An attempt by the United States to open the Strait of Hormuz by force has failed after a fierce response from Iran’s side.
The attempt began on May 3, with President Donald Trump announcing that the U.S. will be making an effort to “guide” stranded ships out of the strategic waterway — a choke point for around 20 percent of global oil and liquefied natural gas.
In line with Trump’s plan, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) launched “Project Freedom” to restore freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz the very next day.
The Iranian response came within hours. The Islamic Republic fired cruise missiles, rockets and combat drones near American warships crossing the Strait of Hormuz as a warning. CENTCOM denied that any warship was struck.
Iran also renewed its strikes against the UAE on the same day — May 4. The Islamic fired 12 ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles, and four drones at the Gulf country, according to the Emirate defense ministry. The Fujairah Oil Industries Zone was hit. Three workers were wounded there.
Three commercial vessels, including a tanker owned by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company were also targeted by Iran close to the UAE.
Amid these attacks, CENTCOM announced that two U.S.-flagged commercial vessels had successfully transited through the waterway. This was denied by Iran, however.
Later on May 4, the command said that its helicopters had struck six Iranian small boats. Trump, from his side, claimed that seven boats were actually hit.
The very next day, Iran struck a cargo ship belonging to French shipping giant CMA CGM near the Strait of Hormuz. The strike caused damage and injured eight crew members.
Surprisingly, Trump announced later on May 5 that Operation Project Freedom will be paused due to progress made in talks toward a permanent ceasefire with Iran. Soon after, it was reported that the U.S. is nearing a one-page memorandum of understanding with Iran to end the war and lay out a framework for talks on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
Despite the reported progress, Iran shot down an American combat drone over Qeshm Island on May 6. CENTCOM also announced that an American fighter jet attacked an Iranian-flagged unladen oil tanker that attempted to sail toward an Iranian port.
Trump has reportedly given Iran one week to reach an understanding. The Islamic Republic will not likely submit easily. A deal remains highly unlikely, mainly due to the complete lack of trust between the two countries. The ongoing U.S. military buildup near Iran suggests that a return to war sometime later this month is the most likely scenario.
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“iran also renewed its strikes against the uae on the same day”
i question that. iran takes responsibility for their strikes, as they are always justified both morally and under international law – they are not terrorists and pirates like the west and israel. i heard reports that iran stated exactly what i just said, and denied striking uae. if they announce otherwise then i’ll believe it.
so in a nutshell i trust what iran says, not the west. west = credibility problem, own fault.
ksa is the odds on favourite for the presents received by the uae arse-apes.
i’ve seen plenty of corespondents in tehran or isfahan, saying the islamic republic are attacking the u.a.e. because they are a puppet of of israel. too bad i can’t watch presstv dot ir. then i could get the straight poop from the horses mouth.
that was a joke by the way. presstv dot ir was taken down by the iranian gov. ha!
edit: presstv dot com was taken down by the united states gov. that was funny. i can type a url. there are some great ru and mx sites.
israeli false flag stabbing uae in back to get them to attack iran. divide and conquer!
that didn’t happen. edit: u.a.e. has not done anything militarily. other than hosting bases that have been there for decades. the same as the iranian islands that have been military bases/airfields for decades.
iran has trump by the yarbles over hormuz.😬
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no, the globalists have the peasants by the keister over resources.
what are the chew locusts up to apart from taking as much territory from lebanon as possible?
does south front get it’s info from the u.s. or ksa or uae or what? still saying iran hit fujairah when everyone has figured out the u.s. did it when shooting at a ship and iran denied doing it. still, here is south front with the same story? where is your claim that iran hit the s korean ship? another mistake. south front, you are embarrassing yourself.
question(s): what do all those data centres globally do? could they intercept web traffic, and then change the content in real time? i believe it is very easily achievable. you go onto the internet and look at sf, the data centres capture that traffic and send your request to a cia or mossad sf look site instead of the real sf site, and then you’re seeing tainted information, still telling you enough to make you think it’s the real site but leading you astray on key issues. think about it.
absolutely. but the real virtual reality are on another plane, global piracy by “us”, sf and russia kill slaves, for to not harm the root cause, the real nazis. sink their ships, and blow up wall street. youtube have for a long time look like a self going repetition of what already have happen. its much easier to obfuscate what have not happen, like 9/11.
there was a program you could use to download a whole web site, all html-docs, all images, everything. if you have control of the internet on a high level, dns and ip, its probably possible to redirect to a fake site. when you can have faked jews…the ground to the virtual reality are humans, easy to foul. the demon einstein did it, probably in many ways.
more like trump is in negotiations with pakistan mediators who are forwarding proposals to iran. as for giving iran a week, that gives indications as to the state of destruction in israel.
