For the US government is that Iran for the explosions in two oil Tankers in the Gulf of Oman responsible. As the evidence so far is a Video and 13 photos were published. What do they say?
This photo is to show according to US-a Gashti patrol boat of the Iranian revolutionary guard, when you Remove a limpet mine to the Tanker, “Kokuka Courageous”
How serious is the situation in the Gulf region is just, the shooting down of a U.S. drone by Iran. Apparently, the US is considered, then in the short term, a retaliatory strike. The sabre rattling is getting louder and louder, since it’s on 13. June on the two oil Tankers “Front-Altair” from Norway and “Kokuka Courageous” from Japan, several explosions were. The US government had accused on the same day, the Iran, to have the Tanker just behind the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf of Oman attacked with limpet mines. Iran denies the allegations.
Interviewed military experts emphasize that the installation and Removal of limpet mines to ships at risk and a great deal of Expertise required. The explosives are attached with magnets to the ships, usually below the water line. The hole has been blown in the hull of the “Kokuka Courageous”, is according to US information is a good Meter above the water line. The American evidence against Iran is focusing on this ship.
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Striking a different representation of the chief of the Japanese shipping company that owns the Tanker is in this context: Yutaka Katada said on 14. June in front of the press, that members of the Crew had seen before the Explosion is a bit on the Tanker part was flown in.
This contradiction is not clarified until today. “There is clearly more information that could be shared. By not doing it, damage to the USA itself, and it looks like there is something to hide,” emphasizes Eliot Higgins, the investigative research network Bellingcat, opposite the Deutsche Welle.
Also in Germany, many political observers have forgotten that the US have justified the attack on Iraq in 2003, also with fake footage. Even more important is the confrontation with the so far from the United States published evidence.
First US publication: A Video and two photos
On the evening of the 13th. June, at 22:20 PM local time, as published in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa, Florida, a coarse-grained Black-and-White Video among other things on the Online side, on the side of the US Navy and on YouTube.
The Clip is a Minute and 39 seconds long and should show, according to US information, such as the crew of a patrol boat to the Iranian revolutionary guards on the side wall of the “Kokuka Courageous”, to remove an unexploded limpet mine.
In fact, you can see dimly, some of the men in life jackets, of which, at the beginning of the video a hochreckt on the hull of a large tanker. However, the recording is extremely fuzzy, wobbly and out of several situations, together cut. The Clip shows no end-to-end action. When and how the Video is created, also remains unclear.
In addition to the Video, the CENTCOM has published two edited photos, which show the Tanker “Kokuka Courageous” in the side profile from a distance. Two red arrows indicate prominently on a large hole in the rear side wall and a protuberance in the center of the Ship. You only recognize dimly and has a circular-cylindrical shape.
According to US information, it should be the unexploded limpet mine, the removal of which is to prove the Video. The two photos are to be provided with the source note “USS Bainbridge (DDG 96)”. The destroyer of the US Navy is currently in the Region and has at 13. June the 21 crew members of the “Kokuna Courageous” recorded previously by the Dutch ship “Coastal Ace” to be saved.
It is assumed that the Sailors have extensively been consulted. But none of it has been revealed.
Analysis of the alleged evidence
Ship tracking Tools like marinetraffic.com the Tanker can locate its Route through the Strait of Hormuz track. He was at the time of the Explosion off the coast of Iran on the go. A detailed comparison with older photos of the tanker proves that in the US Video, the “Kokuka Courageous” is to be seen.
Publicly accessible photos also suggests that the smaller ship on the side of the oil Tanker is a very high probability that a fast boat of the type Gashti, as it uses the Iran. But the people on the boat, you can’t identify. What do you do exactly, is not visible. Also, the place and date of the recording cannot be verified.
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Eliot Higgins, founder of the British research network, Bellingcat, presumed to be a deliberate omission. The photos showed, “how the Iranians to remove an object from the side of the ship, supposedly the limpet mine, but they don’t show a single clear image of the object itself”. In fact, the video begins exactly at the position of the object in question, apparently, is removed, however, mostly obscured by the men on Board. “So why did the USA not show Material from the seconds before, if the object is not obscured” asks Higgins.
