In the words of VP Biden... THIS is a BIG DEAL !!
Posted on 06/06/2010 8:25:58 AM PDT by pillut48
TEHRAN - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards are ready to provide a military escort to cargo ships trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday.
"Iran's Revolutionary Guards naval forces are fully prepared to escort the peace and freedom convoys to Gaza with all their powers and capabilities," Ali Shirazi, Khamenei's representative inside the Revolutionary Guards, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency.
Any intervention by the Iranian military would be considered highly provocative by Israel which accuses Iran of supplying weapons to Hamas, the Islamist movement which rules Gaza.
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INDEED.
THERE’S A THREAD about that on FR.
I remember how just "elite" Iraq's Republican Guard was.
Rarely does anything ever enter into the press by mistake. This is just another attempt to make our potential enemies more fearsome than they actually are.
Very exotic remotely controlled mines out there in the water, some can be acoustically tuned to go after only ONE vessel if given a recording, they cut themselves loose and can even launch a lightweight torpedo such as dropped from helos.
Here is hoping someone has the assets to just stop the Gaza ships from leaving port in the first place.
Israel may be the only country on earth strong enough to challenge Obama, an enemy of my enemy is my friend, Go Israel!
Iran has been tlaking big and fighting via proxies. Let’s see if they have the nads to fight for themselves for a change. I bet not.
Typical Iran crap that is not to be taken seriously. They don’t have the ability. However by proxy, if Hezbollah has now sufficiently rearmed and is itching for war [thank you Condi Rice] then a Hezbollah ship may attempt to break the blockade and Hezbollah will use any Israel response as a Casus Belli to attack Israel.
Also, unless the US [and hope of that is minimal with Obama and Clinton at the helm] restrain Turkey, the Islamic Government there is liable to miscalculate and I would not be in the least surprised if war - or minimally a serious shooting incident- breaks out between Israel and Turkey.
Bush & Cheney?
How about under Ronald Maximus?
Yep...send them off to meet their 72 virgin mermaids
Dittos
Thanks for the ping!
In the words of VP Biden... THIS is a BIG DEAL !!
Include me in that statement as well.
As for the IRGC escorting those ships...well, Iran didn’t need that navy anyway.
Can you recall Saddam’s Husseins’ last days, when he commented that the West would soon come to rue the day that it relieved him from power in the region? He was right. Don’t you long for the “good old days” when Iraq and Iran were giving each other’s jihaadis the quick trip to the 72 virgins? Get away from the MidEast area, and let the different sect of Muslims kill one -another off. A Muslim hates another Muslim of a different sect more than he hates a Christian or Jew, who at least are to be offered conversion or subjugation before they are be killed.
BTTT
Exactly!!! We forced South Korea to back down along with our retreat and now the Islamists, emboldened by our backing down on our defense of Israel (actually -- Outright hostility to the Jews) get this response for Turkey and Iran. Any doubt that Egypt will allow Iran's tiny navy through the Suez??
Methinks Iran wants to get rid of it’s Navy.
Methinks Iran wants to get rid of it’s Navy.
Jan 19, 2010 by Nile Gardner (A Brit has to point this out)!
*10 reasons why George W. Bush was a smarter world leader than Barack Obama*
I wonder just how the hell the Iranians are going to achieve air cover in that neck of the woods?
... cue Dragnet theme...
You may be talking to a significant number here who don't even know what Dragnet is, much less having ever watched it ... LOL ...
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Any intervention by the Iranian military would be considered highly provocative by Israel which accuses Iran of supplying weapons to Hamas, the Islamist movement which rules Gaza.
Ummmm.... yeah! Any country which acts in any way to actively break through a country's defenses, to allow penetration of the control of the borders that they have -- is asking for a war. That's what it amounts to.
If you were to have any country act in such a way as to give military support to forcefully break through a country's defenses of their borders -- that's something that no country would tolerate without a vigirous and strong military response.
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