Iran’s attack on Navy warships amounts to major escalation.
US Strikes Iranian Tankers
The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. Strikes Three Iranian Ships After Missiles Fired at American Aircraft Carrier
The U.S. military said it struck three Iranian oil tankers on Saturday after Iran launched ballistic missiles toward two Navy warships, including an aircraft carrier, as the fight to assert control over the Strait of Hormuz intensifies.
“A U.S. aircraft carrier and guided-missile destroyer successfully evaded multiple unprovoked Iranian attacks,” said U.S. Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has fired ballistic missiles at U.S. forces throughout the conflict, but the attempted attack on the warships was seen as a major escalation, U.S. officials said.
“Let the message to the IRGC be clear: If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost—taking out three of yours,” said Adm. Brad Cooper, Centcom commander. “We will not hesitate to defend American forces, and if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.”
Iranian state media reported that one oil tanker was struck overnight near Kharg Island, where Iran stores and loads most of its crude exports.
The U.S. said it had disabled that tanker, as well as a tanker near Iran’s Jask oil terminal. Additionally, the U.S. “completely destroyed” an unladed tanker in the Gulf of Oman, striking it multiple times to render it inoperable after the crew was directed to abandon ship, Centcom said.
Iran Escalation
Hypersonic Missiles?
Then in response to US moves on Iranian tankers …
Iran Strikes Three More Tankers
How Many Ships?
Bullish for Price of Crude and Diesel
Iran’s Strategy
Another indication reinforcing what should now be understood about Iran’s current strategy:
- Iran will not accept the continuation of the status quo. Tehran is not prepared to allow Washington to maintain intense economic pressure indefinitely without imposing costs of its own on the United States.
- Iran will not allow the Strait of Hormuz to return to normal while it remains under a maritime blockade. Tehran’s basic position is straightforward: if Iran cannot export its oil freely, it will not simply allow everyone else to do so.
- Iran is no longer waiting to be attacked before acting. It is increasingly willing to conduct preemptive operations when it believes an American strike is imminent. What happened tonight in Jordan is another indication of this shift.
- Tehran’s central message is economic. Iran wants Washington to understand that maintaining the current pressure campaign will impose significant costs not only on Iran, but on the global economy, and ultimately on American consumers.
- Iranian leaders believe they can win a “contest of pain” with Washington. That calculation rests heavily on their assessment of Iran’s ability to absorb prolonged economic pressure while creating economic, military, and political costs for the United States and its partners.
- Effective economic pressure should not be confused with successful coercion. Sanctions and the maritime blockade can hurt Iran significantly without bringing it closer to capitulation. In fact, the greater the pressure, the more likely Tehran is to intensify its own actions.
- Jordan has become increasingly important in Iranian strategic calculations as more U.S. military assets and capabilities in the Middle East have been concentrated there. That makes Jordan a more significant potential target in a broader U.S.–Iran confrontation.
- Iran remains willing to return to the previous memorandum of understanding, but on terms it considers acceptable. Tehran is not seeking an endless war. But neither will it refrain from using its capabilities as long as the current situation continues.
- Iran’s decision-making process regarding the use of force has changed dramatically. The hesitation and extreme caution that previously characterized decisions involving direct friction with U.S. forces are far less evident today.
- Iran is more proactive, more offensive, and more willing to take the initiative. Tehran still appears to operate within certain rules of the game and to calibrate escalation. But if the United States attacks Iran directly, it should be assumed that Tehran will be prepared to expand the confrontation.
- Iran is not going to capitulate at the negotiating table. Nor should Washington expect Tehran to offer substantially greater concessions than those already discusse, including its demand for a recognized role in the future arrangements governing the Strait of Hormuz.
These are no longer simply predictions about what Iran might do. They should be the operating assumptions for anyone trying to understand Iran’s current strategy.
The crucial distinction for Washington is between hurting Iran and coercing Iran. The United States may be capable of doing the former. There is little evidence that economic and military pressure alone will produce the latter.
If U.S. strategy continues to assume that enough pressure will eventually force Tehran to surrender its core demands, Washington risks building its policy around an Iranian response that is increasingly unlikely to materialize.
But this is OK because the US has won the war 44 times already. Iran’s missiles have been destroyed.
Otherwise, where would we be?
In the real world, the price of diesel hit a new record today, up another three cents to $5.8819 and headed to $6 and beyond.
But that’s OK too because Trump Says “I’ll Never Apologize, You’re Just Paying a Tiny Bit More”
Trump just handed the Democrats another midterm election talking point.
Also in the real world, China Halts Some Rare Earth Element Shipments to the US
Ahead of Xi’s meeting with Trump, China holds back rare earth shipments.
And finally, please note a Classified Document Leak Shows US Is Militarily Overextended in Iran
The truth is out. Hegseth has seriously messed up the war in Iran.
