IRGC Attacks Cargo Ship as Iran Asserts Control Over Hormuz Strait
“Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz.”
Iran attacked a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday as regime forces assert control over the strategic waterway.
“Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz, according to two senior U.S. officials, testing the deal signed last week by the U.S. and Iran to end the fighting and reopen the vital shipping lane,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
Initial reports indicate that a drone struck the ship. “A cargo vessel has been hit on the starboard side by an unknown projectile, causing damage to the bridge,” the British Navy’s Maritime Trade Organisation (UKMTO) said in a statement on Thursday.
The IRGC attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz damaging the vessel’s bridge but causing no casualties, WSJ reports. The attack comes hours after Iran warned vessels not to use routes it hadn't approved, and occurred close to the Omani coast. https://t.co/buvXenGNeH pic.twitter.com/wpq8KhRcQ9
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Amid Iranian aggression, the United Nations suspended its maritime operation to assist stranded ships in sailing through the waterway. “The UN International Maritime Organization paused its programme to shepherd ships and seafarers through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday after a cargo ship reported a suspected attack, reigniting fears over a preliminary deal to end the Iran war,” Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.
The French TV channel Euronews reported:
A cargo ship travelling through the Strait of Hormuz on a new Oman UN-backed route was hit by a projectile on Thursday, sustaining bridge damage, but no casualties or environmental impact, the British military said.
The ship was struck 7,5 nautical miles off the coast of Oman after Iran’s IRGC earlier in the day threatened vessels travelling through the strait without Tehran’s permission.
A video recorded on the bridge of a ship was posted on social media purporting to air an IRGC Navy radio broadcast warning that only vessels with Iranian permission were allowed to pass.
“Transit only with IRGC permission, on designated routes. No permission, AIS off, or off-route, and you carry the consequences,” the broadcast reportedly said. (…)
The naval arm of the Revolutionary Guard, apparently reacting to the new shipping route and increased traffic, issued a warning Thursday, carried by Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency.
It said the new route was established without notice or coordination with Iran, calling it “unacceptable and completely dangerous.”
“The only authorised route for passing through the Strait of Hormuz is the one declared by the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the Iranian force said. “Vessel traffic outside these routes is extremely dangerous and prohibited.”
“Violators will be dealt with,” it added, without elaborating.
According to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the U.S. and Iran, the regime is obliged to restore maritime traffic in the Strait within 30 days and ensure toll-free access to shipping. Contrary to that agreement, Tehran is now asking the Gulf Arab states to pay $40 billion to open the waterway.
“Iran is pushing to make billions of dollars from the Strait of Hormuz as the regime positions itself to manage the global oil artery it severed at the start of the war,” The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. “The Islamic Republic estimates that charging for security, safety and environmental services in the strait would bring in $40 billion a year in revenue for states involved, according to officials familiar with the matter.”
The Trump administration has assured that it will not allow the regime to get away with extortion and piracy in international waters. “It’s an international waterway,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said during his visit to the Gulf States on Tuesday. “No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That’s existing international law. That’s the way it is in international waterways all over the world, and that’s the way we expect it’ll be here.”
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Ships are again turning around in the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC Navy continues to broadcast that the strait is closed, warning that only vessels with Iranian permission may pass and threatening consequences for noncompliance.@_martinkelly_ pic.twitter.com/Vdmjx25YmD
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It’s time to put a close on the “Double-Secret Probation Period”, and to just wipe out the Iranian regime.
They won’t be trustworthy until they are ALL DEAD.
I agree. Make an unreliable partner into a DOA partner and the problem is solved.
If we aren’t pumping weapons in there for Iranians to start killing other Iranians who need to be killed, shipping is toast for the next decade.
So is the ceasefire still on or not? I’m confused.
The problem is simple: we have an agreement with the government of Iran. However the IRGC do not feel themselves bound by that agreement. They have the weapons, and the government has nuthin but talk.
Further the IRGC isn’t bothered by that whole strategic vision thing.
This is going to come down to whether the other states in the area are willing to finish this
Simple huh? Hmmm.
Here we go again.
