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Iran's military 'fires at and seizes US cargo ship'[W:75]

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[h=1]Iran's military 'fires at and seizes US cargo ship'[/h]
Iran's military 'fires at and seizes US cargo ship' - Home News - UK - The Independent

Iranian forces have reportedly fired at and seized a US cargo ship with 34 sailors on board, according to Saudi Arabian state TV.

The vessel has been directed to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas on the southern coast, Al-Arabiya has reported.
It remains unclear why or if the ship was captured, and whether the shots injured anyone on-board, as neither US nor Iranian officials have confirmed the allegations. The US Fifth Fleet off the coast of Bahrain had no immediate comment on the report, according to Reuters.
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency suggested that the ship was trespassing in the Persian Gulf.




So why would this peaceful nation who only wants nuclear power, not weapons take such aggressive action against us vessels? it seems to me they are being quite openly antagonistic while the apologists look the other way.



 
Second thread on this.
 
American officials have denied media reports that a US cargo ship had been seized by the Iranian navy.

The Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV network had reported that a US vessel had been seized and taken to an Iranian port.

An American official told Reuters there were "no indications so far" of any US ship being directed into an Iranian port.

However, a Pentagon spokesman said a Marshall Islands-flagged ship had been boarded by the Iranian navy.

US denies Iran ship seizure report - BBC News
 
its a GWBs fault!!! LOL...

Maybe Obama can pen another letter or video pleading with Iran ..... LOL

Obama is a disgrace.. the world knows he is a zero... only the liberals in the USA "dont get it"
 
its a GWBs fault!!! LOL...

Maybe Obama can pen another letter or video pleading with Iran ..... LOL

Obama is a disgrace.. the world knows he is a zero... only the liberals in the USA "dont get it"
But it takes special ignorance to not get that this thread is not about obama.
 
But it takes special ignorance to not get that this thread is not about obama.
It takes special ignorance to pretend that nothing in the burning ME is about 0bama's foreign policies.
 
its a GWBs fault!!! LOL...

Maybe Obama can pen another letter or video pleading with Iran ..... LOL

Obama is a disgrace.. the world knows he is a zero... only the liberals in the USA "dont get it"

Though it is off topic, I feel like I should refute such a claim but only once

Beleaguered at home, U.S. President Barack Obama remains beloved in many nations abroad. And he is far more popular than his predecessor George W. Bush. But the bloom is definitely off the Obama rose.
<snip>
Today, Obama remains largely popular. Half or more of the public in 27 of 43 countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center in 2014 said they had confidence in him to do the right thing in world affairs – his median positive approval rating is 55 percent, similar to the American public’s view of his handling of foreign policy.

That's it from me - no more Obama stuff in this thread.
 
But it takes special ignorance to not get that this thread is not about obama.

The world knows that Obama is a *****, and if this had been an American flagged vessel, do you think Obama would have done something? He would have merely done exactly the same thing at news of the beheadings of 4 Americans. He would have gone out and played golf.
 
its a GWBs fault!!! LOL...

Maybe Obama can pen another letter or video pleading with Iran ..... LOL

Obama is a disgrace.. the world knows he is a zero... only the liberals in the USA "dont get it"

Once again Travis blunders into a thread without actually knowing anything about the subject matter. Congratulations.
 
But it takes special ignorance to not get that this thread is not about obama.

To Travis and the rest of the Far Right, anything that happens anywhere in the world that they don't like is Obama's fault. It's what makes them so special.
 
Once again Travis blunders into a thread without actually knowing anything about the subject matter. Congratulations.

once again you are an Obama aoplogist and dont get "why we are at this point"... these subjects are complicated and to an Obama voter almost impossible to figure out
 
The world knows that Obama is a *****, and if this had been an American flagged vessel, do you think Obama would have done something? He would have merely done exactly the same thing at news of the beheadings of 4 Americans. He would have gone out and played golf.

Exhibit # 2 in the FAR RIGHT let's blame the President club. But then again he is from 'Old Virginny'. Probably longing for the days when those black folks knew their place, like they did then.
 
But it takes special ignorance to not get that this thread is not about obama.

it takes a special type of Obama apologist to NOT see Iran is on the march due to Obamas blunders on the world stage...

what part is confussing?
 
once again you are an Obama aoplogist and dont get "why we are at this point"... these subjects are compicated and to an Obama voter almost impossible to figure out

You prove my point with every single one of your uniformed efforts. Keep digging that hole.
 
To Travis and the rest of the Far Right, anything that happens anywhere in the world that they don't like is Obama's fault. It's what makes them so special.

what part of Obamas green lighting Iran to continue its proxy wars and belligerent provocative behavior ....I think most ofus know this is Iran pushing the limits to see what Obama will do and wont do, so they can pivot off Obamas reaction...
Iran is playing obama like the chump he is
 
You prove my point with every single one of your uniformed efforts. Keep digging that hole.

No hole other than the one you are digging....
 
Once again Travis blunders into a thread without actually knowing anything about the subject matter. Congratulations.

I hope a mod reads that..
 
Exhibit # 2 in the FAR RIGHT let's blame the President club. But then again he is from 'Old Virginny'. Probably longing for the days when those black folks knew their place, like they did then.


typical liberal response of pure junk
 
The world knows that Obama is a *****, and if this had been an American flagged vessel, do you think Obama would have done something? He would have merely done exactly the same thing at news of the beheadings of 4 Americans. He would have gone out and played golf.

All I know is this "*****" has not allowed a major terrorist attack on the U.S. so far unlike his predecessor...

Finally, and perhaps most significantly, Bush himself personally received two major briefings during the summer of 2001, one in the White House Situation Room and another on his ranch in Crawford. Each warned that a major terrorist attack against the United States, possibly carried out by al Qaeda, and possibly including hijacked planes, was likely in the offing. The latter memo read to Bush was entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”—not “Bin Laden Determined to Strike U.S.,” as Ari Fleischer would later argue. Condoleezza Rice would likewise claim, by way of partial exoneration, “The overwhelming bulk of the evidence was that this was an attack that was likely to take place overseas.” It was not.
The warnings to Bush appear to have been based on information passed along by British, German, Israeli, Moroccan, Russian, Jordanian, and Egyptian intelligence, as well as by the U.S. intelligence community’s own considerable resources. According to the Senate Intelligence Committee, the memo’s authors worried “that members of Al Qaeda, including some U.S. citizens, had resided in or traveled to the United States for years and that the group apparently maintained a support structure here.” It raised the possibility that bin Laden would hijack planes and noted patterns of activity consistent with such a plan, as well as information acquired in May 2001 indicating a group of bin Laden supporters was planning attacks in the United States with explosives. “Something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it’s going to happen soon,” the government’s top counterterrorism official, Richard Clarke, stated.
What did George Bush do after receiving his second serious warning of imminent danger to the nation whose protection and defense he had sworn to uphold? According to reporter Ron Suskind, Bush replied to the CIA briefer, "All right. You’ve covered your ass, now," and spent the rest of the day fishing.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/media/news/2011/08/18/10069/think-again-remember-bushs-vacation/
 
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