Introduction – Aug 4, 2021
A very dangerous situation has developed in the gulf. With a Iran and Israel currently involved in a shadow war involving assassinations, sabotage and drone strikes, things could be about to escalate. With Britain and the U.S. set to enter the fray following an alleged drone strike on an Israeli linked tanker.
Iran has denied involvement in the drone strike and with more recent reports of a hijacking of a tanker off the coast of Oman. A spokesman of the Iranian Armed Forces, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, said on Tuesday that the reports were “a kind of psychological warfare,” which were setting the stage “for new bouts of adventurism”.
Indeed, the rhetoric from London and Tel Aviv sounds increasingly aggressive and may well signal that some military action is in the works. With Israel warning that it is ready to “act on its own”, and the U.S. and Britain reportedly deploying Special Forces teams to the region. Ed
Iran made ‘big mistake’ in deadly tanker attack, says UK’s military chief
Deborah Haynes – SKY News Aug 4, 2021
Mercer Street off Cape Town, South Africa, in 2016. Click to enlarge
The UK’s military chief has said Iran made a “big mistake” when it targeted the Mercer Street tanker in a deadly attack.
General Sir Nick Carter said Iran must be called out for its “very reckless behaviour”.
UK, Romanian and Liberian officials announced they have written to the UN Security Council president over last week’s incident.
Posting on social media, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: “The Council must respond to Iran’s destabilising actions and lack of respect for international law”
In a separate shipping incident, a Royal Navy threat centre said the “potential hijack” of an oil tanker off the coast of the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday is over.
Sources blamed the seizure on forces backed by Iran. Tehran has denied any involvement.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations, which first revealed something had happened to the Asphalt Princess, said in an update on its website: “Boarders have left the vessel. Vessel is safe. Incident complete.”
It comes at a time of heightened tensions following a suspected Iranian drone attack on the Israeli-linked Mercer Street tanker less than a week ago that left a British national and a Romanian dead.
The British security guard has been named as Adrian Underwood, an army veteran and married father of one, on a crowdfunding site set up to raise money in his memory.
The UK, Israel and the United States have accused Iran of the fatal assault and vowed to respond.
And on Wednesday General Sir Nick said deterrence must be restored.
“What we need to be doing fundamentally is calling out Iran for very reckless behaviour,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“They made a big mistake on the attack they did against the Mercer Street vessel last week because, of course, that has very much internationalised the state of play in the Gulf.”
He added: “Ultimately, we have got to restore deterrence because it is behaviour like that which leads to escalation, and that could very easily lead to miscalculation and that would be very disastrous for all the peoples of the Gulf and the international community.”
The UK has written to @UN Security Council President @ambtstirumurti alongside Romania & Liberia to raise Iran’s attack on MV Mercer Street.
The Council must respond to Iran’s destabilising actions & lack of respect for international law.
— Dominic Raab (@DominicRaab) August 4, 2021
British officials – so far – do not appear to regard the targeting of the Panama-flagged Asphalt Princess, operated by a company based in Dubai, as a new escalation, though there are clearly concerns about a ship allegedly being seized by Iranian-linked gunmen.
A security source said a group of eight or nine individuals were believed have boarded the ship on Tuesday.
“It was an unauthorised boarding in the Gulf of Oman,” the source said.
Two sources said it was highly probable the personnel were backed by Iran.
Tehran, however, has denied the allegations, claiming they had been a pretext for “hostile action” against Iran, state television reported on its website.
The Iranian embassy in the UK on Tuesday evening tweeted: “According to our direct links in the Persian Gulf region, no information on new incidents for any merchant ship in the region is confirmed so far. Misleading the public all around the world for diplomatic gain in New York is not fair game.”
The Asphalt Princess tanker has no links to the UK or Israel.
Aurora Intel, an open source intelligence website, said the vessel is owned by Prime Tanker LLC, which also owns a tanker called the Riat.
In 2019 – during a previous tanker crisis – Iran said it had seized the Riat vessel briefly because of alleged fuel smuggling.
It was not immediately clear why the Asphalt Princess was taken or why the ship was then released
British special forces are already in the region following the Mercer Street attack last Thursday.
The team is assisting in the investigation into what happened.
The Mercer Street is Japanese owned, but was sailing with a Liberian Flag and is managed by Zodiac Maritime, a UK firm that is part of Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group.
Iran’s ambassador to the UK was summoned by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on Tuesday following the attack.
According to our direct links in the Persian Gulf region, no information on new incidents for any merchant ship in the region is confirmed so far.
Misleading the public all around the world for diplomatic gain in New York is not fair game. pic.twitter.com/9aXPXo7kAZ— Iran (I.R.of) Embassy in UK (@Iran_in_UK) August 3, 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Iran must “face up to the consequences” of its actions, adding that the Mercer Street incident “was clearly an unacceptable and outrageous attack on commercial shipping, a UK national died”.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has promised to work with allies on a “concerted response”.
