Trump calls Iran’s Strait of Hormuz ship attack ‘foolish’ and a ceasefire violation

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UK Maritime Trade Operations also reported structural damage to the bridge but said no crew members were injured.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

President Donald Trump on Friday accused Iran of violating the ceasefire after what US officials said was an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps strike on a Singapore-flagged merchant vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz, calling the attack “foolish” and warning that additional Iranian drones had been intercepted.

In a Truth Social post, President Trump wrote, “The Islamic Republic of Iran shot at least four One Way Attack Drones at Ships transversing the Strait of Hormuz.”

Two senior US officials told The Wall Street Journal that the vessel was struck Thursday while operating near Oman’s coastline.

The attack came hours after Iran’s paramilitary navy instructed commercial vessels to avoid sea lanes through the strategic waterway unless they had Tehran’s approval.

The officials said the strike damaged the ship’s bridge, which houses its navigation, communications and command systems. UK Maritime Trade Operations also reported structural damage to the bridge but said no crew members were injured.

President Trump described the incident in a subsequent Truth Social post, writing, “Damage was done, but the Ship was able to proceed on its way. We knocked down three other Drones. Obviously, this is a foolish violation of our Ceasefire Agreement.”

Iran has not responded directly to the accusation, although Iranian state media reported President Trump’s remarks.

The incident posed a significant challenge to the US-Iran agreement signed in mid-June, which commits both sides to keeping the Strait of Hormuz open to international shipping.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House declined to comment on the attack.

Iran’s warning to commercial shipping had been issued only hours before the vessel was targeted.

Tehran instructed ships to avoid transit routes through the strait unless they had been specifically authorized by the Iranian government.

During the weekend, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz after demanding an end to Israeli military operations in Lebanon. The latest strike occurred after that closure despite provisions in the agreement calling for the waterway to remain open.

The International Maritime Organization said the Singapore-flagged cargo ship targeted in the attack was not participating in the evacuation program.

Before the regional conflict that began this spring, the Strait of Hormuz handled approximately 20% of the world’s oil and gas shipments, and disruptions to traffic through the passage have caused sharp fluctuations in global oil prices.

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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