Iran Adding Attack Boats in Persian Gulf, U.S. Says

ap ^ | 6/7/07 | Tony Capaccio

[Flavius]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20070606/pl_bloomberg/aoxpwtwsapma_1

[SolidWood]

When will I read news about Iranian boats sunk by the US Navy?

[South40]

Target practice!!

[RightWhale]

Won’t make the slightest difference except increase the noise level when this finally gets going.

[Flavius]

Iran Prepares Suicide Boats
Filed under: Iran Watch by Chad at 6:06 am CST

The Sunday Telegraph reports Iran has built an underground emergency command center in case the nuclear talks completely fall out and there is an attack to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The bunker connects many governmental offices and is located near the Mossala prayer ground, a very common tactic of Iran to build nuclear and military sites near religious landmarks.

This bunker is clearly because the Iranian regime believes they will be attacked, and sadly that may be the only option considering Iran has walked away from the negotiation table numerous times. How would Iran defend itself from attack? One way, reports the Sunday Telegraph, is through the use of small and fast suicide boats.

The regime is also reviewing its contingency plans to attack tankers and American naval forces in the Persian Gulf and to mine the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 15 million barrels of oil (about 20 per cent of world production) passes each day. Any action in the Gulf would send oil prices soaring - a weapon that Iran has often threatened to wield.

The naval wing of the Revolutionary Guard has in recent years practised “swarming” raids, using its flotilla of small rapid-attack boats to simulate assaults on commercial vessels and United States warships, according to Ken Timmerman, an American expert on Iran.

Only in Iran would a military actively plan suicide boats as part of a naval battery.

“The price to the West for standing up to Iran is clear,” Gen Moshe Ya’alon, the former Israeli defence chief said last month in Washington. “It includes terror attacks, economic hardship… and consequences resulting from fluctuations in Iranian oil production. Indeed, the regime believes that the West - including Israel - is afraid to deal with it.”

Very true, but what would the price be with a nuclear Iran? I do not envy for one moment the people who have to make these decisions.

[stm]

Soon to become gunnery practice for the US Navy.

Let them try another Gulf of Tonkin. Rags don’t float when they get soaked with water

[RightWhale]

Hah! An underground bunker? The USA is vacating their nuclear bunker in Colorado because it is only 2600 feet deep. Got to do better than that.

[vetsvette]

Good set-up for another “Gulf of Tonkin incident.”

My guess is that those boats could empty their magazines at the U.S. ships and, given the popular view of Vietnam history, no one in Washington would dare suggest anything untoward had happened.

[conserv8ive1]

This should be a case of “shoot the hostage”.

We need only attack Iran’s oil infrastructure.
The Mullahs would be tossed by their own people after that.

Remove their oil from the equation and they have nothing.

[AwesomePossum]

Without going into any detail.............the Iranian bunker rats and the Iranian small speed boats are going to be in for a very rude awakening this time around...............

[wastedyears]

Soldier and sailor e-mails home.

[himno hero]

a very common tactic of Iran to build nuclear and military sites near religious landmarks.

get..it..right..

their..religion..is..war

their..nuclear..and..military..are..a..part..of..their..religion

[LibLieSlayer]

Well let’s attack those “attack boats”!

LLS

[mcshot]

That will never happen on Condi”s watch.

[Moonman62]

The Iranians are fully aware of the a__ kicking they are going to get.

Operation Praying Mantis.