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U.N. Should Determine the Source of the Tanker Attacks

The United Nations should investigate the possibility of false-flag attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

If Iran wants to warn the world that it could close the Strait of Hormuz, why not just do it? The fact that the culprit in the oil-tanker attacks won’t reveal itself suggests that other interested parties may be involved (“U.S. Says Tehran Is to Blame For Attacks on Fuel Tankers,” page one, June 14). The face-off between Iran and America is a golden opportunity for Sunni jihadists to launch false-flag terrorist attacks on American or Iranian targets designed to be blamed on the other side. In 2002 al Qaeda damaged the French oil tanker Limburg near the Yemeni coast in a seaborne strike similar to the recent attacks near...