Since the primary incentives we had for the MOU and ceasefire was freedom of navigation for the Strait of Hormuz and no tolls; it would seem that the ceasefire should be off, So why is say Kharg Island still intact?
Subotai Bahadur
By God! This calls for Trump to threaten them with annihilation and total destruction…….again.
We need to start arming cargo ships.
That worked well in WWII when ships were being attacked by other ships.
It’s not effective at all when you’re being attacked by missiles/drones.
Unless we can get self-contained helicopter-dropped radar-controlled Phalanx systems that can be temporarily attached to the decks of tankers to vaporize incoming weapons, then moved to the next ship before it enters the straits. High-powered directed-energy weapons (lasers etc.) would be even better (no ammo resupply needed), but these are energy-hungry beasts that cannot easily be fed by temporary generators.
No, decimation, because he secretly knows the actual meaning of the word he keeps using, and when eventually challenged on his claims he will pull it out as his trump card.
BWHAHAHAHAHA . . . snicker . . . snort . . .
Who could have foreseen that happening. Oh wait, yeah, anyone with even half-a functioning brain could have foretold that Iran wouldn’t keep it’s deals. But there you go and here we are.
As I’ve said before, Trump and Vance played liked chumps thinking it was possible to negotiate with Arab moslem terrorists. Well, now I hope they’ve learned their lessons and take the necessary action to permanently eliminate Iran as a threat to the U.S. and the Western world before things get even more out of hand.
eot
Boy I’m sure glad that Congress spent time on a bitchy ‘resolution’ whining about war powers!
It’s stupid nonsense like that, that gives Iran the idea that they can get away with crap like this.
Well midterm elections do I guess Trump keeps claiming we have a ceasefire; even though clearly we have a please do fire situation if you are Iran that is . This is like negotiating with Satan ; the house always wins.
“testing the deal signed last week”
Cucks.
The word you’re looking for is VIOLATING.
And yet again, zero mention anywhere in this garbage article anout the fact that the IRGC is acting on its own and country to Iran’s political leadership.
Worse, conflating them by stating that Iran is doing this as opposed to rogue factikns within the IRGC that are deliberately undermining their own government’s negotiations and policies.
This isn’t difficult.
The Iranian government currently has zero control over the IRGC, which not only controls most of Iran’s remaining military assets but also has physical control over the Supreme Leader.
And the IRGC is, and always has been, deliberately splintered into numerous regional commands under the control of conpeting factions.
Several of which are doing everything in their power to undermine the MOU and the negotiations for a final deal that Iran’s President and political leadership are working on.
And here’s yet another article at LI blaming the political leadership for actions taken by the IRGC to undermine them.
Does the IRGC speak fir tge Iranian government? No. Are their actions sanctioned or ordered by the Iranian government? Just the opposite.
Breathtakingly ignorant article.
The entity responsible for Iran’s actions is the de facto government that actually exercises control over what is done in the name of Iran. If the so called de jure government of Iran is not in control of the military actions done by and in the name of Iran; then the word of said government is worthless and any agreements with them are void. If the IRGC is the de facto government and is responsible for such actions, then either they have voided the MOU, or they are no more than bandits/pirates and are neither protected by the MOU or by international law.
In either case, the MOU is moot and the initiative now rests in the hands of the United States. Legally [insomuch as law does apply to international relations] we are functionally still at war with whoever or whatever is in control of whatever of Iran’s military forces are operating, especially in the Straits of Hormuz.
Subotai Bahadur
If the government of Iran is not in control of its own military, it’s not our fault. Same as if the government of Mexico is not in control of its own cartels, it’s not our fault. It’s open season for us on the offending territory in both cases.
Well, that was a take….
The people who control the military are ultimately the ones in charge. If they can blow stuff up – in or out of the country – they’re at least nominally in charge. So, regardless of the “legitimate” gov’t, you have to deal with those folks. That is best done by killing people and breaking things – their people and things.
Not all that ignorant if you have a clue.
The people that control Iran’s military are the IRGC.
The Iranian political leadership that the US is negotiating with currently have zero control over the IRGC.
Worse, the IRGC is doing everything in its power to undermine their own government’s negotiatikns with the US.
How is it that you can’t understand this?
