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NATO Claims Western Strikes on Yemen Are Defensive (www.telesurenglish.net)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The US has been seizing non-Iranian ships in international waters that it claims are carrying Iranian oil. It has been doing this long before the current unpleasantness.

The country engaging in the act of piracy is the US.

Also, the Bab Al-Mandreb straight is the territorial waters of Yemen, Eritrea and Djibouti. It is not international waters.