- Iran says it attacked US facilities in Bahrain, Kuwait, Syria
- US Marines board ship in strait; another tanker reported hit
- Iran reports at least seven people killed in strikes that hit five bridges
DUBAI, July 17 (Reuters) – The United States escalated its renewed bombing campaign on Iran on Friday by hitting bridges and an airport, and Tehran responded with strikes on U.S. bases across the Middle East.
In the contested Strait of Hormuz, where the renewed conflict has again cut off global energy supplies from the Middle East, U.S. Marines boarded a tanker and another ship was reported to have been hit by a projectile.
The warring sides have been testing the limits of escalation since their ceasefire agreement collapsed last week, raising the prospect of a return to all-out war.
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to launch broad-based air strikes on Iran’s infrastructure, and has also declined to rule out a ground assault on Iran’s coast or islands. U.S. officials have said attacks on southern Iran are designed in part to give Trump options.
But such moves risk provoking Iran to escalate in turn by hitting infrastructure of neighbouring countries, or further disrupt energy supplies by having its allies in Yemen attack shipping from the Red Sea.
The U.S. military’s Central Command included “military logistics infrastructure” in the list of targets it said it had struck in its latest attacks on Iran, the first time it has mentioned infrastructure in more than a week.
For now, the attacks appeared to be limited mainly to southern coastal areas that have already been targeted intensively in recent days.
Iranian state media said at least five bridges had been struck in the south. Seven people were reported killed in attacks on bridges in the southern port of Bandar Khamir, where the train station was also hit. An airport was reported hit further east and away from the coast in Iranshahr, in a province bordering Pakistan.
Reuters could not verify the reports, which also described other deadly attacks including one which killed a woman and wounded her child in the port of Bandar Abbas.
Iran said it fired at Syria, apparently for the first time in the war, targeting what it described as a U.S. special forces base in Tanf. Syria says U.S. forces pulled out of the base there earlier this year. A Syrian military source said the strike hit near the base and caused no damage or casualties.
An interim agreement to end the war has collapsed since July 7, when Iran struck ships in the Strait of Hormuz and the United States responded with air strikes.
The renewed fighting has once again largely halted traffic through the world’s most important energy shipping route, sending oil prices surging to around $85 a barrel this week.
Iran has announced the closure of the strait, and Washington has reimposed its own blockade of Iranian ports.
In the latest incidents at sea, the U.S. military said it had boarded the tanker Wen Yao to enforce the blockade, releasing photos of Marines rappelling down from a helicopter onto the deck where one posed in front of an Iranian flag.
The British maritime security service UKMTO reported a tanker had been hit by a projectile on Thursday off the coast of Oman.
While both sides have exchanged strikes daily, they have so far stopped short of escalating beyond parameters set earlier in the war, when civilian infrastructure and major economic targets were mostly deemed out of bounds because of the threat of retaliation.
Iran has said that it would attack civilian infrastructure across the Middle East if Trump follows through on threats to attack Iran’s infrastructure.
It has also signalled that it could prod its Houthi allies in Yemen to close another key strait: the Bab al-Mandeb at the mouth of the Red Sea, potentially worsening the global energy crisis by cutting off another route out for Middle East oil. Sources have told Reuters Iran has already instructed the Houthis to act if Washington attacks Iran’s infrastructure.
The surge in energy prices generated by the conflict has created pressure on Trump to end the unpopular war as quickly as possible. But leaving Iran in control of the strait would be a strategic embarrassment in a region where U.S. forces have served as the main security guarantor for generations.
In a televised speech on Thursday night that was mainly about election security, Trump said the United States was “winning big in Iran, and you will see the fruits of that labour very, very shortly.”
Reporting by Reuters bureaux Writing by Peter Graff
As always, I ignore the noise – the distractive political side show, and concentrate on the economic data. The first question I always ask is where are global capital flows moving?
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A cursory examination of YTD international commodities, currencies and markets shows that capital continues to bleed out of gold and silver [last year’s market psy-op], the Swiss franc, BTC, and most international markets. Brent is a touch higher, but not much.
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So, who’s this year’s big economic winners? – in second place we have the U.S. Dollar (DX-Y), which is strengthening nicely, whilst in first place we have the S&P 500 (SPX), – which is roaring. [The Dow and Russell 2000 are the same].
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China and India are suffering badly.
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The first rule of capital is that capital always seeks yield. It is now clear that capital is seeking yield in U.S. equities: meaning the Mag-7. Reposition accordingly.
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Re: The “world government” already exists in the shadows, they’re just putting on a show that leads the people into accepting such a thing as the necessary remedy to the world’s extreme “problems”.
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Oh dear! I won’t be convinced until I own nothing but I’m still happy being fkd over. I better speak to my local politicians and make sure their masters can do me safely and quietly so I don’t make too much noise. and protest too much.
They’re really pushing the “be safe”, “stay safe” mantra…I hear it all the time. What they’re doing is pushing an unreasonable expectation into the minds of the population, especially men. “Be safe” is really a woman’s thing, not a man’s thing. Not a real man anyways. I’m not talking about stupidity or foolhardiness, I’m talking about a unnaturally programed obsession with “safety”… a total or near total aversion to risk.
