“HORMUZ BLACK OPS”

Convenient attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman signify the deliberate and well-calculated fabrication of a "False Flag" operation in phases. Who and how are you trying to unleash an Armageddon in the Persian Gulf?

By Dany Smith

As Washington raises the tone of its threats and tightens the economy with the application of more sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, strange and very convenient attacks are still happening against oil tankers entering through the Strait of Hormuz that seem to seek the acceleration of a US involvement in a new war in the Persian Gulf.

It is necessary not to lose sight of the antecedents of this type of events, their true origins (causes and actors involved) and what their subsequent consequences have been. The framework is clear: Tehran in the face of continued threats from Washington, repeatedly warned that if they did not stop their political and commercial aggressions they would close the Strait of Hormuz. Obviously that would be a drastic and politically dangerous measure for Iran but someone has taken note of this and tries to use it against them.

On June 13, two giant tankers loaded with oil that passed through the Gulf of Sultanate of Oman, were the target of alleged attacks that set off fires in both ships forcing their crews to abandon them. In sight there was no ship or gunboat that could have been responsible for this. But what really happened? Let's not forget that a day earlier there had been other incidents against four other tankers passing through the same area, with some signs in the helmets of some of them indicating the participation of a well-trained and coordinated sabotage group (such as mine that was removed from the oil tanker "Courageous Kokuka" by a crew of an Iranian warship).

Quickly and without concrete evidence, Washington through Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Tehran of being behind the attacks. Again, the time of the show of lies and fallacies went into action. This is not surprising since it is a fact that the official is one of the many Zionist militants who occupy positions in the Trump administration. Once again, Hassan Rohani's government rejected the accusations and his staff has no doubt that they are facing a large False Flag operation executed by Special Forces teams that ultimately respond to the interests of Tel Aviv. Not only the Iranians agree with this position, there are many voices in the West and in the US in particular that support this thesis.

In Argentina of course, the treatment of this type of issues in the local media (especially of CABA) is clearly and traditionally conditioned by a clear pro-American editorial positioning that ultimately ends up playing in Israel's favor. There are cases in which the bias is so evident that it seems to be exuding itself through the pores of some famous communicators. And it is that from various sectors of the media (television, radio and Internet) is continuing to harangue -without certain evidence and clear malice- the responsibility of Iran in the attacks of 1992 and 1994 making evident in recent years in the alleged pernicious by the signature of a memorandum of understanding between Argentina and Iran.

But beyond these contrived positions, the variety of informative sources allows to approach the vision and analyze the facts from several angles, one of them the Iranian.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stressed that these attacks were "suspicious", suggesting that they were being executed by an interested third party, seeking to try to incriminate Iran. Zarif also sentenced on the US accusations that they are framed in a "sabotage policy" that is executed with the complicity of "Team B" composed of Tel Aviv, Riyadh and the neoconservative sector of the White House.

At the time these attacks took place in the United Nations and the Arab League, the situation was addressed by calling the main parties to be responsible. Likewise and despite these appeals, those who have planned (let alone executed) these acts do not care about international legality.

The truth is that for several analysts, this is a dirty tactic very used in the past and that goes back from the bombing to the American ship "USS Maine" in 1898 at moments that was anchored in the port of Havana, passing for the "TonKin" incident in Vietnam in August 1964, or the deliberate attack on the American ship "USS Liberty" in 1967 by Israeli planes killing 34 sailors (a stab from Israel to the US) and how to forget the attacks of 11 September 2001 not yet clarified that they were the argument to create the paranoia of the "war on terrorism" and launch the invasions to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Also the tactic of the "False Flag" attacks has been very present in the clandestine and illegal intervention of intelligence agencies of external powers (including Israel) inside Syria making horrible attacks with chemical agents on civilian populations with the attempt to accuse before the public opinion to the Al Assad government of war crimes.

Beyond the speculations that give profits to the oil market, the truth is that someone from the shadows tries to light the flame of war in the Gulf and nobody has any doubts about who is the main suspect. Of course, in the West and especially in the corporate media there is absolute silence about the possible implications of Tel Aviv in these acts of terrorism. If you make a commendable effort to cover the air strikes that Israeli planes continue to develop on Syria and the Gaza Strip, what can you expect with regard to this situation? Much more if we see it from Argentina, a country that is currently under the control of a government in tune with Washington and Tel Aviv.

In this last sense, Buenos Aires (beyond its temporary ideological tendency) should not repeat its previous errors of judgment, as they were accepting blindly the intoxicated versions coming from the embassies involved in matters involving casus belli based on interests geopolitics without the due independence of criteria and weighting of concrete facts and duly verified. 

If Argentina wants to insert itself in the world, it does not mean that it does so at any price (How to participate in the Persian Gulf War in 1991). Much less that should be part of wrongs and conflicts without an exhaustive study of their origin. The current context in which a potential conflict develops in this geographical area of ​​the world, is potentially lethal for any type of naval, air or land participation (much more than it was in 1991) and any arguments raised under the auspices of the United Nations It will not guarantee peace.

That is why with the latest events, it is clear that there is an attempt to incriminate Tehran. Those who are behind these events are willing to sacrifice whoever they are and how they are doing it. The Iranian Navy was the one that rescued the crews of the sinister ships, deactivating some of the explosives attached to their helmets and took them safely to safe harbors. It was the case of the Norwegian flag ship "Front Altair" that after reporting a powerful explosion, its crew was rescued by an Iranian warship guaranteeing its safety. Another one of the Japanese flagged vessels had been attacked with "torpedoes", something curious and unlikely given the particular characteristics of the site where the incident occurred. Likewise, it was possible to see in the same ship under his helmet, the placement of a limpet mine that would have failed and remained untapped. Obtaining this device intact could yield data about its constructors and executors.