Following up on claims by US officials that Iran was behind the attacks on a pair of tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, Central Command released a video on Thursday night through the Associated Press, claiming the video showed Iran removing an unexploded explosive mine from the tanker.
The video, such as it is, is an extremely grainy black and white video for about a minute and a half. The start of the video shows a small ship, putatively an Iranian patrol boat, floating alongside the tanker, the Kokuka Courageous.
It is difficult to tell from the video if the crew of the boat is actually doing anything to the ship, and the interaction, such as it is, was just the first few seconds. It followed by zooming in to the boat after this, panning around the boat and zooming in and out awkwardly a few times. This continues for the entire rest of the video.
The US had already declared Iran guilty for the bombings, despite offering to actual evidence. The video seems far from conclusive, at least in the form seen so far, though earlier in the day it was suggested officials might not bother to release it at all, and just asserting its existence was meant to be damning enough.
I’m confused. Why would video of Iranians removing a mine from a ship suggest that they put it there??
Uhh that video is atrocious. WTF did they shoot it on? A potato?
Putative Iranian Patrol Boat. lol
The gullible believe all this bs.
No question about it, what was released was definitely a video.
Totally fabricated video to the point that is totally embarrassing for US to blame Iran based on such a fake nonsense production…..US should stick to the word blame as they are better off that way, because when it comes to presenting solid evidence, they suck at it big time!
Tail wagging the dog furiously….
Pompus blurry video “evidence” is even more laughable than Colin Powell at the UN, prior to the Iraq invasion.
It seems logical that Iran would assist the damaged ship however the tanker crew are already on record saying they were hit by a flying object.
Someone needs to account for all of Israels submarines and their locations during these attacks.
Maybe its taken at night with some sort of heat sensitive camera. If the Iranians did do it, what was there reason? The interesting thing about the attacks over the last month is that they were subtle, didn’t do much damage or seem to hurt anyone. Not very terrorist like. Perhaps a reminder that the oil supply is vulnerable. Who ever did it must have had some motive.