who attacked ... The United States saved, the Iranians saved. wassat
  21. 0
    14 June 2019 11: 16
    Quote: vasilii
    And why cannot it be the work of Iran, which resists US pressure

    because there is no logic in it.
    Why should Iran knock a tanker off its shores and still be silent?
    On the contrary, if he wanted to make a statement, then he had to say right away - this is us, etc.
    And quietly knocking them out there is no reason.
    In general, this is someone’s setup.
    And given that the Americans were spinning alongside, and no one has the CIA but the USA, it is highly likely that the Americans organized a provocation.

    Now add the US plans to dramatically increase pressure on Iran.
    1. +1
      14 June 2019 12: 13
      Why should Iran knock a tanker off its shores and still be silent?


      MOSCOW, July 13 - RIA Novosti. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made it clear that if Iranian oil is not exported through the Persian Gulf, other countries in the Middle East will not be able to do this either, said adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Akbar Velayati on Friday at the Valdai Discussion Club.

      https://ria.ru/20180713/1524536880.html
  22. 0
    14 June 2019 12: 07
    Too obvious provocation by the United States. Nothing exploded there until they drove the carrier group. It seems more like they want to rock the situation, pit Saudi Arabia and Iran. And behind the Saudis, start bombing Iran.
  23. 0
    14 June 2019 12: 15
    Quote: ender
    other Middle Eastern countries will also not be able to do this, said Iran’s Supreme Leader Advisor Ali Akbar Velayati on Friday

    so these words are only openly valid. guerrilla war is pointless.
    but the setup under these words gives the United States an excellent reason to build up pressure
    1. +1
      14 June 2019 12: 22
      no one pulled his tongue, right?
  24. 0
    14 June 2019 12: 27
    Quote: ender
    no one pulled his tongue, right?

    So. and the video that he gives the order to torpedo a tanker, no
    So? Understand correctly, I am not defending Iran. It's just why he is to blame
    is there no one else? Hasty conclusions, especially in big politics, very often lead to big mistakes.
    As an example, a simple question, who in 39 attacked whom - Germany against Poland or Poland against Germany? And the same question about France at 40. Try not to answer with a dumb quote from a wiki or textbook.
    1. +1
      14 June 2019 12: 32
      Oh how !? so you have a video footage of how Trump gives this order?

      .. not to mention the videos for each episode of which the West, Israel, Ukraine, etc. are blamed?
      1. 0
        14 June 2019 12: 39
        and what, besides the trump and the Iranian, is there no one else?
        why do you put it all together? No one on the site has enough information to conclude the charge.
        But there is information about motives and benefits. Who benefits from watering tankers?
        Iran? Benefit = 0. There, with all the fanaticism, they are not in power, they know how to count moves. The United States has benefits, and therefore I SUSPECT them and do not blame them. It’s also beneficial for Israel to get Iran into her full ass and there are several players nearby who can also benefit.
        but for you, except Iran, no one exists.
        Here is a simple example. Saudi Arabia is at war with Yemen. Is it profitable for Yemen to cut off oil supplies across the bay? What about Venezuela? What about the Russian Federation?
        1. 0
          14 June 2019 12: 51
          But where exactly did I bring something together? don't want to quote?
          I just pointed out the direct statement of Hassan Rouhani, which is fully consistent with what happened.
          "But there is information about motives and benefits" - seriously? )) I am simply admired by people who have read a couple of articles - and now, they already know everything ..
  25. 0
    14 June 2019 12: 53
    Quote: ender
    which is fully consistent with what happened.

    Yes, why does it correspond?
    tomorrow they will blow up Washington.
    Will you blame Putin or Kim Jong-un? They have nothing more to do?
    1. 0
      14 June 2019 13: 01
      I'll try it easier. If your neighbor says - do not put your car here or you will regret it. And in the morning your car’s wheels are cut - will you see the connection?
  26. 0
    14 June 2019 13: 04
    Quote: ender
    If a neighbor tells you

    you understand that the neighbor is not saying "you", but for example, he showed up at the OMON building and told them not to put the cars, into a megaphone, to everyone at once.
    And if the tires are cut tomorrow, it’s either the neighbor finally went nuts, or someone set him up
    But Iran’s behavior shows that it’s just insanity.
    You have problems with logic.
    1. 0
      14 June 2019 13: 12
      you understand that the neighbor is not saying "you", but for example, he showed up at the OMON building and told them not to put the cars, into a megaphone, to everyone at once.


      yes to health! Is there evidence? and the message is obvious. this is a word about logic ..

