Liberal/progressive commentator Cenk Uygur of the popular program The Young Turks said on a show recently that only Israel and Saudi Arabia had motive to attack a Japanese tanker, in order to blame it on Iran, after the president of the tanker company called US claims that Iran was responsible "false." Iran has denied any involvement.
Israeli hardliners have long advocated for US military action against Iran.
President Trump recently cited a video released by the Pentagon as showing what the Pentagon says is a limpit underwater mine being removed by a purported Iranian special forces crew. But observers with military backgrounds say that the video does not show a limpit mine, which is large, heavy, and conical, but a magnetic ladder rung used for climbing the sides of ships.
The president of the tanker company has said that the ship was fired upon by a "flying object" not a mine.
CBS News said:
"Company president Yutaka Katada said Friday he believes the flying objects seen by the sailors could have been bullets. He denied any possibility of mines or torpedoes because the damage was above the ship's waterline. He called reports of a mine attack "false.""
The Washington Post in an article entitled "Trump rejects Iran’s denials that it attacked tankers, citing video released by Central Command" wrote:
"the head of the Japanese shipping company that owns one of the targeted tankers challenged the U.S. assertion that the vessel was attacked with limpet mines. He said Friday that the crew reported it was hit by “flying objects."
In 2005 Israel publicly acknowledged carrying out a 1954 attack on American targets in the Middle East, known as the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair"]Lavon Affair[/URL], in which Israeli operatives planted bombs which were then falsely blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood.
And in 1967, in a still highly disputed incident, the crew of a US surveillance ship, the USS Liberty, say an attack by Israeli warplanes was deliberate, It has been opined by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Navy Admiral Thomas Moorer, that the attack may have been intended to draw the US into war with Egypt.
The Israeli newspaper Haraatz on last May 20th ran an article entitled "Netanyahu's Iran Dilemma: Getting Trump to Act Without Putting Israel on the Front Line" frankly states:
"Even if Trump's instinct tells him it's best to avoid war with Iran, no one can be certain of his intentions - not even Netanyahu."
The Israeli secret service, the Mossad, previously proclaimed the slogan "by way of deception thou shalt make war." It has been changed to “without deception, a nation falls.”
There seems to be a HUGE question being left lingering in the media, now that the president of the Japanese tanker company flat out calls US assertions that Iran attacked the tanker with mines [URL="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oil-tanker-attacks-gulf-of-oman-tanker-owner-seems-to-dispute-us-account-of-gulf-of-oman-attack-today-2019-06-14/"]"false."[/URL] The tanker didn't attack itself. Iran also flatly denies involvement. But while the media duly reported Iran's denials and the company president's denial that it was Iranian mines, no one has asked the follow up question.
If Iran didn't do it, who did?
Cenk Ugyar
Interesting that last May the Israeli newspaper Haraatz publishes an opinion piece entitled [URL="https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-netanyahu-s-iran-dilemma-how-to-get-trump-to-act-without-being-on-front-line-1.7269100"]"Netanyahu's Iran Dilemma: Getting Trump to Act Without Putting Israel on the Front Line."[/URL]
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