IRAN ATTACK BOATS SWARM STRAIT OF HORMUZ, RUSSIA UNDER MAJOR ATTACKS!
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“And good evening folks. This is Enforcer Matt and welcome back to day 1529 of the war news stream. And today we have massive news that we have to cover throughout the day and also crazy stuff happening literally right this second. We’ve seen today that Iranian fast attack boats were deployed in the straight of Hormuz. About 70 of them or so swarm the entire strait and that’s a huge situation. We’ve also seen major air strikes erupt near the Syrian Jordan border and also Russia’s currently panicking as Ukraine is striking near Moscow and also a couple of active situations. Apparently Usluga and Borsk are about to be under attack as we speak live right now on the air.
Uh there’s also major US Air Force evacuations taking place in the Middle East right now and also very big reports of jet activity over the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and also some other things too. So it’s a lot going on, but it’s good to see you all once again. And of course, we’re going to be covering the past 24 hours of the news from around the world as we have been able to hear of significant developments within most regions of the planet including the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and also East Asia as well.
Over the course of the day, significant developments have emerged from the area of the Middle East as a large swarm of Iranian attack boats somewhere between 50 to 80 of them are currently swarming the straight of our moons at this moment and are currently within the area of the minefield that has been laid prior by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. It is believed at this moment that they this may be another wave of vessels that have traveled into the straight of Hormuz to lay another layer of the minefield once again showing that the Islamic Republic of Iran is only trying to further bolster its position and indefinite blockade of the straight of Ormuse even if armed conflict begins soon.
We have also been able to hear that the situation here in the United States side is still remaining as it has been with last night the first oil crisis fatality being reported as Spirit Airlines officially stopped all operations throughout the United States effective immediately at 3:00 a.m. in the morning just today. According to Spir Airlines official publication for all seizures of company operations, they announced that it was due to the rising oil prices and the rising cost of aviation grade jet fuel as a result that made it financially untenable for the company to even limp on forward even another day leading to their immediate closure over the night. Additionally, we’ve also been able to hear that the United States of America is once again stating that they will be trying to conduct some form of military action at least at this point against the Iranians.
As we’ve also been able to hear that the Iranians have proposed a peace agreement to the United States of America that once again requires the near full capitulation of the United States of America to see that the straight of Warmuse is reopened. We have also been able to hear that domestic fuel prices are still rising within the United States of America and we are seeing that at this moment it has reached one of the highest levels domestically that we have seen in the entirety of domestic fuel price history within the country. We have also been able to hear that at the same time a significant amount of US forces are building up within the United Arab Emirates just to the east of Dubai. And we’ve also seen that a large amount of US support aircraft, particularly those of the C17 and C5 varieties are currently outbound from the Middle East at this moment with currently what appears to be very little if not any return flights flying into the area.
We have seen that at the moment there are some aerial tankers which are airborne and operating over the Middle East. But these appear to be the only aircraft that are either attempting to remain within the region or are traveling even deeper into the Middle East. Every other supply aircraft that we have seen so far is Conga lining on its way out of the area at least for now suggesting that we may be seeing once again that they’re making preparations for eventual armed actions against Iran to resume at some moment in time. We’ve also been able to see that an RC135 rivet joint was flying over the Persian Gulf today. An incredibly rare occurrence to say the least. While at the same time in Tran, the Iranian government stated that they were prepared to repel any aggression. The Iranian government also explained away the sound of explosions within Isvahan as them attempting to detonate and destroy dud explosives that landed on the city in the prior phase of the armed conflict.
And jet activity was reported over northern Iraq as well. Israeli forces are continuing their battles with Hezbollah within the southern regions of Lebanon. And it does appear that today the Israeli air force has been used to heavy effect to be able to try and inflict as much casualties on them as possible. We’ve also seen that uh air uh airborne operations have been conducted or more so air strikes have been conducted throughout Syria by the Israelis and the Jordanians with the Jordanians claiming that they’re trying to blow up drug dealers. Don’t know where that came from. Just kind of came out of left field. But apparently we’re watching the Jordanians airirst strike drug dealers in southern uh Syria. I don’t really know what kind of drugs they’re dealing. I guess hopes and dreams which are really non-existent in Syria, but nevertheless, it does appear they’re bombing those out, whatever may be left of that.
