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Syria Blames Israel for Mysterious Attacks on Oil Tankers
2021-05-25
[AnNahar] Syria's foreign minister blamed Israel for mysterious attacks over more than a year targeting oil tankers heading to Syria, saying they violate international law and will not go unpunished.
They have this far, like the attacks on Iranian weapons depots in Syria. Has something changed?
Faisal Mekdad
...... Syrian foreign minister, formerly Perrmanent envoy to the UN. He replaced Wally Muallem, who died in office at age 79, having been FM since approximately age 12 .....
told Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
-based al-Mayadeen TV in an interview aired late Sunday that oil tankers coming to Syria now move under Russian protection. He did not provide any evidence for how Israel was behind the attacks.
Syria complaining about International Law violations? Cheeky
Syria's oil resources are mostly outside of government controlled areas but two of its refineries are operating. This makes Syria reliant on Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
for fuel.

U.S. Treasury sanctions have targeted a network that spans Syria, Iran and Russia responsible for shipping oil to the Syrian government, which has been at war for more than a decade.

For more than a year, vessels carrying oil to Syria, as well as some oil facilities in government-held parts of the war-torn country, have been subjected to mysterious attacks.

Vessels carrying oil to Syria travel from the Gulf to the Red Sea to the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal.

"There should be deterrence to Israeli attacks on ships," Mekdad said without going into details. "The Israeli government and arrogant Israeli leaders must understand that these attacks cannot continue with Israel not paying a price."

Last month, Syria's oil ministry said a fire erupted in a tanker on its coast after what it said was a suspected drone attack.

Also in April, an attack targeted an Iranian fat merchantman that is said to serve as a floating base for Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard forces off the coast of Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
A shadow war in Mideast waters emerged in 2019, when the U.S. Navy blamed a series of blasts in June that year in the Gulf of Oman off the coast of the United Arab Emirates on Iran.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Mysterious attacks... hey, what if the attacks are from those UFOs the Pentagon has been going on about lately? I don't want to sound racist, but it is well known (at least in some circles) that aliens from a certain star system are pot-stirrers and trouble-makers. I would not put it past them.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-05-25 18:07  

#2  Djinn and ifreets! Long beards and sharp claws, I tell you!
Posted by: magpie   2021-05-25 17:22  

#1  It's the power of prayer Faisal - unlike yours, our G*d is real.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-05-25 05:35  

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