Iran’s game

We should hope Mike Pompeo and John Bolton are right and that Iran is behind the attacks, because that would be a stupid but quite genuine attempt to stave off a full-scale war. If it’s a Saudi and UAE false-flag operation, with or without the tacit collaboration of Bolton and Pompeo, then the region really is headed for war.

The evidence is far from conclusive, but on balance, Iran probably is behind the attacks on four oil tankers in the Gulf last month and two more last Thursday, June 13. Those attacks carefully avoided human casualties, so if they were Iranian, what was their goal, writes Gwynne Dyer. Screen capture image courtesy of ABC News

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 24, 2019

LONDON, U.K.—The evidence is far from conclusive, but on balance, Iran probably is behind the attacks on four oil tankers in the Gulf last month and two more last Thursday, June 13. Those attacks carefully avoided human casualties, so if they were Iranian, what was their goal? If it was Iran, the...

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