When Saudi oil refineries were struck by a drone attack on Saturday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was quick to declare Iran responsible. This was par for the course for Pompeo, who has long been the driving force in pushing the US toward military action against Iran.
Iran rejected the accusation, saying that the US allegations were “meaningless” and just meant to justify military action. Officials also presented it as a continuation of US “deceit” about Iran.
Indeed there doesn’t appear to be any publicly available evidence of Iranian involvement, while Yemen’s Houthi movement, the most probable culprit, openly admits to having carried out the attack themselves. Pompeo says there is “no evidence” the attack came from Yemen, suggesting that North Yemen’s largest faction flat out saying they did it doesn’t count as evidence to him.
A commander for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard also suggested if Iran wanted to attack something, it wouldn’t be some Saudi refinery, noting that a number of US military bases and aircraft carriers are well within range of Iranian missiles. He added that Iran has long prepared for a full-fledged war, suggesting Iran is ready to respond if the US uses this as a pretext for war.
What the US will ultimately do with Pompeo’s narrative remains to be seen, though President Trump has declared the US “locked and loaded” for action, and is waiting for the Saudis to assign blame for the attack.
There’s only only problem: This so-called “attack” is a Lie. Just like Tonkin, just like the Kuwaiti Incubator Babies, just like Saddam’s WMDs, just like 9/11. And the Deep State’s boy Trump is just the one to pull it off. i wonder when we’ill get a drone attack in Houston. That’d REALLY pump up the price of oil, eh?
Well you know what they say, years of war can save you hours of diplomacy.
If they don’t like what these few drones did to the world oil supply, then they REALLY won’t like what Iran could do to it if it really let go with all the missiles and drones it does have. Don’t forget too that the people living on top of the Saudi oil are minority Shiites aligned with Iran — not a good place to defend huge and highly explosive installations from angry locals with IED’s.
Thankfully John Bolton isn’t still around otherwise we’d be making up shit and clamoring for war. Oh wait…
If Wash. says they did it, they might as well have. Seems everyday, we’re getting closer to something really bad for humanity and the earth. And, this time the gov. in Wash. are the bad guys.