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Navy releases video of 'provocative' Iran rocket fire in November
FoxNews.com ^ | Published January 09, 2016

Posted on 01/09/2016 5:40:16 PM PST by BenLurkin

The Navy released a video Saturday showing an Iranian military ship firing a rocket last month near U.S. and French military vessels and commercial ships in the Persian Gulf.

The Dec. 26 incident appears to be the latest in a series by Iran that are raising concerns about the rogue nation, as the United States and other world powers prepare to lift crippling economic sanctions in exchange for Tehran curtailing its pursuit of a nuclear weapon.

The most recent incident occurred in the Strait of Hormuz, which is the only nautical passage for oil-laden ships going to and from the gulf to the open Arabian Sea.

The video shows a rocket being fired from ship in a small cluster of Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels near a commercial ship.

The Navy has said the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, the USS Bulkeley destroyer and a French frigate also were nearby at the time.

The strait handles about one-third of all oil traded by sea, and it was the scene of past confrontations between America and Iran, including a one-day naval battle in 1988.

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KEYWORDS: egypt; eritrea; europeanunion; france; hizbollah; iran; israel; lebanon; nato; obamalegacy; putinsbuttboys; russia; sinai; suezcanal; syria; usn; vladtheimploder; waronterror; yemen
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1 posted on 01/09/2016 5:40:16 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

What does Iran have to fear with their “Manchurian Candidate” in the White House???


2 posted on 01/09/2016 5:55:59 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks go to bambam and his lapdogs for this show of force by Iranians.

Oops, and his close handler, ValJar.


3 posted on 01/09/2016 5:56:28 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: BenLurkin

there should have been a huge run on virgins in paradise after that.


4 posted on 01/09/2016 5:59:57 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: BenLurkin
We need someone like FAdm Bull Halsey handling this. He would do the right thing.

You ask what the "right thing" is?

Rain down death from sky and sea on those who challenge us!



5 posted on 01/09/2016 6:03:01 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: EagleUSA; Nachum; SunkenCiv; narses; SJackson

I can’t figure out why the MUSLIMS are fighting now?

Why not “support” Obola, “support” Hillary or even Bernie, by being very quiet and “peaceful Muslim religious observers” until the election is over?

Are they that stupid?


6 posted on 01/09/2016 6:22:14 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Yes, they are.

A millennium of inbreeding will do that.


7 posted on 01/09/2016 7:02:30 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: BenLurkin

We should have responded by sinking their entire rickety navy.


8 posted on 01/09/2016 7:58:48 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

They want war. Zero wants to let them fire the first shot, and he hopes it happens after he leaves office — same scam Clintooon pulled.


9 posted on 01/09/2016 11:59:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Robert A. Cook, PE.

10 posted on 01/10/2016 3:43:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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