We’ve also been able to hear outside of the region that a vessel has been hijacked today by none other than the Somali pirates right off of the Amen Coast. It’s currently being transited back towards the Somali coastline where we believe that the crew and the vessel will be held hostage by the Somali pirates that took the vessel. We’ve also been able to hear that the People’s Republic of China has announced to its companies to ignore all US sanctions and operate as if they aren’t even in place while simultaneously in Europe, the Ukrainian armed forces are conducting major drone attacks against Russian oil infrastructure once again. This time targeting the ports of Uslug and Primorsque within the Baltic Sea region of the Russian Federation. At this very moment on air, we do know that these drones have made it into the Porska areas and may have already hit their targets, but we are waiting at this time for more video and picture evidence to come out to confirm the exact kind of damage and the size and scale of the destruction that’s been caused by these drone attacks at the moment.
We have also been able to hear a slight rumor moving around today that the Russians may use tactical nuclear weapons against the state of Ukraine, but we’re not sure how credible that information is. that sort of information and threat has been coming out for about the entirety of the war. We’ve also been able to additionally hear that there was unusual activity uh on the Bellarian Ukrainian border today by Bellar Russian forces. And we’ve also been able to additionally hear the Ukrainian armed forces have been inflicting significant casualties onto the Russian Federation’s armies throughout the entirety of Ukraine and have largely stopped any if not all advances by the Russians across the entirety of the front over the course of this day.
We’ve also seen the fires in Perm and TuPS are continuing. And we’ve now heard that the president of the United States is declaring that more than 5,000 US troops will be withdrawn from NATO and specifically from Yukon’s area of responsibility. At this moment, NATO is trying to ask the United States why this is being done. And we’re also seeing that this is being met with a significant amount of opposition within Europe and the United States of America as well as it is a disastrous uh decision as far as US strategic outlooks are concerned and also those of our allied nations outlooks are concerned for their security within Europe. But before we move on into all of this news, starting with our largest stories first and then moving our way on down into the smaller stories throughout the night, we actually have breaking news that’s happening at this moment live on air. So Matthew, what do we got?”
“All right, so tonight we might actually have some breaking news throughout the night. It looks like I’m getting pretty confident about this whole conclusion right now. It looks like final preparations are currently taking place as we speak uh to get ready to strike Iran. Of course, we’ve seen a major Congo line of US Air Force cargo aircraft. They’re currently leaving multiple different bases out of the Middle East and they appear to be evacuating to Europe. That appears to be what they’re doing tonight.
And we’re also seeing that it looks like a US Navy PA Poseidon apparently has flown out of Elit which is in Israel of course and it looks like it’s heading out to an air base in Siggonella. So it’s evacuating as well. So it does appear to be that some of these aircraft the US Air Force aircraft are getting out of dodge right as we’ve seen that the all the aid to the Gulf States was pretty much forced through without any kind type of congressional oversight to rush it there for some reason.
So, it looks like it’s about to go down. At this point, it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to say that we should be on probably high alert tomorrow night on Sunday night to see exactly if it’s going to happen then. It could happen tomorrow night possibly. I don’t think it’s going to happen tonight because it’s already kind of getting into the daylight hours inside of Iran right now, but it could be maybe late tomorrow evening that we see something start at the earliest, but if not, maybe next weekend.
But, uh, pretty big news with that. Also a side note by the way, we are tracking right now a very large drone attack on what’s believed to be Russia’s export oil ports of Ushuga and Bmor. Uh so we are keeping an eye on that as well. But right now that is the active stories happening in the breaking news.”
