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End Times - Tracking The Signs
By: patrick jane Date: April 7, 2019, 11:40 pm
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The final days. FAA weathercams show massive hole in earth's
atmosphere. 4/6/2019
The final days. FAA weathercams show massive hole in earth's
atmosphere, 2 suns, solar eclipses, moon projection, more.
30 minutes
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Re: End Times - Tracking The Signs
By: patrick jane Date: May 14, 2019, 9:58 am
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Iran-US tensions are reaching new heights – and neither is
likely to blink
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/13/iran-us-tensions-rise-crisis-sabotage-two-saudi-tankers
Long-term standoff threatens to turn into crisis after alleged
sabotage of two Saudi tankers
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Iranian demonstrators burn a makeshift US flag during a rally
in Tehran last week. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images
A festering four-year war, crippling sanctions, threats to
maritime oil trade and a US naval battlegroup steaming for the
Persian Gulf. Such developments were troubling enough, before
two Saudi tankers were reportedly sabotaged off the UAE coast on
Sunday – a development set to ratchet tensions between Tehran
and Washington to new and combustible highs.
With Riyadh claiming significant hull damage to its ships and
the UAE claiming the damage was done inside its territorial
waters, what last week was a looming standoff is now a real-time
crisis with potent implications for both global energy security
and regional stability.
Throughout Donald Trump’s presidency, staring down Iran has been
top of the agenda among many to have passed through the
revolving door of his inner circle. For the current uber-hawks,
the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and the national
security adviser, John Bolton, there has hardly been a higher
calling. Both have been pivotal in focusing Trump on Iran, and
imposing new comprehensive sanctions on its economy. And both
drove the bellicose rhetoric that last week spelled out the same
scenario to which the region awoke on Monday.
According to Riyadh, one of the “sabotaged” tankers was en route
to a Saudi port to upload oil to be exported to the US. Stopping
such a shipment would be consistent with an act of revenge for
crippling Iranian exports and for making good on threats to
disrupt global energy routes – although on Monday Iran
vehemently denied playing a role.
Bolton’s prediction of a “credible threat” from Iran, or its
proxies, to the oil interests of Washington, or its allies,
however looks prophetic in the royal courts of the Gulf. And
what regional officials are calling a “terrorist attack” is
certain to similarly energise a White House that has at times
appeared to be itching for a confrontation with a foe it now
faces in most corners of the Middle East.
Iran has steadily become the sum of all fears in the eyes of the
US and its regional allies; its creeping influence across the
Arab world, belligerence towards Israel and perceived readiness
to act on its threats to a decades old regional order, which –
not without irony – was upended by the US invasion of Iraq.
Trump’s backers ignore the Bush administration’s intervention,
blaming instead Barack Obama’s pivot towards Iran and his
signature nuclear deal for kickstarting Iran’s adventurism.
While Obama’s gestures were hardly seen in Tehran as
trust-building measures and did nothing to slow a regional
consolidation, Iran’s ascendancy started before him and has
continued since.
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Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard arrive for a
ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic
Revolution in February 2019. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA
Tehran’s view has been rather different. It views the US as a
capricious actor whose presence and interventions has
destabilised the region for decades. In Trump’s America, it sees
a player with the same sort of ideological zeal that it is
accused of wielding itself. A self appointed global sheriff not
worthy of the badge and to whom it can never bow.
The ill-fated reality of 2003 gave Tehran a bridgehead in Iraq
and a springboard into Syria that, nearly eight years into the
civil war, has brought the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to
within striking distance of Israel’s north. Iran’s proxies have
also helped weigh down Saudi Arabia in Yemen, lay the
foundations for a parallel state in Iraq and energise a still
rumbling opposition movement in Shia-majority Bahrain.
The loaded geopolitics have rarely strayed far from oil though.
And with Iran’s embattled economy dependent on oil exports and
the US once again enthusiastic for Saudi crude, a flashpoint in
the Strait of Hormuz, through which 35% of the world’s oil is
shipped, has long been likely.
