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Srait of Hormuz: the world’s most important oil artery
The U.S. military on Wednesday said Iranian forces briefly boarded a Liberian-flagged oil near the Strait of Hormuz, heightening tensions in the world’s busiest oil waterway.
Sources said the Iranian action was retaliation against the Greek owner of some of the vessels that were carrying fuel to Venezuela.
The cargoes are covered by a U.S. warrant for seizure and the tankers are sailing to the United States.
Hormuz has been the site of many confrontations between regional and international powers over the last decades.
Below are details about the Strait:
WHAT IS THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ?
* The strait lies between Oman and Iran
* It links the Gulf with the Gulf of Oman to the south and the Arabian Sea beyond
* It is 21 miles (33 km) wide at its narrowest point, with the shipping lane just two miles (3 km) wide in either direction
* The UAE and Saudi Arabia have sought to find other routes to bypass the Strait, including building pipelines
WHY DOES IT MATTER?
* In 2018, 21 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil flowed through it, or the equivalent of about 21% of global petroleum liquids demand at the time, the U.S. Energy Information Administration says.
* OPEC members Saudi Arabia, Iran, the UAE, Kuwait and Iraq export most of their crude via the Strait
* Qatar, the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, sends almost all its LNG through the Strait POLITICAL TENSIONS
* The United States has imposed sanctions on Iran aimed at halting its oil exports
* Iran has threatened to disrupt oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz if the United States tries to strangle its economy
* The U.S. Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, is tasked with protecting commercial shipping in the region MAJOR PAST INCIDENTS
* 1980-1988 – During the Iran-Iraq war, the two sides sought to disrupt each other’s oil exports in what is known as the Tanker War
* July 1988 – U.S. warship Vincennes shoots down an Iranian airliner, killing all 290 aboard, in what Washington says was an accident and Tehran says was a deliberate attack
* Early 2008 – The United States says Iranian vessels threaten three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait
* July 2010 – Japanese oil tanker M Star is attacked in the Strait – a group called Abdullah Azzam Brigades linked to al Qaeda claims responsibility
* January 2012 – Iran threatens to block the Strait in retaliation for U.S. and European sanctions aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear programme
* May 2015 – Iranian ships seize a container ship in the Strait and fire shots at a Singapore-flagged tanker that Iran says damaged an oil platform
* July 2018 – President Hassan Rouhani hints Iran could disrupt oil trade through the Strait in response to U.S. calls to reduce Iran’s oil exports to zero
* May 2019 – Four ships, including two Saudi oil tankers, are attacked in the Gulf just outside the Strait. U.S. officials blame Iran, Tehran denies the charges
* June 2019 – Two tankers are attacked south of the Strait which Washington blames on Iran and Tehran denies
* June 2019 – Iran shoots down a U.S. drone
* July 2019 – The USS Boxer destroys an Iranian drone in the Strait after it threatens the U.S. Navy ship but Iran denies it has lost a drone
* July 2019 – Iran seizes British-operated oil tanker Stena Impero in the Strait
27 Comments on "Srait of Hormuz: the world’s most important oil artery"
ANAL REAPER on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 9:09 am
Does Iran know that they are still dumb sand niggers playing in the desert?
This is why whites need to be in charge of everything.
TRUMP 2020
ANSEL REAPER on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 9:17 am
go back to sleep guyes. we support trump but we won’t touch the subject of harvesting muzz. it’s an infinite onion, the more layer you peel the more you have. it’s endless muzz love
Canada: Muslim cleric says Islam allows marital rape and sex slavery on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 9:19 am
muzz
zero juan on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 9:22 am
More nonsense from Lunatic:
Canada: Muslim cleric says Islam allows marital rape and sex slavery said muzz
ANSEL REAPER said go back to sleep guyes. we support trump but we…
ANAL REAPER said Does Iran know that they are still dumb sand nigge…
If there is a war between Muslims and non-Muslims today and the Muslims capture the non-Muslim women, then they will be made slaves. And the men will have the right to sexual congress with them.”… on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 9:23 am
top chinese diplomat dismissed EU’s concern of human rite/aka muzz lovin
Charlie Hebdo to Republish Cartoons that Preceded Massacre… on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 9:29 am
go back to sleep guyes
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ANSEL REAPER Pizza Shop Employee Performs Ablution on Feet in Sink… on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 9:31 am
after i gorge myself with muzz milk
i enjoy muzzie feet bath desert
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 9:37 am
Critics compare Trump to ‘elderly relative in cognitive decline’ after ‘delusional’ Fox News interview
https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/critics-compare-trump-to-elderly-relative-in-cognitive-decline-after-delusional-fox-news-interview/
How would you know on Faux?
