you either forgot the sarcasm tag or your meds, which...
Posted on 10/11/2006 2:35:42 PM PDT by freedom44
Tehran, 11 Oct. (AKI) - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has held an emergency meeting after reports that US nuclear powered aircraft carrier Eisenhower was moving towards the Persian Gulf. Khamenei met on Tuesday night with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and, the head of the Iranian army and the revolutionary guards corps Pasdaran, Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, along with advisors to Khamenei.
During the talks, Iranian online daily Roozonline reports, participants discussed the possibility of a US military attack and the consequences of potential sanctions on Iran.
According to Roozonline, Khamenei stressed the need to present a united Iranian front to the international community.
The Eisenhower is expected to reach the Persian Gulf on 21 October while another US aircraft carrier, the Enterprise, will also be allegedly close to the Iranian coasts. The Enterprise was employed in 2001 by the United States to bomb Afghanistan after the September 11 terror attacks on the US.
According to Baztab, a website controlled by the Pasdaran, "the United States is gaining positions in the sea and countries close to Iran in case the Pentagon wants to launch an attack on the Islamic Republic."
According to Baztab, the US has already drafted a plan to attack Iranian nuclear plants and its military installations by sea and air.
US president has not ruled out the possibility of a military attack against Iran if it continues to pursue its nuclear programme which it fears is aimed at building nuclear weapons. Washington is currently pressing the Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran for its repeated refusal to halt sensitive nuclear work.
Baztab also said that "if the presence of US navy ships in the Persian Gulf turned into a real threat for the Islamic Republic then the region's oil pipeline would explode, as would mines in the Hormuz Strait (a key shipping route for oil) when oil tankers pass through so as to make the price of oil double or triple."
Iran is the world's fourth largest crude oil producer.
Makes sense, defeat Iran first...
Because these nut-jobs are not civilized enough to operate a squirt-gun let alone a nuc.
So let's get up close and personal!
Yeah, both Theocratic Iran and a nuclear-armed North Korea owe a big thanks to that scumbag Carter.
Huh? SSBNs or SSNs? And what good would that do?
And the Battle Group Eisenhower has more firepower than all the World War II combined!
Yes, that tinhorn dictator should be aware of this, and a few or more changes of underwears would be desirable.
We are slow to anger but when we do get mad, the tinhorn dictator is GONE!
ARE YOU SERIOUS???? ARE YOU NUTS??? ARE YOU MUZZIE???????????
I doubt a carrier group would be in the area without a sub accompanying it.
you either forgot the sarcasm tag or your meds, which...
Is your name Neville?
AS a former swabbie, our carriers rarely had less than two sub escorts
youre kidding right?
Of course.
Thank you for your service!
SSGNs.
As they should.
The TRIDENT SWS and support facilities were designed from the beginning to handle the newer and larger missile system with minimal impact and cost. By early 2003, two of the four SSBNs had completed backfit; one was fully operational and making deployments in the Pacific, and the other was finishing its final certification and testing. The second submarine will also be homeported in the Pacific. The last two SSBNs were scheduled to start their backfit in FY 2005 and FY 2006.
In the pacific and ready for action.
Probably and yes, at least for quite some time.
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