Signaling the likelihood that\u00a0another red hot ‘tanker war’ is set for regional waters within the upcoming months, a new bombshell report in\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0on Thursday reveals\u00a0Israeli intelligence has been waging its own tanker sabotage campaign against the Iranians over the past two years<\/strong>, in order to thwart what Tel Aviv believes are illegal oil shipments that result in funds for terror groups.<\/p>\n “Israel has targeted at least\u00a0a dozen vessels bound for Syria<\/strong>\u00a0and mostly carrying Iranian oil out of concern that petroleum profits are funding extremism in the Middle East, US\u00a0and regional officials say, in a new front in the conflict between Israel and Iran,” the\u00a0WSJ writes<\/a>.<\/p>\n It also appears part of the Israeli and US campaign to essentially starve the Assad government and bring it to its knees, further amidst near weekly Israeli airstrikes inside the war-torn country. The new report\u00a0clearly suggests US intelligence officials knew about the covert tanker sabotage campaign in real time<\/strong>, and may have even assisted in\u00a0some level of the planning or operations<\/strong>. Remember too that during the final months of the Trump administration Pompeo was essentially told he could go “gloves off” when it comes to greenlighting Israeli sabotage against Iran.<\/p>\n Officials say the covert espionage campaign has been underway going back to late 2019, which featured\u00a0water mines being secretly attached to ships\u00a0<\/strong>in order to stop\u00a0‘sanctions-busting activity’ in places like the Red Sea\u00a0<\/strong>– which is a transit route the Islamic Republic uses to resupply its ally Syria of badly needed oil and fuel.<\/p>\n Interestingly,\u00a0Iran has actually loudly claimed to be victim of precisely such Israeli mine and bomb attacks on the high seas in the recent past<\/strong>, which starting in 2019\u00a0were even reported in Israeli media<\/a>.<\/p>\n See for example the below…<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/iranshipsabotage.png?itok=_gwIOUft\")