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Vol. 15 · No. 120 · Thursday, 8 October 2026

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Greenpeace supports Iran’s seizure of oil tankers

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WASHINGTON—Greenpeace released a statement today lauding the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy for its “courageous and necessary” decision to seize two British-operated oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

The environmentalist group thanked its fellow ecoterrorists for taking direct action to disrupt the oil trade that is responsible for “destroying the ocean’s ecosystems, causing global warming, and providing a distribution channel for Taylor Swift.”

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