Since dishonoring the P5+1 nuclear deal, the Trump Administration has made clear their goal is to bring Iranian oil exports to zero through sanctions. That’s wholly impractical, with many nations, including P5+1 deal signatories, saying they intend to keep buying from Iran despite US sanctions.
But Israel does have a navy and a burning desire to pick fights with Iran. In comments Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s Navy could soon be ordered to target Iranian oil tankers to prevent them selling oil abroad.
Netanyahu is trying to prevent Iran selling oil to nations like China without American permission as “smuggling,” and potential military attacks on oil tankers in international waters as enforcement of US sanctions. It’s not clear anyone else in the world, the US included, would generally consider that the case.
Israel’s Navy is generally made of small ships, nothing larger than a corvette or a small submarine, and it’s not clear how they would physically stop Iranian oil tankers, apart from deliberate sneak attacks that would cause huge oil spills and fuel international outcry.
I think that’s something we can agree on.. Trump needs a lot more than that. Anyone with even the most rudimentary understanding of psychiatry would concur I believe also…. Oh yeah… Way Way more than Kim can offer…?????
israel is in a state of psychosis and needs to be curtailed as the rogue nutjob it is. BDS
Man, you’re spot on with this one; There’s no doubt whatsoever that Israel’s in a state of psychosis and needs to be curtailed as the rogue nutjob it is.
One way to curtail the Zionist Entity is through BDS; another way is through putting an end to stealing taxpayer money and subsidizing it. Israel’s the wealthiest welfare state in the world and doesn’t need our funding .. time to shut off the welfare spigot for good.
In addition, it’s also time to end all ties to this rogue nutjob; it has NO allies, only vassals. The US should’ve ended all ties with Israel right after its vicious attack on the USS Liberty in June, 1967, killing 34 crewmen and injuring another 171. That certainly would’ve happened if JFK hadn’t been assassinated nearly 4 years earlier. He had no love for the rogue Zionist Entity, evidenced by his demand to it to open up its Dimona Nuclear Facility to IAEA inspectors.
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Netanyahu needs a heavy duty diversion right now, and I doubt that he’s making this threat without Trump’s approval. Trump hates Iran and could seriously imagine himself playing a messianic role in an historical narrative centered on Israel. He’s narcissistic enough, and the neocons surrounding him could believe that for the unipolar moment to continue, the U.S. must show the world who’s boss by confronting any competing power or alliance of powers, even by provoking these confrontations.
It is the same damned old story. When you are in deep political and legal doodoo at home threaten someone.
Netanyahu’s blood is in the water. He’s pandering to the extreme right wing in an attempt to stave off electoral defeat. His defeat would signal the beginning of a long series of court cases that would tie him up for years.
The sad fact is that he is what passes for a “left” wing in Israel now. Those lined up against him are even more barbaric than he is. People that openly call for things like genocide and mass displacement of the remaining Palestinians.
Israel’s Navy simply cannot accomplish the task. The best they’ll be able to do is pirate an un-escorted Iranian tanker that they find on the high seas. At worst they’ll cause a huge environmental disaster and trigger another war in the Middle East.
Netanyahu going full War Whooping with an election forthcoming.
That would be a declaration of war. US sanctions are also illegal.
Jason as you are aware writing articles such as this could be construed as anti-Semitic
I’m sure you’ve been warned before
“Anti-semite” has lost its sting, because every justified criticism of the Zionist fully nuclear armed, viciously apartheid, theocracy Israeli government is declared to be anti-semitism. The word is so overused and misapplied as to be useless. Indeed, to be declared “anti-semite” by the Israel Lobby is to be declared a person of high moral conscience.
I so wish you were right
misconstrued,used,abused,manipulated you mean?
You are correct
Israel’s subs do have cruise missile capability, as do some of its small
ships, so sinking or damaging a tanker would be feasible. But Iran has a
navy, too, with small ships and submarines and could escort at least
some of its oil tankers.
But Israel won’t do this without direct US support. The problem for Israel remains the same: Hezbollah in Lebanon. If Israel attacks Iran it risks Hezbollah attacking Israel. While Israel wants a war with Hezbollah, it has to have US participation or it will suffer economically when Hezbollah rains 1,600 missiles a day on Israel, wrecking the Israeli economy.
