US Central Command announced on July 20 that the US was deploying a Marines Corps unit and additional warships to the Middle East amid heightened tensions with Iran.
The command said in a press release that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the deployment of an Amphibious Readiness Group/Marine Expeditionary Unit (ARG/MEU), which typically consists of about 2,200 marines and three amphibious warships.
CENTCOM said the deployment was ordered in response “to recent attempts by Iran to seize commercial ships.” Iran seized two vessels in the Persian Gulf region after the US seized a tanker carrying Iranian oil in the region in April. Since then, the US has announced it was conducting more patrols and sending more military assets to the Middle East, including fighter jets and a guided-missile destroyer.
The US seized the ship, the Suez Rajan, under the pretext of sanctions enforcement and is trying to steal its cargo, but the vessel is currently sitting off the coast of Texas, as American companies are hesitant to take the oil as they fear retaliation from Iran in the Persian Gulf.
The US has a history of seizing tankers and stealing Iranian cargo. In 2021, the Biden administration sold off two million barrels of Iranian oil taken from a tanker that was seized off the coast of the UAE. During the Trump administration, the US seized ships carrying Iranian gas bound for Venezuela and discharged some of the cargo in New York.
CENTCOM claimed that in the past two years, Iran has “attacked, seized, or attempted seizure of nearly 20 internationally flagged merchant vessels in the CENTCOM area of operations.”
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I have to start reading all the comments before I make mine. Sorry for repeating what you already said.
Repeats are good for reinforcement.
That translates to waste of time, taxpayer money, and more targets for Iran counterattacks…!
Sending Marines and more warships is all the USA knows how to do. They’re horrible at negotiating in good faith. Trump killed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and Biden shows no sign that it will be reenacted any time soon. This is all to appease you know who.
Well dang, Thomas, I do believe I know to whom you are referring 😉
I believe it is time to reset the doomsday clock. read Chomsky
“… the US was deploying a Marines Corps unit and additional warships… amid heightened tensions with Iran.” That’s funny. It’s funny because we’ve been conditioned to drink this Kool-Aid and not even blink an eye. You know, like the Emperor in Star Wars. It’s easy for us to see how he’s behind all the conflicts in the world, but we don’t see it when it’s our own country. … Okay… I know it’s not funny when I explain a joke. It wasn’t a joke and it’s actually sad and not funny. (Sarcasm)
The US, exporting war and terror around the globe.
It is the same old story over and over,never changes since Sunoco,Texaco Amoco etc.
Too bad we’ve let Middle East oil production to be the driver of prices with their production instead of our own domestic wells and those of our “friends” like Mexico.
All of these lives and treasure we spend to keep things going because of that area’s oil production and we don’t even see $1 gasoline at the pumps.
The problem may be bigger than that. At present Saudi Arabia sells most oul to China. We do not buy Iranian oil, and have pulled all stops to preventvRussian oil coming to market. Then of course — Venezuelan oil.
Is the idea to put such a squeeze on producers until one after the othet cave in to our demands and fork over their reservex to our oul majors.
Causing probems at Strsits of Hormuz would impese Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq and Uran shipments of energy. And the whole Yemen nonxmaense is a multilatered problem but underneath it all is — Bab Al Mandeb, the Gate of Sorrows.
Because if you can choke it off — Saudis, Sudan and Egypt have no accesd to Asia.
We are setting up “security” expecting the “protected” ones pay the Don for services.
Why do we care about other oil producers and their crazy area of the world?
If our domestic production was increased to the point it drives prices down and our overwelming production drive world prices instead of other’s production like the Saudis, why would we even care about the Middle East?
Because we just care about doing good works without repentance?
Nah its only about profit for the oil czars in theUS. They could give a shit less about anything else like Climate Change,
Like everything it’s profit for the few.
As long as that chicken in the pot is cheap most voters do not realize the subsidies that makes the shelf price so low.
That’s not how oil works. It’s an international market. The U.S. and its allies do buy Russian oil, they just buy it after Russia sells it to other countries like India and Saudi Arabia. There’s no way to tell where the oil a country buys comes from.
Too bad humans ever drilled into the Earth and sucked oil out of it. All else is secondary.
Same thing doubly so for the splitting of the atom
When those like you refuse to use all petroleum products no matter the personal cost to yourself then I’ll take your dream seriously.
Have you?
Never stepped onto a bus?
Refuse to shop in grocery stores?
Nary a synthetic fiber in your home?
A want for other to do as you say while you do not do everything possible yourself because it will inconvenience you is kind of hypocritical. Is it not?
Back in the 50s we should have built extensive Mass Transit but NO. The result is pollution,wars over oil control and disease.What a winning formula?
Mass transit is more for the tranfer of wealth while it’s being built and any other reasons for it become secondary.
US Central Command announced on July 20 that the US was deploying a Marines Corps unit and additional warships to the Middle East to heighten tensions with Iran.
Fixed.
Every day that goes by speaks to my darker side, to the extent that I’m becoming convinced that the human race no longer deserves a place at the table.
Humans fit the medical definition of being a cancerous tumor on the planet. Doesn’t have to be that way, but it’s what humans have chosen to do. We could be focusing on expanding wisdom, empathy, and our consciousness, but instead we focus on intellect, ego, and unnaturally and very harmfully manipulating the physical/natural world. We are causing the Sixth Great Extinction, unnaturally warming the planet, acidifying the oceans, and polluting everything everywhere, to list just some off the top of my head. This probably all started with agriculture, an evil way to live and what caused gross human overpopulation, and it’s only gotten worse ever since.
You write very well speaking the truth.Animal Farm,Some pigs are more equal then others. Says a lot does it not.
Apes are tame campared to humans.
We pirate (and sell) millions of barrels of Iranian oil. America good. Iran ceases tankers. Iran bad. We sent Marines to the ME to counter the(non) threat by Iran. America good. Iran does not. Iran bad. Oooh. I get it.
The way you explain it you are exactly correct.
Always “ratcheting up the tensions”.
Military over reach weakened the Roman Empire and then ultimate collapse. Same scenario with this DC empire
So long its been good to know you. we have not had a decent President since Eisenhower and possibly JFK,he was decent and it got him killed and not by Sirhan.
CENTCOM area of operation? Is there a corner if the world left that is NOT US area of operation? Megalimania setting in, and normalized. Does not raise an eye brow.
Get ready for MarsCOM.
Hard to believe. The US has their hands full supplying Ukraine with weapons. They persist in threatening China over Taiwan which is none of our business and Now along with their stooge Israel is screwing with Iran. How much rice can a person eat. If they spent a fraction of the Military budget on domestics like jobs,housing,infrastructure etc we would not be facing a shitstorm of our own making. Cest Le Vie
“”US Sending Marines, More Warships to Middle East Over Iran Tensions which have spiked since the US seized a tanker carrying Iranian oil in April””
really. way to go uncle sam, getting that oil!
meanwhile the price of gasoline in Iran has dropped from $0.25 /gal US to $0.11/gal US since last year.
Only the USA can steal and commit terrorism. Its Our Thing, doncha know?
This government is very very sick. We are being governed by zombies who are drinking the life’s blood of our children.
It’s more like the Mafia, as General Smedley Butler described it.
I’m ashamed to live in a country where thee is a person who will vote for Biden.