“We’ll be making sure to cover these stories uh as we continue to develop the news stories live on air here in just a moment as it does appear that a lot of these continuations of breaking news coming out this moment are actually following along with breaking news stories that we’ve been seeing unfolding over the course of the entirety of the day.
And moving us on directly into our our breaking news coverage for the rest of the night. Starting with our largest stories first and then moving our way on down into the smaller stories throughout the night. We are immediately going to be moving into the Middle East as we have been able to see a significant amount of developments that are currently ongoing within this region of the world at this time.
To give you all a little bit of an up-to-date development that we’re seeing right now, we are seeing that a significant amount of US aircraft are currently leaving the area. And while we can see that there are a few small numbers of flights that appear to be heading into Sentcom Responsibility, it looks as though most flights are actually heading out about as quickly as possible. We can actually see here as well that several C17s of the United States Air Force and C5 Galaxies are currently flying from their bases that they were currently just at in the Middle East and back into Europe.
We have also been able to see that that P8 Poseidon is flying over the Mediterranean in some area right now heading towards Sicily and an air base there that would be able to support that aircraft once it lands. We are generally understanding that at this moment, most of these sorts of actions of moving a larger amount of the support aircraft out of the area that are not involved in combatant operations is usually a preparatory action that happens just several hours before strikes begin.
But I do want to make it clear that right now this window in time might just be a little bit coincidental and we may be seeing that no strikes are conducted over the course of this weekend. It might be the next weekend or the weekend after that. But it does certainly appear that at the moment strikes could happen at any time as long as it’s on the weekend. Um, we’ve also been able to see as well that the Islamic Republic of Iran is working its hardest on preparing some form of a military confrontation with the United States or at least exerting significant amount of control over the area of the Straight of Hormuz.
At this moment right now, we’ve been able to see that within the area of the straight of Ormuse, there was a humongous swarm of uh speedboats or fast attack boats, which you can see in this picture right here. This kind of looks like bed bugs a little bit on like a navy blue sort of a bed cover, but what that really is is a whole bunch of small IRGC fast attack boats. In this specific picture right here, from the very beginning of the formation to the rear of the formation, there are around 80 speedboats in total in this one swarm.
We understand that the swarm was moving at high speed throughout the area and was moving through the area of the minefield within the straight of while another swarm was also moving directly along the area of Kashim Island, which is about another 50 to 70 fast attack boats that is in that completely separate formation. Meaning that right now the Islamic Republic of Iran had about 140 to 150 fast attack boats of their navy operating within the straight of Hormuz just over the course of the past few hours.
We’ve also been able to see more proof of this as well along the coastline of Kashm on that second group or formation that was moving through this area as the satellite footage did show one this large amount of fast attack boats here and additionally the humongous swarm that was actually moving east to west along the coastline of the island of Kashm earlier on just a few hours ago. From what we understand, this incident happened around noon time here in the United States of America, which means that this would have happened sometime right around the twilight hours, at least within the Islamic Republic of Iran before a nightfall started to set in.
These sorts of large groups have only been seen prior since the quote unquote ceasefire went into effect when they were being used to go out into the Straight of Ormuse into the area where the minefield had been laid and to drop a load of additional mines into the area. It would highly likely be believed that these two groups were conducting a similar action today as due to their numbers, they’re able to ensure a success of their mission no matter the losses because they’d be guaranteed to at least drop a couple of dozen mines off even in the worst case scenario. And in the best case scenario, which is the one that happened for them today, considering that they weren’t fired upon, we could understand that they dropped at least 80 mines into the water, if not 60 or more, depending on if each of those boats was carrying one mine, two mines, or three mines per vessel.
This is a fairly large presence within the area as well as far as uh direct control. And it is once again showing us that even still the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s control over the Straight of Hormuz is uncontested and the United States has not done anything to stop this. This is even against the orders of the president of the United States who had declared about a week and a half ago orders publicly to the Navy that any fast attack boats that once again scured out into the middle of the straight of Hormuse were to be attacked and destroyed by the United States Navy.
