Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

[Immortals]

80-150 is a joke frankly. Iran had an estimated inventory of 10,000 naval mines.

The fact Southern Oman lane is even open is Iran for whatever reason never seriously mined the Strait. Trump claims that tens of speedboats were hit during the past several months trying to lay mines. Not sure I believe that. There are other ways ships can drop mines including via disguised vessels, underwater drones, and special forces.

Iran mismanaged the mining strategy of this war severely.

 

[Immortals]

 

[Immortals]

 

[Immortals]

U.S. must be feeling fairly confident if it can claim there are no negotiations going on. Meanwhile the past 2 months Trump had been saying we are talking to Iranians over and over to keep markets calm.

Seems US feels they have markets (and oil) under control to be able to say no talks are happening.

 

[Immortals]

 

[Immortals]

Reports coming in of Iranian anti ship attacks

 

[Persian Gulf]

 

[Persian Gulf]

one theory is that Iran is mixing crude oil with Iraq and UAE to smuggle exports out, Iran has a history of doing this

the question remains how exactly Iran would get paid in this situation, but I am sure there are creative solutions

 

[Shags101]

So you don’t believe this is part of Irans larger plan to weaken allies and get real time practice against enemies outside of Iran to also get ready for a near future renewal of fighting

 

[Immortals]

A tanker has been alleged to be hit

 

[Immortals]

 

[Immortals]

one theory is that Iran is mixing crude oil with Iraq and UAE to smuggle exports out, Iran has a history of doing this

the question remains how exactly Iran would get paid in this situation, but I am sure there are creative solutions

It’s pretty simple, 51% Iraqi oil and 49% Iranian = Iraqi oil. Russians did similar tactics to circumvent EU sanctions.

The only problem here is Iraqi oil money is controlled by the U.S. so I doubt this story, unless Iraq is paying Iran from its own coffers ahead of each sale.

 

[Persian Gulf]

It’s pretty simple, 51% Iraqi oil and 49% Iranian = Iraqi oil. Russians did similar tactics to circumvent EU sanctions.

The only problem here is Iraqi oil money is controlled by the U.S. so I doubt this story, unless Iraq is paying Iran from its own coffers ahead of each sale.

I said: "the question remains how exactly Iran would get paid in this situation"

you just said "the only problem here is" ... how Iran gets paid. so, not so simple...

 

[Persian Gulf]

How many ships has Iran hit since this threat by Trump over a month ago?