On March 25 when the Israeli-owned container ship MT Lori, on its way from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Mundra, India, was struck in the Arabian Sea by what were alleged to be Iranian missiles. No one on board the MT Lori was injured, “and the vessel was only slightly damaged,” managing to continue on its way.
Article by Dave Patterson from Liberty Nation.
What has been mostly a war of words, threats, and counter-threats between Israel and Iran has heated up recently. Despite U.S. overtures designed to help modify its bad behavior, Iran continues to cause mischief in the region. As Liberty Nation has reported, Iran’s bullying of its Gulf neighbors remains the chief stumbling block on the road to peace in the Middle East. Within the last two months, Iran has resorted to more overt hostilities.
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu
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The Times of Israel explained that last month a blast from what was described as a limpet mine “punched two holes” in the side of the Israeli-owned MV Helios Ray cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman.
Reacting to that incident, according to a Reuters account published on the British news site DailyMail.com, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “Iran is the greatest enemy of Israel, I am determined to halt it. We are hitting it in the entire region.” The Mullahs in Teheran did not hear Netanyahu’s strong words, apparently. Though Iran has not taken responsibility for the attack, few believe the action could be from any other country in the region.
Eve Young, a correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, quoted Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz regarding his country’s immediate intentions explaining: “We will need to keep investigating, but we can say for sure that Iran is attempting to damage Israeli infrastructure and to hurt Israeli citizens.” Gantz went further, opining that the MT Lori’s “proximity to Iran during the incident has strengthened the suspicions against Tehran.”
Tit-For-Tat
When Iran’s belligerence spills out into the Mediterranean, Israel responds. The Wall Street Journal reports:
“Israel has targeted at least a dozen vessels bound for Syria and mostly carrying Iranian oil out of concern that petroleum profits are funding extremism in the Middle East, U.S. and regional officials say, in a new front in the conflict between Israel and Iran.”
As we learn from the WSJ’s account, Israel engaged “at least a dozen vessels bound for Syria” and has been using a variety of weapons “including underwater mines to strike Iranian vessels carrying Iranian cargo to Syria and other areas in the region.” The Times of Israel reports that some of the “alleged Israeli strikes” took place in the Red Sea and areas where Iranian shipping was carrying “Iran-linked” weapons shipments.
The Israelis justify these attacks on the basis that Iran has persisted in its circumvention of U.S. sanctions against Iran as well as “international sanctions against Syria.” With Syria in the picture, the hostilities between Israel and Iran are joined by the U.S., who recently attacked Iran-backed militia groups in Syria.
Drawing In The US
The Biden administration authorized the airstrikes. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin described the bombing of Iran-backed militant groups responsible for rocketing U.S. installations in Iraq this way: “[W]e’re confident in the target we went after; we know what we hit. We’re confident that the target was being used by the same Shia militia that conducted the strikes.”
And so it goes in the Middle East. Iran-supported attacks on U.S. installations in Iraq prompt a U.S. response in turn. Israeli attacks on Iran ships in the region result in Iran attacking Israeli cargo ships. The Iranian attack on the Israeli cargo vessel will result, no doubt, in an Israeli response. The rub for Iran is that though it seems willing to play the troublemaker, the outcomes never seem to work in its favor, and it is a dangerous gambit for Iran and the region.
The views expressed are those of the author and not of any other affiliation.
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Read more from Dave Patterson.
Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
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