Who Is Running Iran? Report Exposes Power Struggle at Top of the Regime
Hardliners hit three ships. The president said he never signed the order.
Summary
- Breitbart reports a New York Times account that a hardline faction attacked three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz overnight July 6-7, including a Qatari LNG tanker, without the knowledge of President Masoud Pezeshkian, IRGC commander Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, or the Supreme National Security Council.
- The strike came while Pezeshkian was in Iraq. The United States hit back the next morning and fighting resumed, ending a June memorandum with Washington. Investigations later traced the ship attacks to Hossein Taeb, a longtime intelligence hardliner who had opposed the deal.
- Pezeshkian has questioned whether communications attributed to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei are authentic. Khamenei has not made an authenticated public appearance since he was badly wounded in the February 28 opening strikes. Trump said in August he believed Khamenei was alive but very seriously wounded on the left side.
- Two senior generals threatened to resign. Mohsen Rezaei was put over the security council to mediate. Hardliners have pushed a plan to hit American targets, damage Navy ships, and raise oil prices, including through Yemen and Iraq proxies.
Commentary
A tanker dad still smells bunker on a sleeve and knows a strait order is supposed to come from a government, not a faction with a private trigger. He did not pay the diesel levy so a rogue desk could restart a war over three hulls.
July 6-7 ships. June memo dead. Khamenei unseen since February 28. The honest household already paid the fill-up. The cold rail on that LNG carrier still waits on a name.
Look every working father who still needs that lane for a winter heat bill in the eye and answer this: if even Tehran cannot say who authorized the ships, who still owns the next American deck in that water?
Comments
July 6-7. Three ships. June memo dead. Keep that order.
I stood a deck so a strait order still meant a chain of command. A faction trigger is not a state.
Taeb. Pezeshkian. Vahidi. Rezaei. Print the four.
Allied desks still treat an unseen supreme leader as a risk file, not a rumor.
February 28 wounds. No authenticated appearance. Hardliner escalation plan. File the three.
I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next hull left alone by a rogue desk.
A Qatari LNG tanker as a faction toy is not diplomacy. It is a warning the street already paid.
A private trigger on a strait is a second border around a Navy watch. The first memo should have been enough.
Breitbart printed the Times, Taeb, and the three ships. Argue those nouns.
Hold the blockade. Watch the factions. A rogue ship hit is not a peace offer.