Over the course of this entire day, not a single fast attack boat was attacked or destroyed by the United States Navy. Apparently, meaning that that order was nothing more than public optics and showmanship um for a little dog and pony show because we’re not seeing that the US Navy or the US military took any actions to stop the Iranians from swarming back into the Ormoos and most likely laying an even larger number of mines into their already pre-existent minefield, only increasing the difficulty of ensuring the freedom of navigation in this area. once military operations commence and we start to try and clear shipping lanes through it to allow for commercial ships to pass in and out of the straight of muse at this get this though get this though maybe maybe they’re not hitting the individual boats because keep in mind that’s going to be a very big undertaking I mean well I mean I tried to count them earlier I think it’s like 60 70 something like that there’s a lot of these little fast attack boats running around the straight of Hormuz I mean that’s a lot that’s that’s at least 50 plus boats right there that you’re looking at just in that on image right there.”
“So, that’s going to be a lot of munitions being used to take out each and one of those little small ant-sized boats. That’s a lot of work. Maybe here’s what they’re doing instead. Maybe they’re trying to do surveillance from the air to see where these boats are going back to so that way they can track them back to the uh cave or the areas where they’re hiding out, the hardened shelters on the coast. and then when the war restarts to strike those spots instead and take them out all at one time possibly or find a way to send in a sea drone into those caves and try to blow up these boats. Maybe that’s it possibly because that would be a lot more efficient if they can find out where they’re going. Maybe.”
“But the US military generally already knows where the uh subterranean shelters are for these fast attack boats as they have been photographed under construction decades ago. And there are still continuous satellite photographs being taken of this area over the past few decades since the construction of those pens. And so we would easily know exactly where these boats are going and where they’ve come from because there’s only so many pens along the coastline and all of them from what we understand are being used.
So generally the fact that we didn’t fire upon these fast attack boats isn’t us trying to gather reconnaissance here because we already have reconnaissance from satellite photography that has existed over the past few decades. Importantly, I do have to point out folks that because some people are going to say, well, you know, they’re hidden subterranean complexes and whatnot, so they’re going to be hard to see.
The United States of America has had satellite photography capabilities since the late 70s and the 1980s, meaning that we’ve been able to photograph the Islamic Republic of Iran’s abilities around the Strait of Hormuz ever since the Islamic regime came into existence in 1979 when they overthrew the Sha. None of these boat pens existed during the time of the Sha in the Kingdom of Persia. They were all built afterwards under the control of Imman Humeni and Ali Himemeni who were the supreme leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
That means that when construction was being conducted, the US would have been satellite photographing these facilities under construction which would be uh settle uh unsettling a large amount of sediment on the bottom of the ocean within that area causing a very large profile. And not only that, we would have been able to know for decades just looking along their coastline where in the world there looks to be any form of a boat pin that is inside of a mountain or a cliff face somewhere within the straight. Meaning that we don’t really need to gather that intelligence at this point.
We already know where these boats are coming from. We’ve been seeing those pins for decades at this point. The reason why they weren’t hit is because the US is not doing anything at all for some reason. And the reasoning behind that to me is completely unknown. And I couldn’t even explain to you all why we wouldn’t be hitting and destroying these boats because it’s not incredibly difficult to do such a thing.
An AH64 Apache can carry 16 AGM 1114 Hellfire missiles with each missile having a range of about 25 miles. And a singular Apache could knock out 16 of these boats using one Hellfire on each boat. Two Apaches would increase that by a factor of two, meaning that they would then be able to destroy an even larger number of these fast attack boats. almost half of them that were out in the straight today with just two Apaches.
A single Apache wing or a single Apache squadron of four Apaches could have knocked out the entire boat swarm. It’s not like these boats have any uh missile-based air defenses on board. They are quite literally speedboats equipped with unguided rockets and machine guns for attacking surface vessels like merchant ships. So, I just don’t understand why in the world that action wasn’t taken considering that publicly last week we were told that if any of these boats went out in the straight again, we were going to blow them up. Yeah.”