Pentagon puts eleven new photos
The publication of the Videos and of the two photos was not among the Western partners have the desired effect. Since the unilateral withdrawal of the Americans from the Iranian nuclear agreement, the Europeans focus more on dialogue with Tehran. Besides the USA, only the British government accused open to Iran, the two oil Tanker attacked.
17. In June, the U.S. Department of defense spoke directly to the media. The new press package of the Pentagon consists of eleven colour photographs and a Word document with detailed descriptions of the images. It also contains a timeline, in PDF Format, in a concise military language, the events of 13. June 2019 in the Gulf of Oman reconstructed.
The photos have a much better quality than the Video, and show Details in Close-up. One of the pictures, taken with a Canon EOS 80D, to show the “Remains” of remote prison mine: The object looks like a magnetic holder. To detect a circular wreath of Impressions, which suggests that earlier, more such magnet stuck holder on the Board wall. However, it is the Board wall of the “Kokuka Courageous”? This is on the basis of the photos not doubt, verify. Also: Why were apparently removed all the magnets up on this one?
It is the green object to a magnet, which belongs to an Iranian prison mine? The eye-catching prints suggest that earlier, more such magnets glued to this wall
Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy has recovered the Remains of the alleged detention of the mine and the port of the Emirate of Fujairah presented to the Public. The parts had a “striking Similarity” with mines, as the onset of the Iran. Also the hole in the Board wall and fit in to a mine explosion, and not to the impact of a flying object, said US commander Sean Kido.
A further, very clear Aerial view to show the fast boat of the Iranian revolutionary guards after the removal of the limpet mine. To see on Board nine men are in Uniform. All but two are wearing orange life jackets. Their simple uniforms have a dark-olive color. If you search the web for images of the Iranian revolution garden, one finds similar uniforms. It is, without a doubt recognize that it is a Gashti patrol boat. Constructions, on-Board weaponry and the eye-catching pattern in the bow-tip are the same. However, a point of reference, such as the damaged Tanker is not shown in this picture.
The men on the patrol boat of the type Gashti look up in the sky – presumably to the US helicopter that is hovering over them
According to the Pentagon, five of the eleven pictures were taken from a helicopter. In three cases the angle and cutting the photos with the Video match. This suggests that probably the Video was recorded from a helicopter.
Helicopter as the “Seahawk” are included in the “USS Bainbridge (DDG 96)”. From the supplied timeline of the Pentagon, the destroyer on the 13. June “constant” the Goings-on around the Tanker “Kokuka Courageous” has observed: between 09:20 and 14:15 (world time/UCT). These long hours of Surveillance suggests that there is far more Material than has hitherto been published.
Re-evaluation of the alleged evidence
The USA are proud to present the Video and a total of 13 photos, chain of evidence, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel on 18. June with these words, commented: “We take these comments very seriously, and there is also high Evidence.”
However, none of the previously submitted photos of the “Kokuka Courageous” shows a limpet mine. None of the Attaching a limpet mine shows by Iranian soldiers. To date, the unique, and independently verifiable proof that the two tankers on the 13 is missing. June, were attacked behind the Strait of Hormuz in fact, with limpet mines, and that Iran is responsible.
At the time of the explosions early on the Morning of the 13th. June, a distance of ten nautical lag between the two tankers miles. The Norwegian “Front Altair” is set, the first an emergency call. On Board a large fire broke out. However, in the U.S. evidence of the incident plays on this Tanker no role at all.
13. June 2019 – the burning oil Tanker Front Altair
There were several Iranian boats in the vicinity of the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman. A on 13. June, the Crew of the burning tanker “Front-Altair” on Board, which had previously been set by the British cargo ship “Hyundai Dubai” saved. But Iran itself has so far been limited to verbal attacks, and nothing to the elucidation of the explosions added. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif speaks to the Twitter package of the “sabotage of diplomacy”, and accuses the US of war-mongering.
It’s your word against mine. A unique blame assignment is without independent check and clear evidence is not possible. Already on 12. May had reported four of the vessels in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz damage caused by explosions. Even then, the US and its Arab allies allegations raised against Iran. Through the Straits about a third of the world’s Oil transportation would be by ship.