U.S. Strikes Two Iranian Rocket Launchers in First Attack in Weeks
US strikes Iran’s Larak Island
Politico reports US strikes Iran’s Larak Island
U.S. forces struck Iran’s Larak Island on Sunday, a U.S. official said, after observing military personnel preparing to deploy rockets loaded with sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz.
“I can confirm that earlier today U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island,” U.S. CENTCOM spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins said in a statement.
Sunday’s strikes in Iran mark the first from the U.S. in a month. Last week, Trump announced in a TruthSocial post that the U.S. Navy removed all mines from the strait’s main shipping lane, and Iran was notified that any new vessels attempting to place new mines would be “immediately and systematically destroyed.
The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. Strikes Two Iranian Rocket Launchers
U.S. forces attacked two Iranian rocket launchers in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, marking the first American strike in weeks, the U.S. Central Command said.
The command said that the Iranian launchers, which were deployed on Larak Island, were preparing to fire rockets filled with sea mines into the strait when they were struck.
“Last week, Centcom completed clearing sea mines from the strait’s international shipping routes,” said Capt. Tim Hawkins, the spokesman for the command. “We simply will not allow Iran to emplace more mines.”
Brig. Gen. Hossein Mohebi, a spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said the U.S. strike was “a strategic and fatal error by the Trump administration” and would lead to “severe repercussions,” according to the country’s official news agency.
Iran Retaliation
Both sides doing avoiding major escalations.
About Using Venezuelan Oil to Fill Reserves
About The Drawdown in Reserves
Market Reaction to the Attack
The market reaction is relatively muted.
Oil is up 1.4 percent, gold down about a half percent, and treasury yields are up much more at the short to middle part of the curve than the long end.
Protracted War
If so, the price of diesel will hit a new record high. That’s only 20 cents away.
Both Iran and Trump are waiting each other out. Politically speaking, Iran gains.
Record high diesel could easily cost Republicans Iowa or Ohio.
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With the triple threat of the Super El Nina global weather pattern, fertilizer disruption via Hormuz, and diesel supply limitations and cost increases via Russian refineries and elsewhere, 2027 will be a year of great world famine.
RISI Enhanced Diesel ETC (B4NI.DE) fractals suggest a parabolic cost increase of diesel into late Oct/early Nov 2026.
The president’s money is on data centers, currently unpopular in MAGA peon circles … It will be a deservedly rough time for the Trumpist Party’s midterm nominees.
Meanwhile SP drawdowns are approaching a level at which going lower than 252 million barrels requires a severe national security declaration.
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“Expert says caverns, pumps could be damaged if reserves go below 300 million barrels”
Two completely inane Presidents in a Row. Who’s up next?
Newsome’s hand gestures would add another flavor of nausea.
Whoever it is will get blamed for the mess despite not having made it and trying to clean it up.
Now they are PILING ON: LIES on top of LIES. It seems to be working, except in our ‘hood, Mish!
Trump’s administration tried to keep Iran off media front pages for 2 weeks. Trade with Canada show was part of this strategy (however the main goal here was to energize MAGA). And now they blew it up and Iran is back on the front page.
US attack on Larak island solved Iranian tactical dilema – attack the US first to get rid of US crippling economic sanctions or wait until US attacks Iran?
The worst thing Trump can do is to return the fire and slip back into regular shoot-outs with Iranians.
Then that’s EXACTLY what he’s gonna do.
I’ve seen this movie dozens of times.
You keep saying Iowa but the poll you posted recently showed 60/40 R/D with diesel prices already high. Diesel can eat into profits but most players there, not all of course, are hedged on the fuel side. And with December corn at 5.36 or something like that, given their rains, they are gonna clean up. Iowa Senator staying Red no matter how many times you print it. Wishing it to be so won’t make it so. The governorship may be different as the native Iowan and statewide auditor Rob Sand is popular and has less baggage than Zach Lahn and his out-of-state ties.
Can’t speak for Ohio.
We’ve had multiple people who live in farming communities talking about how diesel can’t be hedged any further because of how long it’s been up, and yet you come up with incredible ass pulls like “most players there are hedged on the fuel side”. Where’d you hear that one from?
“When Joe Biden left office there were 394 million barrels of oil in the SPR. Right now there are 289 million barrels of oil in the SPR.”
