The USA-Iran conflict moved increasingly onto the water this week, with oil tankers, warships, and drones all getting involved around one of the world’s most important shipping routes.
Washington struck five Iranian crude carriers on Tuesday after previously attacking three other commercial vessels. Tehran retaliated, claiming strikes on eight tankers and two US Navy vessels, while an Iranian attack reportedly damaged several US warplanes at an airbase in Jordan.
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Iran also captured an American underwater drone and, two days later, released footage of a US Saildrone surveillance vessel burning in the water.
Tehran says the Strait of Hormuz remains under its control and has announced plans for another restricted shipping zone nearby.
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The escalating hostilities saw Brent crude surge back above $100 a barrel this week, breaking the threshold for the first time in several months.
Meanwhile, Yemeni strikes on Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure have added to fears of further disruption as the kingdom’s oil production in August reportedly fell to its lowest level since 1990 amid growing pressure on its usual export routes.
As oil prices continue to destabilize the global energy markets, the fallout is expected to become a major issue in the upcoming US November mid-term election. The US president, however, has refused to back down, promising “a lot more” strikes on Iranian tankers.
As for concerned voters, Trump promised to pay every American adult a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” if Republicans keep control of Congress. He did not explain exactly how the payouts potentially costing well over $1 trillion would be funded.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2026.
If not already, China and Russia should give Iran coordinates for US navy and US army location in the area and also early warnings about US and Israeli air forces movements, so Iran can kill those terrorist and genocide armies. Just like free world did against Nazi Germany. This is Zio Nazism and it is worse what was in the Nazi Germany and what was Hitler. That thing in Israel has to go. Creator has to take that demon and do something about Sodom and Gomorrah in the Middle East know as Israel. Also Trump should be arrested for treason,… Read more »
Iran hit nothing and lost 3 tankers 🙂 RT is repeating Arabic thousand and one nights tales again 🙂
Meanwhile Israel destroyed underground bunker of 2 kms length in Lebanon which Iran warned not to touch otherwise it would attack Israel and here we are 🙂 Iran is pretending nothing happened. It is scared to attack Israel.
Not quite true KS China supplied high resolution satellite images of destruction carried out by Iran killing US military ,they also supplied pre attack images as did Russia.
Guess who published that ?– not Russia- not Iran but the WSJ the very heart of US information to Americans -what the US government was more upset about was China helping Iran covertly and “of course ” America never does that -does it ???
China needs to support Iran as largest investor of the country.
Extra info Iran shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone and locked onto an F-35 Mark 2 Lightning jet forcing it to retreat . Considering Iran shouldn’t have that technology to overcome the F-35,s protection says a lot. Information supplied by Axios a media outlet close to the Pentagon and that CENTCOM had become “concerned ” . After checking and as far as I know Russia has developed radar that is proved to be able to detect F-35,s – info courtesy of India Defense news and the US National Interest – Nebo -M radar . So has Russia supplied the… Read more »
That’s 100 Mile Near miss for all you yanks…..
I’ve said this many times since many years ago: NATO is another Delian League, and it will end up in the same way.
The hegemon (Athens circa 400 BC, but now USA) could steal the treasure, but it will collapse in the end (battle of Aegospotami, in a similar strait than Hormuz LoL).