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Friday, June 14, 2019

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Oman tankers attacked: Yet another false flag?


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 Kevin Barrett
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Who’s messing with the Persian Gulf oil trade? Pompeo’s blaming Iran. Is Bolton trying to gin up a war before he’s kicked out the door?
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On Thursday morning, Iranian rescuers rushed to the assistance of the two oil tankers in the Sea of Oman, transferring all of their 44 crew members to Iran’s southern shores.
Referring to Washington’s sanctions against Tehran following the former’s unilateral withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement with world powers, the statement said, “The US economic war and terrorism against the Iranian people as well as its massive military presence in the region have been and continue to be the main sources of insecurity and instability in the wider Persian Gulf region and the most significant threat to its peace and security.”
THE STATEMENT ALSO CALLED ON “THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO LIVE UP TO ITS RESPONSIBILITIES IN PREVENTING THE RECKLESS AND DANGEROUS POLICIES AND PRACTICES OF THE US AND ITS REGIONAL ALLIES IN HEIGHTENING THE TENSIONS IN THE REGION.”
It added that the recent developments in the region “serve as proof of the urgency” of engaging in “dialogue based on mutual respect” between  “all regional countries… based on mutual respect, inclusivity and basic principles of international law.”
“Reiterating its longstanding position on the need for promoting peace and security in the broader Persian Gulf region, the Islamic Republic of Iran stands ready to play an active and constructive role in ensuring the security of strategic maritime passages as well as promoting peace, stability and security in the region,” the statement said in conclusion.
‘B Team turning to sabotage diplomacy’
In a series of tweets on Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the US allegations against Iran over the attacks on oil tankers in the Sea of Oman were part of “sabotage diplomacy” adopted by the “B Team,” which he uses to refer to US National Security Adviser John Bolton, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
JAVAD ZARIF
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THAT THE US IMMEDIATELY JUMPED TO MAKE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST IRAN—W/O A SHRED OF FACTUAL OR CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE—ONLY MAKES IT ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT THE IS MOVING TO A : SABOTAGE DIPLOMACY—INCLUDING BY @ABESHINZO—AND COVER UP ITS  AGAINST IRAN.
8:11 AM – Jun 14, 2019
JAVAD ZARIF
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THAT THE US IMMEDIATELY JUMPED TO MAKE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST IRAN—W/O A SHRED OF FACTUAL OR CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE—ONLY MAKES IT ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT THE IS MOVING TO A : SABOTAGE DIPLOMACY—INCLUDING BY @ABESHINZO—AND COVER UP ITS  AGAINST IRAN.
JAVAD ZARIF
✔@JZARIF
I WARNED OF EXACTLY THIS SCENARIO A FEW MONTHS AGO, NOT BECAUSE I’M CLAIRVOYANT, BUT BECAUSE I RECOGNIZE WHERE THE  IS COMING FROM.
8:12 AM – Jun 14, 2019

Today's Attacks On Ships In The Gulf Of Oman Are Not In Iran's Interest - Or Are They? (Updated) UPDATED below --- Early this morning, around 6:00 UTC, two tankers in the Gulf of Oman were attacked by surface weapons. Both ships were some 50 kilometers south-east of Bandar-e Jask, Iran, and some 100+ kilometers east of Fujairah. bigger The Front Altair, a 250 meter long crude oil tanker under the flag of the Marshal Islands, came from the United Arab Emirates and was on was on its way to Taiwan. Its load of 75,000 tons of naphta caught fire and the crew had to abandon the ship. bigger The second attacked ship is the Kokuka Courageous, a 170 meter long tanker flagged by Panama. It was coming from Saudi Arabia and on its way to Singapore. The ship has its hull breached above the water line, but its load of methanol seems to be intact. The Iranian Search and Rescue ship Naji picked up the 44 crews members of both ships and brought them to Bandar-E Jash. Oil prices increased by some 4%. These attacks come a month after four ships anchoring near the UAE port Fujairah were damaged by explosives attached to their hulls. The investigation of that incident by the UAE did not blame anyone for the attack but suggested that a nation state must have been behind it. U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton blamed Iran. It is likely that Iranian proxy forces were involved in the May attacks. It seems unlikely that Iran had anything to do with today's attacks. The May attack was accompanied by two drone strikes launched by Houthi forces in Yemen on the Saudi east-west pipeline that allows some Saudi exports to avoid a passage through the Street of Hormuz. A third strike was a medium range missile launch by the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza strip against the city of Ashkelon in Israel. All three strikes together were a warning that