By Tony Cartalucci
July 20, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - The US boasted of downing an Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz, admittedly in international waters, just miles off Iran's coast, and thousands of miles from Washington.
It claims the drone was "threatening" a US amphibious assault ship, the USS Boxer.
The Washington Post in its article, "Trump says the U.S. Navy downed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz," would claim:
A U.S. naval ship downed an Iranian drone that flew too close and ignored multiple calls to turn away, President Trump said Thursday, as tensions between the United States and Iran appeared to be rising once again in the Persian Gulf region.An AP article titled, "US warship downs Iranian drone in Hormuz Strait," noted that (emphasis added):
Speaking at the White House, Trump said the drone came within 1,000 yards of the USS Boxer in the Strait of Hormuz before the crew “took defensive action” and “immediately destroyed” it.
The Pentagon said the incident happened at 10 am local time on Thursday in international waters while the Boxer was transiting the waterway to enter the Persian Gulf. The Boxer is one of several US naval ships in the area, including the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier that has been operating in the nearby North Arabian Sea for weeks.The claims come nearly a month after Iran shot down a US drone - an RQ-4A Global Hawk - operating near Iranian shores, also in the Strait of Hormuz.
At the time, the US condemned Iran's move claiming it had downed the drone over international waters. Now - the US openly claims it has shot down an Iranian drone over international waters. The overt hypocrisy is intentional. The US has been attempting to goad Tehran into an armed conflict for years with US policy papers openly admitting as much.
A 2009 Brookings Institution paper titled, "Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran," would openly admit (emphasis added):
...it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be. Of course, it would be very difficult for the United States to goad Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the world recognizing this game, which would then undermine it.Apparently, the US is no longer concerned about whether or not the world recognizes this game and is doing everything in its power to goad Iran into miscalculating and granting the US justification for a long-desired and much larger conflict with Tehran.
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