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Old 09-23-19, 11:13 AM   #136
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The British-flagged tanker seized by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards more than two months ago has been released, according to Iranian officials.

“The legal process has finished and based on that the conditions for letting the oil tanker go free have been fulfilled and the oil tanker can move,” Ali Rabiei, Iran’s government spokesman, said on Monday, according to the official IRNA news agency.
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Old 09-23-19, 11:57 AM   #137
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Good to hear, I wish for the British crew to return to their loved once safe and sound.
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Old 09-23-19, 01:16 PM   #138
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The 23-man crew aboard the Stena Impero was made up 18 Indians, three Russians, a Latvian and a Filipino. No British citizens were onboard.
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Old 09-27-19, 05:08 AM   #139
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Tanker released
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Old 09-27-19, 05:25 AM   #140
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Round goes to Iran with a double scoring. They got the UK to falter and pull back, and they managed to break the Syria blockade and selling them their oil. That they lied about their own tankers destination and get away with that as well, is just a tiny tip of cream on the top.
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Old 09-27-19, 05:51 AM   #141
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^ Tis certainly looking that way and can only serve to embolden them in the future.
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Nevertheless, taken for itself it hit the right guy. If you track events around Iran'S exporting of murderings and terror, you know his name is that of a murderer, terror master, bomb planter and villain. No tear is to be shed. Also, Iran is responisble for plenty of bloodshed and bombing attacks in Iraq. This man was hit by his own medicine while staying in his playground Iraq, planning new death and organising new terror. Sounds fair and just to me.

If Iran thinks it must escalate further from here, so be it. Their range of tools is wide and far-reaching, asymmetrical as well, yes. Should this be the reason why the West endlessly paralysis itself in fear and intimdiation and hysterical concern? If they prefer to hit back again, than we/the Us muts hit again as well - and even stronger. If you get hit, hit back adequately - plus X. The next retaliatory measure by the US may take place inside Iran.

It was clear for everybody that an attack like that on the US embassy could not remain unanswered without literally castrating yourself under the eyes of the world. The US had to deliver a fist.



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Its election campaigning in the US. If i were Iran, I would be extremely careful now.


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@skybird Ironically he may have been the moderate.
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@skybird Ironically he may have been the moderate.
Sulaimani? A moderate? His name was on my mind since years. "Moderate" is not on my list of adjectives describing him. He was unfortunately very clever and unscrupoulous, which made him outstandingly dangerous, since he was very efficient. Its was a high-IQ target that was taken out here.


Al-Sadr calls his former militia back to arms. As a Westerner you better have no business to do in Iraq anymore. Or Iran. This all can lead to a nasty chapter in the all nasty Iraqi tale. Still I think the uS action was one of the possible and adequate actions. When somethign is a mess anyway, you cannot move without causing messy reactions.
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Iran's most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, has been killed by a US air strike in Iraq.

The 62-year old spearheaded Iranian military operations in the Middle East as head of Iran's elite Quds Force.

He was killed at Baghdad airport, alongside local Iran-backed militias, early on Friday in a strike ordered by US President Donald Trump.

Gen Soleimani's killing marks a major escalation in tensions between Washington and Tehran.

Under his leadership, Iran had bolstered Hezbollah in Lebanon and other pro-Iranian militant groups, expanded Iran's military presence in Iraq and Syria and orchestrated Syria's offensive against rebel groups in the country's long civil war.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said "severe revenge awaits the criminals" behind the attack. He also announced three days of national mourning.
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Moderate as in moderate in comparison.


So you may end trading a moderate and cautious general for a more hot headed one.
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Obviously Trump never played the old Tropico video game before. Instead of blowing someone up you use the “arrange accident” option to avoid blowback.
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So Teheran wows retaliation.

What options do they have-if they want to sent USA a message they don't forget ?

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I find this interesting. Iranian backed fighters try to storm the American embassy, US hits back with strike that takes out important Iranian military leader.

What will happen next? Nothing? What can Iran do that they are not already doing? Will this trigger the green light for Iranian sleeper agents already in the US?

We need to get Russia on our side on this.
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