Oil is going to $100borrowed this from comment on ZH
The Iraninan Red Crescent society sent an aid ship to 's Red Sea . That ship is being accompanied by the Iranian task force in the - a destroyer called the Alborz and a supply ship.
The U.N. is coordinating Yemeni relief efforts out of and the insists the Iranian ship unload aid there for U.N. distribution (only to U.S./U.N. friendly Yemenis and al Qaeda, of course). said STFU, we'll deliver it where we want.
This morning, the sent a couple of Navy P3's and the destroyer, the U.S.S. Winston Churchill, out towards the Iranian ships.The Iranians lit up the U.S. ships and plane with their targeting radar and warned them away. They apparently complied (or at least an all-out shooting war hasn't reportedly started).
The Iranians are bound and determined to get their cargo ship to a Yemeni port, and the does not want them to. Either the backs down and lets the ship deliver its cargo, or it starts a shooting war with .
is sitting on the sidelines licking it's chops - it can't wait for some unfortunate incident that will screw up the nuclear talks and, better yet, start a war with so they can begin the Persian genocide.
Oh yeah, there's that Straits of Hormuz thing the oil goes through that will become a little less Saudi Tanker-friendly if a shooting war starts. The Iranians seem ready to go this time if the tries to bully them.
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