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Iranian General: Trump's Threat To Sink Iran's Ships 'Just A Joke'
Newsmax ^ | November 10, 2016 | By Theodore Bunker

Posted on 11/11/2016 5:26:16 AM PST by Strategy

President-elect Donald Trump's threat to sink Iranian ships was "just a joke" according to one of the country's generals.

"The person who has recently achieved power, has talked off the top of his head! Threatening Iran in the Persian Gulf is just a joke," General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri said, according to The Times of Israel.

He added that presidential candidates in the United States "eat too much sugar" during campaigns, referring to a Farsi proverb about talking nonsense.

Trump said in September that Iranian ships attempting to provoke America "will be shot out of the water" if he were president.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; middleeast; trump
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1 posted on 11/11/2016 5:26:16 AM PST by Strategy
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To: Strategy

Let’s see what he has to say when some of his ships are sitting at the bottom of the sea.


2 posted on 11/11/2016 5:27:34 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Strategy

oh man... the next 8 years are going to be AMAZING ! :)


3 posted on 11/11/2016 5:27:39 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: Strategy

sink them in their harbors, at their berths


4 posted on 11/11/2016 5:28:39 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hilary is an Ameriphobe)
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To: Strategy

The Iranians may be a little slow. In some 70 days they won’t have little Valarie pitching their case.


5 posted on 11/11/2016 5:29:07 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (NoHellary)
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To: Strategy

Obama the cryptoMoslem RELEASED the USS Cole terrorists.

Iran hopes for a repeat of the Obama-Clinton Treason.


6 posted on 11/11/2016 5:29:27 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Strategy

He’s probably right. I recommend that Iran, right after the inauguration, send it’s largest, most powerful, most expensive warship (or even the top 3 or 4) out into the gulf to teach the US Navy a little humility. Yeah, that will work! Do it Iran, I double camel dare you.


7 posted on 11/11/2016 5:29:46 AM PST by lafroste (Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Republican Presidents are always shocked when they take a look at the Defense Department after a Democratic President.

The Pentagon funds always seem to disappear and the President is confronted with a hollowed-out military.

The next few months would be a good time for Trump to make friends with everybody.

Sun Tzu—The Art of War

When you are weak do not engage on the battlefield.


8 posted on 11/11/2016 5:30:50 AM PST by cgbg (Pedophiles--the siren is wailing--incoming!)
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To: Strategy

Oh yeah? Well, see how much you are laughing when the water reaches your eyeballs Mr. Moon worshiper.


9 posted on 11/11/2016 5:31:38 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Strategy

“Go ahead, make my day.” -—Donald J. Trump


10 posted on 11/11/2016 5:32:30 AM PST by nikos1121 (I am way more deplorable than you.)
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To: Strategy
Iranian General: Trump's Threat To Sink Iran's Ships 'Just A Joke'

I refer General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri to Operation Earnest Will. We've done it before. And we're ready, willing, able, and eager as hell to do it again.

11 posted on 11/11/2016 5:32:40 AM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Apparently the Iranians do not remember what happened last time US president promised to deal with ottomans


12 posted on 11/11/2016 5:33:35 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: cgbg

we are not weak, our leaders are weak.

We are more than capable of dealing with Iran’s dingy’s


13 posted on 11/11/2016 5:33:49 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: circlecity

US / Israel bonds are going to be very strong going forward.


14 posted on 11/11/2016 5:34:22 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: AlaskaErik

That’s what I was thinking...just keep telling yourself that Mohamed...right up to the point where you’re renting dive gear to go retrieve your favorite robe. When President Trump takes office, there will be new ROE issued.


15 posted on 11/11/2016 5:34:26 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: AlaskaErik
Let’s see what he has to say when some of his ships are sitting at the bottom of the sea.

Trump has a way of finishing stuff.
Methinks he will find ALL of their ships at the bottom of the sea.

16 posted on 11/11/2016 5:35:32 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Strategy

Yep, and the joke is on you Iran.


17 posted on 11/11/2016 5:36:12 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Strategy
             (last laugh)
18 posted on 11/11/2016 5:36:32 AM PST by tomkat
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To: cgbg
Take a ride around the Washington DC beltway. Look at all the highrise offices that went up in Tyson's corner, Rockville Md and so on. That is all to house beltway bandits riding off the skim from DOD and DHS. It actually started in the Bush administration.

The ground is so thick with consultants and contractors that most defense dollars stay right here in the Montgomery County, Fairfax County, Arlington County area - the BIG BLUE Swath through Virginia.

You want planes, ships, guns, missiles? Suickers! We don't make things in D.C. How about some more power point view graphs, or some more manpower studies to prove that our bureaucracies, corpororate and government and understaffed to handle all this workload of spending all these defense dollars.

Trump just needs to nuke it. All of it.

19 posted on 11/11/2016 5:36:53 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AlaskaErik
There's a new kid in town...

They'll soon find out who they're f*cking with.

20 posted on 11/11/2016 5:37:03 AM PST by Bon mots
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