zero juan on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 9:47 am
JuanP, please choke on a fish bone
ANSEL REAPER Pizza Shop Employee Performs Ablution on Feet in Sink… said after i gorge myself with muzz milk i enjoy muzzie…
Charlie Hebdo to Republish Cartoons that Preceded Massacre… said go back to sleep guyes i’m enjoying the mult…
If there is a war between Muslims and non-Muslims today and the Muslims capture the non-Muslim women, then they will be made slaves. And the men will have the right to sexual congress with them.”… said top chinese diplomat dismissed EU’s concern…
ANSEL REAPER Charlie Hebdo to Republish Cartoons that Preceded Massacre… on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 10:57 am
it’s perfectly normal to initiate harvesting this way because free speech is a tradition in france, the place that gave ameirca lady liberty
what kind of liberty where you can’t verbiage your restriction of liberty
ansel zero juan on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 11:10 am
ANSEL REAPER Charlie Hebdo to Republish Cartoons that Preceded Massacre… said it’s perfectly normal to initiate harvesting…
fagget and fuckup
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 11:30 am
Little Donny’s answer? Road trip!
https://digbysblog.net/2020/09/little-donnys-answer-road-trip/
Davy on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 12:33 pm
Ignore zero juan y’all.
zero juans obv. nutters.
REAL Green on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 12:39 pm
But Davy? zero juan is us.
Davy on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 12:41 pm
Yeap Greeny. Like we said. Obv. nutters.
FamousDrScanlon on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 2:46 pm
How much treasure has the West, lead by the US, blown/wasted trying to fuck with Iran?
And could they be more fucking incompetent?
The same cultural mindset that brought the shameful trillion dollar embarrassments – Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria….
The most incompetent failures at the highest possible costs – USA! USA! we’re # zero losers.
I was a kid in 1979 & still recall the rabid Iran hate & the cartoon narrative they gave the public as to why so many average Iranian men dropped their tools & picked up the gun – 100% evil doers-N-stuff.
Millions of shit-for-brain fuck heads still believe it in spite of the fact that the American criminals who started it have admitted their crimes.
CIA formally admits role in 1953 Iranian coup
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/20/cia-iran-coup-documents-acknowledges-classified/2675911/
How The CIA Overthrew Iran’s Democracy In 4 Days
“On Aug. 19, 2013, the CIA publicly admitted for the first time its involvement in the 1953 coup against Iran’s elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
The documents provided details of the CIA’s plan at the time, which was led by senior officer Kermit Roosevelt Jr., the grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Over the course of four days in August 1953, Roosevelt would orchestrate not one, but two attempts to destabilize the government of Iran, forever changing the relationship between the country and the U.S. In this episode, we go back to retrace what happened in the inaugural episode of NPR’s new history podcast, Throughline.
Mohammad Mossadegh was a beloved figure in Iran. During his tenure, he introduced a range of social and economic policies, the most significant being the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry. Great Britain had controlled Iran’s oil for decades through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. After months of talks the prime minister broke off negotiations and denied the British any further involvement in Iran’s oil industry. Britain then appealed to the United States for help, which eventually led the CIA to orchestrate the overthrow of Mossadegh and restore power to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.”
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days
And yet, Iran is still standing strong after nearly a century of the west at it’s peak trying to bring them down.
The Iranians are the freedom fighters. The US is the criminal empire/evil doers & it’s relentless muzzie bashing halfwit citizens cannot provide any plausible explanation for their 24/7 lifelong muzzie rage – you’re hate filled incel lifetime losers. Owned.
A little hate can be useful if one learns how to harness & direct it, but to be one of the empires hate mongers means you are their slave. A hate fuck-toy that’s passed around like a cum covered crack whore. A slave.
