DIESEL HAS NEVER COST MORE: The US Hits Iran's Tankers
On Tuesday U.S. Central Command hit Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island and near Jask, disabling the ships that carry Iranian crude, a day after Iran fired at least one ballistic missile at a U.S. Navy warship and missed. The man who runs Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper, had already said what the answer would be: "If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost, taking out three of yours." On Saturday American forces disabled three more tankers, the Downy, the Stark 1 and the Kylo, one of them destroyed, per CENTCOM. The same Tuesday, Yemen's Houthis hit…
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