Hey Iran I don't know if you noticed but there is a new sheriff in town.
Interesting.....
Ping.
Yes, Iran has nothing to worry about at all.
So long as they don’t mess with the carrier. Or try to.
“They do not have the courage or ability to take any measures against us....”
The residents of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Berlin in 1945 would have disagreed with you on that, Ayatollah! (OK we didn’t nuke Berlin, but we made it up in volume /s;)
As I recall, a carrier group entered the Persian Gulf during the holidays last year too.
The entire carrier group?
That gulf must look like a really small body of water about now.
Already reported two days ago by Amir Tsarfati. There has been no carrier in the Gulf since the days right after 9/11, seventeen years ago.
Sorry but the Iranians have fortified the shores of the Persian Gulf with state of the art Chinese made shore to ship stealthy missiles ( which by the way feature an American designed guidance system thanks to an export license granted by the Clinton Administration). While it is true the mad mullahs would have to be insane to attack American ships, an attack by those missiles combined with asymmetrical forces would be a real threat to those big blue water ships operating in the narrow shallow Gulf.
Also reentering the Gulf at this time very well may be more than bravado. Netanyahu may be near the end of his rule. He faces a potential criminal indictment and an election in April,2019 that he is not guaranteed to win. Netanyahu will not leave office with the Iranian existential threat to Israel and the Jewish people intact. Would not be surprised one day to learn that those ships went into harms way as part of a “strategic plan” to eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat and the conventional threat in Syria. Over 15,000 brave young American sailors are at risk. Hopefully this “plan” will go well.
Yeah, he11, they'll probably just send three or four of those bass boats they float around in out to scare Stennis away.
“Iran is ready to respond to any hostile U.S. action, but it does not consider the arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Gulf last week a significant threat, “
TRUE. Because it’s arrival was scheduled and notifications were made to the proper authorities, and it is not on an offensive mission.
What happened to the crews of the two boats that surrentered to the Iranians?