Now who are you going to believe, Hegseth and Trump, or the price at the pump?
Minab girl school bombing was that not major escalation?
Relax. We’re not at war. Buy stocks.
Been watching fun videos of tankers being bombed.
If they keep blowing those up, it won t matter if the strait is open.
I thought the Iran debacle had ‘escalated’ to an extreme back in march. Apparently we need to dial it to 11.
I assume that if the Iranians manage to sink a carrier Trump will take out the nukes. That’s where this is all heading.
I believe that you could count on that. The question is where and how big?
Stop fondling yourself.
We were all doomed in weeks 2 months ago.
Exxon Valdez style actions.
Predatory pedophiles are capable of anything.
Some people argue the sanctions should be less severe, since they often decide to kill their victims to prevent discovery.
The opening strikes of the war (those are the most important) featured killing a 14 month old girl, a girl’s volleyball team, and 168 school girls in Minab.
Clearly the Epstein class has a thing with proffering burnt offerings of virgins.
Pedophilia is a mental illness that is incurable. The patient must be removed from society. I would suggest something like the old French island prison notoriously called Devil’s Island.
Rename it “Badtouch Island” and have Disney spin folklore about how bad children get sent there.
I don’t know about Iran yet.
But –
Russia is still striving even under severe strain.
“Western countries have imposed nearly 24,000 total individual and entity sanctions against Russia since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022”
Sanctions are of no value if they are in name only. They need to be ENFORCED.
I hired an Iranian Man, back in 1977, to head up my Tech Support Dept for a large Silicon Valley Company (biggest in its peripheral sector at the time). He turned out to be my best Management guy and worked REALLY hard to close all loose ends.
He told me, one time when I gave him a great (>10%) raise: “Iranians are not push-overs” when I made part of my review about his tirelessly defending the Company when we were RIGHT, and pushing for change when we screwed over a client.
Our Boss, the CEO was a tyrant and did not understand that CLIENTS are nearly always right when WE effed up.
That Iranian guy, tens years in the USA as a Citizen, caused me to understand a bit about how Iranians are actually NOT push-overs. It seems to me to be a Cultural Norm.
If America thinks that Iran will lay down, no matter how wrong they may be, are up against a very stubborn and tough culture. In this case, we fell for a fucked up idea that we were STOPPING IRAN from doing something REALLY stupid. So far, that has not proven to be correct.
Trump’s team is up against it now and I do not see an easy out now. I think we will remain mired down well into 2027…unless Trump is removed.
BUT, then we go our RETURN TO WOKE-NESS and OPEN BORDERS. It is unreal the choices we are left with.
Finally, let’s not forget the Pressures on TrumpCO to prove he meant it when he told the MIC: “NO WORRIES, we will make BIG MONEY ON THIS ONE!”
Even if the BidenCO inanity returned, WARS ARE A CONSTANT now for America…all motivated by Money.
Wars are not done for “REASONS.” They are done for MONEY. BIG BIG MONEY.
From the FAFO files:
How much IRGC and Iranian financial accounts are sitting in London, Istanbul, etc. ?
If those institutions follow the sanctions of the USA against Iran, then they themselves will not need to be sanctioned.
Translation from JoJo Bullshit into English: Israel wants to put Turkey on the chopping block next.
A dose of reality for all the Iranian boosters. “Wake up and smell the coffee!”
you should have said “wake up and smell the turkish coffee”. but you have no sense of humor. keep on cheering with your little red hat and red panties and red pom poms. it’s precious. the amerikan military baby killers, love anus lickers like you.
“The regime’s character — Islamist, anti-Western, anti-American and expansionist”
I’ll grant the first 3 (and not care, it’s none of my business), but how is Iran “expansionist”?
SQUEEZING…🤣
If the United States were down to 2 months of gasoline, would you demand surrender to Iran?
I’m still waiting for the Iranian pipelines to blow up two months ago. Gawd – you’ll believe anything.
War is terrible but the profits will be amazing.
https://www.barchart.com/futures/european/energies?viewName=main
November Brent at $96+ and climbing. How is MAGA liking the golden age of gas prices?
Well just one more thing….
Do worry, Trump, Walrus, GOP, and democrats will find a way to make things even worse.™
the poors in flyover red hat cult land, can always burn their furniture to get through the winter. don’t worry, the burning plastic chairs won’t hurt your lungs.
Just in time for the Sunday morning political shows. Gotta give them something to feed on.
Would love to find out the real story about what kind of damage the US Navy ships took from the attack
Let me help: NONE!
Yeah, and our bases weren’t hit, we have plenty of missiles and Israel sustained no damage from Iranian missiles either. We are invincible and omnipotent. We even won in Vietnam.