This is why Israel hasn’t attacked Iran yet over the (fake) Iran nuclear weapons issue. And if Israel can’t attack Iran over that more significant issue because of Hezbollah, it won’t do it over Iranian oil, either.
So this reduces to just another Netanyahu blowhard steam release.
I think more to the point China has a Navy
The Strait of Hormuz would be closed immediately.
Russia’s base at Sevastapol …
Iran and Russia have a mutual defense treaty. You attack Iran and Russia will blow Israel to hell where they belong.
No, Iran and Russia do not have a “mutual defense treaty.” They have a “military cooperation agreement,” but it doesn’t obligate either state to support the other if one is attacked. There’s been some talk in recent years of Iran joining the Collective Security Treaty Organization, but it hasn’t.
Election season. “if elected I promise to kill more Muslims and start more shit in the world than my opponent”
So Israel is prepared to attack ships belonging to a nation that’s never attacked them, because the US doesn’t want Iran to sell oil as a result of a nuclear deal that Israel wasn’t party to? Sounds perfectly legit.
A deal that U.S. allies still respect … “Agree that the U.S. now literally rules the world, or we’ll attack commerce that you freely accept.” It’s a global Monroe doctrine. At some point, U.S. hubris reaches a breaking point, and it either backs down or wages global war.
His population is slipping and he needs a boost from ultra-right of right for the upcoming April election.
All the help from Trump, Kushner, Democrats and of course UK “Friends of Israel” and French Macron puppets with their “everything you do is antisemitic” pandering has emboldened the already fanatical Netanyahu who now thinks he can do anything. Iran may surprise us all soon by closing the straits of Hormuz to all traffic!!!!
they would actually blow up oil tankers.
and the rest of the world would turn a blind’s eye.
Russia has a very capable anti-submarine fleet I suspect Israel’s 9 submarines would be gone in short order.
Fuck the Nazi Israeli Likud.
Top US General Says American Troops Should Be Ready To Die For Israel
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Another false flag by bibi to curtail dissent,to rally the war lovers and to deflect from his corruption. Bibbi is a zionist and they believe they have gods will to occupy the land from the jordon to the sea and people need to understand this. The core goal is land confiscation and to control this land and everything in it for themselves and nobody else.
Personally,as a human being i strongly disagree with this premise on so many levels. i learned history of the usa ethnic cleansing the north american continent with manifest destiny while 330 native nations were obliterated in the name of god. What the zionists are doing in Palestine is the exact same thing and its my duty as a thinking caring human being to stand up and disagree because this is my time. If i was around in germany in the 30’s i presume i would’ve been doing the same for the jews. i try not to care about who you are but what you do to others as my moral compass. In other words if the situation were reversed with the Palestinians doing to the jews what the jews are now doing to the palestines then i would be protesting for the jews…
But isn’t this the problem of humanity at its core? we all congregate,create our little groups and then look down on everyone else? Families,clans,tribes,religions,economic cliques,nations,whatever. We gather in our groups for comfort,defense and we band against those who are not the same as us. Humanity has been doing this from the beginning. Each group convinces itself that it alone is the true human being, the favorite of the god, and everyone else is less so are treated as less. The latest is called nations and i find them to be the 2nd worst(religion-#1).. What is done in the name of nations is insane. It all comes down to justification for theft,for crimes ‘in the name of’ and it drives me nuts to watch humanity stuck in this stupid loop. Gary Davis understood this after bombing the hell out of innocents during ww2 and his epiphany was this: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/us/garry-davis-man-of-no-nation-dies-at-91.html
He was right. Walls are for fools,bridges are for the wise and we need to erase our illusory borders and tend this place with love,compassion not with undeserved greed and selfishness. No one here owns anything but the breath you just took and someday, i hope humanity will grow up and understand this or, if current trends are correct,we do not and soon join the 99.99999% other species that came and went. Its up to us. The clock is ticking,we’re failing and time is running out…So what will you do with the time you have left?