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Iran cleric says U.S."fleet can be destroyed with one missile", ISNA news agency
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| Friday, 10 May 2019 12:52 GMT
| Staff
Posted on 05/10/2019 11:03:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian cleric said in a Friday prayers sermon that the United States' navy fleet could be "destroyed with one missile", as a U.S aircraft carrier headed to the Gulf, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported.
The carrier Abraham Lincoln, deployed by President Donald Trump's administration to the Middle East as a warning to Iran, passed through Egypt's Suez Canal on Thursday, the Suez Canal Authority said.
"Ayatollah Yousef Tabatabai-Nejad,... referring to the Abraham Lincoln warship heading to the Gulf, said: 'Their billion (-dollar) fleet can be destroyed with one missile,'" ISNA reported from the central city of Isfahan. (Reporting by Dubai newsroom; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: djibouti; eritrea; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; lebanon; obamalegacy; sudan; yemen
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To: Red Badger
luckily for us, they can’t count that high
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:04:31 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: Red Badger
Same goes for Teheran or Qom.
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:04:32 AM PDT
by
Pearls Before Swine
( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
To: Red Badger
Not with any missile they have. But, if they managed to sink a carrier, I would expect Tehran to become a parking lot.
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:05:17 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: Red Badger
Is that like Yondu's arrow from Guardians the Galaxy?
Cause I saw him kill about 25 Kree with that one arrow!
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:06:12 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
To: Red Badger
And all of Iran can be destroyed by one missile.
They need to keep that in mind.
To: Red Badger
They plan to shoot first ?
To: Red Badger
Uh, Iran could be destroyed with one D-5 Trident missies. Thats 8 475 kt warheads....
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:08:27 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
To: Kozak
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:08:59 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
To: Alas Babylon!
More like the Magic Bullet in Dallas..................
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:09:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: brownsfan
I would expect Tehran to become a giant gaping hole with radioactive smoke pouring out for decades..............
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:10:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
John Kerry must have told him that.
To: Red Badger
And then your entire country is vaporized.
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:12:06 AM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
To: Jim Robinson
Maybe if they hide under that big black rock in Mecca....................
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:13:00 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
Sounds like a devotee of comic book thrillers.
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:14:36 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
To: Red Badger
Maybe if you stacked all the ships one on top of another, and then used a missile to knock them all down. Trying to think out of the box here.
To: Red Badger
And if the bearded savages use the money bammy sent them to launch a missile to attack the USA, their allahu akhbaring days will soon be over.
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:15:09 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(*slam is a violent political movement that escapes scrutiny by hiding behind the facade of religion.)
To: Red Badger
And their country can be destroyed by a dozen nukes.
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:15:13 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Being woke means you can be nasty, hateful and use racist slurs yet feel morally superior.)
To: Red Badger
A “fleet” generally requires several, but that may be a translation problem for Haji.
An Iranian cleric however, actually could be “destroyed with one missile”.
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:15:49 AM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: butlerweave
> They plan to shoot first? <
Capt. Finlander: If he fires one, I’ll fire one.
Ensign Ralston: Fire one!
(from ‘The Bedford Incident’)
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posted on
05/10/2019 11:16:48 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
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