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Iran cleric says U.S."fleet can be destroyed with one missile", ISNA news agency
news.trust.org ^ | 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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1 posted on 05/10/2019 11:03:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

luckily for us, they can’t count that high


2 posted on 05/10/2019 11:04:31 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

Same goes for Teheran or Qom.


3 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.")
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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.


4 posted on 05/10/2019 11:05:17 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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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!


5 posted on 05/10/2019 11:06:12 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Red Badger

And all of Iran can be destroyed by one missile.

They need to keep that in mind.


6 posted on 05/10/2019 11:06:43 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Red Badger

They plan to shoot first ?


7 posted on 05/10/2019 11:07:02 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Uh, Iran could be destroyed with one D-5 Trident missies. Thats 8 475 kt warheads....


8 posted on 05/10/2019 11:08:27 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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Damn. Missile.


9 posted on 05/10/2019 11:08:59 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Alas Babylon!

More like the Magic Bullet in Dallas..................


10 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....................)
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To: brownsfan

I would expect Tehran to become a giant gaping hole with radioactive smoke pouring out for decades..............


11 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....................)
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To: Red Badger

John Kerry must have told him that.


12 posted on 05/10/2019 11:11:59 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Red Badger

And then your entire country is vaporized.


13 posted on 05/10/2019 11:12:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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Maybe if they hide under that big black rock in Mecca....................


14 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....................)
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To: Red Badger

Sounds like a devotee of comic book thrillers.


15 posted on 05/10/2019 11:14:36 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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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.


16 posted on 05/10/2019 11:15:09 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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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.


17 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.)
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And their country can be destroyed by a dozen nukes.


18 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.)
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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”.


19 posted on 05/10/2019 11:15:49 AM PDT by BeauBo
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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’)


20 posted on 05/10/2019 11:16:48 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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