      "just insanity is not there." Oh yeah!

  27. 0
    14 June 2019 13: 20
    Quote: ender

    "just insanity is not there." Oh yeah!


    torpedoes are not knives. They are controlled by other people.

    But in the USA, do you think there are no photos with psychos?
    they don’t shoot anyone in schools, there’s no general paranoia, do policemen kill blacks?
    and drones of the USA did not blow up a single peace vehicle in the Middle East?
    1. 0
      14 June 2019 13: 33
      Well, yes, completely different. probably not even Shiites ..

      But in the USA, do you think there are no photos with psychos?


      do not confuse the disease with ideology.

      ps the only ones that did not blow up a single peaceful vehicle in the Middle East are the Russian aerospace forces ..
      1. 0
        14 June 2019 13: 43
        you are a hostage of propaganda slogans
        study the real state of things. For example, examples of similar attacks in this area
        1. 0
          14 June 2019 13: 51
          like in the "Tanker War"? confirm that Iran is not the first time to attack foreign ships in the Gulf?
  28. 0
    14 June 2019 13: 54
    Quote: ender
    like in the "Tanker War"? confirm that Iran is not the first time to attack foreign ships in the Gulf?

    Confirm that they have not done this for a long time?
    confirm that you did not hide the facts of the attacks?
    and if in Germany a Jew is crushed by a car, will you begin to recall the practice of their genocide under Hitler? or if a black man accidentally dies in Denmark, will you begin to recall their colonial past?
    Or maybe you still remember about Greece, where the Spartans killed their children?
    1. 0
      14 June 2019 14: 12
      not so long ago. and the ideology of Iran has not changed one iota

      did not hide when the war was on. When they hit Iran, they will also cease to hide. want to argue?
      1. 0
        14 June 2019 14: 16
        and what to argue about? You accuse them of what they refused, on the basis of indirect owls, spanned by a globe. But I think it's too early to draw conclusions. Iran has no real motive to do so, but there are real motives for substituting it with its neighbors. The question is, is the American base far from the place of attack?
        and about "not so long ago"
        during this time, the United States unleashed a war in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq, bankrupted almost all of South America, took Venezuela into a tight blockade, deployed missile defense in Europe and Korea, advanced NATO to the east, and set up bases in Asia.
        And Iran at that time all that was done was to supply the Hezbollah with clashes with Israel
        Well, which one wants conflict more?
        1. 0
          14 June 2019 14: 36
          again, cite - where do I blame them?

          if you do not see the motives - this does not mean that they are not.

          during this time the USA
          fine! Now you can do anything you want and blame the United States.

          And Iran at that time all that he did was the little things


          the little things hezbollah. on the little things of the Hussites.

          Life is a chain, and little things in it are links. The link cannot be ignored (c)
  29. 0
    14 June 2019 14: 42
    Quote: spectr
    Bleed Saudi Arabia and Iran

    the US has a simpler goal - to get a formal reason for building up pressure.
    what could be better than showing that Iran is a terrorist?
    and the USA are in a hurry, because believe that Iran is close to creating nuclear weapons.
  30. 0
    16 June 2019 14: 23
    Quote: smith 55
    History teaches us.
    In the port of Havana, an American warship was blown up - the US-Spanish war began. They blamed Spain, although it was proved that the explosion occurred inside the ship.
    Further, the incident in the Thin Gulf. A Vietnamese ship "fired" on an American destroyer - the war in Vietnam began.
    Powers test tube at the UN, we all remember how it ended, no need to be reminded.
    To achieve its goals, the United States will not stop at nothing.
    Examples can probably be cited.

    You forget how mattresses squeezed Texas from Mexico and Pearl_Harbor when the Aianossians suddenly went to sea, and the rest were without a trace. Even the Pilots.