Tensions have been boiling since the Trump administration’s
decision to lift sanctions waivers from eight countries that
import Iranian oil. The stated goal of this was to collapse
Iran’s exports to “zero”. Exports had already taken a hit when
Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal signed by his predecessor
last November – partly in the hope of renegotiating a better
deal. Ever since, Iran has prevaricated on its own commitment to
a multilateral pact, which delivered revenue streams and global
legitimacy, albeit briefly. Last week, Iran said it would no
longer honour parts of the deal and had no interest in
discussing a revised version.
Several things are abundantly clear though; sanctions, including
banking restrictions, are hitting the Iranian economy hard,
limiting its capacity to sustain its people, or allies,
including Hezbollah in Lebanon, where fighters have taken
substantial pay cuts in recent months. More importantly though,
Iran cannot let itself be seen to capitulate to the US moves. To
do so would risk far more than its post-2003 gains.
Washington appears to be betting on just such a surrender, and
has pushed brinkmanship to its limits. On Monday, it warned US
citizens in Iraq and elsewhere in the region to be vigilant. The
risks of miscalculation on either side are higher than they’ve
been in the past 16 years.
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Re: End Times - Tracking The Signs
By: patrick jane Date: May 14, 2019, 12:18 pm
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US B-52 bombers send warning message to Iran
The State Department says Secretary Pompeo is meeting with the
NATO secretary general and the foreign ministers from Germany,
France and the U.K.; Rich Edson reports. #AmericasNewsroom
#FoxNews
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Re: End Times - Tracking The Signs
By: patrick jane Date: June 11, 2019, 7:57 am
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UNLOCKED: The BEAST of Revelation (2019) Documentary - Part 1
So, what is the Image of the Beast? Or his mark? Rather, even
more simply asked, who or what is the Beast? The answers to
these questions have been veiled from the masses and are more
important than you know and it’s time they are revealed.
Part 1 - Identity of The BEAST
Welcome to part one. This series will be fast-paced and
effective, to show you by the scriptures and world history, who
or what the Beast of Revelation is, what the mark of the beast
is, and related truths, which will help you properly understand
the rest of the book of Revelation, so you and your family won’t
be caught in the snare of the confusion of the End Times.
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Re: End Times - Tracking The Signs
By: guest8 Date: June 11, 2019, 11:58 pm
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date=1560257876]
UNLOCKED: The BEAST of Revelation (2019) Documentary - Part 1
So, what is the Image of the Beast? Or his mark? Rather, even
more simply asked, who or what is the Beast? The answers to
these questions have been veiled from the masses and are more
important than you know and it’s time they are revealed.
Part 1 - Identity of The BEAST
Welcome to part one. This series will be fast-paced and
effective, to show you by the scriptures and world history, who
or what the Beast of Revelation is, what the mark of the beast
is, and related truths, which will help you properly understand
the rest of the book of Revelation, so you and your family won’t
be caught in the snare of the confusion of the End Times.
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[shadow=blue,left]This author must have had a Divine revelation
to know what is not told to JOHN. In Rev. 17:12.."And the ten
horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no
kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the
beast."
Of course if we interpret the Bible so we can make a statement
instead of giving GOD's statements out for the recognition....SO
SAD
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Re: End Times - Tracking The Signs
By: patrick jane Date: June 15, 2019, 12:14 pm
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Tanker attacks in Gulf of Oman highlight point of leverage for
Iran
Tensions are high in the Middle East after attacks on two oil
tankers near the Persian Gulf that U.S. officials are blaming on
Iran. U.S. sanctions on Iran already had raised the potential
risk of a response in the region. Charlie D'Agata reports from
along the Gulf of Oman and explains why this area is such a
flashpoint.
