John Chuckman
EXPANSION OF COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CHECKPOINT ASIA
‘A Pair of Tankers ‘Struck’ and On Fire at Entrance to Strait of Hormuz
‘Iranian FM: "Suspicious doesn't begin to describe what happened"’
Looks like Bolton or Netanyahu decided the effort this time must be a little more dramatic.
The last effort, with a small dent in the rear of a tanker, bordered on the ridiculous.
Can there can be any doubt that if Iran were interested in such provocations, it could do a better job than this?
After all, it had the immense experience of fighting a terribly bloody war for most of the 1980s against invading Iraq, a war which was much assisted by American covert efforts in hopes then of toppling Iran's government.
And how can there be any doubt that Iran, threatened on every side by America, has no interest in making such provocations?
No, the vicious children in the room are Bolton and Netanyahu, both proven performers.
Of course, the fact that the stricken tankers were carrying Japanese cargo at a time when Japan’s Prime Minister Abe was holding talks with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, in Tehran is likely no coincidence.
I’ve just learned, too, the attack came not very far from a significant Iranian naval base at Jask, the last location Iran would choose for such a provocation.
But it is a location completely in keeping with the kind of vicious, bone-headed stunts Bolton has staged for us all to see in Venezuela. Some sick and obsessed people can’t help revealing themselves through their acts, almost as though they secretly want credit.