those countries who instigate for a U.S. war on Iran would get seriously hurt should Iran be attacked. The attack today comes at an inconvenient time for Iran. The loud anti-Iran campaign John Bolton initiated in April and May recently calmed down. U.S. President Trump tries to move Iran towards negotiations with him. He recently received the President of Switzerland in the White House. Switzerland is the 'protecting power' that represent U.S. diplomatic interests in Iran. The German Foreign Minister Maas was send to Iran to press for Iranian concessions. Currently the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is visiting Tehran. He today met Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei but had no success in moving Iran towards negotiations with the Trump. Even while Iran rejects negotiations with the U.S. as long as the U.S. keeps up its sanctions, it has no interest in disturbing the current phase of diplomacy. Iran seems to have nothing to win from these attacks. Is someone else out to nearly literately torpedo the current mediation attempts? Update (11:30 utc, 7:30 AM blog time): Cont. reading: Today's Attacks On Ships In The Gulf Of Oman Are Not In Iran's Interest - Or Are They? (Updated) Posted by b at 05:37 AM | Comments (226) June 12, 2019 Unconstricted Twisted Filaments Of Fiber I've got nothing. --- News & views ... Posted by b at 12:36 PM | Comments (111) June 11, 2019 Cuban Doctors Provide Healthcare To Those In Need - The U.S. Wants To Stop Them The Trump administration wants to reassert hegemony over Latin America. Cuba is one of its main targets. Through right wing allies and by its own means it targets Cuba's most successful export program - the provision of Cuban doctors to countries in need of them. In 2002 the Bush administration created a program to train Latin American legal personal to wage a "war on corruption" in their home countries. Back in their countries the U.S. trained people would be fed U.S. intelligence on left wing politicians. It would allow them to launch which hunts on those the U.S. wanted out of the way. Sérgio Moro, a Brazilian judge, took part in U.S. program. Fed with (dis-)information from the U.S. he launched lawfare against then President Lula of Brasil and his Worker Party. The campaign was successful. In 2018 Lula was put into jail solely based on dubious claims made by one criminal witness. Protocols of leaked chats between Judge Moro, the prosecutor, and other people involved provide that his intent was not to serve justice but to incarcerate Lula to prevent his party from winning the presidency. The plot succeeded and the extreme right wing politician Jair Bolsonaro won the election. After his inauguration he immediately installed Moro as Minister of Justice. Bolsonaro immediately started to take care of U.S. priorities. Especially the poor in Brazilians now have to suffer under these policies. Their access to healthcare has severely diminished: During his campaign for the presidency, Mr. Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist, committed to making major changes to the Mais Médicos program, an initiative begun in 2013 when a leftist government was in power. The program sent doctors into Brazil’s small towns, indigenous villages and violent, low-income urban neighborhoods. About half of the Mais Médicos doctors were from Cuba, and they were deployed to 34 remote indigenous villages and the poorer quarters of more than 4,000 towns and cities, places that established Brazilian physicians largely shun. ... Cuban doctors have long complained about getting only a small cut of the money for their work, and Mr. Bolsonaro said they would have to be allowed to keep their entire salaries and to bring their families with them to Brazil. They would also have to pass equivalency exams to prove their qualifications. “Our Cuban brothers will be freed,” Mr. Bolsonaro said in an official campaign proposal presented to electoral authorities. “Their families will be allowed to migrate to Brazil. And, if they pass the revalidation, they will begin to receive the entire amount that was being robbed by the Cuban dictators!” Two weeks after Mr. Bolsonaro won the presidency in October, Cuba ordered all its doctors out. There were a total of 11,500 Cuban doctors in Brazil. The Economist explained the deal: The Cuban doctors participate in Brazil's Mais Médicos (More Doctors) programme, which aims to bring medical services to remote or underserved parts of the country by employing overseas doctors, mainly from Cuba. It was created in response to the mass protests that rocked Brazil in June 2013 over the poor quality of public services, including healthcare. The programme pays each participant a salary of around US$4,500 a month. However, the participation of Cuban doctors is organised through the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The Brazilian government disburses the payments to the PAHO, which then transfers the monies to the Cuban government after taking a 5% administrative commission. The Cuban government pays the medical professionals working in Brazil a monthly salary of US$1,245, and pockets the rest. Under the program housing and food for the doctors is paid by local authorities. Most of the Cuban doctors who