1 minute
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LONDON — Explosions crippled two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman
on Thursday in what the United States called “unprovoked
attacks” by Iran, raising alarms about immediate security and
potential military conflict in a vital passageway for a third of
the world’s petroleum.
Iran called the accusations part of a campaign of American
disinformation and “warmongering.”
The explosions forced the crews of both vessels to evacuate and
left at least one ablaze, and hours later the causes were still
under investigation. Yet the backdrop of steeply rising threats
between President Trump and Iranian leaders gave the stricken
ships a grave significance even before the facts became clear.
[Read: Operator says a ‘flying object’ struck one tanker, not a
mine]
By afternoon, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that American
intelligence agencies had concluded Tehran was behind the
disabling of both ships. He pointed to the weapons used, the
expertise and resources required and the similarity to other
recent attacks attributed to Iran.
The most compelling evidence to support Mr. Pompeo’s claim was
video footage released Thursday night by the United States
Central Command. A military spokesman, Capt. Bill Urban, said
the video showed an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps patrol
boat pulling up alongside the Kokuka Courageous, one of the
stricken ships, several hours after the initial explosion, and
removing an unexploded limpet mine in broad daylight.
Also on Thursday night, the United States military released two
photographs of the ship’s hull, showing damage and what it said
was likely the unexploded mine.
“Taken as a whole, these unprovoked attacks present a clear
threat to international peace and security,” Mr. Pompeo told a
news conference in Washington.
[More: “Iran did do it,” President Trump said in an interview
Friday.]
Senior American officials had already blamed Iran for similar
attacks last month against four tankers on the same waterway.
Iranian officials, who denied any involvement in those attacks,
also rejected assertions they were behind the events on Thursday
and said Iran had been framed.
“Suspicious doesn’t begin to describe what likely transpired
this morning,” Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister,
wrote on Twitter. Mr. Pompeo, firing back at his news
conference, said Mr. Zarif “may think this is funny, but no one
else in the world does.”
The Kokuka Courageous was about 20 miles off the Iranian coast
when it transmitted an emergency call for help after an initial
explosion. When the crew surveyed the damage from the first
explosion, they saw a second unexploded mine attached to the
hull and evacuated the ship, according to the American
officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a
sensitive intelligence matter.
The confrontation also played out at the United Nations in a
meeting of the Security Council, where the acting United States
ambassador, Jonathan Cohen, told other members that Iran was
behind the attacks. Iran’s United Nations mission issued a
statement afterward denouncing the “inflammatory remarks” by the
American representative, calling them part of “another
Iranophobic campaign” of disinformation.
“The U.S. and its regional allies must stop warmongering and put
an end to mischievous plots as well as false flag operations in
the region,” the Iranian statement said.
Earlier Thursday, the United Nations secretary general, António
Guterres, expressed “deep concern” that the new episode might
lead to a military escalation.
[Read more about the narrow waterway that is the world’s most
important oil route.]
Besides its importance as a petroleum highway, the Persian Gulf
also divides bitter and heavily armed rivals, with Iran on one
side and the American-backed Arab monarchies of Saudi Arabia and
the United Arab Emirates on the other.
The two sides have fought for years through surrogate forces in
neighboring countries, including Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and
Bahrain. Saudi and Emirati forces have been battling directly
for more than four years to roll back a takeover of Yemen by a
faction aligned with Iran.
Anxieties over the shared dependence on the vulnerable Persian
Gulf shipping lanes have always been central to their
animosities, and a commitment to guaranteeing the flow of oil
through the same channels is behind the substantial American
military presence in the region.
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Iranian officials on Thursday suggested the new attacks might be
the product of an elaborate conspiracy by their enemies,
seemingly pointing to American allies like Saudi Arabia, the
United Arab Emirates or Israel, which have long urged Washington
to take a more muscular approach to Iran.
But many analysts said there was a growing consensus in the West
that Iran had been behind last month’s attacks, which took place
near the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. And they
argued that Iran appeared to be seeking to demonstrate it could
imperil the world’s oil markets, but without leaving the kind of
fingerprints that could trigger American military retaliation.
