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Iran says could deploy navy near U.S. coast: report (RED on Drudge!)
The West (OZ) ^ | 09/27/2011 | Unknown

Posted on 09/27/2011 11:27:29 AM PDT by PhilosopherStone1000

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran raised the prospect on Tuesday of sending military ships close to the United States' Atlantic coast, in what would be a major escalation of tensions between the long-standing adversaries.

"Like the arrogant powers that are present near our marine borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to American marine borders," the head of the Navy, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said, according to the official IRNA news agency.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atlantic; iran; iranatlanticwaters; irannavy; iranshipstoatlantic
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

You and your EMP!!! WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!! crap. Iran doesn’t even have a nuke.


81 posted on 09/27/2011 1:32:28 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: PhilosopherStone1000

Putin would love to help them out.


82 posted on 09/27/2011 1:33:07 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Tea Party Hobbit
I've read about Jericho.

One of the very few network shows I have ever watched...very well done. Of course; it was too intense for the knuckle-dragging Nielsen crowd, so it got whacked.

83 posted on 09/27/2011 1:33:37 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: PhilosopherStone1000
Fearsome!


84 posted on 09/27/2011 1:38:28 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: PhilosopherStone1000

Sink the bastards!


85 posted on 09/27/2011 1:38:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: CodeToad

I never said any such things. I am trying to make the point that we are a country that is weakening so rapidly right now. Being humble about our military power and taking the sucidal nut jobs in Iran seriously is a very prudent idea, eh ?

if we keep weakening. it we have no leadership, we are wide open to whatever any enemy wants to do to us. unless we get smart as a country, we will be at their mercy.


86 posted on 09/27/2011 1:42:48 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative
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To: GraceG
Most of us will get knocked down to the 60’s after the power is restored 2-3 weeks after the initial attack.
I could live with that - my main concern being the new furnace and all it's electronics.
Winter in western NY is no time to be w/o heat.
87 posted on 09/27/2011 1:44:13 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: PhilosopherStone1000

But Ron Paul said they aren’t a threat!!!


88 posted on 09/27/2011 1:45:51 PM PDT by chilepup
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To: sbMKE

“Iran announces plan to convert naval force to submarines.”

“U.S.N. announces plan to convert Iranian naval force to submarines”

(With screen doors)


89 posted on 09/27/2011 1:46:08 PM PDT by JewishRighter ( Multiculturalism is killing us.)
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To: PhilosopherStone1000

Right off the coast of Florida to protect Cuba’s oil drilling rigs, and we won’t do a thing about it.
from our media you’ll hear crickets


90 posted on 09/27/2011 1:48:04 PM PDT by sunny48
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To: halfright
I have two solar cells that can help me communicate and two Honda generators.

Put a spare ignition system in that Faraday cage.

91 posted on 09/27/2011 1:48:16 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

What’s “EMP”?


92 posted on 09/27/2011 1:49:58 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
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To: 3catsanadog

It is nuclear war that fries the electrical grid. would take us back to the 1850s in a few seconds.

I am not saying it is going to happen. I am saying that we need to take the threat seriously and elect strong leaders.


93 posted on 09/27/2011 1:51:54 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

I agree. If recent history is any indication, we will respond with a couple of small frigates, full of gay sailors, who will use loud speakers to try and persuade the Iranian ships to keep outside the 12 mile limit. If the Iranians refuse then the gay navy will use water cannons and their ships to nudge the Iranian vessels.

Should the matter escalate and an Iraniian ship get sunk, probably afte a Navy ship is damaged or destroyed, then Cindy Sheehan,Code Pink, BIll Ayers, et al will start publicly protesting the Navy’s actions and brand them as brutal killers.


94 posted on 09/27/2011 1:56:58 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: 3catsanadog
Electric Magnetic Pulse device. Remember the movie Oceans 11? Yeah George Clooney and a bunch of liberal actors but it was a good movie. Anywho, there is some credence to that device and people are worried in a war scenario our electrical grid will be rendered to nothing. I give it SOME credence both in capability and it could happen, but this is a very potent, very advanced device/weapon and it would take a miracle for the terrorists to smuggle in something like that as well as an invading bomber to drop something like that. With the current president, who knows.
95 posted on 09/27/2011 1:58:58 PM PDT by nerdwithagun (I'd rather go gun to gun then knife to knife.)
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To: PhilosopherStone1000

One word. Tomahawk.


96 posted on 09/27/2011 2:21:38 PM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: PhilosopherStone1000

We’ve played this game with guys a whole lot tougher than the Iranians. Welcome them with open arms. Give them a port visit. Offer asylum to defectors. Anyone who doesn’t want to defect gets a little talk with the CIA and a first-class plane ticket home. Where they’ll be welcomed with open arms, and a few friendly questions. Maybe not so friendly.


97 posted on 09/27/2011 2:24:00 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: PhilosopherStone1000

No matter the strength of the US military,
the Commander in Chief has allegiance only to
his 57 states against the American people.

America is in more peril than in its entire history.


99 posted on 09/27/2011 2:53:52 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: GraceG

Actually, in the TV series, nuclear bombs in white trucks detonated simultaneously in 23 U.S. cities at 8:05 PM Eastern time. Mysterious higher ups in the U.S. government were the masterminds of the plot. Ironically, Iran and North Korea got the blame.

The truck in New York City was discovered in Manhattan and the bomb defused before it had a chance to detonate. Another truck headed for Columbus, Ohio, was diverted to the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, by Robert Hawkins, an undercover FBI agent in “Jericho.”

After the initial attacks, some power was restored in Jericho, but then one night the town’s residents saw a rocket in the night sky, and that was the EMP attack that fried the fragile power grid and whatever technology remained in the small town. It was never explained who caused the EMP.

“Jericho” was one of the few TV series that had me sitting on the edge of my chair. There’s rumors of a “Jericho” movie picking up where the series left off.


100 posted on 09/27/2011 2:56:41 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Obama inherited a mild recession from George W. Bush and turned it into a major depression.)
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