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Poll: Should Iran seize more U.S tankers like U.S is doing to Venezuela?

Yes 67% (211 votes)
No 32% (101 votes)
This poll has ended

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Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by Mirasteel: 5:18pm On Feb 05
PulaPower:
I didn’t say USA can’t attack Iran..

I simply said it will be hard for USA to make that decision..
It will be disastrous on both sides.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by Mirasteel: 5:20pm On Feb 05
NICOGRAVITY:
Iyanga dey sleep, trouble go wake am.
Iran no dey tire for war?
Which kain people be this?
You meant Israel and US? because Iran was on their own before those two evil countries threatened them.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by Mirasteel: 5:22pm On Feb 05
Mrchippychappy:
No worry, when you hear GBOSA for Tehran, maybe this post go make sense by then. grin
When you hear GBOSA for US bases, make you no say Iranians aren't cowards.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by Mirasteel: 5:24pm On Feb 05
ViceGovernor:
Notice how they cleverly did not mention the name of the country they all fear, they said "western oil carriers"

😂 Who born you well to near Uncle Sam oil ship.
Houthis did more than this, what did US and Israel do?
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by IgOga(m): 5:24pm On Feb 05
Emu4life:
Lol! The Persians hvae never been known to be cowardscheesy
grin grin grin grin grin

Read history of the Persian war with Greece
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by Omotaday(m): 5:24pm On Feb 05
Reference:
See Nigerians fighting each other about what is happening in the Gulf.

Right here in our country two massacres within 72 hours involving several dozen lives and that doesn't bother them.

In any civilians society the country will have shut down with no one talking about anything else, with the government scrambling to answer questions from an outraged citizenry, but....just another day in the lives of a hapless people.

It is a tanker or tankers that is our bother.
Failed citizens.
Nigeria is a failed country. Human lives hold no value to most people except if the victim is their family.

People dying in hundreds is now normal in Nigeria. Nigeria is irredeemable, not the govt, not the people, not the youth.

It’s gone, it’s now a jungle, the strongest survive, the weakest perish or suffer.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by Mirasteel: 5:31pm On Feb 05
tctrills:
Iran has actually been very stupid that's why their economy is in free fall. They are fight the wrong battles.
Just because they don't want to be friends with the evil USA? I hope you know that US was the one that assassinated the prime minister of Iran? Mohammed mosaddegh just because he nationalized the Iranian oil industry, US didn't like it and ousted him from power before installing their puppet.

US and Israel have been the brain child of the crises happening in MiddleEast for decades.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by PepeXKermit: 5:37pm On Feb 05
insidelife22:
Iran flexing muscle,when the West starts dealing with them,no body should mention bullying or genocide
Tell me the country thar has some form of military might that the west has dealt with? Name one. I am waiting...
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by bewla(m): 5:51pm On Feb 05
Dogalmighty17:
There are reasons why the US is very hesitant to deploy troops on ground in Iran. Iran is twice the size of Afghanistan and 4 times the size of Iraq. Unlike Iraq that has a rather flat landscape, Iran has countless mountains and valleys that serve as strategic defensive positions. US troops invading in such a terrain, will be facing the most difficult landscape since Vietnam.

Iran has the global economy by the balls due to its ability to shut down the strait of Hormuz. This season passageway is where over 30% of global shipping passes through. Iran can mine the entire strait overnight rendering it impassable to ships for a long time. The price of oil will shoot up massively and global economies will be even under more pressure than normal.

All Saudi and Qatari oil fields are within the reach of Iranian missiles and drones. If Arabia and Qatar permit the US to launch attacks on Iran from bases within these countries, Iran is going to light up their oil fields like Christmas trees. This reason alone is why Qatar and Saudi Arabia are strongly pressuring the US to stand down and back off any attacks.
see analysis like
It should be
No bias just fact
I give it to you some baby will only watch CNN
Not knowing what is call behind the scenes show
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by Helpout12345: 5:58pm On Feb 05
Iran is just "enforcing it's trade sanctions". To "stop flow of stolen oil".
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by ViceGovernor: 6:16pm On Feb 05
WriteerNg:


A simple Google search would have saved you this embarrassment.

Iran has seized US oil tankers several times in the past. Even captured US Marines in 2016.
Stop trying to be clever by half, they wouldn't dare go near a US ship when a Republican like Donald Trump is in the white House......here's a simple Google search 👇🏼

In the history of Iran's interactions with US and allied shipping, there is no record of Iran seizing a US tanker ship during the Donald Trump administration or before it. However, Iran did seize other vessels, such as the British-flagged Stena Impero tanker in 2019, which was a significant incident during Trump's presidency but involved a British, not a US, ship.