Sadly, y’all are as much or more victims of the evil & incompetent empire than Iranian Joe six pack, who, in spite of it all managed to have a life. What is your life other than internet raging, bitching, moaning & retard simple blame for the world not fulfilling your great expectations?
No worries. There’s plenty of low cost fentanyl out there if you need help coping with reality & no shortage of white brothers willing to sell you some.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 4:11 pm
“Definitive Eurasian Alliance Is Closer Than You Think”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/08/no_author/definitive-eurasian-alliance-is-closer-than-you-think/
Pepe Escobar must have been reading my posts of blogs and finally gets it.
“In contrast, serious lobbying at the highest levels of the Russian government is invested in consolidating the definitive Eurasian alliance, uniting Germany, Russia and China.”
“The key weapon today – and the Chinese understand it very clearly – is nuclear submarines. Russians are observing how China is building their submarine fleet – carrying hypersonic missiles – faster than the US. Surface fleets are obsolete. A wolf pack of Chinese submarines can easily knock out a carrier task force. Those 11 US carrier task forces are in fact worthless.”
“Backdoor intel discussions made it very clear to German industrialists that if Germany would ever lose its Russian source of oil and natural gas, coupled with the Strait of Hormuz shut down by Iran in the event of an American attack, the German economy might simply collapse.”
“Another possible secret deal already discussed at the highest intel levels is the possibility of a Bismarckian Reinsurance Treaty to be established between Germany and Russia. The inevitable consequence would be a de facto Berlin-Moscow-Beijing alliance spanning the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), alongside the creation of a new – digital? – Eurasian currency for the whole Eurasian alliance, including important yet peripheral actors such as France and Italy.”
“Well, Beijing-Moscow is already on. Berlin-Beijing is a work in progress. The missing link is Berlin-Moscow.”
“That would represent not only the ultimate nightmare for Mackinder-drenched Anglo-American elites, but in fact the definitive passing of the geopolitical torch from maritime empires back to the Eurasian heartland. It’s not a fiction anymore. It’s on the table.”
Some amendments from my side: I do not believe in a formal all-Eurasian alliance, in the classic sense (integrated military and economy and currency). What I do believe in is in an all-Eurasian quiet understanding of what could come after empire and that both Greater Europe and China can advance a rung on the ladder of geopolitical pecking order. In geopolitics being the #1 has its dangers, as the #2 and #3 (and perhaps #4) could conspire to topple #1. It happened to Germany in 1914, it happened to Europe in 1940. Now it could happen to the US-UK (Anglosphere), when the EU, Russia and China would secretly conspire to end empire. They have more than sufficient clout to do that.
If I listen to Macron talking, the de facto foreign policy leader in Europe, making overtures to Russia, one can be excused to think that these required tête-à-têtes already have been taken place between Macron, Putin and Xi.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 4:22 pm
Biden doesn’t lead, he merely follows:
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1300508065696043009?s=20
“BIDEN: “I want to make it absolutely clear: Rioting is not protesting. Looting is not protesting. Setting fires is not protesting. None of this is protesting — it’s lawlessness. Plain and simple. And those who do it should be prosecuted.””
He should have said this weeks ago, now it is too late. Too long have the Dems tolerated, if not encouraged, the thug behavior, until they now realize this is counter-productive in their chances to win the elections.
Sorry, no cigar.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 4:28 pm
Trump in Kenosha talking without teleprompter coherently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzDl28GQf9M
Cloggie on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 4:44 pm
Today, the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands has successfully carried out a test flight with a scale model of a radical new airplane design, a wing-plane, that promises to deliver 20% less fuel per mile and per passenger:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2020/09/01/initial-flying-v-test-successful/
The model will have to compete with an alternative Airbus design, see 2nd video.
makati1 on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 5:07 pm
“Definitive Eurasian Alliance Is Closer Than You Think” Definitely a great article, Abe. Barring a huge world war, the Earth Island will be unified in the next few decades, or sooner.
China plans decades ahead. The US looks only at next quarter profits. Those profits will disappear along with the remnants of democracy and capitalism as the future unfolds. Be patient.
