Press TV – Nov 3, 2021
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) releases detailed footage of its confrontation late last month against an American act of piracy targeting an Iranian fuel shipment.
The incident took place on October 25, but news and footage of which were released on Wednesday.
During the episode, American forces confiscated the tanker that was carrying a cargo of Iranian oil in the strategic Sea of Oman, transferring its consignment of crude to another vessel.
The IRGC then staged a maritime operation against the second vessel, landing its helicopters on its deck and navigating the ship towards Iranian waters.
The footage depicts the incident in great detail, first showing the IRGC Navy’s intelligence command and intelligence gathering network detecting the vessel laden with the stolen crude.
The IRGC Navy is subsequently seen dispatching its rapid reaction units to the area to seize back the cargo.
The commandos then engage in a heliborne operation, which features their aircraft landing on the second vessel, the forces disembarking, and their recapturing the stolen consignment.
The IRGC Navy’s drone units, speedboats, and other vessels are, meanwhile, seen assisting the operation.
USS The Sullivans (DDG-68) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112), two American destroyers, are then seen approaching second tanker to prevent its recapture, but are warned away by the IRGC Navy.
The footage relayed from the operation, meanwhile, depicts the involved American vessels and their crew in striking detail.
A statement issued by the IRGC’s public relations office, said after the heliborne operation by the IRGC, the US forces started pursuing the second vessel using several helicopters and warships. They, however, stopped short of capturing it.
The US forces then dispatched more warships to block the vessel that was carrying the stolen crude.”The Americans [though] decided against continuing the operation and left the area after understanding the brave and ardent fighters of the IRGC Navy’s readiness and resolve for confronting whatever adventurism and threat against the interests of the Iranian nation,” the statement added.
Thanking the Corps for the successful operation, Iran’s Oil Minister Javad Owji said “Iran’s enemies” had resorted to the act of piracy after realizing that the Islamic Republic was determined to export its fuel, despite the United States’ sanctions targeting the country.
A crushing defeat for USrael. This has been completely blacked out in the UK press.
What can you say? “A picture paints a 1.000 words, US thuggery, a law unto themselves!!
LOL. They should have used the HMS Queen Elizabeth instead. All the gay dress wearing sailors would have seen those nasty arabs off, assuming the rubber band in the engine room was wound tight enough before commencing operations.
Regards piracy, the western media tell us Somali pirates board ships around the Horn of Africa, but the people involved say they stop and board ships because the west is dumping its nuclear waste there.
Maybe a practice run to kick off a war with Iran, well at least Iran can strike back unlike Libya or Iraq. Their commandos appear brave even though facing a much larger adversary in this video, no doubt a war would play out the same way.
The music was really thrilling.
I liked the action shot showing an Iranian hero on PT-109. He’s shown manning the machine gun with his blue mask on. That way he’s safely positioned to shoot down any incoming Covid germs… the art of war…
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MM: “Regards piracy, the western media tell us Somali pirates board ships around the Horn of Africa, but the people involved say they stop and board ships because the west is dumping its nuclear waste there.”
This has been going on for decades. The ‘glorious’ west gets away with it because Somalia has no navy. ‘Governments’ like the british filth sign the waste over to an ‘accredited third party’ who swear blind ‘they’ll dispose of it safely’, which let’s the ‘government’ off the hook. The ‘accredited third party’ then just sails it around to Somalia and dumps it. It’s all part of being ‘green’ (which, coincidentally, is the same colour that anyone who goes swimming off the coast of Somalia becomes).
You get the same thing with british companies making a ‘statement on modern slavery’. It’s all bollocks, and it’s easy to disprove any and all claims made in every such statement, but it enables them to put up their prices to pay the £100,000s to the lying scum that write the things.
“This has been completely blacked out in the UK press.”
You can’t black anything out in the uk – it’s illegal. It was whited out.
Transferring that much oil takes days. NOT minutes.
This looks like a staged operation to me.
Iranians are not Arabs