Pirates of the Gulf

If you fol­low the Iran­ian mil­i­tary buildup, then you notice that they are more inter­ested in the Gulf than any­where else such as unmanned sub­ma­rine or the Nasr sea-sea mis­siles.

Coin­ci­dence? This is timed with Iraq’s defence min­is­ter warn­ing of “pirates of the Gulf”.

The miss­ing ring in the chain is reported by the Iraqi Sadrist MP Al-Masoudi say­ing that before SOFA approval, Iraq and U.S. has signed a pro­to­col to pro­tect the Iraqi com­mer­cial ships and the Iraqi water from “piracy”, while there is not a sin­gle piracy-operation reported in the Gulf before.

Masoudi says that this is an Amer­i­can excuse to dom­i­nate water of the Gulf.