“As long as there is significant ambiguity the attacks won’t
produce a casus belli,” or cause for war, said Jack Watling, a
researcher at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
“But Iran is demonstrating its capabilities. It is saying, ‘We
can impose a cost on our adversaries in this confrontation, and
it will be high.’”
Crude oil prices rose more than 3 percent in response to the
crippling of the two ships on Thursday, indirectly boosting
Iran’s revenue as an oil producer.
The initial White House response on Thursday was measured. Sarah
Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Mr.
Trump had been briefed and that the “U.S. government is
providing assistance and will continue to assess the situation.”
It was only a few hours later that Mr. Pompeo publicly blamed
Iran.
The escalation came against the backdrop of a visit to Iran by
the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, who was hoping to
de-escalate tensions between Tehran and Washington and avert any
“accidental clashes.”
Mr. Abe was carrying a note from Mr. Trump to Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who rebuffed the overture. “I
do not see Trump as worthy of any message exchange, and I do not
have any reply for him, now or in future,” Mr. Khamenei said
Thursday after meeting with Mr. Abe, according to the
ayatollah’s website.
The animosity between Washington and Tehran began rising a year
ago after President Trump withdrew the United States from a 2015
deal with international powers that limited Iran’s nuclear
activity in exchange for eased economic sanctions on the country
of 80 million people.
Then, laying out sweeping demands for Iran to alter its policies
toward the region, Mr. Trump in April ratcheted up the pressure
by imposing severe sanctions aimed at cutting off Iran’s exports
of oil, the lifeblood of the now-struggling Iranian economy. He
also designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, a part of the
military, as a terrorist group.
In May, citing unspecified warnings of imminent Iranian attacks
on American allies or interests, the Trump administration
announced it was dispatching an aircraft carrier group to the
Persian Gulf as a deterrent.
“If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran,”
Mr. Trump said on Twitter last month. “Never threaten the United
States again!”
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Iranian leaders, in response, have threatened to block the
Strait of Hormuz, a potential Persian Gulf chokepoint. After
complying with the nuclear pact for a year even after the
American withdrawal, Iran has also raised the possibility of
breaching the accord by taking initial steps to expand its
supply of enriched uranium.
Some Iranian allies around the region have stepped up their
attacks on allies of Washington, fueling fears of a wider
conflict. The Houthi faction in Yemen, which is backed by Iran,
has launched attacks on Saudi oil pipelines and other targets,
and this week a Houthi missile hit the arrivals hall of a Saudi
airport, injuring 26 people, according to Saudi news reports.
The attacks in May on the four tankers near Fujairah were
relatively minor, causing only limited damage to the hulls. An
international investigation presented to the United Nations
later concluded that the damage was done by divers deployed from
small “fast boats” who had placed limpet mines against the
hulls.
On a visit to the United Arab Emirates about two weeks ago, John
R. Bolton, President Trump’s national security adviser, said
Iran was “almost certainly” responsible. A few days later, Mr.
Pompeo called the attacks “efforts by the Iranians to raise the
price of crude oil.”
The explosions that disabled the tankers in the Gulf of Oman on
Thursday were far more severe.
Both took place around dawn, with distress calls at 6:12 a.m.
and 7 a.m., according to a statement from the United States
Fifth Fleet, which said the U.S.S. Bainbridge, a guided missile
destroyer, was “rendering assistance.”
A Norwegian company that owns one of the ships, the Front
Altair, confirmed that it was on fire. The crews of both vessels
— about 23 in one and 21 in the other — were evacuated in
lifeboats.
The owners and operators of both vessels described the incidents
as deliberate attacks.