(…we will teach them ideas and theories we ourselves know to be false…)
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To hear men saying saying those things to me is kind of like; “yeah, sure…”.
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Even Eckhart Tolle commented on what he called; “the absurd obsession with safety the people are caught up in” during the COVIDHOAX (good on him! A breath of fresh air!).
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Of course “total safety” can theoretically or supposedly only come from a totally controlled and micro-managed worldwide society.
Who the fvck wants to live in such a supposedly risk-free world? Besides maybe women?
Solution; feminize the men, turn them into a bunch of mice…pathetic.
Submit to Big Brother to be “safe”….or else!
Extortion.
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(…we will teach them theories and ideas we know to be [impossible, that will result in total, absolute freedom for us at their expense]) Say the human predators and parasites.
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This is the world you’re living in, where might makes right with or without regard for Truth:
“Expect No Mercy”
https://youtu.be/Vm1NrOB4HKU
Like it or not, that’s the way it is here.
“My Kingdom is not of this world…I Am The Truth…”. Get it?
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“Tikkun Olam” and “the Great Work” are the same thing= the world is “broken” or “defective” until the whole world bows down and obeys “the Unerring Authority of God’s Chosen Representatives on earth”. The Den of Vipers.
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It’s not broken, and they can’t and won’t “fix” it, they’ll just set it up so they’re effectively an imposter “God” over everyone else, never to be challenged ever again.
“THEY” are actually the greatest “threat” and “danger” to any free individuals or societies.
You can bet this is all operating from a script. Nothing is really a surprise or spontaneous.
The “world government” already exists in the shadows, they’re just putting on a show that leads the people into accepting such a thing as the necessary remedy to the world’s extreme “problems”.
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Whereby these evil fvckers that have been secretly orchestrating all the chaos, misery, and destruction can say “see! we told you so, but you wouldn’t listen! Will you accept us now? We’re your only hope for peace and tranquility…we are “chosen by God and thus God’s exceptional instruments on earth…we can do no wrong…can you not see that yet?”.
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All their talk about “sovereignty” is a charade, make-believe. Basically they’ve been trying to beat and deceive the populations of the world into submission for 120+ years.
Technology has given them the means to ramp it up and push it through at an accelerated pace.
They’re playing the people like Pavlov’s Dog, and rats in a maze. To keep them PREDICTABLE and thus controllable.
Trauma-based mind-control.
Stockholm Syndrome.
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“We will rule by terror and make-believe…we will teach them theories and ideas that we ourselves know to be false…”.
https://archive.org/details/waters-flowing-eastward-the-war-against-the-kingship-of-christ/mode/1up
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Like “germ theory” and “virology”=pseudoscience= modern day $orcery, which would be obvious if you bothered to do your due diligence before accepting what they say at face value.
“Thanks” to our “heroes”…imposing and propagating the COVIDHOAX False-flag, the patsy being an imaginary “virus”:
https://ifunny.co/picture/thank-you-to-all-the-jews-who-saved-us-during-D1SW3tvMB
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The post-truth world was formalized in 1945.
“Truth” has more or less been a meaningless word ever since.
“…you will see the fruits of that labour very, very shortly.” Pigs might fly hey Donald.
Venezuela Oil For Sale call Donny
This is all just a game to entertain People. If ths was for real, Iran would have decimated Israel by now. Its just a puppet-show, folks!
if you look at usa actions then the only conclusion is that they are trying to completely destroy the gulf oil production/export capacity via iran as , maybe or maybe not, an unwitting proxy , then as the infrastructure attacks escalate and iran retaliates accordingly against the other gcc, add to that the crippling of russian oil by their other proxy- further to that the IMF has just announced that the 400mil barrels of oil they apparently had in reserve has been depleted , the usa SPR is almost at zero- its almost like they’re on a deadline to shut down the worlds oil tap..
wonder what the real plan actually is?
Why are you quoting Reuters? It is well known that all the main Western news agencies are controlled by Zionists. Far better to quote reliable sources such as Pepe Escobar.
Yeah, sure. This article-and se ethe extract bellow-fleshes out the fact that it’s all British dirty work, and has been from the start:
“…But why put up with Israeli violence, posturing, and expense, when you
already control Iran, and have controlled Iran since 1908? Just make Iran the
new regional headquarters….
Let’s Granna the Cynic triangulate the actual game plan.
Britain knows — intimately — what is in Iran’s arsenal. Britain also knows —
intimately — what is in Israel’s arsenal. Britain controls Iran’s government,
and has done so since 1908. Britain also controls Israel’s government via
debts and associations and personnel placements engineered over time. They
have certainly controlled Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Naughty Benny has been waffling on for 30 years about an Iranian nuclear Armageddon, yet no-one is asking where they got all those thousands of missiles from, let alone how, and why the Iranians have never been condemned for having them?
Missiles are n immediate threat whereas nuclear is pretty much a ponderable which no government is going to initiate without a massive amount of international grief.
In any event, the article-and I think the author is, as they say in the military: “On target!!!:
https://annavonreitz.com/whatbritainisdoing.pdf