What’s Iran’s October surprise this year? Detonation of a nuclear weapon? Herding the US military into Israel and then launching an all-out assault? Releasing the redacted Epstein files? Interesting times indeed.
These are not “unprovoked” attacks when it’s the middle of a war that was initiated by a sneak decapitation strike and there is an ongoing blockade. Highly likely at least one USN ship was hit especially after the Houthis hit a Saudi tanker from over 1,000 km away with probably the same model of antiship ballistic missile recently.
I suspect the Iranians will not hesitate to escalate with the midterms approaching and Trump will want to act tough as well. Probably going to be rough times ahead.
Preemptive strikes increase the risk of miscalculation.
Because they are American as apple pie and represent the blood and soul of our nation.
As George Washington once said:
“הבית הוא המקום שבו נמצא הלב”
Why is Putin listening to these hucksters?
Because the Russian leadership is naive beyond belief, having failed to learn anything from Minsk, Minsk-2, Istanbul, The Azov Prisoner Fiasco, The Odessa Grain Sham, and Anchorage among others.
Russia falls for the okey doke over and over again because they don’t want to end the West – they want to be allowed to join it.
The West by contrast, openly seeks the destruction of Russia.
Trump Names New Secretary Of The Army With Zero Military Experience
What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/adam-telle-acting-army-secretary
for the past 80 years, the USA has lost every war it has fought, except for the great grenada liberation from commies. a good pal was there at med school and said it was a joke. he has photos of himself, drinking beer while the USMC were invading. which in itself was just a reaction to the USMC barracks a few days prior getting blown up and killing hundreds. my pal said NYC in the 70s and 80s was way scarier than the one victory war amerika waged. Grenada. my Dad and uncles served in ww2. winners of a war. brother served in Nam and other losing propositions. loser. since post 1945 our boys prance around in fancy uniforms and act like war heroes. on fancy equipment and ships and such and continue to lose. it makes a man understand that it’s just been one big revolving door grift by the entire department of war and MICC.
My Uncle and my father-in-law landed on Normandy. My Dad landed with the 1st battalion, 28th Regiment early in the morning of D-Day on Iwo Jima: base of Mt. Suribachi. Two Silver Stars and two Purple Hearts. Mercifully, they all passed away before Hegseth and Trump.
same with my father and uncles died before trump was potus. though dad watched trump grow up. my grandfather had construction company and did tons of work for fred trump. my dad guarded nazis during the war. his brother captured by the nazis after battle of bulge. he escaped. i interviewed my dad in HS about his experience guarding nazis. 5 years after the war he went to a beer hall in german hood in brooklyn and ran into some of them. they bought him beers. last year i went to the same beer hall for a party. hasn’t changed. built in the 1920s. they were very happy to have been imprisoned by usa. instead of on eastern front fighting the USSR. which probably killed 80 to 90% of nazis in ww2.
You’re forgetting the recent Venezuela action. I think that was a victory.
victory for who? we captured and now paying to incarcerate maduro and his family which costs you millions? you think that was a war? a kidnapping? my god man. public schools i suppose?
It doesn’t cost him.
Nah, that was just the VP hiring a thug to take out her boss so she could take over the country and drug trade herself.
That was a kidnapping, not victory.
Kush and Witless are in Russia. Trump needs more #winning headlines very soon. Seems with drone tech there is now and possibility of a never-ending continual asymmetric threat whether from IRGC factions or Houthis or <insert new group here>
Did you know Russia holds all the cards. Nobody knows that.
Maybe like 162k new jobs created in August and an unemployment rate of 4.1%?
lets not forget the molester and thief fired the head of the BLS and put his own maga women in so I am sure the numbers are now all straightened around just the way he wants them I am surprised that is wasnt 1 M jobs but i am sure it will be for midterms
It was 3.9% in January 2023 under Biden.
Meanwhile, our envoys, the “property brothers” Kushner and Witkof are in Russia fellating Putin becuz Putin is our friend
Multiple unprovoked attacks. Yeah right. Attacking them and killing all their leadership plus months of air strikes isn’t provocative if the US and Israel do it
It not a war crime if only for Israel and the US to do it.
Who remembers the “laundry room fire” on the Gerald Ford back in March that caused her to leave station for repairs? I sure do, because I used to supervise the main laundry on a (much older) aircraft carrier and I know for a fact that there was no fire, rather an “enemy” impact to the stern. The laundry spaces are manned and active 24 hours a day while underway, and any “common” fire would have been put out immediately. Fire equipment is located everywhere onboard of a naval combatant and EVRYONE is trained on how to use them…for obvious reasons.
The USS Bonhomme Richard, amphibious assault ship, burned for four days at 32nd Street naval Base San Diego, in July 2020. The ship was written off, a total loss.
