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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Iran has now upped the ante and is attacking ships in the strait of Hormuz. Very problematic,[b] because they are not military but civilian sailors.[/b] Iran says they will not agree to a ceasefire until USA removes the blockade.

1. The head of the UN maritime agency has appealed for help for thousands of seafarers stranded in the Gulf by the effective closure of the strait of Hormuz.

About 20,000 seafarers and 2,000 ships have been stranded since US-Israeli strikes on Iran on 28 February, according to the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

The agency said at least 10 seafarers have been killed and several more severely injured in attacks on commercial vessels since the start of the war.

IMO’s secretary general, Arsenio Dominguez, said the agency is working on an evacuation plan for the stranded ships but that it can only be put into action when there are clear signs of de-escalation.

2. Here is a summary of the attacks reported in the strait of Hormuz and the statement by the IRGC of the seizure of two of the ships.

The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said it received a report of a container ship coming under fire off the coast of Oman by a gun boat linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Greece’s Kathimerini newspaper reported that the ship was identified as the Liberia-flagged Epaminondas, owned by Greece’s Technomar Shipping and operated by MSC.
The UKMTO said it received a second report of a ship coming under attack in the strait of Hormuz, near the coast of Iran. It did not say who launched the attack against the cargo ship, which had stopped in the water. Iranian reports suggest the vessel was called Euphoria.
The maritime intelligence company Vanguard told the BBC that a third ship was attacked in the strait of Hormuz, identifying it as the Panama-flagged MSC Francesca.

These are innocent seafarers. While it is Iran attacking, USA now has a responsibility to address this in order to protect these people. [/quote]

Did you forget what the US has done? The US navy blow up at least 54 civilian boats in the Caribbean and Pacific. They fired on an unarmed cargo ship in the Persian Gulf disabling it. No word on what happened to the crew of that ship. These are all acts of war and war crimes against civilians sailors.

The US is the bad actor and everyone of the seafarers trap in the Persian Gulf fear for their lives when they see a US navy vessel. It is time you admit the US is lawless and a rogue nation. [/quote]

My god, you are an idiot.  IRAN is a terrorist nation, doing what terrorists do - holding the entire world hostage and firing on innocent ships/sailors.  There is no reasoning with terrorists.  
DP[/quote]

Both can be true: the US, Israel and Iran are all three huge bullies that need to be punished. Sadly for the innocent populations of those countries.[/quote]

How is Iran a huge bully? They didn’t  start any  war and have not invaded a country in centuries unlike the other 2[/quote]

:roll:  How convenient that you left out all of the terrorism they've sponsored for decades.  Quit trolling.[/quote]

You can’t sponsor something that doesn’t already exist. Ask yourself why these terror groups exist and why so many Palestinian and Lebanese men would be angry at  Israel. Put your thinking cap on and really think about it. 
They can make Benjamin Netanyahu  in charge of Iran tomorrow  and that won’t stop these terror groups. They aren’t governments. They  can’t be toppled. Even an Israeli general admitted Hamas and Hezbollah are here to stay and realities that Israel cannot end on the ground or in the air.  The public got upset he said it but it was very true. If anything, war makes these groups and their ideologies bigger

Until Israel faces the reality that bombing doesn’t make them safer, they won’t be safe. They should learn the lesson from their Camp David deal with Egypt and how that helped both countries move on from past hostilities[/quote]

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