Posted on 01/04/2019 5:04:58 AM PST by McGruff
The Iranian navy will send warships to deploy in the Atlantic from March, a top commander said on Friday, as the Islamic Republic seeks to increase the operating range of its naval forces to the backyard of the United States, its arch foe.
A flotilla will leave for the Atlantic early in the Iranian new year, starting from March, Iran’s naval deputy commander said.
“The Atlantic Ocean is far and the operation of the Iranian naval flotilla might take five months,” Rear-Admiral Touraj Hassani was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA.
Hassani said in December that Iran would soon send two to three vessels on a mission to Venezuela.
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we won’t have to travel as far to sink them . . . . .
They probably have access to the Russian GLONASS constellation.
Historically... Reality is we started the problem and have been perpetuating it since 1953. Why?
Pro Tip: Bring lots of tow cables...
regards,
Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia
If you can, recall that a conference to prosecute WW II was held in Tehran. Iran was a vital corridor for supplies delivered to the Russians.
By bringing up 1953, you ignore the fact that things change. You are attempting to insert irrelevancies into the current reality
How the hell do you say you’re leaving “from March”? You leave from a place not a month. Ffs do these towelhead journos know English?
Internal politics, me thinks.
From a quick look, it doesn’t look like Iran has any sort of oiler or supply vessels, not sure if they have unrep capabitities, should have some vert rep capability. Not sure what the range of the ships are. Any port visits scheduled?
copy that...
nira?
All those sanctions must be working well, if they have money to send warships around the globe!
Oh, wait! $150 million? On pallets, you say? Oh!
“Meanwhile on Free Republic, many support Iran by constantly demanding we get out of theMiddle East.”
That’s quite a stretch.
No, it is not. It is plainly seen every day, constantly.
Are the Bahamas and Bimini on alert?
Should Haiti take note?
You should have realized it when Iran started using IEDs
against us in Iraq
They should have been flattened then
It’s everything but irrelevant. There has been an on going toxic environment in US/Iranian relations with the Iranian PEOPLE, not government administrations, since the Truman administration embraced Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in the late 1940’s to protect private British oil interests and the M16/CIA coup in 1953.
The list of repeated “bipartisan” mistakes on our end has perpetually continued up through Obama’s administration. No matter how ugly and ignorant the dog is, when you keep kicking it over and over it will indeed come to hate you. Cause and effect. We need to also address “why” the dog hates us, this is just as important as how dangerous the dog has now become or we will continue to keep repeating these same actions.
https://origins.osu.edu/article/frenemies-iran-and-america-1900/page/0/0
Who cares?????
#9 They will get stuck in the flotilla island of plastic : )
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