The Front Altair, registered in the Marshall Islands, was
chartered by the CPC Corporation, the Taiwanese oil company, to
carry naphtha, a petroleum product, from the Emirati port of
Ruwais to Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
The Kokuka Courageous was carrying methanol, headed from the
Saudi port of Al Jubail to Singapore. Yutaka Katada, the
president of the ship’s operator, Kokuka Sangyo, told a news
conference that its Filipino crew had abandoned ship in
lifeboats after what he described as two attacks three hours
apart.
Shipping industry representatives underscored the channel’s
critical importance. “Some 30 percent of the world’s crude oil
passes through the Straits,” Paolo d’Amico, the chairman of the
International Association of Independent Tanker Owners, said in
a statement. “If the waters are becoming unsafe, the supply to
the entire Western world could be at risk.”
Reporting was contributed by Eric Schmitt and Edward Wong from
Washington, Ben Dooley and Makiko Inoue from Tokyo, Vivian Yee
from Beirut and Rick Gladstone from New York.
A version of this article appears in print on June 13, 2019, on
Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Pompeo Blames
Tehran For Blasts on 2 Tankers And Sees ‘Clear Threat’. Order
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Re: End Times - Tracking The Signs
By: guest8 Date: June 16, 2019, 6:56 pm
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[quote author=patrick jane link=topic=398.msg6393#msg6393
date=1560618870]
Tanker attacks in Gulf of Oman highlight point of leverage for
Iran
Tensions are high in the Middle East after attacks on two oil
tankers near the Persian Gulf that U.S. officials are blaming on
Iran. U.S. sanctions on Iran already had raised the potential
risk of a response in the region. Charlie D'Agata reports from
along the Gulf of Oman and explains why this area is such a
flashpoint.
1 minute
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRF0TmADtX4
LONDON — Explosions crippled two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman
on Thursday in what the United States called “unprovoked
attacks” by Iran, raising alarms about immediate security and
potential military conflict in a vital passageway for a third of
the world’s petroleum.
Iran called the accusations part of a campaign of American
disinformation and “warmongering.”
The explosions forced the crews of both vessels to evacuate and
left at least one ablaze, and hours later the causes were still
under investigation. Yet the backdrop of steeply rising threats
between President Trump and Iranian leaders gave the stricken
ships a grave significance even before the facts became clear.
[Read: Operator says a ‘flying object’ struck one tanker, not a
mine]
By afternoon, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that American
intelligence agencies had concluded Tehran was behind the
disabling of both ships. He pointed to the weapons used, the
expertise and resources required and the similarity to other
recent attacks attributed to Iran.
The most compelling evidence to support Mr. Pompeo’s claim was
video footage released Thursday night by the United States
Central Command. A military spokesman, Capt. Bill Urban, said
the video showed an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps patrol
boat pulling up alongside the Kokuka Courageous, one of the
stricken ships, several hours after the initial explosion, and
removing an unexploded limpet mine in broad daylight.
Also on Thursday night, the United States military released two
photographs of the ship’s hull, showing damage and what it said
was likely the unexploded mine.
“Taken as a whole, these unprovoked attacks present a clear
threat to international peace and security,” Mr. Pompeo told a
news conference in Washington.
[More: “Iran did do it,” President Trump said in an interview
Friday.]
Senior American officials had already blamed Iran for similar
attacks last month against four tankers on the same waterway.
Iranian officials, who denied any involvement in those attacks,
also rejected assertions they were behind the events on Thursday
and said Iran had been framed.
“Suspicious doesn’t begin to describe what likely transpired
this morning,” Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister,
wrote on Twitter. Mr. Pompeo, firing back at his news
conference, said Mr. Zarif “may think this is funny, but no one
else in the world does.”
The Kokuka Courageous was about 20 miles off the Iranian coast
when it transmitted an emergency call for help after an initial
explosion. When the crew surveyed the damage from the first
explosion, they saw a second unexploded mine attached to the
hull and evacuated the ship, according to the American
officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a
sensitive intelligence matter.