“Well, I’ve been trying to figure out today why did Iran do this? Because it was kind of a risky move to do it because the prior threat is still in place. The US had had ordered, according to the reports that we had heard, they had ordered the destruction of these boats the next time they showed up. So, they showed up today.
So, I mean, I would I would assume that Iran was expecting the US to attack. I would assume that because that was the order that was in place. So, the US did not attack. But what was Iran’s intent behind doing this though? because they knew the threat was there. They sent them out anyway and you know they didn’t get an attack. So I wonder if they were trying to goat out the US forces to attack early for some reason possibly or maybe they were trying to go ahead and spark something ahead of time because it seems like a strange move by Iran.”
“Yeah, it does seem like a strange move. And I see I see some people saying uh force you’re totally wrong and Apache can only carry eight hellfires. Well, that’s 16 right there. That’s four on each pylon and four groups of four and four * 4 is 16. So an Apache can carry 16 Lifiers. It can easily do that. We already know that there are a couple of American US Army AH64E Longbow Apaches in the Anna Ara Arab Emirates just a couple of dozen miles away.
We already saw pictures by US Sencom’s area of responsibility of two Apaches conducting a patrol in the southern area of the straight of Ormuse a couple of weeks ago, letting us obviously know that we do have helicopters in the area that are equipped with hellfires that can destroy these boats. And for other people who are saying, ‘Well, the Apaches can’t destroy the boats.’ Well, explain to me how AGM114 Hellfires were used against cartel boats in the Caribbean of the exact same size, the exact same dimensions, and able to travel at the exact same speed as these fast attack boats. And they were easily hit by AGM114 Hellfires. Yet, these boats would be elusive to the Hellfire. That doesn’t line up at all.”
“I mean, wasn’t sending an Apache into the straight, though. That would be like sending in a sitting duck, basically, because those are not very fast for the most part. So, while they could hit the boats, they’re also basically a huge target for Iran, too. I’m, you know, a surfaceto-air missile, a man pad could possibly hit an Apache in the straight.”
“Not quite. A man pad only has a range of about 5 miles at max. Most of them do. Um, and an Apache’s Hellfire has a expected range of something, I always say 25 miles, which is what’s believed to be the absolute epitome of any range of any variant of Hellfire, but generally somewhere in between 15 to 25 miles. And if an Apache was sitting right here over the town of Kousmar, they could fire out about this far into the straight, which is quite literally into the minefield exactly where they were at.
And those vessels have no way to defend against it because they’re way out of range even if they had air defenses like man pads. and they wouldn’t even be able to see them because the Apaches have surface search radars on the longbow variant and the AH64D that allow for them to be able to sitting be sitting basically right at ground level and detect targets that are traveling basically out of the pilot and the gunner’s view.
So an Apache could easily deal with these sorts of boats. And I don’t really know why we’re not using the ones that are literally just about a 100 miles away near Sharia that are currently based there right now because they would be able to use those to great effect to be able to enforce the statements made by the president that these boats would not be allowed into the middle of the straight of Ormuse like was stated last week. But right now a lot of people are talking about the fast attack boats and the huge number of them um that have been deployed inside of the straight of Hormuz. And Matthew, what are people thinking about this right now? And what are you thinking about it as well?”
“Okay, so now that we’ve seen this today, which is a pretty big move by Iran, we’re not totally sure why they did it yet, but what are your thoughts about them deploying 50 plus attack boats in the Hormoo Strait, just kind of out of the blue, also at risk of getting hit by a US air strike. Uh 63% said Iran is probably laying more mines in Hormoo Strait.
16% said they’re probably looking to hijack some ship. They were basically cruising for a bruising, as they call it. And 12% said they are just patrolling the coast. and making their presence known. And I would say that they might be back to laying mines again because the last time these little small boats went out, they were laying more mines in the international waters section of the straight of war moves. That’s what they were up to last time. And you know, there was no official US confirmation of that, but the reports seem to suggest they were laying mines.
