Posted on 02/12/2014 10:35:35 AM PST by IsraelBeach
Iranian Warships Headed To US Represent Threat To Israel
By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency
Jerusalem — February 12, 2014 ... Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended the graduation ceremony for the IDF Ground Forces officer training course and made the following remarks:
"Today, Iran is marking 35 years since the Islamic Revolution and this 'celebration' has been marked by repeated calls for Israel's destruction. The desire to cut the Jewish People off from its homeland did not pass from the world with the establishment of the state. What has changed is our ability to oppose those who seek our lives and frustrate their designs."
Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday that the reason for his upcoming visit to the US next month is to warn against the Iran threat and to discuss the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Netanyahu warned that Iran continues its role as a "terror state," and therefore it must never be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons.
Preceding Netanyahu's visit to the US are representatives of the Iranian government - two naval ships.
The two Iranian warships which are headed toward the US East Coast are a pair of "rust buckets" that Tehran is using to show to its people that it can project power around the globe. One of the ships barely survived a 1988 run-in with an American fighter jet.
The commander of Iran’s Northern Navy Fleet said the ships — the frigate Sabalan and Kharg, a supply ship capable of carrying helicopters — began their trip last month from the southern port city Bandar Abbas. Adm. Afshin Rezayee Haddad said that the naval vessels had already entered the Atlantic Ocean near South Africa. The Iranian war ships are said to be on a three-month mission. Haddad characterized the move as a response to the ongoing presence of the US Navy’s 5th fleet, which is based in Bahrain, across the Persian Gulf.
Netanyahu said the dispatch of the warships was clear evidence of Iran's "aggression" and proof it had not moderated its policies following a landmark deal with world powers to roll back its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
"The easing of sanctions against Iran by the international community has not caused Iran to moderate its international aggression - the complete opposite has occurred," said Netanyahu.
"These Iranian war ships pose no real physical threat to the US, but they do represent a psychological threat to Israel," said an Israeli security analyst.
"If the Iranians were to develop nuclear weapons, those weapons would be off the US coast and the US would be facing a repeat of the Cuban missile crisis of 1963. But of greater relevance to Israel is that if those ships are attacked by the US, Israel would be attacked by a hail of missiles coming from Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza. Iran is begging for a war and Israel is more than prepared to defend herself. And any action by Israel would be supported by several Western and Arab nations. Israel wants peace but if attacked, we will send Iran back to the stone age. That is not a threat."
The analyst noted that Netanyahu was highly accurate regarding the easing of sanctions against Iran.
"As Obama threatens to veto tougher sanctions proposed by the US Congress against Iran, Iran sends warships off the US East coast. Obama's foreign policy has proven to be a disaster. If you think Israel and Western Europe is distressed just imagine those who work in the US Department of Defense, CIA, NSA and the US military."
Since they’ve made the threat give them a warning, if they don’t heed blow them out of the water, then laugh in their faces.
The Iranians would never even think about such a move IF we had a real President like Ronald Reagan.
Israel wants peace but if attacked, we will send Iran back to the stone age. That is not a threat.”
It is a promise.
Am Israel Chai!
a gaggle of surfers could probably back them down...
Israel’s best course of action is to wait until an Iranian submarine is back in their waters, but waters too deep to mount a recovery, and then *discreetly* sink it. The first indication to anyone should be shortly after it reaches crush depth.
This could be as easy as a strong fishing net, teathered to a very big rock balanced on the edge of an undersea cliff.
Q: Why do ships float?
A: Because the US Submarine Service allows them to.
Can Israel afford to wait until Iran attacks? Flipping the bird to 0 and being preemptive seems a more likely scenario.
Just blow them out of the water and blame a Chinese laser weapon test gone awry.
Israel will NOT wait, as they have proven time and time
again. It will not be pretty, and I hope to god it is
as disproportionate as it can be.
Back to the Stone Age......should be a clue.
” Iran is begging for a war and Israel is more than prepared to defend herself. And any action by Israel would be supported by several Western and Arab nations. Israel wants peace but if attacked, we will send Iran back to the stone age. That is not a threat.”
Benjamin Netanyahu
US Coast guard can handle them easily
I thought Bermuda sent a yacht with two sharpshooters to take them out?
Alvand
"The naval unit plans to establish direct contact with the U.S. when it hits the Gulf of Mexico, a commander in the Iranian navy said."
No. A whale farted and sunk them already.
I thought that, too, but thought that would be very uncharacteristic of Netanyahu to say... but if you look closely at the article, it is the “Israeli analyst” who is speaking, summarizing the speech Netanyahu gave.
I do not believe Netanyahu uttered the words “stone age”.
And even if he did say it, he would be right on.
A joke unless they have a nuke aboard. One of those nonexistent Iranian nukes that their peaceful nuclear program would never produce.
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