volunteered for the program like it: Yanet Rosales Rojas, 30, spent three years working in the Brazilian town of Poços de Caldas, where on average she earned more than 10 times her monthly salary in Cuba. She returned to the island last year, and was able to buy an apartment in Havana. “You earn much more than what you get in Cuba. I always wanted to travel and treat people in other countries. This was my chance,” she said. Leasing medical professionals is Cuba’s main export, bringing in more hard currency than tourism: last year professional services by doctors and nurse brought in $11bn, compared to $3bn in tourism. The chance to earn abroad is major incentive to study medicine, ... The doctors receive their education in Cuba for free. The income the Cuban Ministry of Public Health makes through the program is used to equip Cuban clinics and to import medicine. Cuba provides free healthcare to its citizens. Not all Cuban doctors in Brazil wanted to return to their home country. They had hoped to continue to work in Brazil, but their bet on Bolsonaro's words went bad: Cont. reading: Cuban Doctors Provide Healthcare To Those In Need - The U.S. Wants To Stop Them 

Early Investigations into Oil Tankers Incidents Show Fire Started for Technical Problems
Early Investigations into Oil Tankers Incidents Show Fire Started for Technical Problems
TEHRAN (FNA)- Recent fire incidents in 2 oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman seem to have started by technical issues, a maritime official of Iran said on Friday, adding that the results of early investigations show that the collision with an external object is just an unproved speculation yet.
In the first vessel, the fire broke out in the middle dock of the tanker and in the second vessel it happened in the engine house of the tanker and there is no proof that an external object has hit these 2 giant oil carriers, said Allah Morad Afifipour, General Director Hormuzgan Province’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO), Tasnim news agency reported.
The local authority added that with the current collected pieces of evidence the two incidents seem to be mere incidents and there is nothing to prove that they have hit an external object or been attacked.
He added that both vessels are on international waters under flags from two countries, adding that it necessitates the flag owners to announce the cause of the incidents.   
on Thursday, Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Rabi'e strongly voiced concern about the explosions occurred in the two Japan-related oil tankers in the Sea of Oman, cautioning the regional states not to become entangled in the "deception trap" flattened by countries which benefit from instability in the region.
"All regional states should be careful not to be entrapped by deception of those who benefit from instability in the region," Rabi'e added.
"The Iranian government is ready for security and regional cooperation to guarantee security, including in the strategic waterways," he added.
All crew members of the two oil tankers which were hit in the Sea of Oman were saved by Iranian rescue teams on Thursday.
Iranian rescue vessels have picked up the 23 crew members of one of the tankers and 21 of the other from the sea and brought them to safety at Iran’s Jask, in the Southern Hormozgan Province, an informed source said on Thursday.
Earlier, media reports said explosions had occurred on the two oil tankers, apparently as a result of attacks.
Details about the incidents are still sketchy, but the ships are known to have sent distress signals to nearby ports and vessels.
While the US Navy claimed it had been assisting the tankers, the Iranian rescue vessel was first to reach them and rescue the crew, who had plunged into and were floating on the sea to avoid the fire.
The MT Front Altair had been loaded at a port in the Gulf of Oman with a petroleum product known as naptha, and was on its way to the Far East. Its crew of 23 is safe after being evacuated by the nearby Hyundai Dubai vessel.
Front Altair was loaded from Qatar with the flage of Marshal Islands and Kokuka Courageous was loaded from Saudi Arabia with a Panama flag.
Meanwhile, BSM Ship Management says its crew of 21 aboard the Kokuka Courageous carrying methanol has also been rescued in the Gulf of Oman by a nearby Iranian vessel after what it described as an “incident on board which resulted in damage to the ship’s hull starboard side”.
The Arabic-language al-Mayadeen reported that Front Altair oil tankers was fully drowned in the Sea of Oman after the incident.
Japan's Trade Ministry said that the two oil tankers were reportedly attacked near the Strait of Hormuz which is located between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman carried "Japan-related cargo".
Meantime, an informed source in the Iranian Armed Forces said that Iranian Army sent several vessels and helicopters along with rescue teams to the damaged oil tankers upon their request for help. 
After the incident, Brent oil crude jumped as much as 4.5% and was trading at $61.80 a barrel at 11:51 a.m. in Dubai. Stocks in Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Abu Dhabi were all down more than 1%.
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