Iran sending warships close to US borders[W:623]

US Conservative said:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian warships dispatched to the Atlantic Ocean will travel close to U.S. maritime borders for the first time, a senior Iranian naval commander said Saturday. The commander of Iran's Northern Navy Fleet, Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad, said the vessels have already entered the Atlantic Ocean via waters near South Africa, the official IRNA news agency reported.

The fleet, consisting of a destroyer and a helicopter-carrying supply ship, began its voyage last month from the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas. The ships, carrying some 30 navy academy cadets for training along with their regular crews, are on a three-month mission.The voyage comes amid an ongoing push by Iran to demonstrate its ability to project power across the Middle East and beyond.


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MadLib said:

If the ships enter US territorial waters, we should intern them at the very most. Until then, they are not violating international law, and so neither should we.

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Montecresto said:

Is that what you call it when the US navy is nosing around Chinese or Russian etc. waters?

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US Conservative said:

Before we get the same mindless posts from the forums lefties-let me say this-NO, I dont think they are a direct threat to the US (these ships and their crew would very quickly be exposed to large amount of kinetic energy to resolve the threat), but thats not the issue-the ISSUE is that the worlds bad actors see our President as a chump, and they are comfortable punking him and the US.

This is what weak leadership gets you-emboldened bad guys.

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apdst said:

You wouod be ok with Iran parking nukes off our coast?

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TacticalEvilDan said:

They can sail up to a foot of our territorial waters as far as I'm concerned. We should make it our business to know exactly what they are doing while pretending to ignore them, until such time as they actually do something.

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apdst said:

I call it keeping our oppenents in check.

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KevinKohler said:

What is that, like, a 1/4 of their total naval power?

Aside from a bunch of dead sailers, I'd find it HILARIOUS if they got hit by a squall and went down, lol.

That said, it's the intent of the gesture that counts.

What, do we believe, is the intent here?

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apdst said:

You need to go read up on the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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TacticalEvilDan said:

So when we sail international waters, that's okay and they should tolerate it -- but when Iran sails international waters, we should murder them in cold blood?

Did you graduate at the top of your class at Serial Murderer U?

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apdst said:

I call it keeping our oppenents in check.

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US Conservative said:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian warships dispatched to the Atlantic Ocean will travel close to U.S. maritime borders for the first time, a senior Iranian naval commander said Saturday. The commander of Iran's Northern Navy Fleet, Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad, said the vessels have already entered the Atlantic Ocean via waters near South Africa, the official IRNA news agency reported.

The fleet, consisting of a destroyer and a helicopter-carrying supply ship, began its voyage last month from the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas. The ships, carrying some 30 navy academy cadets for training along with their regular crews, are on a three-month mission.The voyage comes amid an ongoing push by Iran to demonstrate its ability to project power across the Middle East and beyond.


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apdst said:

Have you ever cracked a history book? The kind of inaction you're talking about is what led to WW2.

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TacticalEvilDan said:

You need to stop changing the subject just because you can't defend cold-blooded murder.

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KevinKohler said:

Furthermore, that destroyer looks an awful lot like one of ours. What, were they all designed by the same guy?


Where does Irans navy come from?

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apdst said:

Have you ever cracked a history book? The kind of inaction you're talking about is what led to WW2.

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Montecresto said:

I couldn't get the link in your sig to open??

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US Conservative said:

Before we get the same mindless posts from the forums lefties-let me say this-NO, I dont think they are a direct threat to the US (these ships and their crew would very quickly be exposed to large amount of kinetic energy to resolve the threat), but thats not the issue-the ISSUE is that the worlds bad actors see our President as a chump, and they are comfortable punking him and the US.

This is what weak leadership gets you-emboldened bad guys.

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"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
Grover Norquist - Wikiquote

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Montecresto said:

The US has played the bad actor far more than Iran. You neo-con warmongers are something else. This is a non story.

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Utility Man said:

Maybe those are just really big bathtubs disguised as warships and they are coming here to help y'all finish the job.

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