Posted on 05/25/2009 6:17:38 AM PDT by Crazieman
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has sent six warships to international waters, including the Gulf of Aden, to show its ability to confront any foreign threats, its naval commander said on Monday.
Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, quoted by the ISNA news agency, made the announcement five days after Iran said it test-fired a surface-to-surface missile with a range of 2,000 km (1,200 miles), putting Israel and U.S. bases in the area within reach.
Iran said on May 14 it had sent two warships to the Gulf of Aden to protect oil tankers from the world's fifth-largest crude exporter against attacks by pirates but ISNA did not make clear whether they were among the six Sayyari talked about.
Iranian waters stretch along the Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Sea of Oman. Iran has threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 40 percent of the world's traded oil is shipped, if it were attacked over its nuclear programme.
"Iran has dispatched six ... warships to international waters and the Gulf of Aden region in an historically unprecedented move by the Iranian Navy," Sayyari told a gathering of armed forces officials, IRNA reported.
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its the late 70’s all over again. Lets Disco!
Iran knows it has an opportunity with a weak president, do-nothing Congress and the RINOs. With a GOP president being sworn in on January 20, 2013 the clock is ticking.
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At this rate, I really don’t know if we will be a viable nation by 2011.
Russia and China are both feeling the heat. However, Russia (ex USSR) and China are using the slumping economy as an excuse to build their militaries and return to a sort of a command type economy.
Iran and their good buddies the Turks waiting in the wings...this is leading nowhere good
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2188633/posts
Get with it, we need to fight, not cower an pray!
target rich environment...
target rich environment...
That it is, but no match for 0bama’s stern letter! Even more effective than Mk 48 torpedoes! Imanutjob is soooo skeeered!
come to wipe out Israel & USA out of the map
Lock and load.
Great lessons can be learned from schoolyard politics and the one lesson that's burned in my memory is that evil men respect only strength and force. After all, why do lions always attack the weakest gazelles? Teddy Roosevelt's maxim springs to mind.
Prayer is a powerful tool and can change things. "Cower to pray" is an insult. You may have a different opinion but please think before you write.
Iran sending “warships” to the Gulf sounds like nothing more than USN “target practice!” LMAO
Agreed. I’m reading through the book of Joshua in my daily readings. Maybe we should follow his example: fight AND pray!
It has been reported online for a few years about Iran’s naval port. The sad thing is that only overseas news reported it. It will be interesting to see U.S. media report this like they never knew.
New Iranian Naval Base at Port of Jask to Control World Oil and Natural Gas Supply 31 Oct, 2008
Ahmanutjob is just thumbing his nose at the Boy One-der. Will Obama accept Ahmanutjob’s challenge to a debate at the Security Council? Ahmanutjob would chew him up and spit him out faster than a spoiled kebab.
Obama will cc a strongly worded letter.
Continued US lack of action against Iran means that US supports Iran going nuke. The question then becomes: “Why?”
POSCIC
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