Pentagon: Iran Did Not Seize U.S. Ship
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Per the Marshall Islands agreements with the USA, the US Navy would still be responsible for the protection of that ship.
The Compact of Free Association with the United States gives the U.S. sole responsibility for international defense of the Marshall Islands. It allows islanders to live and work in the United States, and establishes economic and technical aid programs.
Maersk is a Denmark based shipping conglomerate. One of their ships, the Maersk Alabama was the ship involved in the Captain Phillips Somalia hijacking. Very, very few non US based ships transiting the world have US Crewmembers.
And the Marshall Islands are a US protectorate “… with the US providing defense, subsidies, and access to social services. …”.
You are almost certainly right about the non-US crew.
The ship is definitely headed to Bandar Abbas – probably 6-8 miles away making just headway as of about 20 minutes ago. It has entered an area where ships moor prior to making port for loading/unloading well inside Iran’s territorial waters.
It will be interesting to see what the Command in Chief chooses to do here. if it were me, there’d be a couple more Iranian patrol boats on the bottom pf the Persian Gulf.
Now that we’ve joined Al Qaeda in their fight against Iran, maybe we can get permission to fly their flag on our ships, no?
We’ve only got about 470 US flagged merchant ships, it wouldn’t be worth the effort.
lol
That’s great, it starts with an earthquake. Birds and snakes, an aeroplane.
Leo..nard Bernstein
(only part of the song I know)
Here’s another one that popped up https://ca.news.yahoo.com/maersk-tigris-ship-manager-declines-pentagon-says-iran-153907921.html
I read somewhere else that destroyers are being sent to the Iranian coast.
Who’s right? Who’s wrong? News ain’t what it used to be.
Imagine if these truth-spilling spoilsports had spoiled it for Tonkin.
You know something is true when Washington denies it before it is even reported.