Posted on 06/20/2019 1:44:22 AM PDT by Jyotishi
Image caption: One US official identified the drone as a US Navy MQ-4C Triton
A US military drone has been shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile while in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz, US officials say.
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it shot down the drone over Iranian airspace, near Kuhmobarak in the southern province of Hormozgan.
IRGC commander Maj-Gen Hossein Salami said the incident sent "a clear message to America", state media said.
It comes at a time of escalating tension between the US and Iran.
On Monday, the US defence department said it was deploying 1,000 extra troops to the region in response to "hostile behaviour" by Iranian forces.
The US has accused Iran of attacking two oil tankers with mines last Thursday just outside the Strait of Hormuz, in the Gulf of Oman. Iran rejects the allegation.
Video caption The BBC's Mark Lowen reports: "It has sparked huge international tension"
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I agree with General Forrest.
PDJT should refuse to be goaded.
Let the Iranians close down the gulf before acting. Europe and China are much more dependent on that oil than the US. Let them hurt. Let them come to the realization that something has to be done. Let them beg.
WE are enforcing the sanctions! EU and the rest are waffling!
The Paris accords were unlawful and voluntary.
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Aint that what’s being pushed daily?
The EU isn’t waffling.
It is actively conspiring to help Iran violate our sanctions.
AMEN!
They got a measured response from the US, Unfortunately, during the brief conflict, one of our naval ships mistook an Iranian civilian aircraft and shot it down in error.
The Mullahs severely miscalculated then....history does repeat itself...
Looks that way to me, I don’t need their oil, pistachios or caviar.
“Please clap.”
Always.
To paraphrase what Rush used to say:
“If you want to learn about how much America sucks, just watch the news or read the New York Times.”
“Someone is pushing us to war.”
Kerry, Clintonistas, Soros, Muzzie Brohood leadership, Globalist billionaires...
All would profit from Trump going to war and losing in 2020. If you don’t think these people would not get 100,000’s of thousands of people killed to keep themselves out of prison, you have not been paying attention.
I wonder if Spygate figures into this in any way...
I like your $0.02 cents, agree entirely with it, and expect that what you described is pretty close to the big picture of what’s going on.
The U.S. has an official embargo on the import of Russian oil and natural gas. And yet Massachusetts recently completed construction of a massive LNG terminal that was built so they could import Russian gas instead of allowing the construction of pipelines to deliver AMERICAN gas from the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania.
Massachusetts circumvents the Russian embargo with the help of a French intermediary. You can be sure John Kerry is paid handsomely to facilitate this idiocy.
When does the U.S. military invade Massachusetts?
Two problems. First, we defend Europe and spend lots and lots of US taxpayer money to do it. Second problem is that the EU is talking out both sides of its face. If the EU wants to crawl into bed with the mullahs, they are free to do it. Just don't take our money while telling porkies about what you're up to and conspiring against US interests. If the EU wants the mullahs, then it can dissolve NATO and pay for its own damn welfare state.
The newly expanded Iranian terrorist network costs a lot of money to maintain and Iran has lots of hungry Jihadi mouths to feed all over the world. These are the kinds of mouths that when you stop feeding them, they start eating you.
Iran has a big problem on their hands. Unfortunately, with that kind of trouble, so do we.
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