For what it’s worth Hal Turner is reporting this:
"Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Quds Force Commander, Major General Qaani, seems to be taking credit for the explosion and fire aboard a docked US Navy ship in San Diego, CA.
"This afternoon, the Major General said publicly the Explosion and Fire aboard the docked US Navy Amphibious Assault Ship, USS Bonhomme Richard, "was carried out by an American "insider group" in response to US regime's crimes."
Of course, he is talking about "sleeper cells"
My eyes have been off this particular ball
IRGC Quds Force
Commander Warns of Hard
Days for US, Israel
15 July, 2020
TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Brigadier General Esmayeel Qa’ani denied Iran's involvement in the fire and blast on the US warship in San Diego, but meantime warned that Washington and Tel Aviv should wait for hard days ahead.
“This incident is an answer to your crimes, which has come about at the hands of your own elements,” General Qa’ani said, addressing a meeting of senior resistance commanders on Tuesday.
“God uses your own hands to punish you,” he added.
What is unfolding in the US today, specially the warship incident “is the (direct) result of the US administration’s (own) action, behavior, and atrocities,” General Qa’ani noted.
“They have been afflicted with divine wrath and retribution because they tried to skew the divine word and resorted to oppression,” he added.
General Qa’ani addressed the US and Israel, saying, “You are still experiencing your halcyon days. You have very tough days and occurrences ahead of you.”
He noted that the US military has turned into a “tired and decrepit” force, and its equipment has degraded into “scrap iron”.
Washington has to accept its dire conditions and stop oppressing the humanity and its own people, the Iranian General said.
He urged the Americans “not to waste their time looking for a culprit or leveling accusations against others” over what happened to the navy ship off San Diego.
“This is a fire they (Americans) have lit themselves,” General Qa’ani underlined, implying that the incident has been the result of the White House wrongdoings.
Fire broke out at Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious assault ship and light aircraft carrier, as it was anchored at the US Naval base in San Diego on Sunday.
The blaze was accompanied by at least one large explosion. The US Navy said the ship had been docked for scheduled maintenance between deployments.
Amid indications that the ship could continue burning for days, hundreds of American firefighters have been busy battling the blaze for two consecutive days. A large number of American sailors and civilians have been injured.
WASHINGTON – The Navy's USS Bonhomme Richard burned for the third day Tuesday at its pier in San Diego as the Navy reported progress in containing the blaze.
The amphibious assault ship, essentially a small aircraft carrier, has been heavily damaged by the fire that broke out Sunday far below its flight deck. Fire crews could extinguish the blaze in the next 24 hours, Rear Adm. Philip Sobeck told reporters at a briefing.
a large ship in a body of water with smoke coming out of it: Smoke rises from the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego ion Sunday.© Denis Poroy, AP Smoke rises from the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego ion Sunday.
"Significant progress has been made," Sobeck said.
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Smoke continued to pour from the 844-foot vessel as helicopters and tug boats dumped water on its decks and hull to cool the ship. Temperatures from the fire, fed by building materials, reached 1,000 degrees and have damaged the Bonhomme Richard's superstructure.
Sobeck described the ship's condition as stable and said its million-gallon fuel tanks are no longer threatened by heat or flames.
The two fires that burned Tuesday were at the front and rear of ship. The cause of the fire is unknown, although it appears to have started in a vast cargo area that is used to transport landing craft and equipment used by Marines when they assault a shore.
The ship had been in San Diego for maintenance, and duct work and other material to service it had hindered firefighting, Sobeck said.
Extreme heat and smoke have injured 61 firefighters, 38 of them from the Navy, Sobeck said. The injuries have been minor and nobody remains hospitalized.
A damage assessment will have to wait until the fire is put out, Sobeck said.
The Bonhomme Richard, which was commissioned in 1998, would cost about $4 billion to replace if it cannot be repaired, said Todd Harrison, an expert on military budgets at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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