Per the official report, ” … There were four categories of causal factors that allowed for the accumulation of significant risk and led to an ineffective fire response: the material condition of the ship, the training and readiness of the ship’s crew, the integration between the ship and supporting shore-based firefighting organizations, and the oversight by commanders across multiple organizations. The command investigation also concluded “a lack of familiarity with requirements and procedural noncompliance at multiple levels of command” contributed to the loss of ship. …”
https://www.cpf.navy.mil/Newsroom/News/Article/2817232/navy-releases-extensive-bonhomme-richard-fire-report-major-fires-review/
That’s why I specified while UNDERWAY. In port ships are veritable ghost towns when it’s only the duty section on board. Also, when in a combat zone, there are many more closed hatches and fittings than there are while in port. It’s called the “Material Condition” of the ship, and it is set to Modified Zebra in the riskiest of situations.
…but even then, what happened to the Bonhomie Richard was ridiculous and inexcusable. Maybe it was just a VERY freak event but most likely some series of actions failed to happen.
The price of diesel is lack of refining capacity and solely not because of the price of oil. You should thank Ukraine for high diesel prices.
…and you know who’s behind the “Ukraine War” right? The same guys Trump works for.
Honestly I think Russia lost him a while back because he got distracted and won’t pick up the phone.
obama and mccain started the ukraine war by the USA cia, again sticking our big long noses into an election. our empire are assholes who have assholes who vote and serve in baby killing military. sorry to keep it real. most amerikans too brainwashed to understand reality. the mirror is the reason we do asshole things.
That’s only one piece of the puzzle. 1 mbpd of Russian diesel.
Then add in 0.8 mbpd of Chinese diesel that stopped because they couldn’t get enough oil to refine.
Then add in 0.7 mbpd of diesel from the Persian gulf.
Every day, another 2.5 mbpd of lost diesel supply.
Chevron price to extract oil in Ven. is less $20 a barrel not $80 to $100 a barrel. They plan to sell abount $30 less than WTI. Try again.
China has literally billion of barrels of oil in reserve. Any shortage on China refining is self inflicted.
So why is diesel so high then if Chevron is producing and selling so much from Venezuela? Is it because it’s not actually happening? So when will it begin? Of course, Venezuelan “oil” is really better described as “tar”. Which is why it has always been cheap and plentiful: nobody wants it.
Hispanics to the south of us,
Canucks to the north,
Here I am, stuck in the Middle (East) with Bibi.
Remember, taco said this is merely a military “skirmish” and not a war.
Such a small potatoes, little excursion with intermittent strikes…
really no need to plan ahead…
who’s in?
Oh, wait….
Nobody fucking bothered to ask that question.
It can never be a war because he’d need congress approval which he’s not going to get.
Tp be fair, Congress does not want to be asked, because then they’d have to give an answer.
Which means that the families of those 18 or 1800 mercenaries will see no war time benefits.
A year ago, it seemed (per the media consensus) as if Iran and its proxies were being folded up all over the Middle East. What happened? What is happening? Why is the fog of war so foggy?
Maybe the media consensus is bullshit.
This wouldn’t have happened if we just had steam catapults on our carriers!
Good point. Get this critical info to Trump ASAP.
Trump’s next idea will be really, really big rubber bands.
Should not have started a war with Iran for Israel. Consequences. Egg on face if succeed.
It’s almost hard to imagine just how far one person will go to hide his sex crimes.
Are you implying that Bibi was going to run a very special PowerPoint for our entertainment?
bingo winner. epstein was a joint CIA and Mossad operation for decades.
It isn’t just trump, it’s hundreds of men and some women caught in the Epstein trap. Some with money, some with power, all with influence. That is why none of the politicians up to this point that may have had the power would do anything. 1. The powerful would destroy anyone trying 2. Many were their friends and some were their superiors at employment. 3.Prosecuting might result in prosecutor’s or their families death, these people will stop at nothing.
It will take everything including videos and pics to be released all at once unredacted including victims names, unfortunately.
correct. Amerikan ruling class are pedophiles. the working class too frightened to protect children. again, democracy works. assholes rich and poor do asshole things.
Nobody wants a member of The Club who cannot be blackmailed. If everyone has blackmail matetial on everyone, nobody need fear exposure from other members, and all members will fight tooth and nail to keep outsiders from exposing them.
There’s a truth in there covering up a different truth.
Yes, I believe Trump is guilty of the most serious crimes. But I believe the meme about Bibi or TPTB blackmailing him serve a different purpose: to lessen the anger and guilt R voters feel towards the guy who betrayed them.
The situation is bad enough. Now imagine if his voters didn’t think trump is “forced” to do anything against his will but that he flatly lied to them and wanted to impose his policies and start his wars all along.
IOW he’s not an unwilling participant. And that “outsider” image was kayfabe all along.