Posted on 04/22/2015 10:09:50 AM PDT by mulder1
Iranian Warships Arrive Near Yemen Comes just days after U.S. announced it would send its own warships A fleet of Iranian warships arrived near the southern coast of Yemen on Wednesday in a move likely to add greater tension in a developing U.S.-Iranian standoff in the region, according Iranian military leaders.
Just days after the United States announced it would send its own warships to Yemen in order to prevent Iran from smuggling weapons to terror forces fighting there, a flotilla of Iranian destroyers docked in the same area.
Iran’s military moves are likely to increase tensions between the two countries as each seeks to bolster opposing sides in the fight currently unfolding in Yemen.
An Iranian fleet including a destroyer warship and a helicopter-carrying warship arrived in the waters off the southern tip of Yemen on Wednesday, according to Iranian state-controlled media.
The warships will “protect [Iran’s] cargo ships and oil tankers against pirates,” according to Iran’s Fars News Agency.
The United States and other countries fear Iran is using these cargo ships to deliver weapons and other deadly hardware to opposition forces in Yemen.
The Iranian warships will remain in the area for at least three months, according to Fars.
Iranian military officials have been defiant about the country’s presence in the region, vowing to remain there despite pressure from other countries.
“This presence [of Iranian warships] continues in the free waters, including the Gulf of Aden, to fight against piracy according to the plan which was drawn at the request of the International Maritime Organization and no one can warn the Iranian warships (to move away) and this has not happened yet,” Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari was quoted as saying in the Iranian press over the weekend.
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Churchill was booted out of office after saving Britain.
The liberals were working on ousting Churchill after DDay and went full Month to liberalize Britain before the Nazis surrendered.
Churchill was booted out of office after saving Britain.
The liberals were working on ousting Churchill after DDay and went full Month to liberalize Britain before the Nazis surrendered.
Each day gets weirder re our flotilla and Iran’s!
Being a former sailor fifty + years ago, leaks to the mediots even then, often put us in harm’s way.
Iranian Warships Arrive Near Yemen, protective escort by USS Theodore Roosevelt, keeping off the Saudi Air Force, so the Houthi’s will receive their resupply of ordnance.
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