Iranian navy starts war games in the Gulf

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[jhpigott]

Iranian navy starts war games in the Gulf

Published: 03.22.07, 12:54 / Israel News

Iran's navy started more than a week of war games in the Gulf on Thursday using small vessels carrying missile launchers and tactical submarines, state television reported.

The exercises are the latest in a series of manoeuvres staged by Iran's military in the Gulf region, where the United States has deployed a second aircraft carrier, a move widely seen as a warning to Tehran over its nuclear ambitions. State television said the war games staged by Iran's regular naval forces "Showed their defensive power for protecting the Persian Gulf". It said the manoeuvres would last until March 30. (Reuters)

[jhpigott]

The U.S. has 2 carrier groups in the area and now Iran is starting naval war games in that same area

Gulf of Tonkin anyone??

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Be more like "Gulf of Green Glass" if they start anything.

[RexBeach]

What about those deadly tennis ball launchers the Iranians have in their inventory? Will they be using those?

[snowrip]

This ought to be good.

[ASA Vet]

[Dog]

Fyi..

[alarm rider]

IMO, nothing will come of this.

[Vaquero]

a SWISH-buckler

[From One - Many]

I can hear the iranian navy officers now, "raise sail on the rafts, and prepare to shove off. prepare all tennis ball launchers"

[Malone LaVeigh]

[Don Corleone]

The U.S. has 2 carrier groups in the area and now Iran is starting naval war games in that same area Gulf of Tonkin anyone??

Exactly the plan......

[jhpigott]

It's probable nothing will happen. However, given the tensions currently existing between Iran and the U.S., the low intensity conflict going on between the 2 countries (see Iranian military personnel defecting/abducted, Iranian supply and support for Sadr, U.S. air patrol on Iranian border, IED links to Iranian production facitlites, etc) and the proximity these naval forces will be in(not a lot of room to move in the Persian Gulf) there is a possibility of an accidental(?) exchange that leads to the outbreak of open conflict

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

I Like It!
Central Asian countries get seaports! Good for everyone.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I thought that there was going to be a 3rd carrier in that area also , wasn't there another carrier dispatched to the gulf ?

[Jalapeno]

Beer Looter guy can take 'em

[AxelPaulsenJr]

LOL, that is good!

[alarm rider]

Agreed that there is the possibility of an accident, either real or created, most likely by the Iranians. Personally, I cannot see that Iran would try to fight an aircraft carrier unless they think that given the present situation, we would not respond.

[reagan_fanatic]

What's the name of the Iranian exercises - Operation Artificial Reef?

[hosepipe]

Iranian Navy and War Games is an Oxymoron..
As is Iranian Naval College..

Anyone that believes this just fell off a turnip truck..

[Nathan Zachary]

Iranian Navy and war games- what a joke.

It's nothing but a bunch of rag heads zooming around in fishing boats with outboard motors and a RPG mounted. Some "navy".
I can't wait to read about the Iranian submarine that sank after the opium smoking "admiral raghead" submerged, forgetting to close the hatch. The reason they have to surface so often is because the cook keeps burning curry, so they have to air out the sub, plus the raghead admiral has to check and see where they are going.