You said they arrested Americans, they kidnapped people working at the US embassy in tehran which any country can do but was a single hair on their head harmed?? They did not dare that as they promptly returned every single one of the hostages back alive.
Here's what Google had to say 👇🏼

The Iran Hostage Crisis was a major international crisis caused by the seizure of the U.S. Embassy, and its employees, by revolutionary Iranian students. The students, with support from the Ayatollah Khomeini-led government of Iran, held Embassy employees as hostages for 444 days

Your first and second statement are nothing but humongous falsehood dished out with detrimental confidence, I have bursted your lies bring another one 😏.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by ViceGovernor: 6:21pm On Feb 05
Mirasteel:
Houthis did more than this, what did US and Israel do?
Here's some images of what the price the houthis paid for messing with the wrong person's ship in the Sea of Reeds (Red Sea).

Since then it has been graveyard silence 🤐 from the miscreants called houthis 😂

Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by ViceGovernor: 6:23pm On Feb 05
If not for the West the entire Europe would be speaking Germanic today, at the peak of their power Germany was brought to its knees by Americans.
PepeXKermit:
Tell me the country thar has some form of military might that the west has dealt with? Name one. I am waiting...
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by INJESUSNAME: 6:25pm On Feb 05
BarrElChapo:
Which country are the vessels registered under ? The West is not a name of a country
Don't mind them, no name of the ship , no country, and some people are already praising Iran that Israel just exposed how powerless they are.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by ViceGovernor: 6:27pm On Feb 05
Mrchippychappy:
Dem no born dem well to touch US ship nah, dem don go seize ship from one small EU country like Finland, Andorra or Lithuania. Iran no even get mind to touch ship from country like Poland
They think say them wise, they come tag their piracy act as "seizure of western ship" just to hoodwink their gollible followers....laff wan wound me 😂😂.
Even their drone they sent to know the location of US aircraft carrier was blown to powder earlier this week.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by JagaLove: 6:28pm On Feb 05
insidelife22:
Iran flexing muscle,when the West starts dealing with them,no body should mention bullying or genocide
dog go dey follow lion play.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by Chienex24(m): 6:32pm On Feb 05
FreeStuffsNG:
You just woke up or playing mischief?

This is Iran fighting back and it will use what it has to defend itself. Those vessels are loaded with fuel to power Iran’s enemies' fighter jets and Iran is not stupid.

Iran is monitoring their moves with hand on the trigger. Iran forced the US carrier warships to retreat while sending drone over US warships to monitor their moves real-time.

If Trump doesn't want war, he has time to do so. His war in Iran will not bring back the western spies Iran held and eliminated during the sponsored terrorist attack on Iran.
Cho cho cho cho cho filled with lies as usual. When them begin kill Iranian generals come topple their leader, una go still find something hail Iran. Radical islamists is radical islamists, no cap!!!
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by Fortunatefortun: 6:33pm On Feb 05
ViceGovernor:
True talk 💯...there was a time they were plaguing the entire red sea hijacking ships but the day they touched a US cargo ship that was the last we heard from them.......the entire hodeida port where they store their fuel was buried by American and Israeli fighter jets, now the whole red sea is under control of Israeli Navy.

Iran don price market and they no get the money to pay but they must pay the full amount.
Wow! Its been quite a long time since i popsted on nairaland but the magnitude of your ignorance and your courage to spew it out in words. Well last i checked but Israel and the US failed to solve the Houthi equatiuon. The US was humiliated enough to sign a deal with them that pulled the them out of the war but left Israel vulnerable. The houthis only left Israel when the ceasefire was announced though they have expressed interest to resume attacks anytime soon. Next time use google before embarassing your forefathers on the internet.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by Empresa: 6:57pm On Feb 05
PulaPower:
One of the reasons why it will be very hard for USA to attack Iran. The highest they can do is to keep putting Iran under sanctions like they’ve been doing for years..

Iran is located at a very important place. If Iran choose to go crazy, nothing can ship thru the coast
Continue dreaming, when US wants something, Iran is too small to stop it.

I pray Iran gives in to the peace talk.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by Emu4life(m): 7:21pm On Feb 05
Jangbajantis:
The present Iran is not Persian. It's Islamic terrorist.
The present Isreal is not Jews. They are Criminal European Settlers/land grabberscheesy
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by Moroccoguy: 7:43pm On Feb 05
insidelife22:
Iran flexing muscle,when the West starts dealing with them,no body should mention bullying or genocide
Go and read history of Iran an USA, there wahala as started since 1991.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by WriteerNg: 7:59pm On Feb 05
ViceGovernor:
Stop trying to be clever by half, they wouldn't dare go near a US ship when a Republican like Donald Trump is in the white House......here's a simple Google search 👇🏼

In the history of Iran's interactions with US and allied shipping, there is no record of Iran seizing a US tanker ship during the Donald Trump administration or before it. However, Iran did seize other vessels, such as the British-flagged Stena Impero tanker in 2019, which was a significant incident during Trump's presidency but involved a British, not a US, ship.

