Posted on 06/20/2019 2:27:05 AM PDT by Jyotishi
Play: U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Northrop Grumman by Bob Brown Watch: More troops to head to Mideast as Iran tensions rise
In a major provocation, Iran shot down an unarmed and unmanned U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton drone while it was flying in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz Thursday, a U.S. official told ABC News.
The incident is sure to trigger serious discussions within the Trump administration about how to respond to a direct attack on a U.S. military asset that goes beyond recent attacks in the Middle East that the U.S. has blamed on Iran.
(More: US to send 1,000 additional troops to the Middle East as tensions escalate with Iran)
Gen. Hossein Salami, commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, offered a strongly worded threat to the U.S. after the drone was downed.
"Shooting down the American spy drone had a clear, decisive, firm and accurate message," he said, translated from Farsi. "The message is that the guardians of the borders of Islamic Iran will decisively respond to the violation of any stranger to this land. The only solution for the enemies is to respect the territorial integrity and national interests of Iran."
"We do not intend to engage in war with any country, but we are completely ready for the war. Today's incident is a clear sign of this accurate message," Salami added.
U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Northrop Grumman photo by Alex Evers
The Triton unmanned aircraft system completes its first flight May 22, 2013 from the Northrop Grumman manufacturing facility in Palmdale, Calif.
The U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton was shot down by an Iranian surface to air missile while the reconnaissance drone was flying in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, a U.S. official told ABC News.
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“We do not intend to engage in war with any country...”
Be careful Iran you are about to wake the sleeping giant.
remember both the Deep State and Iran would want conflict. It will hurt Trump in the election which neither wants.
This.
Iran is reaching new levels of cockiness and overconfidence because it knows that the U.S. doesn’t have the stomach to confront it militarily.
Iran now wants the war, it believes it can save itself in international court, it is collapsing now, if they continue this, respond in kind, if they send a missle send 10 to the launch site..no troops needed, let it fall
What the U.S. has done in the Middle East in the previous 25 years would have been akin to America, in the 1940s, warring against the Axis powers and their allies piecemeal - i.e., first engaging in a long and costly war against the Rumanians, and then against the Italians, and then against Japanese, etc.
Maybe what was needed was to address the issue head-on, and re-order the entire region in one fell swoop.
Regards,
This giant could remove the Mullahs without even waking up...and that is most likely the plan.
Surely we have capability to covertly exact retribution for this attack on our assets?
Perhaps a team of SEALs tasked to sink a couple of Iranian ships. Iran wants a conflict to regain support it has lost from its own citizens. The sanctions are biting them pretty hard and they can’t any longer use their oil wsca weapon.
Like cornered rats they are lashing out. We must extract pmt for the destruction of the drone but it must be done quietly.
Trump is not going to leave the Mullahs in place. When and how they will go down is anyone’s guess.
The U.S. military has been functioning as mercenaries for powerful Sunni royal families in the Middle East for decades. Why the hell would any American want to re-order the entire region for THEM — just because they’re major global real estate investment partners of the Bush family?
I like that idea. We did hardly anything in Venezuela. Just let corrupted regimes fall on their own idiocy.
“The battle in which you are locked today is the mother of all battles.....Our rendezvous with victory is very near, God willing.” - Saddam Hussein
Yeah, go ahead Iran. Give it a try.
All I was saying is that the piecemeal approach may, in the long run, prove more costly and less effective that a more-direct approach.
Wasn't arguing the need to get involved in the first place.
Regards,
Waiting for the Russian/Iranian Putin puffers to show up ...lol.
Waiting for the “They shot down a drone that was observing Iranian soldiers invading a Kuwaiti hospital and removing babies from incubators” puffers to show up. :-P
1. Iran and Iraq fought an 8-year war to a standstill.
2. The US defeated Iraq in one week.
Too early to comment on anything. Waiting for the Bolton bashers to claim he’s behind the shootdown.
What? Are you off your meds?
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