Why couldnt they just use the suez canal

Suez is monitored quite heavily

They would also need to go through the Red sea

Makes sense

Which is de facto under American control

Hence they went around Africa to avoid that.

Iran is desperate to sell its oil, which is a massive part of its economy.

I wonder what Irans plan is here..

Iran: "Well we already pissed off the biggest military in the world. How about we piss off the second biggest navy?"

Oh yeah Iran is denying that america shot their drone yesterday

I think they are trying to escalate the situation, create some preassure to make people return to the original deal. A calculated move, they want to stay in the media news channels, remind people that they are still there.
And I would trust Iranian state media as much as the North Korean state media.

Or any other state run media.

What if it's a false flag

and Iran did nothing wrong <:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

That wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility

I'd rather wait and see on anything to do with Iran.

But I don't think Israel's simply....competent enough to be behind this

Well, Iran is saying they did it.

They also said the drone was American and released the footage.

Iran says Israel does everything bad that happens in that area.

tbh

Yeab, but why would Iranian state media would embrace the false flag designed to blame them.

I suppose it'd allow them to be justified in retaliating if it was a false flag?

Double thunk time

Maybe they want to have some saber rattling

Or maybe they're trying to act tough to hide some sort of internal problem that's currently happening in their country?

^

Who knows but if we are going to take out Iran, we should do it on real reasons and not concjecture.

So they asked the UK to cooperate with them, so they could hide some internal problem?

Didn't they say that they did one of the attacks?

Yeah

UK said that the Iranians took over an oil tanker, and the Iranian state media confirmed.

Maybe it was retaliation

you take mine we take yours

Well what did the UK do against Iran recently?

Took one of their tanker going to Syria.

Ah.

UK should double down and take another tanker

This is quite straight forward.

Prelude to WW3 is stealing oil tankers

If there is any Iranian Oil tanker near Gibraltar, i guess they would.