Posted on 05/26/2009 4:13:54 AM PDT by Zakeet
Iran has sent six warships into international waters in a move security experts are calling a "muscle flexing" show of defiance following missile tests last week.
"Iran has dispatched six ... warships to international waters and the Gulf of Aden region in a historically unprecedented move by the Iranian Navy," Iranian Adm. Habibollah Sayyari told a gathering of armed forces officials, Reuters reported.
Sayyari said the ships were moved to preserve Iran's territorial integrity in its southern waters, but foreign policy experts are calling it an aggressive move targeted at a Western audience as much as for regional powers like rival Saudi Arabia.
The deployment is "a signal of military strength, resolve and continued defiance to U.S. and U.N. Security Council efforts to end the impasse over Iran's nuclear program," said Jim Phillips, senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Heritage Institute.
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Iran: demonstrating a "muscle flexing" show of defiance
Wasn’t John Kerry on that one in the forefront?
Why don’t we preview for them just how easy it is to sink them?
difference is, the Iranians have stones that Obama can only dream of...
I see everyone pissed on the USA yesterday. What a joke we are.
No: Not what a joke we are: What a joke we have become.
“</sarcasmoff>”
They’re going to show the pirates how it’s done by using their navy to intercept commercial shipping. Just watch and see if they don’t.
What are those little yellow bulls eyes for?
"Bummer of a birthmark, Hal..."
Yes exactly, Don’t you feel helpless and we watch this mess before your very eyes. No one is going to stop it either.
I hope the pirates get them.
Apparently they didn’t learn from Operation Preying Mantiss. Perhaps they need a new lesson about every 20 years or so...
“I see everyone pissed on the USA yesterday.”
Please don’t exaggerate the situation. I believe Canada continues to be our good buddy.
It is to drive up oil prices! The location will form a blockade, they threatened last year to do this very thing.
Guess I’ll go fillup the cars this morning. Here comes major gas prices again.
Elections have consequences. At least if McCain had won we would be on the road to drilling our own oil.
I can’t really type what I am thinking right now. I’d get into way too much trouble...
Why is everyone peeing there pants over this?
beside my impression that some people here have wet dreams about starting a war with Iran anyway just because it´s Iran it should be noted that in international waters every warship from any nation in this world is free to cruise around as long and where ever they want.
Most likely because of who we have in the White House now.
I can’t believe you guys are in the least bit concerned about those sorry excuses for ‘warships’!
On any given Sunday my mates and I aboard my fishing boat, with a few cases of beer and our questionable casting skills, pose a greater threat to anyone in our vicinity that that bunch. We could probably do a lot more damage just with our harsh language!
Have a look at them, the best strategy to sink those ships would be to sit back and wait for the rust to penetrate the hulls.
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