BTW: Yes, those carrier fleets are antiques but the US keeps wasting huge money on them. They will be gone in the first hours of a real war. Even the Amerikan admirals know this, but no carriers = no admirals needed. Job security. Ditto for those mini wars all over the world that keep generals employed. Peace would mean the end of over 300 cushy, well paying jobs.
FamousDrScanlon on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 5:45 pm
BREAKING: Carter Page’s FISA Related ‘Woods File’ Docs Disappeared, Was It ‘Malice Or Incompetence’
The original Woods file on former campaign advisor Carter Page went missing more than two years ago, and according to sources who spoke to SaraACarter.com, those documents had to be recreated by the FBI and former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team in 2018 from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Application used by the bureau to obtain the warrant on Page. That FISA was used in part to investigate President Donald Trump’s campaign and the now-debunked theory that it colluded with Russia during the 2016 election, according to several sources, with knowledge, who spoke to this reporter.
The woods file procedure, which was overseen by FBI Supervisory Special Agent Joe Pientka, and ultimately former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, was used to verify the contents in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act application that was used to obtain a warrant to spy on Page.
Moreover, during Pientka’s numerous interviews with investigators from the DOJ’s Inspector General’s office, who likely have worked for both Michael Horowitz and Connecticut prosecutor John Durham – the fact that it was a recreated Wood’s file was never disclosed.
In fact, it had been missing for an unknown period of time, possibly up to two years and officials did not become aware it had disappeared until last week during a closed-door Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
Pientka attended the closed-door hearing, along with other FBI officials, according to sources familiar with the proceedings.
https://saraacarter.com/breaking-carter-pages-fisa-related-woods-file-docs-disappeared-was-it-malice-or-incompetence/
FamousDrScanlon on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 5:50 pm
Man Killed by Kyle Rittenhouse Used N-Word, Provoked People to “Shoot Me”
Convicted child molester caught on camera earlier in the night using racial slur.
Published 4 days ago on 27 August, 2020Paul Joseph WatsonWisconsin Department of Corrections Sex Offender Registry22 Comments The convicted child molester who was killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a confrontation in Kenosha repeatedly used the n-word and tried to provoke other people to shoot him, a video from the evening of the incident shows. 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum was one of two men killed by Rittenhouse, who was not the first to discharge his gun and was clearly acting in self-defense. Following the shooting, it was revealed that Rosenbaum was on Wisconsin’s sex offender registry and was convicted for “sexual conduct with a minor.” Reporter Julio Rosas revealed that he caught Rosenbaum on camera earlier in the night trying to provoke armed citizens and using racial slurs. The clip shows Rosenbaum repeating the phrase, “Shoot me, nigga!” Given that Rosenbaum was white and he used the n-word, it wouldn’t be totally outside the realms of plausibility for the left to try to drop this story altogether, although their effort to vilify Rittenhouse as a “domestic terrorist” still appears to be the stronger motivation. While the footage shows Rittenhouse clearly acted in self-defense, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar labeled him a “domestic terrorist” who “executed two people.” “Their murderous rants have inspired many mass shooters and now they aren’t even trying to distance themselves from it, they are excusing it,” said Omar. She appears to have forgotten about the numerous actual mass shootings carried out by gunmen in the name of Black Lives Matter.
https://summit.news/2020/08/27/man-killed-by-kyle-rittenhouse-used-n-word-provoked-people-to-shoot-me/
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 2nd Sep 2020 5:06 am
The French have enough of European weakness and plead for toughness. Enemy #1: Turkey
https://tinyurl.com/y5laf3xq
The French have send war ships to the Eastern Mediterranean to support the Greeks.
Turkey is good practice material for the real work, later, in North-America, after Trump-2.
A good approach to the Turkish Problem is aiming at splitting the country up and the formation of a free Kurdistan. Together with the Russians this should be a walk-over:
https://tinyurl.com/y3ulbe8p
Rik on Mon, 7th Sep 2020 4:30 pm
Iran should kill all of the Mullahs and the Ayatollah and bring back the Shah.
Rik on Mon, 7th Sep 2020 4:31 pm
Use MKO to kill the Iranian military leaders, clerics etc.
Rik on Mon, 7th Sep 2020 5:23 pm
The people of Iran are just like the Arabs: sand niggers.