Yeah and when the Autopen took office the SPR was at 638 million barrels of oil…
Criticizing the current clown while portraying the previous clown as somehow better just goes to show how much of a partisan liar or an ignorant retard people are. And in the Idiocracy that the US is today it’s usually both.
Remind me of when Joe Biden started an impossible to win war in the middle east that instantly jacked up the price of oil and kept it there. I remember a pandemic happening, global supply shocks, a lot of stuff… no retarded war.
Is grasping at Biden straws really all MAGA has left? He’s been out of office so long we’re a month away from midterms and yet all I hear on Fox and from MAGA is how Trump’s nonstop retardation should be taken in context of Biden’s struggling.
The apparatus for which Biden was the figurehead fomented the US proxy war with Russia without a doubt. The same Epstein class started and loves both these wars in the opposite hemisphere from the one we live in. The US is ruled by a corrupt cancerous organism for which the red/blue team are minor details. The US has initiated war continually since Iraq I.
Oh now here comes the Ukraine whatabout! Anything but admit precious Donnie’s errors are unforced. Sure we could spend hours going into how Ukraine was invaded and has held up great, but I won’t bother because I’ll just get vatnik slop answers back about how Russia has always owned Ukraine (lie) and how they’re going to be in Kiev any day now, just like they were a few years ago.
Argument by ethnic slur.
Nice.
The vatnik ethnicity? Maybe you should take some Russian classes before you run your gums you pendosi shill.
In this century, true wars (Afghanistan, Irak, Iran) were started by Republican presidents. Biden didn’t start any war afaik, and Obama bombed Syria and Libya but didn’t move for a full on war (clever!).
Afghanistan you could sort of understand because of the 9/11 attacks and the emotion that brought, plus the Afghan reluctance to hand over Bin Laden, but Irak and Iran are wars that were started on a bad pretence and with bad planning, and fully owned by Republican presidents. The lesson is simple there is a difference in how war like each party is: don’t vote Republican if you don’t want new wars started.
Clinton bombed the crap out of Serbia and expressed great regret that he didn’t get to preside over more war.
Rendering Libya a failed state and initiating a “civil war” in Syria to put an Al Qaeda guy in charge is not the limit of Obama’s war activities; he killed thousands with missiles and drones and he pursued the “surge” in the idiotic 20-year war on Afghanistan.
If Biden didn’t push to get NATO missiles on Russia’s borders, then no war. That simple. And it was known for 30 years as the Russian line in the sand–not an unreasonable one either.
The war machine & Zionists own both parties. They are like separate marketing depts., maintained to create the illusion the sheep have some say.
I seem to ask you this a lot Brutus: What was Serbia doing again? Picking flowers? Or is genocide only bad when Israel does it so we can hear another line about the baby eating Jews.
Are you really arguing about which president was the bigger moron? Just get someone in there who has an ounce of political intelligence and is willing to listen to the people and his advisors, oh ya and not corrupt, If he’s republican fine, if he’s democrat fine, but someone please…….! Is this now too much to ask?
Sigh, I guess that is why gold is $4500 an ounce.
you should see if the Canadians will let you borrow Carney
“Autopen”
chuckles at the stupidity
Really! Like Trump hand-signed all 1600 Jan 6th pardons.
Trumps’s short, simple insults are very effective for his cult members.
“But Biiiiden”
Seriously? That’s all MAGA can say anymore like a broken record.
Maybe there would be a better stat on the SPR if Trump hadn’t started an illegal war based on lies from Israel. That’s not unreasonable. After all, that’s what he campaigned on.
One can point out Trump’s lies, mendacity and crime without praising Biden.
By the same token. one can point out Biden’s lies, mendacity and crime without praising Trump.
Each can confess their own sins.
Meanwhile, on the home front, I wonder how many paper shredders and digital wipe programs are running 24/7.
“Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.”
― T.S. Eliot
Interesting that Iran put the two launchers on Larak island. They could have launched into the strait from land based locations. This tells me that they were planning on possibly launching toward Fujairah, where the ship-to-ship transfers are taking place. Fujariah is reachable from Larak, but not from the mainland. The missiles with mines have a max range of 130 miles.
I’d bet there is also a component of goading the US into first action to keep up the pretense that they are just defending themselves while they try to inflict pain on trump politically through military action
You’d bet they’re goading Trump by putting their missiles on their own territory located on the other side of the gkobe, after Trump assassinated their leaders and kills their children. Curious framing.
No doubt, taco gave his followers a tip prior to the invasion.