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Tehran Regime Attack on Saudi Arabia Demands a Response September 16, 2019 Clare M. Lopez The Iranian regime has been escalating its aggression all year, with attacks against oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, outright seizure of commercial ships and crews, drone attacks against Saudi oil infrastructure by terror proxies in Iraq and Yemen, and now, a direct attack from Iranian territory by both drones and cruise missiles against Saudi Arabia. The 14 September 2019 attack on two of Saudi Arabia’s largest oil processing facilities (the Abqaiq and Khurais plants) reportedly took out nearly half of the Kingdom’s daily oil output, resulting in a 5% cut to overall world production. This is an act of war, direct, unequivocal, and with no room for plausible deniability. It must be met with an equally direct, prompt, kinetic response. It is up to the Saudi government, of course, to issue a statement that fixes responsibility for the attack firmly with the Tehran regime and...

Iran Regime Is Jamming GPS Signals in Strait of Hormuz to Disrupt Commercial Shipping Written by  Amir Taghati  on  08 August 2019 . The United States Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration has issued a new warning to commercial shipping about threats by the Iranian regime in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, saying that some ships have reported having their GPS interfered with. Additionally, the administration warned that there have been reports of "unknown entities falsely claiming to be the US or coalition warships." The warning, which was issued Wednesday, listed a series of incidents involving Iran since May, including the Iranian regime's seizure of the United Kingdom-flagged M/V STENA IMPERO and the detention and subsequent release of the Liberian-flagged M/V MESDAR, CNN reported. It said that during "at least two" recent encounters involving the Iranian regime's military forces, "vessels reported GPS in...

Detention of UK-Flagged Tanker by Iran's Regime Unacceptable: Owner Written by  Shahriar Kia  on  07 August 2019 . The continued detention of British-flagged tanker Stena Impero by the Iranian regime is “unacceptable and unjustifiable” and there are concerns for the welfare of the crew after 19 days in confinement, the vessel’s owner said on Tuesday. The Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) on July 19 seized the Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz waterway in violation of maritime law. That came two weeks after Britain seized an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar for violating sanctions on Syria. Britain has repeatedly ruled out any swap of tankers. The saga has exacerbated frictions between Tehran and the West since the United States pulled out of an international agreement curbing the Iranian regime’s nuclear program and reimposed economic sanctions. Stena Bulk’s chief executive and president Erik Hanell said the company had limited communication...

Iran’s IRGC units involved in piracy, seizing UK oil tanker UK oil tanker seized by the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Analysis by PMOI/MEK   Iran, July 30, 2019  - An exclusive Iranian opposition report unveils the units of Iran’s regime involved in seizing a British oil tanker, according to Egypt’s al-Bayan daily on July 29. Subterranean facilities in Qeshm Island were also revealed and it is worth noting that Tehran uses the coasts of this island to store sea missiles. Seizing the United Kingdom oil tanker was a political decision made by the regime ruling Iran, according to a report obtained by Majid Hariri, a member of the Defense and Strategic Research Committee in the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ). Three days before the British oil tanker’s seizure, Iranian regime Supreme Leader  Ali Khamenei had specifically promised retaliatory measures in response to the seizing of Iran’s “Grac...

Britain rules out seized tanker swap with Iran Iran detained the UK-flagged Stena Impero and its 23-strong crew as they sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on July 20 (AFP Photo/HO London (AFP) - Britain on Monday ruled out swapping seized oil tankers with Iran as a second UK warship arrived in the Gulf to conduct convoys that have irritated Tehran. A sense of crisis in the world's busiest oil shipping lane has been building up for weeks as Iran responds to US President Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign. The US economic sanctions and stepped-up military presence are designed to force Iran to renegotiate a landmark 2015 nuclear pact from which Trump pulled out last year. Britain further outraged Iran by seizing one of its tankers -- the Grace 1 -- on July 4 on suspicion of it carrying oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions. Iran vowed to retaliate and it's Revolutionary Guards stormed and detained the UK-flagged Stena Impero and its...

Pompeo Says U.S. Will Keep Strait Of Hormuz Open U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaking at the Economic Club of Washington July 30, 2019  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reiterated that his country will keep the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf open to maritime traffic, amid high tensions with the Islamic Republic of Iran. In a talk at the Economic Club of Washington D.C. on July 29, Pompeo responded to a question about the U.S. commitment to keep the vital waterway open at any cost militarily, saying, “We are gonna keep it open”, adding, “We are going to build up a maritime security plan. Countries from all across the world who have a vested interest in keeping those waterways open will participate”. Iran began threatening oil shipping in the Persian Gulf region after the U.S. strengthened its sanctions on Iranian oil exports in May. Multiple tankers were attacked in mysterious circumstances in May and June. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia blamed Teh...

Aerial view of the US embassy in Beirut, 18 April 1983, after a bomb destroyed part of the building. (AFP) By Tony Duheaume Special to Al Arabiya English Friday, 31 August 2018 Text size  A   A   A With Iran’s founder and first Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini applying the name of the Islamic Republic of Iran to his regime, after the fall of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, he tried to portray his newly created clerical dictatorship as the bastion of religious virtue. All this when in fact it was awash with revolutionary ideology steeped in mysticism, martyrdom, mass murder, extreme oppression, and a hegemonic desire to take over the whole of the Middle East, all concealed from the world through a litany of lies. The Iranian regime came into being through mass slaughter, as the revolution wound down, those opposing Khomeini were hunted down on the streets, or grabbed from their homes, and those surviving summary executions, were caged in dismal p...