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The Method in Iran's Oil Tanker Madness
Squint hard enough, and you can see the outlines of a strategy that ends in negotiations.
A grab from video released by the US Central Command.
Photographer: CENTCOM/AFP/Getty Images
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Suspicion is now hardening that Iran was behind the attack on the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday morning. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has fingered the Islamic Republic, and American officials have released footage of what purports to be an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps speedboat alongside one of the ships. The video shows men apparently removing an unexploded limpet mine from the hull of the vessel.
The implication is that the perpetrators were removing evidence of their guilt.