The US Central Command announced on November 16 that a giant Israeli oil tanker known as the "Pacific Zircon" was attacked on the 15th, Iran used the "Witness" 136 suicide drone to hit the berthed Israeli oil tanker, Israel released photos of the drone that attacked the oil tanker, and announced the damage to the oil tanker, the "Witness" 136 drone blew out a large hole in the tanker's hull, but did not cause the tanker to catch fire. The attack on the Israeli oil tanker has once again aroused the attention of the outside world to the Middle East, and now it is in the white-hot stage of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and more attention was originally paid to the Ukrainian battlefield.
Russia began a "special military operation" in Ukraine on February 23, and global defense observation analysis believes that Russia's initiative is a countermeasure to NATO's continuous eastward expansion, and it is also a flashpoint of contradictions with the United States, and the Ukrainian battlefield has become a stage for Russia-US confrontation. The United States originally wanted to drag Russia down through the long-term conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but the United States was too confident, and now Russia has taken the initiative, but the United States does not want the conflict between Russia and Ukraine to continue. As the "world's policeman", the United States has set fires all over the world, including the Middle East, and the United States has played a very disgraceful role in the Middle East.
Israel and Iran have been in a fierce confrontation for a long time, Iran used the "Witness" 136 suicide drone to hit the Israeli giant oil tanker, in retaliation for the Israeli Air Force air strike on fuel tankers shipped to Iran, when the convoy entered Iraq from Syria, the Israeli Air Force sent fighter jets to attack the convoy, resulting in the destruction of two fuel tankers. In the face of Israel's stab in the back, Iran retaliated and directly chose Israel's "Pacific Zircon" tanker to start. Judging from Israel's characteristics of "revenge must be revenge", it is bound to take retaliatory measures against Iran, and as a staunch ally of the United States, it often "sticks a knife in the ribs" for the United States, including the beating of Iran.
Just after the attack on Israeli oil tankers, the peninsula once again carried out continuous ballistic missile tests, according to the news released by South Korea, the peninsula tested an intercontinental ballistic missile on the morning of November 18, as in previous test launches, the peninsula still carried out a high-throw ballistic test, the intercontinental ballistic missile was launched at 10:14 and fell into Japan's exclusive economic waters at 11:20, according to ballistic calculations, the ballistic missile tested by the peninsula has a range of 15,000 kilometers, so it is enough to hit targets throughout the United States. The same can also hit targets in Australia in the southern hemisphere, and even reach the South Pole. Like the previous ICBM test, the bombing point on the 18th was still close to Japan, so Japan was quite nervous.
The peninsula has been tested on November 17 short-range ballistic missiles, and now the United States is "one head and two big", Iran's use of "witness" 136 suicide drones to hit Israeli oil tankers has made the United States very faceless, did not expect that the peninsula test launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles is directly aimed at the United States, during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States has invested a lot of energy in Europe, obviously the United States does not have the ability to operate in multiple regions at the same time. The peninsula has already tested intercontinental ballistic missiles several times in 2022, in addition to conducting tests of medium-range ballistic missiles, and has also flown over Japan, triggering the Japanese air defense alarm.
Judging from the 34 ballistic missile tests of the peninsula in 2022, the high-pressure strategy adopted by the United States against the peninsula is "counterproductive", and the peninsula has thwarted the US plot by testing ballistic missiles.