The confrontation also played out at the United Nations in a
meeting of the Security Council, where the acting United States
ambassador, Jonathan Cohen, told other members that Iran was
behind the attacks. Iran’s United Nations mission issued a
statement afterward denouncing the “inflammatory remarks” by the
American representative, calling them part of “another
Iranophobic campaign” of disinformation.
“The U.S. and its regional allies must stop warmongering and put
an end to mischievous plots as well as false flag operations in
the region,” the Iranian statement said.
Earlier Thursday, the United Nations secretary general, António
Guterres, expressed “deep concern” that the new episode might
lead to a military escalation.
[Read more about the narrow waterway that is the world’s most
important oil route.]
Besides its importance as a petroleum highway, the Persian Gulf
also divides bitter and heavily armed rivals, with Iran on one
side and the American-backed Arab monarchies of Saudi Arabia and
the United Arab Emirates on the other.
The two sides have fought for years through surrogate forces in
neighboring countries, including Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and
Bahrain. Saudi and Emirati forces have been battling directly
for more than four years to roll back a takeover of Yemen by a
faction aligned with Iran.
Anxieties over the shared dependence on the vulnerable Persian
Gulf shipping lanes have always been central to their
animosities, and a commitment to guaranteeing the flow of oil
through the same channels is behind the substantial American
military presence in the region.
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Iranian officials on Thursday suggested the new attacks might be
the product of an elaborate conspiracy by their enemies,
seemingly pointing to American allies like Saudi Arabia, the
United Arab Emirates or Israel, which have long urged Washington
to take a more muscular approach to Iran.
But many analysts said there was a growing consensus in the West
that Iran had been behind last month’s attacks, which took place
near the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. And they
argued that Iran appeared to be seeking to demonstrate it could
imperil the world’s oil markets, but without leaving the kind of
fingerprints that could trigger American military retaliation.
“As long as there is significant ambiguity the attacks won’t
produce a casus belli,” or cause for war, said Jack Watling, a
researcher at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
“But Iran is demonstrating its capabilities. It is saying, ‘We
can impose a cost on our adversaries in this confrontation, and
it will be high.’”
Crude oil prices rose more than 3 percent in response to the
crippling of the two ships on Thursday, indirectly boosting
Iran’s revenue as an oil producer.
The initial White House response on Thursday was measured. Sarah
Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Mr.
Trump had been briefed and that the “U.S. government is
providing assistance and will continue to assess the situation.”
It was only a few hours later that Mr. Pompeo publicly blamed
Iran.
The escalation came against the backdrop of a visit to Iran by
the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, who was hoping to
de-escalate tensions between Tehran and Washington and avert any
“accidental clashes.”
Mr. Abe was carrying a note from Mr. Trump to Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who rebuffed the overture. “I
do not see Trump as worthy of any message exchange, and I do not
have any reply for him, now or in future,” Mr. Khamenei said
Thursday after meeting with Mr. Abe, according to the
ayatollah’s website.
The animosity between Washington and Tehran began rising a year
ago after President Trump withdrew the United States from a 2015
deal with international powers that limited Iran’s nuclear
activity in exchange for eased economic sanctions on the country
of 80 million people.
Then, laying out sweeping demands for Iran to alter its policies
toward the region, Mr. Trump in April ratcheted up the pressure
by imposing severe sanctions aimed at cutting off Iran’s exports
of oil, the lifeblood of the now-struggling Iranian economy. He
also designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, a part of the
military, as a terrorist group.
In May, citing unspecified warnings of imminent Iranian attacks
on American allies or interests, the Trump administration
announced it was dispatching an aircraft carrier group to the
Persian Gulf as a deterrent.
“If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran,”
Mr. Trump said on Twitter last month. “Never threaten the United
States again!”
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Iranian leaders, in response, have threatened to block the
Strait of Hormuz, a potential Persian Gulf chokepoint. After
complying with the nuclear pact for a year even after the
American withdrawal, Iran has also raised the possibility of
breaching the accord by taking initial steps to expand its
supply of enriched uranium.
