Honestly I can't get past the idea that somehow an image of Iranians removing a mine from an oil tanker is somehow a smoking gun proving that they put it on ... It all screams fake news, information warfare, to me.

As far as who would like the US to go to war with Iran (apart from Bolton) Saudi Arabia and Israel spring to mind ...

Remember how we were railroaded into war with Iraq using fake news about weapons of mass destruction (from the Whitehouse that time), fool us once shame on you fool us a second time shame on us.