© Off-Guardian Org
Since the US/Israel began their war - sorry, their
"targeted, limited, combat operation" - hard facts have been hard to come by.
In a more than usually cloudy combat narrative, we've been told that Iran is winning AND losing, depending who you ask. It's a regime change war, but also it isn't. Various Iranian officials
have been killed, and some
came back. Netanyahu was briefly dead, too. There was talk of a tactical nuke.
Nowhere is this fog of war thicker than in the Strait of Hormuz, about which it is seemingly impossible to get a *ahem* strait answer.The coverage is so fast-paced and contradictory it conjures up images of an elaborate game of "yes, and..." being played by members of an improv group who have totally different goals for the story, and secretly hate each other.
Within hours of the initial bombing raids of "Epic Fury", Western news sources were reporting that Iran
had closed the strait of Hormuz.
Then Iran said they hadn't, but
they were threatening to.
Then Western insurers stepped in, forcing a closure in effect by
refusing to cover ships passing through the strait.
Then Donald Trump said the
US military would insure the ships, and offered them military escorts as well.
Then we were told that Iran couldn't close the Strait, even if they wanted to, because their navy had
been totally destroyed.
Then the press reported that Iran had mined the Strait with
"about a dozen mines", despite Iranian officials
denying this entirely.
More strangely, even US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, refuted the presence of mines, telling a Press Briefing,
"We have no evidence of that."Which raises an interesting question:
If both the governments involved in this war say there aren't any mines, who is saying there ARE mines? And why?Who is overruling both the Pentagon and the Iranian Foreign Ministry? And why are the vast majority of the press accepting their word?
Comment: Expect Russia to continue in this measured pace. They aren't after headlines with dramatic manouvers. They are after an uncontestable, permanent victory. If Ukraine wants to keep hurling itself into the Russian 'lava flow', then so be it.