Was the video released soon after the attacks on the oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, showing a small ship coming alongside one of the oil tankers, and removing something from the side of the hull reported to be an unexploded mine, an authentic record catching an Iranian military vessel covering up evidence of the crime?

This video was faked and done for this purpose. There is nothing like catching the criminal in the act through crime scene photos to convince a jury of guilt. That is the reason they went to this trouble as it will likely carry the day and, at least in people’s minds if not in an official international court or other oversight body wanting the truth of things here. Keep in mind that many extraterrestrial technologies lend themselves readily to covert and untraceable uses and this makes it easy to have something happen that leaves no traces and appears inexplicable as to the actual chain of events bringing it about. To then create subsequently, a prosaic explanation of some kind or indirect evidence showing guilt by association, may be all that is needed to satisfy the world that the evildoers have been identified. This has worked, as you know, all through history, time and time again. Most wars begin with a false flag operation of some kind that is widely accepted and the belief lives on in legend and history, both.