{"id":27635,"date":"2019-06-17T22:24:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T02:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27635"},"modified":"2019-06-17T22:31:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T02:31:24","slug":"u-s-says-video-shows-iranian-boat-removing-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/06\/17\/u-s-says-video-shows-iranian-boat-removing-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Says Video Shows Iranian Boat Removing Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the article from <em>The Dreaded New York Times <\/em>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/world\/middleeast\/100000006558124\/explosive-mine-removed-from-ship-in-gulf-of-oman.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> U.S. Says Video Shows Iranian Boat Removing Mine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nVideo released by U.S. Central Command shows a patrol boat pulling up to the Kokuka Courageous, one of two ships attacked in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday. Personnel removed what American analysts believe was a limpet mine from the ship. A military spokesman said the patrol boat was an Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessel.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it actually shows the boat leaving the Kokuka Courageous.  The Dreaded New York Times couldn&#8217;t even get that part right.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/players\/offsite\/index.html?videoId=100000006558124\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The Young Turks <\/em>has the segment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=5&#038;v=xxIrGPEU9Ac\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Faking Tanker Evidence?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xxIrGPEU9Ac\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Steemit <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/iran\/@munkle\/israel-fingered-as-behind-tanker-attack-as-president-of-company-calls-pentagon-reports-fake\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Suggests Israel or U.S. Could be Behind Tanker Attack, as President of Company Calls Pentagon Report Fake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPresident Trump recently cited a video released by the Pentagon as showing what the Pentagon says is a limpit underwater mine being removed by an Iranian special forces crew. But observers with military backgrounds say that the video does not show a limpit mine, which is large, heavy, and conical, but magnetic ladder rungs used for climbing the sides of ships.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I decided to do a little research on magnetic ladder rungs.  I found a video showing some use of various kinds of equipment to board ships in the water.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YZuRNP5d1ik\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Facebook reader of my post led me to this item of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhenriksen.com\/rebs\/climbing\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">REBS Magnetic Climbing System<\/a>.  Here is the video from  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhenriksen.com\/history\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">H. Henriksen Mek. Verksted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rP_r4vn6sak\"  style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maybe if the USA Navy would release the complete video, it might show the Iranian boat rescuing the crew from the tanker, and then leaving without touching any mines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the article from The Dreaded New York Times &#8211; U.S. Says Video Shows Iranian Boat Removing Mine. Video released by U.S. Central Command shows a patrol boat pulling up to the Kokuka Courageous, one of two ships attacked in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday. Personnel removed what American analysts believe was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27635"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27640,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27635\/revisions\/27640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}