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Iran is ‘directly involved’ in Yemen Houthi rebel ship attacks, U.S. Navy’s Mideast chief tells AP
The WashingtonTimes ^ | Jan 22, 2023 | Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Posted on 01/22/2024 7:27:26 AM PST by McGruff

Iran is “very directly involved” in ship attacks that Yemen’s Houthi rebels have carried out during Israel’s war against Hamas, the U.S. Navy’s top Mideast commander told The Associated Press on Monday.

Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of the Navy‘s 5th Fleet, stopped short of saying Tehran directed individual attacks by the Houthis in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

However, Cooper acknowledged that attacks associated with Iran have expanded from previously threatening just the Persian Gulf and its Strait of Hormuz into waters across the wider Middle East.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror; Yemen
KEYWORDS: captainobvious; fundedbybiden; gaza; hamas; houthis; iran; iraq; israel; lebanon; redsea; shipping; syria; trade; waronterror; yemen

1 posted on 01/22/2024 7:27:26 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

So?


2 posted on 01/22/2024 7:29:01 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: McGruff

Doesn’t matter and you know it. Just what are we doing supporting Israel? We’re busy making enemies.

The left just takes a step backwards and blames us.


3 posted on 01/22/2024 7:30:06 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: McGruff

Neocons on the march. War with Iran! Fools.


4 posted on 01/22/2024 7:30:54 AM PST by NavyShoe
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To: Jeff Chandler

Yeah it’s an odd article. It says that he stops short of saying that the attacks were either conducted or even directed by Iranians, but the headline says that he used the phrase “directly involved”.


5 posted on 01/22/2024 7:31:25 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: McGruff

I don’t think the Yemenis need Iranian encouragement to hate the U.S. 400,000 Yemeni have died in the last eight years at the hands of the U.S. backed and supplied Saudis. We can’t kill anymore than the Saudis did. We won’t stop them militarily.


6 posted on 01/22/2024 7:33:52 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: McGruff

“Very directly involved”. He then shared no proof and put on his S&M dog mask…

Per article, they are attacking the international community. This is a lie.
Their targets are specific.
Those that live in the region should police the region.


7 posted on 01/22/2024 7:39:19 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Jeff Chandler

Wait.

The Yemeni camel suckers didnt manufacture those miaailes in their caves using old car parts?


8 posted on 01/22/2024 8:05:28 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: McGruff

I’m taking a survey here, did anyone here NOT know this?


9 posted on 01/22/2024 8:09:34 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: McGruff

With sat. imagery, DEWs and frequency tech., why are we still in this war?


10 posted on 01/22/2024 8:19:47 AM PST by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: McGruff

Very directly. Gee, that’s even worse than directly, I guess...


11 posted on 01/22/2024 8:47:24 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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To: McGruff

Sure seems like someone is working hard to bleed us of munitions.


12 posted on 01/22/2024 9:03:32 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: jagusafr

The only reasonable answer is to nuke Iran.


13 posted on 01/22/2024 9:04:24 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: McGruff

Guess we had to wait to here the disinformation from the the disinformation servers before we were allowed to agree


14 posted on 01/22/2024 10:11:11 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: McGruff

When Joe took the Houthi’s off the terrorist list in January 2021, he was giving Iran a pass too. When he sent money to Iran, he was enabling Iran and the Houthi’s to wage war against Israel and the U.S. Joe is a terrorist collaborator.


15 posted on 01/22/2024 10:36:21 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Just what are we doing supporting Israel? We’re busy making enemies.

How about we’re supporting Israel because it’s the right thing to do?

They were attacked and proportionally they had more die than we did in 9/11/2001. Not total, of course, but as a percentage of the population.

They have been told the only solution is to wipe the entire ethnicity off the face of the Earth. They are told they do not have a right to exist. They are told the country needs to be destroyed.

I’m 100% okay with supporting Israel.


16 posted on 01/22/2024 11:44:05 AM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: McGruff

Let’s ask Barbara Ann.


17 posted on 01/23/2024 3:10:25 AM PST by Krosan
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To: FrankRizzo890

People here know that, but people around are going to be mad when troops get killed.

You’ll get to see it in the morning because two seals got killed boarding an Iranian ship supplying rocket motors to these Houthi terrorists. People are going to be angry.


18 posted on 01/23/2024 3:14:44 AM PST by Krosan
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