"Um, they're just, like, looking for jobs or something, OK? You conservatives just can't understand the nuance of what I'm saying! Geez!"
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.
The community organizer has no strategy.
What would have had the US Navy do? Get into a shooting war to support the Saudis? I think not. Anyway, about ten minutes after we start shooting, the missiles would hit the Kingdom’s oil harbors. What would THAT do to our economy.
Yemen is not our problem. If the KSA wants to go in there, have at it. And it seems they do.
The whole thing is about to blow up. I don’t see where we need to START it.
If the Iranians would like to have their navy kill muslims in Yemen, we should stay out of the way. How can this be bad?
Maybe the muslims in Yemen kill some Iranians or sink their ships.
Seems like a win-win no matter what happens.
So now our Battle Group is considered Pirates???
Arrrrrrrrghhhhhhh...
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.