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'On Thursday, June 13, two Japanese-flagged oil tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman, off the coast of Iran. The Trump administration immediately claimed that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were responsible. They based this claim on a video they released of a patrol boat of the Guards standing alongside one of the tankers, the Kokuta Courageous, apparently removing something attached to the side of the ship. Trump & Co. claimed the Guards were removing a limpet mine they had attached earlier, and that they were removing it to hide the evidence. *'N.Y. Times * *Article*On Friday, the NY Times published an extremely interesting article <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/opinion/iran-tanker-attacks.html?fbclid=IwAR3YuwSW8OsL1diDUW4sKgp1B3-n_mOrKEgK6nm9ZhLI5zSgdAG-WEM1j0E> . It was interesting both for the facts it recounted as well as for the fact that the NYT published it at all!.... '[The article writes:] “Yet what the videos and photographs published by the United States don’t show us is more important…. Nothing presented as evidence proves that the object was placed there by the Iranians. The video shows only that the Iranians chose to remove it for an as yet unknown reason.” 'What’s so significant about this is the fact that the Times would even bother to raise the point. The article refers to the Gulf of Tonkin incident....' The known facts plus simple political analysis would seem to indicate that most likely it was not the Iranian government that carried out these attacks. Who, then? Bin Salman? Netanyahu? The Houthis? And where does Putin stand in all of this? Read entire article here: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/06/15/new-crisis-in-gulf-of-oman-what-really-happened-where-is-it-headed/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
