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Iranian naval admiral: ‘If needed, we can move to within three miles of New York’
The Daily Caller ^

Posted on 04/28/2012 7:39:01 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Iranian naval admiral: ‘If needed, we can move to within three miles of New York’ By Reza Kahlili - The Daily Caller 10:13 PM 04/27/2012

The Islamic Republic of Iran said Tuesday that it has the ability to position a naval vessel within three miles of the East Coast of the United States.

“The power of our naval forces is such that we have a presence in all the waters of the world and, if needed, we can move to within three miles of New York,” Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi said Tuesday during a speech to the students of the University of Yazd in Iran. His remarks were quoted by an Iranian student news agency.

This naval saber rattling represents a stark escalation in Iran’s war rhetoric, as the West weighs the question of whether to impose new economic sanctions or directly attack the Islamic regime’s illicit nuclear facilities.

“The Americans’ only tool to rule the world is their naval dominance of the Persian Gulf,” Fadavi added, “and they will face any other power that threatens their status.”

The admiral was speaking on the anniversary of a failed April 24, 1980 U.S. military operation — dubbed “Operation Eagle Claw” — that sought to rescue American hostages held captive at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

A Pentagon official responded to Fadavi’s claim on Friday. “You should ask the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps what their plans are,” the official told The Daily Caller. “We support freedom of the seas and encourage all countries to follow international laws.”

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To: Windflier
Yeah, Bill Clinton blew a sax and Barry Soetoro blows a .... a, well, you know.

I'll keep it clean but to the point, Barry Soetoro Hussein blows goats.
61 posted on 04/28/2012 3:08:28 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: Wizdum

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62 posted on 04/28/2012 3:08:53 PM PDT by Wizdum (My job is to get you to shoot soda out your nose)
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To: Sub-Driver

63 posted on 04/28/2012 3:10:07 PM PDT by tomkat (para bellum)
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To: Chainmail
I think EMP is too overrated and we tend to turn it into something out of a 1970's era Irwin Allen disaster movie. If we got hit with EMP, most cars, even ones made post 1985 will start, most transistor radios will till work and even many electronic devices will survive. The real MacGuffin is the damage to our power generating and distribution system, even then, not all of it will be damaged, you might see "islanding" here and here, but since we all depend on it, it sucks to be you if you're power is out for a long time. Again, your car will still run, there is a 90/95 percent chance but unless you have a generator, a 12 volt pump or a hand pump, lotsa luck in getting fuel for it.

EMP is more like a 500 lbs gorilla than an 800 lbs one, but in some way, it can be overcome, albeit with some difficulty. As an amateur radio operator, this interests me a lot.
64 posted on 04/28/2012 3:17:41 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: Nowhere Man

Greetings Nowhere Man, et al:

On one hand, MILSPEC EMP specifications are likely written by DOD professionals to unimaginable CYA standards. On the other hand, consumer device specifications are written by electrical engineers complying with both FCC electromagnetic noise standards and a more important protection of the consumer brand name intergity.

EMP is electromagnetic noise. My understanding of EMP vulnerablity is an inadequately shielded electronic device may fuse open and/or closed unexpectedly from the sudden induced flow of electrons. So I often wondered if the simple metal electric cabinets which the grid switchgear protection devices actually reside within are adequate EMP protection.

In many cases, sloppy install jobs and/or unprofessional repairs render the electromagnetic protection shield non-functionable. Which may explain an occasional electric grid failure during a solar flare event.

An EMP will necessarily trip overvoltage/undervoltage and overcurrent protection relays plus lockout relays grid wide. Just as the transmission line failure caused in summer 2003; a grid reset and restart will take some time.

This EMP talk makes me believe another crony-capitalist company, such as GE, is only trying to hyperpanic sell the USA upon unnecessary EMP protection. Yeah, all this “green energy” propaganda “for the children” makes me very skeptical.

Cheers,
OLA


65 posted on 04/29/2012 2:28:12 AM PDT by OneLoyalAmerican (In God I trust, all others provide citations.)
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To: sean327
Greetings sean327:

Everything electrical/electronic will be rendered useless.

Everything? Kindly provide a source for that information.

Cheers,
OLA

66 posted on 04/29/2012 2:34:10 AM PDT by OneLoyalAmerican (In God I trust, all others provide citations.)
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To: bravo whiskey
as someone said, don;t need a weather balloon just a container ship or big a supertanker sitting off singapore and use it to launch small submersibles like the drug cartels are using.

as a student of naval warfare i have always wondered why navies build what they build. any supertanker could be easliy converted to helicpter operations or ssm platforms given how easy it is with modules. armor up the superstructure and engine area which, being larger, tends to attract asm’s. a hull that size can take numerous hits and stay afloat. cheap , expendable, and huge stike capability.