You said they arrested Americans, they kidnapped people working at the US embassy in tehran which any country can do but was a single hair on their head harmed?? They did not dare that as they promptly returned every single one of the hostages back alive.
Here's what Google had to say 👇🏼

The Iran Hostage Crisis was a major international crisis caused by the seizure of the U.S. Embassy, and its employees, by revolutionary Iranian students. The students, with support from the Ayatollah Khomeini-led government of Iran, held Embassy employees as hostages for 444 days

Your first and second statement are nothing but humongous falsehood dished out with detrimental confidence, I have bursted your lies bring another one 😏.
I no get time for plenty talk. Use your Google.

Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by PepeXKermit: 8:23pm On Feb 05
ViceGovernor:
If not for the West the entire Europe would be speaking Germanic today, at the peak of their power Germany was brought to its knees by Americans.
Amerucans came qt the end to take the glory, the rewrote the story, Russia did all the dirty work.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by INJESUSNAME: 8:30pm On Feb 05
Fortunatefortun:
Wow! Its been quite a long time since i popsted on nairaland but the magnitude of your ignorance and your courage to spew it out in words. Well last i checked but Israel and the US failed to solve the Hout7"hi equatiuon. The US was humiliated enough to sign a deal with them that pulled the them out of the war but left Israel vulnerable. The houthis only left Israel when the ceasefire was announced though they have expressed interest to resume attacks anytim±'e soon. Next time use google before embarassing your forefathers on the internet.
Houtis muted, they saw pepper from Israel! No excuses.
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by INJESUSNAME: 8:33pm On Feb 05
Emu4life:
The present Isreal is not Jews. They are Criminal European Settlers/land grabberscheesy
Where are the real Jews?
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by bizzibodi(m): 8:38pm On Feb 05
Ok
Dogalmighty17:
There are reasons why the US is very hesitant to deploy troops on ground in Iran. Iran is twice the size of Afghanistan and 4 times the size of Iraq. Unlike Iraq that has a rather flat landscape, Iran has countless mountains and valleys that serve as strategic defensive positions. US troops invading in such a terrain, will be facing the most difficult landscape since Vietnam.

Iran has the global economy by the balls due to its ability to shut down the strait of Hormuz. This season passageway is where over 30% of global shipping passes through. Iran can mine the entire strait overnight rendering it impassable to ships for a long time. The price of oil will shoot up massively and global economies will be even under more pressure than normal.

All Saudi and Qatari oil fields are within the reach of Iranian missiles and drones. If Arabia and Qatar permit the US to launch attacks on Iran from bases within these countries, Iran is going to light up their oil fields like Christmas trees. This reason alone is why Qatar and Saudi Arabia are strongly pressuring the US to stand down and back off any attacks.
So how best can the regime be change?
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by bizzibodi(m): 8:45pm On Feb 05
FreeStuffsNG:
You're speaking from both sides of the mouth out of ignorance.

This is not the first time that USA will face Iran directly. It has happened before and it was a huge humiliation coupled with death and destruction of US forces. That defeat cost a sitting US President his Presidency yet the Americans captured spent 442 days in Iran captivity. They were released to Ronald Reagan.

It will be an asymmetric war and US will lose. People will die on both sides and that is what reasonable people are trying to avert. Every life is important.

It is US that wants to impose war on the world out of hubris and save face after Iran annihilated the spies sponsored by the US to force a change in government.
You called the oppressed people of Iran who are under siege for 47 harrowing years by islamic terrorist spies?
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by bizzibodi(m): 8:49pm On Feb 05
Mirasteel:
Exactly! they fight to death.
Exactly they must fight Ayatollah and his regime until they are overthrown.
Victoria acerta!
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by Cajal(m): 8:50pm On Feb 05
PulaPower:
One of the reasons why it will be very hard for USA to attack Iran. The highest they can do is to keep putting Iran under sanctions like they’ve been doing for years..

Iran is located at a very important place. If Iran choose to go crazy, nothing can ship thru the coast
They will just set strait of Hormuz on fire and I will be feeling it here in my village in Ibadan
You are on point
Re: Iran Seizes 2 Western Oil Tankers & Detains 15 Foreign Crew Members (Photos) by bizzibodi(m): 8:51pm On Feb 05
Mirasteel:
Yes US is more superior when it comes to advanced welfare or weapons but Iran isn't small too and they are ready for anything, IRAN might get hit very hard also US won't escape too, all military bases will be destroyed and streigh of hormuz blocked which will affect the world.
If strait of Hormuz is blocked it will affect Iran more.
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