Now they’ve gone back out in very large numbers, by the way. And I would think they’re probably up to that again. Uh there’s pretty much no hope of Iran giving up control of the straight of moves without a military intervention by the United States. So I don’t know I don’t know why they would hesitate to lay mines because they’re not going to give it back up and they’re pretty much trying to solidify control over it. So I’m with a 63%. It was probably a combo of simply calling the bluff of the United States and also laying more mines as well. That’s probably what it was.
Um if they were looking to hijack a ship, they could have done it. There’s definitely ships lurking around the area that they could have hijacked, but they didn’t do it. So I’m with the 63%. But enforcer, what say you?”
“Odd to be with the 63%. They’re certainly laying mines in the straight. We’ve seen it only that this thing happened only once before where dozens of them went out in the straight in a giant group and it was then confirmed the next day after by the US government that they were out there laying more mines within the minefield. So the fact that we saw two large groups like this today, both of them transiting into the area of the minefield and back out would give us a clear understanding that the fiberglass hold fast attack boats that can’t set off the anti-sea the anti-ship mines that are already there went back into the straight of Wormuse and dropped off even more of them.
So there is definitely a fact here that these Iranian boats are still laying more mines in the straight. Now, if the Iranians were legitimately attempting, like some people in the US government are saying, to get a deal, and they’re begging for the US blockade to stop, why in the world would they be laying even more mines in the straight to make passage by civilian ships, even more difficult, and to make it take even longer for the United States to be able to clear out the minefield and make it safe enough, even just one lane through the minefield, for commercial ships, to be able to pass through.
This is clearly showing that they are still operating off of the maximalist mindset that they’ve been operating off of the entirety of the war and they are hellbent on on making sure that the United States bends our knee and reaches their demands instead of it going the other way around. This also shows that any attempts that they’re making at peace talks is once again like we were saying yesterday buying them more time to make their position more advantageous which is against US interest which is why we should be conducting military actions against them as quickly as possible. That is what we should be doing.
Instead, we’re giving them free time to formulate, plan, and conduct whatever sorts of operations they want, like these several times over, where the minefield only gets larger and more deadly with each passing day and will take even longer to demine the more time we give them and the longer we wait. So, of course, not a great situation. In the midst of this situation, we have also been able to hear that the rising oil prices within the world and the rising domestic fuel prices here in the United States have finally been able to claim their first major victim. Many people have claimed here in the United States that the oil rising oil prices don’t affect us at all.
In fact, it’s economically good for the United States because we make more money. And we have always stated on the channel going through our very uh elementary understanding of economics generally based off of simple models like supply and demand that if the supply of a good drops the demand remains the same and therefore the price will skyrocket as everyone’s in a bidding war to not be that one schmuck who ends up without any oil or any fuel. And it turns out that that certainly has been the case as of late.
Many of y’all will know of the story of Spir Airlines the Wise uh or more so the tragedy of Spirit Airlines the Wise which is a budget airline or an ultra budget airline within the United States of America that has existed for about 35 years. Spirit Airlines generally runs on fairly small profit margins due to the fact that they sell their seats at an incredibly low cost meaning that their profit margins generally rely on their aircraft being packed almost to maximum capacity. And it also requires them to see that the fuel prices remain exceptionally low.
Any fluctuations in fuel prices uh specifically for aviation grade jet fuel can completely wipe out those small profit margins that budget airlines like that operate off of and can even start sending them into the red almost immediately. Because of Spirit Airlines tough run-in with the CO 19 pandemic back several years ago, a large part of uh Spirit Airlines war chest, which is a load of money that they keep in bank accounts and companies that are involved in transportation to weather them through rough times, was completely dissipated because Spirit Airlines was not able to fill up hardly any seats on their aircraft for those two years because most recreational travel had completely vanished, which was their primary market.
After CO 19, the Spirit Airlines Company was able to limp onwards into the next several years up until recently. But just about last year, they already started to declare that they were entering even”
