Navy of India releases photo of damage to chemical/oil tanker M/V CHEM PLUTO from drone attack launched by Iran on Saturday

Drone launched from Iran attacks chemical tanker in Indian Ocean 200 nautical miles off the coast of India, its seventh such attack on commercial shipping since 2021

 “The motor vessel CHEM PLUTO, a Liberia-flagged, Japanese-owned, and Netherlands-operated chemical tanker was struck at approximately 10 a.m. local time (6 a.m. GMT) today in the Indian Ocean, 200 nautical miles from the coast of India, by a one-way attack drone fired from Iran,” a Pentagon spokesperson told Reuters. 

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World's largest shipping carrier MSC abandons Red Sea/Suez Canal travel, will divert vessels around Africa after Friday attacks by Iran-backed Houthi Rebels of Yemen, Biden administration dithers and jibbers

 MSC, the world’s largest shipping carrier, joins shipping giants Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk in Red Sea travel pause amid attacks :

 

 

 

MSC, the world’s largest shipping carrier, said it is no longer traveling through the Suez Canal after its container ship, the MSC PALATIUM III, was attacked Friday while transiting the Red Sea under a subcharter to Messina Line.  ...

In response to Friday’s attacks, in which three vessels were attacked, the World Shipping Council said it is deeply alarmed and concerned about the escalating crisis, and that it’s calling for decisive action to protect seafarers.

“The right of freedom of navigation stands as a fundamental right under international law, and must be safeguarded,” the council said. “The time for resolute international engagement is now.”

The U.S. government has been in discussions with countries of the 39-member Combined Maritime Forces to form a maritime task force to “ensure safe passage” of ships in the Red Sea.

U.S. Central Command, which oversees America’s military interests in the Middle East, has told CNBC discussions are ongoing.

This is a stain on the free nations of the world, which continue to tolerate Iran-backed Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea

Intercepting missiles is not enough.

Maersk to pause all container ship traffic through the Red Sea 

"we have instructed all Maersk vessels in the area bound to pass through the Bab al-Mandab Strait to pause their journey until further notice”

Iran's Bay of Pigs: Hangs Hamas out to dry

 

Trump's February 2020 deal with Taliban finally pays off lol, Taliban terrorists attack Iran terrorists with US weapons Joe Biden left behind

 Taliban Fighting Iran -- With American Weapons...

 

LOL, Obama had to drop pallets of cash on Iran because of SWIFT: "U.S. and international sanctions isolated Iran from the international finance system"

 Obama 2016 swan song: 

$1.7-billion payment to Iran was all in cash due to effectiveness of sanctions, White House says

Germany will find a way to pay for heat, too. Keep a sharp eye out for flights from Frankfurt to Moscow, loaded with pallets of cash to get around SWIFT.

Death rate from COVID-19 remains a catastrophe in Italy, China and Iran less so if you can believe them, USA France and Spain form another group, South Korea Switzerland and Germany all are under 1%

The USA is, unfortunately, not looking more like South Korea.

If the USA gets 30 million COVID-19 cases, a mortality rate of 2.15% translates into 645,000 deaths, 21.5 times the number who die from flu in an average year with 30 million influenza cases (mortality rate of 0.1%).

Coronavirus in Iran linked to Chinese workers in Qom who had traveled to China

The coronavirus has spread to several Iranian cities, a Health Ministry official said Friday, as an outbreak that the authorities say began in the city of Qom caused two more deaths. Iran confirmed 13 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total in the country to 18, with four of the total having died. The majority of coronavirus cases in Iran have been in Qom, a Shiite Muslim holy city 75 miles south of the capital Tehran. The new cases comprised seven people diagnosed in Qom, four in the capital Tehran and two in Gilan province, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said in a tweet. Health officials had called for the suspension of all religious gatherings in Qom. “It’s clear that new coronavirus has circulated in the country and probably the source of this illness was Chinese workers who work in the city of Qom and had traveled to China,” Health Ministry official Minou Mohrez said, according to the official IRNA news agency. — Reuters

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Coronavirus deaths in Iran are not yet confirmed by WHO

The World Health Organization has not yet confirmed the two Iranian coronavirus deaths, but should they be confirmed, it would raise the death toll outside of China to seven.

Story yesterday.

The war with Iran has ended

So far all the casualties in aborted World War III are in Iran at a funeral stampede and from an airliner shot down by mistake

Ann Coulter endorses the dumb libertarian hide-your-head-in-the-sand take on Iran

Oh look! A deer!

They're Muslims. Kill 'em all. Let God sort 'em out. Like you said in 2001.

Online "Identify Iran on this map" poll just proves such polling is worthless

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Iranian missiles fissle in Iraq, Trump piles up almost 70 million votes

Over 500,000 Iranians marched for life in Washington DC in January 2015 and the media completely ignored it

Qassem in the Box is only slightly larger than Jack in the Box, flies coach class back to Iran

Jokes and more jokes.

Rooting for Iran makes you gutter trash

I'd say the alt-right tonight feels more betrayed by Trump's droning of an Iranian in Iraq than by all Trump's failures to implement his 10-point America First immigration agenda

Tells you all you need to know about their sensibilities and priorities.

Iran gonna need to learn how to code . . . Obama's memoirs