Posted on 11/28/2017 10:15:35 AM PST by blam
The growth of Iran's navy, especially its plans to build a naval port in Syria, concerns Israel.
As Iran continues to fight to become a global superpower, the Islamic Republic’s flag may soon be flying halfway across the globe on warships sent to the Gulf of Mexico, Iran’s new Navy commander has announced.
“Our fleet of warships will be sent to the Atlantic Ocean in the near future and will visit one of the friendly states in South America and the Gulf of Mexico,” Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi was quoted by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency as saying.
Iran will likely use the warships’ visit to Latin America to advance its relationship with its ally Venezuela, a US adversary. And while Iran’s navy poses no real threat when up against the American navy, Khanzadi added that new vessels and submarines will be introduced next year to bolster the country’s fleet.
At a press conference in early November, outgoing Naval commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said that "sailing in open waters between Europe and the Americas should be the navy’s goal, which will be realized in the near future."
Iran has increased its presence in international waters in recent years. According to Sayyari, Iran has sent 47 flotillas of warships into international waters including last November when an Iranian naval flotilla entered the Atlantic Ocean after sailing around Africa.
“No foreign military official could even imagine that the Iranian naval forces might reach the Atlantic Ocean,” Sayyari stated during a ceremony in August, adding that “no one saw it likely that Iranian forces could sail around Africa or go to the Suez Canal, but they proved to be capable of doing it.”
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The noise they make far exceeds their capabilities.
Persia chose the peacock as a symbol for a reason.
They have been threatening deployments to the Caribbean for years and they have yet to get past the Horn of Africa.
Yep - I bet they’d have trouble recovering if one of their ships had an “accident”....
They'd probably have to fight a brutal battle with the evenly matched pirates in rubber dinghies to get further south. :)
Heading to Gulf of Mexico ...??
Maybe Trump can give them a tour of the Bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.....
Does any Islamic country have a decent GDP?
Good, let Venezuela suck the remaining life out of Iran.
They would have to have more crew than needed to cover for the 5 times per day prayers and all of the foot washing prior to prayers or stop operations during those prayer times. Also they should be easy to detect due to the ships loud speakers blaring out the call to prayers during those times.
Yep and the ole POS is still giving to America.
Should be hung for TREASON!!
Just for this with Iran.
Fish food. Think Truk Lagoon.
Is it time for this fake news story again already?
Oy vey...
Why do I get the feeling those Iranian ships should give wide berth to those Louisiana boys...
did they ever return?
no they never returned,
and their fate is yet unlearned,
... ... ...
when did the monroe doctrine die?
The drug cartels will get rid of them. :-)
Nov 18, 2013
President Barack Obama's Secretary of State John Kerry told the Organization of American States in November 2013 that 'era of the Monroe Doctrine is over.' Several commentators have noted that Kerry's call for a mutual partnership with the other countries in the Americas is more in keeping with Monroe's intentions than the policies enacted after his death.
Iranian Navy coming to the Gulf of Mexico? Not if a whale farts in this “armada’s” general vicinity....
M-O-N-R-O-E D-O-C-T-R-I-N-E
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