Israel has also urged a tough reaction. The country is already locked in a shadow conflict with Iran.
Three other tankers linked to Israel have been targeted since February, while Iran has experienced a number of cyber attacks and mysterious explosions.
This is another israeli psy op
The tehran daily and other iranian news outlets have proved it was not them
but its an excuse to demonise them
British people do NOT get involved here #israel is your enemy iran is not
They nearly always start a war with an attack on a ship that they made themselves. 9-11 was the exception, and was never an official war, being against “terror”, some dishonest wordplay.
Resistance front is itching for a confrontation to easily take back Golan Heights, Zionists know what is brewing up and it is highly unlikely they actually plan to escalate.
Quote #1:”“What we need to be doing fundamentally is calling out Iran for very reckless behaviour,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “ They made a big mistake on the attack they did against the Mercer Street vessel last week because, of course, that has very much internationalised the state of play in the Gulf.””
As if the 12 incidents prior to all of this involving Zionists causing problems and attacking Tankers going to Syria was not reckless. Where was United Nations back then?!
Quote #2: “Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Iran must “face up to the consequences” of its actions, adding that the Mercer Street incident “was clearly an unacceptable and outrageous attack on commercial shipping, a UK national died””
Firstly UK’s piracy at Gibraltar is not forgotten and then how they were forced to release that tanker later! Secondly Boris is admitting that they don;t have leverage and deterrence against the resistance axis.
Quote #3: “Israel has also urged a tough reaction. The country is already locked in a shadow conflict with Iran.”
Israeli think tanks are already concluding that Zionists need a new doctrine in their Tanker wars with Iran that has the upper hand. As IRGC had warned them before 80% of the Zionist regime depends on shipping. Iran can bring an economic war to them through the resistance axis, basically Zionists should sort their problems with al of these groups!!!
Once again based on the field realities, Golan Heights are high in the agenda for Iran and its allies. US has to leave the region and USCENTCOM has to be removed, this region wrongly named as Middle East will be the first around the globe to not have a US Command!
It wouldn’t be a show without Perfidious Albion sticking it’s big nose in where it doesn’t belong
“General Sir Nick Carter said Iran must be called out for its “very reckless behaviour”.
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Similar to the invasion of Afghanistan then Nick ! Yes. = Very reckless behaviour.
That’s my take,
The rest of you name your own unfortunate country, there are many to choose from.
Fact.
Britain DID invade Afghani’.
Fact.
No proof as yet, Iran attacked an Oil tanker.
YOU BRITISH TRAITOR ASSHOLE
BETTER DEFEND YOUR PEOPLE
AGAINST ILLEGALE INVADERS !
Another Israeli false flag designed to start a general war. No doubt the Americans and the their British puppets will be at the forefront again.
I can’t wait for the first atom bomb on London.
Listen to this insipid putz.
“Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Thursday that Israel is ready to attack Iran” and called on other nations to take action with Israel.
Gantz told Israel’s Ynet, “We are at a point where we need to take military action against Iran. The world needs to take action against Iran now.”
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/08/israel-says-ready-to-attack-iran-take-action-now-after-israeli-ship-attacked/?utm_source=quayle&utm_campaign=alt&utm_medium=facebook
Christian backup singers join in! And if you can’t read, clap along.
Well I’m on the battlefield for Yahweh!
Yes I’m on the battlefield for Yahweh…
The UK’s military chief is an IDIOT to think anyone believes anything a member of the UK military says.
They are all controlled by Talmudic Satanists.
……said the mouse to the elephant.
the evil ones want another war , their blood lust knows no bounds, if the jews bomb Iran i believe
Iranian and Hezbollah troops will invade isntreal and destroy the management structure of the i d f
and mossad and reoccupy the golan heights, at some point the war mongering jews will be put in their
place, Iran has probably had enough of being the jew scapegoat, most people are now aware of all the jew lies.
At least six ships off the coast of the UAE broadcasted warnings that they had lost control of their steering. The six vessels announced around the same time via their Automatic Identification System trackers that they were “not under command” according to MarineTraffic.com., meaning a vessel has lost power and can no longer steer. A natural EMP in the area disrupted their electronics.
@JEW O
WE DONT GO ALONG WITH ISRAHELL !
Where does the UK military Chief gets the information ? Perhaps from the members of the Cabal in MI6 ? Does he know that the UK does not need to sacrifice his militaries for the Great Israeli wet dream , those times are over . Let them fight without the western Goyim and see what happens .
Is the Chief of the UK militaries serving the interests of his country ? I dare say NO !