THE WAR IS OVER?: In the last 24 hours, the U.S. military fired a Hellfire missile into the engine room of an empty oil tanker to stop it from reaching Iran’s main oil terminal on Kharg Island. In a release, U.S. Central Command said, “the ship’s crew ignored repeated warnings, failing to comply with directions from U.S. forces multiple times.”In response, Iran launched a series of drone and missile attacks, targeting the headquarters of the U.S Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and Kuwait’s main civilian airport. The U.S. claimed all of the attacks “were successfully defeated” and that “all failed to hit their intended targets.”Kuwait, however, was forced to suspend commercial flights after an Iranian drone hit its main terminal in what appeared to be a follow-up attack a few hours later. The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the dawn attack targeted “civilian and vital facilities, including Kuwait International Airport, resulting in the death of one individual, injuries to others, and damage to vital facilities, including diplomatic missions.”
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill yesterday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio testified before incredulous senators that, “Well, the war’s over now.”
