Independent media is great and important to have but on this issue Luke, you are entirely unconvincing.

The situation quite simple. Iran attacked the largest oil facilities in the world with Iranian weapons (drones & cruise missiles) and from Iranian (or partly Iraqi) soil. They have form on this, having trained and supplied their Yemeni proxies to conduct similar, smaller attacks from Yemen in the past months.

Iran is saying that if it can't export oil because of sanctions, no one will.
They are also playing for leverage in potential negotiations with Trump and threatening him with a massive oil shock leading into 2020 elections.

Iran's motive is clear and the evidence is clear.

You don't have to be a neo-con to see that this blatant act of war, endangering the world economy, cannot go unanswered.

Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the war in Yemen, Iran has crossed a huge red line here.

No one wants a war that may precipitate a global recession, but like France's failure mobilise its forces when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, if blatant aggression like this goes unpunished, we will have a far worse problem soon.