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Iran’s largest warship catches fire, sinks in Gulf of Oman
The Associated Press ^ | June 2, 2021 | By AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL

Posted on 06/02/2021 3:26:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

TEHRAN, Iran - The largest warship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, semiofficial news agencies reported.

The blaze began around 2:25 a.m. and firefighters tried to contain it, Fars said. The vessel sank near the Iranian port of Jask, some 1,270 kilometers (790 miles) southeast of Tehran on the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.

Photos circulated on Iranian social media of sailors wearing life jackets evacuating the vessel as a fire burned behind them. State TV and semiofficial news agencies referred to the 207-meter (679 foot) Kharg as a “training ship.” Fars published video of thick, black smoke rising from the ship early Wednesday morning.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; gulfofoman; hamas; iaea; iran; irgc; islam; israel; jihadists; mossad; obamanation; oman; terrorism; waronterror
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nice ship you have there. Be weird if it... had a fire.


21 posted on 06/02/2021 4:26:59 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: .44 Special

well at least the flotsam does


22 posted on 06/02/2021 4:27:18 AM PDT by xp38
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To: billorites

This is what happens when you build a ship out of wood. They should have learned from the Romans.


23 posted on 06/02/2021 4:39:03 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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IS Kharg
24 posted on 06/02/2021 4:41:21 AM PDT by deport ( )
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To: eastforker

Fires on warships can easily get out of control no matter how they start.

It’s worse on warships where standards are low.


25 posted on 06/02/2021 4:46:13 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Artemis Webb
Had an old CW4 ADA guy tell me about being in Iran before the revolution. Said they follow the book to a T, but with no common sense. HAWK launchers have two jeep wheels, book says you pull and pack bearings every year. If the wheel bearing fails 4 months in they wait until the scheduled maintenance to fix.

I later saw similar issues in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

26 posted on 06/02/2021 4:51:36 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Travis McGee

That is very true. At sea, fire is always an enemy.


27 posted on 06/02/2021 4:53:07 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Brits were fond of using a lot of magnesium in their ship building at the time. Once a fire started, it would be near impossible to stop as shown by the HMS Sheffield during the Falklands in 82.


28 posted on 06/02/2021 5:04:03 AM PDT by Wizdum (Tyranny always ends badly for the tyrannical. Ask Ceaușescu, Gaddafi or Saddam.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

29 posted on 06/02/2021 5:05:10 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The front fell off.


30 posted on 06/02/2021 5:06:42 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
From the linked article
In April, an Iranian ship called the MV Saviz believed to be a Guard base and anchored for years in the Red Sea off Yemen was targeted in an attack suspected to have been carried out by Israel. It escalated a years long shadow war in Mideast waters between the two countries. The sinking of the Kharg marks the latest naval disaster for Iran. In 2020 during an Iranian military training exercise, a missile mistakenly struck a naval vessel near the port of Jask, killing 19 sailors and wounding 15. Also in 2018, an Iranian navy destroyer sank in the Caspian Sea..."

Four vessels in the last three years. And people around the world wonder why putting nuclear arms in the hands of these people would be bad (apart from the Iranians constantly promising to "wipe Israel off the face of the Earth, and non-stop chants for 42 years of "Death to America".

Trusting Iran to safely handle radioactive materials is like expecting their surface ships to stay on the surface. It is like trusting Ted Kennedy (or pretty much any leftist) to handle chauffer duties for young women. How could it get screwed up?

Leftists everywhere would say: "Oh, don't be so literal. Of course the Iranians don't intend to wipe Israel from the face of the Earth with nuclear weapons, and "Death to America" is a cultural touchstone for them. They don't really mean anything by that!"

31 posted on 06/02/2021 5:10:17 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

32 posted on 06/02/2021 5:22:08 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: Diogenesis

HA HA !


33 posted on 06/02/2021 5:39:06 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Obadiah

LOL!


34 posted on 06/02/2021 5:52:21 AM PDT by skepsel
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Aw, that’s a shame.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3964233/posts


35 posted on 06/02/2021 5:53:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: billorites
This is another fine mess you've gotten me into.


36 posted on 06/02/2021 5:59:26 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: Old Yeller

You win the thread!


37 posted on 06/02/2021 6:01:08 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sounds like Yawn Kerry was on the bridge?


38 posted on 06/02/2021 6:12:48 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cue the Crying Tears Lady.


39 posted on 06/02/2021 6:25:34 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: Diogenesis

Hard to tell from that photo, but it looks more like a bulk carrier merchant than a combatant. Lol.


40 posted on 06/02/2021 6:28:12 AM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me! )
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