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“us” induced famine to expect, as usual, but now not by extinct the bison, but world wide, by demand payment in dollars, zeros, for world wide deaths. i told you to sink their ships, and rain missiles onto north america. clown einstein will postumt kill you all, without anyone shot back.
“near american warships” 😂 sink the nazis ships !!! everywhere !
or it will be like ukraine; russia and other demented, kills in asia and europe, for the nazis goals, six billions dead are requested, the fake pandemic failed.
pero por que no hunden a los portaviones de eeuu ??
they should get hunted down as rabies infected wermin. the norwegian could use their old torpedo battery to sink german warships, but the source to it all get caressed, wherever it murders. the effect is that its get worse. now maybe with a new fake pandemic starting.
“the german government evades to answer the question from a journalist, of who liberated europe from nazism: https://t.me/intelslava/87704” sonar21. of course ! it have get through the same metamorfos as the “jews”, newtons laws, or the root cause. literally, a death cult have take over it all. in the future, you will have to learn in school, how the germans braverly defeated the nazis 😂 you already read how their financiers and importers defeated them. assimilated by the borgs.
“just daydreaming here. wouldn’t it be something if the chinese arrested trump for war crimes.” sonar21. no, they are to occupied execute them which have fuck to nice girls. communistic china 🤮😂
no one have see “bravehearth” in china either. and nature was simply not greedy enough, when it created girls 😂
like when sweden forcible sterilized to nice girls, the “communistic” china prefer to kick downwards. the whole idea of the state interfer with sexuality, are enough for it to be wiped of the surface of the earth. valhalla vft make a ass of him self, when he guard 14 year old girls emotions 😂 not mature enough for sex 😂 are he sure babys are emotionally mature enough to get born ? psychologists have doubts 😂
“the us debt is bigger than the economy – why doesn’t anyone care?” ekonomikanalen. its because they have the printing press, gutenberg’s demonical machine, better than einsteins “nuclear weapon” 😂 they can actually pay you for to die. works like 9/11, the fake pandemic, or the magicians rabbit, create a virtual world of false values.
“what is robotics going to do to us? or advances in computing?
especially surveillance… and especially the outsized data center required to make that shit run?” sonar21, best ever from mr e. ira levin have the answer on all your questions in the book “this perfect day”. wrestling, rape and karl marx included ! humans have never think about the possibility that tech are evil, darwin and marx did not tell them that 😂 neither did the demon einstein.
“the digital age is a plague upon humanity. i would not object if everyone responsible was shot and buried in a grave.” paul craig roberts. start with bill gates, one of the responsible for mass murder in the hospitals in the fake pandemic. it was a psyop, exactly like the witch burnings. probably supported by the mentally challenged oracle greta thunberg, mass hysteria advertised as “science”.
“you forgot to mention that trump was met at the airport by 170 young girls, in memory of the young girls trump “double tapped” in iran.” sonar21. very good, if true. they should have be dressed in something coffin alike, he have very hard to get the message. hang him on tiananmen square.
“private prisons employ prisoners
that kind of “slavery” is pretty easy to avoid” sonar21. yes. you can become a “president” 😂
sonar21 have such a funny discussion about slavery. all payed workers are slaves, if they do not do as told, they get starved. its most prounoced if you scare them little, with “nuclear weapon”, “airplanes” or “viruses”. then they will burn the ovens day and night.
but of course, he have not mental equipment, for to think anything other, than he gets a splendid welcome. so china do as in the faked pandemic, send back a worse megalomaniac.
“you are correct. people need to get their heads straight about this issue. christianity is not an ethnicity, it is a religious cult and a culture. at the heart of this religion and culture is the supremacist beliefs. under this culture, they have the agenda to control and subjugate the rest of the world.” sonar21. guess which word i have change ? 😂 todays laugh, “its the jews !” i told you the christians are the nazis. they “jews” are only their excuse for to murder. as usual.
no hanging in china, the genocide of the jews, and executions of users of to nice girls continue. its for to accomplish a evil enough breed. adolf trump did get some more fabulate viruses to bring back home, he invented them on the airplane. if you are a murderer, and want to see young girls dance, you should visit china 😂 its the multipolar world, something for everyone 😂 sorry, itchy boots and mr bing, i say as jack in the brethren court, its politic.
“israel was getting ready to nuke iran. so iran bombed the site where the launch was gonna take place.” sonar21. how convenient ! anything for to not break the fraud, and the only use of the hoax “nuclear weapon” 😂 their only use are free mass murder, but slowly, slowly, else the frog jump out of the kittel 😂 for example to argentina, where it can start all over again. closer transports for the christian mass murderers. send someone with a geiger counter.