Blaming Ghalibaf and his people for actions taken by the IRGC is idiotic.
This has been going on fir teo months now and you still can’t grasp it.
Understanding the fact that there is a huge split in Iran between the political leadership that is negotiating with the US and the military leadership of the IRGC that has repeatedly ordered attacks to subvert their own government’s efforts is absolutely essential to ant analysis of what is going on with this war.
Every time Trump or Vance announce the current state of negotiations with Iran’s political leadership, the IRGC has put out a statement saying the opposite. And, usually, they order an attack to emphasize their point.
Trump and Vance are accurately reporting the concessions made by Ghalibaf, and then the western medua claim they are lying because the IRGC immediately contradicts them.
As if there were no split at all between Iran’s political and military leaders.
The IRGC doesn’t speak for “Iran” in that their statements are diametrically opposed to what the political leadership is agreeing to with the US. And, ehile trchnically the political leadership is responsible for what the military is doing, the fact is that tgey clearly havr zero control over the IRGC – and haven’t since the previous supreme leader was killed.
Pretending otherwise is delusional.
And Trump’s administration has a real problem here (and ignoring it is insane). They seem likely to be able to gey sone form of deal sigmed with Ghalibaf, but when tgey do the very first thing that will hapoen is that the IRGC will demounce it, refuse to accept any of yhe concessions, and back up their statement with snother round of attacks on cargo ships and/or arab gulf states.
Its so absurd that tgere csn still exist any medua outlet that us still conflating actions snd statements by the IRGC with the positikn of the Iranian government.
So incredibly ignorant.
Nah, you’re naive as hell; it’s embarrassing, honestly.
Perennial and casual deceit and taqiyya are baked-in to the Iranian government mindset and its diplomatic postures and rhetoric.
Your vociferously proffered notion that there is a meaningful diplomatic and ideological distinction between the IRGC and Iran’s “political” leadership is just total bunk — that distinction hasn’t existed, since Iran’s founding, in the 1979 Islamic revolution.
The stupidity and naivete of your assertion isn’t bolstered by your writing multiple paragraphs exhibiting a profound misunderstanding of the realities of the Iranian regime’s intrinsic duplicity and mendacity, perfected over nearly fifty years of its wretched and cancerous existence.
Ghalibarf and Arghapoof are the ones that have been doing all the childish huffing and puffing.
Where, then, are the public speeches and press statements from the Iranian leadership condemning these attacks by the IRGC??
If the Iranians truly wanted to honor the MOU, they would be honoring the MOU.
Well then, if the alleged Iranian government isn’t actually in control of the country then what the heck are we doing negotiating with these people. Seems rather pointless to me to negotiate with a government that cannot actually enforce any agreements that they might make. It’s time for Trump to realize the futility of negotiating with arab moslem terrorists and impotent governments and take the action necessary to permanently remove Iran as a threat to the United States and the rest of the Western world. That is all.
eot
Welp I filled up with gas today.
Don’t usually do it but topped off my gas today before prices started their upward swing again.
Are we to the point of just whooping their a**, yet? Take out EVERY bit of military we can find, then look for the rest; kill every IRGC [censored] in the country and every mullah; and get arms to the actual rebels in the cities.
Let’s end this thing.
The only ‘deal’ possible with Iran and their religious fanatics is ‘we live, you die’.
Otherwise Trump and Vance are proven to be little b*tches
The irgc will do anything to sabotage an agreement with the US. They are committed to forcing an apocalyptic ending. We may have to give them their ending. It won’t be what they thought it would be. At the same time send hezbollah straight to hell to join them. At so
E point enough is enough.
The saddest thing is that when Congress is lost the country is lost.
Trump will babble while he is impeached over and over.
Congress is meaningless now that “Stinky” Soros & Sons have bought them, and blue state judiciaries.
Well the US launched strikes on Iran today. Does this mean the cease fire is over or is it in pause or is still on because,,,,well just because,
The IRGC’s goal is to cause enough trouble so that enough Democrats will get elected to the House in order to impeach and lawfare the Trump administration into ineffectiveness.
The Democrats’s goal is to destroy Trump.
A marriage made in hell.
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