I'd love to read your treatise on capital ships.

/s

67 posted on 04/29/2012 3:22:59 AM PDT by Former War Criminal (Who am I? Why am I here?)
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To: anoldafvet

Yep...Obama aint no Reagan...he might allow them to dock in New York


68 posted on 04/29/2012 4:07:57 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

What would keep them from shipping a weapon directly into the harbor on a container ship that originated in a friendly country? I know we are supposed to have ways to find such weapons after they are here, but that would be too late. I don’t know what safeguards are in place to prevent this, Just asking.I see shipping containers sitting on trucks and trains everywhere here, if it is like that in other places in the world, a truck and a forklift would be all that would be needed to substitute a container, or add one.


69 posted on 04/29/2012 5:13:03 AM PDT by Quickgun (Second Amendment. The only one you can put your hands on.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

1. Yes, it is impossible to make a weather balloon lift a ton of payload.

2. Yes, an EMP pulse weapon cannot be effectively discharged at ground level.

The EMP thing is hyperbole. Hundreds of nukes have been tested above-ground and somehow the Soviet and American grids survived. Much ado about nothing, IMHO.


70 posted on 04/29/2012 5:39:04 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Sub-Driver.


71 posted on 04/29/2012 5:53:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: RobinOfKingston

“Iranian naval admiral”

Like, uh, what other kind of admiral is there?

Land Admiral? Admiral in the Swiss Navy?

There really was a Hungarian Admiral (Horthy) but he belonged to the Austro-Hungarian imperial navy.

Anyway..... just more Iranian bloviating, except that the moron in the WH is emboldening them more & more. That’s the real danger.


72 posted on 04/29/2012 6:25:47 AM PDT by elcid1970 (Nuke the Aswan High Dam, then nuke Mecca. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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To: Monty22002
I'm not necessarily disputing, but it has taken 70 years of constant testing and development to shrink an atomic delivery package down to those dimensions, and be reasonably sure that, when the button is pushed, there isn't just a blue glow and a violently radioactive puddle of melted plutonium. Or worse, a loud bang and bits of shattered reactive mass all over the place.

I'm not saying they can't do it, but this is the same country that accused us of sending them faulty cars, because one flipped over and a 7th century engineer noticed that there was no separate chassis. (Unibody construction having been missed.)

73 posted on 04/29/2012 6:44:07 AM PDT by jonascord (Any Democrat = Classic examples of the Downing Effect.)
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To: EGPWS
You know, if we could use their ships as affordable studio apartments we might just have a use for Iran.
74 posted on 04/29/2012 7:03:56 AM PDT by Volunteer (Though I know that the hypnotized never lie, do ya? - The Who)
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To: Volunteer

Awesome! It’s nice for Iran to donate material for an artificial reef 3 miles out. This will be good for fishing. And Iranian sailors probably don’t taste all that much different to crabs than the mob snitches they normally dine upon.


75 posted on 04/29/2012 7:15:11 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Sofa King Mitt Odd Did Obamneycare)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’m sure they can. And I’m sure that if needed, they can provide minerals and nutrients for little fishies swimming three miles off shore from New York.


76 posted on 04/29/2012 7:37:42 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: anoldafvet

Even Obama has to stop short of outright treason, and can’t prove himself such a coward that he loses reelection or his party loses midterms.


77 posted on 04/29/2012 7:39:48 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: svcw

They invaded. They got mugged. They kept telling those kids to turn the radio down. They couldn’t find a cab. They got lost on the subway. They got ripped off at three-card monty. Somebody told them to rendezvous at the Blue Oyster. They stole some souveniers from a Korean vendor and got kicked in the face. They fled.


78 posted on 04/29/2012 7:45:08 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Diogenesis

Priceless! That graphic alone could win the election without a word spoken.

Perfect for the ROMNEY socialist camp, since he offers nothing verbal that he hasn’t flipped on, and he’s got that socialist record of his, so therefore he is dead in the water every time he opens his mouth, but for a campaign based entirely on “rah rah”, for the useful idiots among us.

A picture is worth a thousand words.


79 posted on 04/29/2012 8:25:17 AM PDT by RitaOK (Nevermind, Newt. Forget the convention. I'm trusting God for the rest.)
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To: Chainmail

Build them? No need. Iran probably has one or more ex-Soviet nukes, one of the not small number that were ‘lost’ after the Soviet empire collapsed.


80 posted on 04/29/2012 9:09:01 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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