Some Iranian allies around the region have stepped up their
attacks on allies of Washington, fueling fears of a wider
conflict. The Houthi faction in Yemen, which is backed by Iran,
has launched attacks on Saudi oil pipelines and other targets,
and this week a Houthi missile hit the arrivals hall of a Saudi
airport, injuring 26 people, according to Saudi news reports.
The attacks in May on the four tankers near Fujairah were
relatively minor, causing only limited damage to the hulls. An
international investigation presented to the United Nations
later concluded that the damage was done by divers deployed from
small “fast boats” who had placed limpet mines against the
hulls.
On a visit to the United Arab Emirates about two weeks ago, John
R. Bolton, President Trump’s national security adviser, said
Iran was “almost certainly” responsible. A few days later, Mr.
Pompeo called the attacks “efforts by the Iranians to raise the
price of crude oil.”
The explosions that disabled the tankers in the Gulf of Oman on
Thursday were far more severe.
Both took place around dawn, with distress calls at 6:12 a.m.
and 7 a.m., according to a statement from the United States
Fifth Fleet, which said the U.S.S. Bainbridge, a guided missile
destroyer, was “rendering assistance.”
A Norwegian company that owns one of the ships, the Front
Altair, confirmed that it was on fire. The crews of both vessels
— about 23 in one and 21 in the other — were evacuated in
lifeboats.
The owners and operators of both vessels described the incidents
as deliberate attacks.
The Front Altair, registered in the Marshall Islands, was
chartered by the CPC Corporation, the Taiwanese oil company, to
carry naphtha, a petroleum product, from the Emirati port of
Ruwais to Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
The Kokuka Courageous was carrying methanol, headed from the
Saudi port of Al Jubail to Singapore. Yutaka Katada, the
president of the ship’s operator, Kokuka Sangyo, told a news
conference that its Filipino crew had abandoned ship in
lifeboats after what he described as two attacks three hours
apart.
Shipping industry representatives underscored the channel’s
critical importance. “Some 30 percent of the world’s crude oil
passes through the Straits,” Paolo d’Amico, the chairman of the
International Association of Independent Tanker Owners, said in
a statement. “If the waters are becoming unsafe, the supply to
the entire Western world could be at risk.”
Reporting was contributed by Eric Schmitt and Edward Wong from
Washington, Ben Dooley and Makiko Inoue from Tokyo, Vivian Yee
from Beirut and Rick Gladstone from New York.
A version of this article appears in print on June 13, 2019, on
Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Pompeo Blames
Tehran For Blasts on 2 Tankers And Sees ‘Clear Threat’. Order
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Re: End Times - Tracking The Signs
By: Magz Date: June 23, 2019, 4:30 am
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Fortunately Donald Trump has not listened to the war mongering s
of John Bolton & Mike Pompeo and much to the regret of Israel
Trump has declined from gong to war with Iran. :)
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Re: End Times - Tracking The Signs
By: patrick jane Date: June 24, 2019, 4:10 pm
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[quote author=Magz link=topic=398.msg6572#msg6572
date=1561282207]
Fortunately Donald Trump has not listened to the war mongering s
of John Bolton & Mike Pompeo and much to the regret of Israel
Trump has declined from gong to war with Iran. :)
[/quote]Good point. That's another reason I love Trump. He isn't
pushed or pressured into things if it doesn't feel right. I
heard Trump called off a strike because too many innocent people
would be killed.
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Re: End Times - Tracking The Signs
By: patrick jane Date: June 24, 2019, 4:11 pm
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The Truth About the Gulf of Oman Attacks and War with Iran
Did Iran really attack a U.S. oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman or
was this another false flag event propped up to push for war
with Iran, just like the Gulf of Tonkin and Vietnam? The crew of
the oil tanker was rescued by Iran and the crew members thanked
Iran for saving them, yet our leaders say Iran attacked the
tankers?
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