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Iran's Navy Commander Threatens To Sink US Ships
The Times of Israel ^ | April 25, 2018 | By TOI STAFF

Posted on 04/25/2018 4:22:42 AM PDT by Strategy

A top Iranian general has threatened to sink the United States Navy's ships, warning that the US would find itself in a "catastrophic situation" amid an ongoing war of words between the countries over the possibility President Donald Trump could exit a landmark nuclear deal.

"The actual information that the Americans have about us is much less than what they think they have. When will they figure this out? When it is too late," the Revolutionary Guard Corps navy commander, Admiral Ali Fadavim, told Iranian television on Saturday.

"They will definitely figure it out when their ships are sunk, or when they find themselves in a catastrophic situation," Fadavi threatened in an interview with IRINN TV, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amosyadin; avigdorliberman; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; israel; lebanon; mikepompeo; trump; usnavy
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To: Strategy

Oh baby! Would like to see the scum bags try it.


21 posted on 04/25/2018 4:55:20 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: 48th SPS Crusader

“Yeah sink an American ship butthead and end up having a parking lot for a country!”

Make that a glass parking lot!


22 posted on 04/25/2018 4:58:20 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Strategy

Having worked most of the last three years over there around that silly Persian/Arabian Gulf, I just have to say the residents of those countries have a very high opinion of themselves....only issue is they need Western developed technology to flex their little muscles. Petro dollars talk though.....


23 posted on 04/25/2018 4:58:22 AM PDT by Shark24
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To: Strategy

Not a warmonger, but. . . I’d kind of like to see Iran get a fast, firm and devastating response to even firing one shot over our bow.

Iran would be wise to wake up and understand the Obama days are very much over.


24 posted on 04/25/2018 4:59:46 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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To: Strategy

The Iranians do know that, in any combat operations against the USN, the USN gets a vote, too, right?
They might not like what the USN votes to do.


25 posted on 04/25/2018 5:14:39 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Strategy
Iran can probably sink a U.S. Navy ship - on one occasion....
26 posted on 04/25/2018 5:19:05 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Joe Boucher
Sounds like someone who was the PR guy for Hussein’s Republican Guard.
27 posted on 04/25/2018 5:23:15 AM PDT by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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To: McGruff

Remember the Maine!!!


28 posted on 04/25/2018 5:25:43 AM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: Strategy; All

“A top Iranian general has threatened to sink the United States Navy’s ships, warning that the US would find itself in a “catastrophic situation” amid an ongoing war of words between the countries over the possibility President Donald Trump could exit a landmark nuclear deal.”

Oh I wish a MFer would....This needle $ick MFer wouldn’t know what hit him and wouldn’t even know what direction it came from, we can end this so called “tension between us” so damn fast and you all would be right to back to the stone age.

Please little froggy, jump, all we need is reason!!!!

Please, just give us reason....This isn’t the Odunga administration, we actually have a War Fighter in charge...Not A$$ Carter, the career bureaucrat.


29 posted on 04/25/2018 5:25:53 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: Strategy
Imagine Iran nuclear capable with this rhetoric.

Oh, the West is working feverishly to make that happen.

30 posted on 04/25/2018 5:38:09 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: McGruff

Well, did an Iranian General say this or not? Are you saying he is actually Israeli?

Yes, Middle East politics are nasty. But Israel seeks to simply SURVIVE. The Muslims outnumber them, and have 99% more territory than they do. Iran and others have vowed to destroy them.

All the Muslims have to do is recognize Israel’s right to exist, and half of the issues would be over.


31 posted on 04/25/2018 5:39:00 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (If white privilege is real, why do we have millions of poor white people?)
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To: Strategy

Make our day, goat boinking buttwipe.


32 posted on 04/25/2018 5:39:58 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Strategy
Given the current state of our Navy, I am less inclined to laugh off this raghead's diatribe.

All it took to put USS COLE out of commission was a Boston Whaler full of ragheads and explosives. And that was 18 years ago. The goathumpers have learned a few more tricks since then.

Meanwhile, our military has been diluted with pansies, freaks, and snowflakes. Our generals and admirals are more interested in social engineering and political correctness than they are in war-fighting and readiness. Our congress is commissioning giant catamarans and naval guns that we cannot afford to use because the rounds are too expensive.

We supply our aviators with planes that try to kill them in their cockpits. We sink insane amounts of money into gee-whiz fighters that we cannot afford to produce in meaningful numbers.

Meanwhile, our enemies sit back and laugh as they watch our armed forces implode.

So yes, this raghead's threats carry more weight than they would have in the days of Ronaldus Maximus. I would not be surprised if they tried something.

33 posted on 04/25/2018 5:42:00 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: Alas Babylon!

“.....warning that the US would find itself in a “catastrophic situation”.....”

I think they got his quote wrong, he meant IRAN would be the one in a “catastrophic situation”. If they want to start the war, suffer the consequences, which is long over due.


34 posted on 04/25/2018 5:42:04 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Strategy

Says the country that fought Iraq for 8 years to a stalemate. The very same Iraq we took in, what?, 3 days?

Pffft....


35 posted on 04/25/2018 6:09:03 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: McGruff

Because the Jooo’s are behind everything... right?

I suspect Islam has a lot to do with this, and Judaism nothing.


36 posted on 04/25/2018 6:15:34 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Mouton

Joe Isuzu was something.
Allied tanks rolling through Baghdad as he says everything is great and there is no invasion.


37 posted on 04/25/2018 6:16:39 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Criminals at F.B.I., Justice Dept, I.R.S and No one taken out in cuffs? Federal gub mint is crappola)
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To: Strategy

“If you’re going to shoot, shoot”


38 posted on 04/25/2018 6:18:04 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Strategy

“the Revolutionary Guard Corps navy commander, Admiral Ali Fadavim”

Is it possible to remain as admiral after all his vessels are gone?


39 posted on 04/25/2018 7:03:47 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Strategy

Yeh that’s gonna hzppen. LOL!


40 posted on 04/25/2018 7:38:49 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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