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Iran Fires Rockets 1,500 Yards Away From A US Aircraft Carrier
As we recently reported, the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman had made its way through The Mediterranean Sea, launchiung airstrikes on Syria and Iraq on its way. While the proximity of so many vessels, fighter jets, coasts, friends, enemies, and frenemies was always precarious, NBC News reports that the carrier came within 1500 yards of an Iranian rocket fired in a live-fire exercise in the Straits of Hormuz last week. US officials said this was "unnecessarily provocative and unsafe" from Obama's nuclear-deal partners.
As NBC News reports, as the Truman was transiting the strait, which connects the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf, Iranian Revolutionary Guards conducted a live-fire exercise right near the U.S. carrier Saturday, officials said.
A U.S. military official said an Iranian navy fast and short attack craft began conducting a live-fire exercise at the same time the carrier was nearing the end of the strait, firing off several unguided rockets. A French frigate, the U.S. destroyer USS Buckley and other commercial traffic were also in the area.
The official said the U.S. ships were in the "internationally recognized maritime traffic lane" at the time, not in any territorial waters, when the Iranian navy announced over maritime radio that it was about to conduct a live-fire exercise and asked other vessels to remain clear.
After the warning, the rockets were fired from a position about 1,500 yards off the carrier's starboard side and in a direction away from passing coalition and commercial ships and the traffic lane, the official said. The rockets were not fired at the Truman and other ships, only near them.
While the official said the Iranians were "clearly not" targeting ships, the action was "unnecessarily provocative and unsafe."
There were no direct communications between US and Iranian navies.
Coalition forces continued transiting without any further incident, the official said, adding that the Truman is now in the Gulf and launching aircraft in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.
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Just a good job that Iran is such a good 'partner' in the nuclear accord?
This seemed appropriate given the timing and circumstances...
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Fuck off with the Ramirez shit already.
U.S. spends more than the rest of the world combined and probably vaporized more brown people than all those on Alderan. Hypocritical fucks
I'm sick of this "brown people" shit, its not about color.
Actually the West favors "brown people" and hates white people openly now.
George Carlin was wrong, they want to kill Tall Whites, short ones too.
It's about hegemony, the Russians are not all brown.
Remember the USS Vincennes that deliberately shot down an Iranian civil airliner? The Iranians sure do.
BTW Fsck Ramirez the ZioNazi stooge.
I don't know why this is a big deal. Obama has already apologized to Iran for having an aircraft carrier too close to their rockets.
Learn Chinese you stupid 'mericans or king zuckerjoo won't let you post your selfies on his server.
Why would our friends do this? Best Obie apologize again. And take away America's guns, Bibles and whiskey.
It was an accident. To say otherwise is Islamowhatchamajiggist
I know a bar owner who wanted more "droolers" for daytime drinking.
When this owner said this I thought that they should drool too.
I have been told by many that I have the "witches chart" I only need to think that someone
gets theirs and it happens. I didn't wish it, I just knew it to be the logical conclusion of this type
of greed and disregard of humanity.
This bar owner now has an incurable disease that mimics the feeling of being drunk
all the time.
That is coming to all you warmongers who very well know what your shit is doing to the world.
If there is a just God, you are gonna pay for this shit.
Oh wait a minute, that's right....there is.
A poor article, a hogwash. Simply repeation of cheap US propaganda.
Note what is emphasized and what is not.
Emphasized: "U.S. ships were in the internationally recognized maritime traffic lane".
Is traffic lane? Yes. Is internationally recognized? By some. International agreement Oman is a party, Iran is signatory and not yet ratified, US is not a party. US laudates international law when profitable, otherwise ignores.
Not emphasized: "not in any territorial waters".
Is not emphasized because it is easily proven false. Strait of Hormuz is territorial waters of Oman or territorial waters of Iran. No international waters.
Emphasized: "rockets were fired from a position about 1,500 yards off the carrier's starboard side".
And what? Is not mentioned this means fired from a position outside of traffic lane in territorial waters of Iran.
Not emphasized: "and in a direction away from passing coalition and commercial ships and the traffic lane".
Clear why not emphasized as it discredits propaganda message.
Funny things I notice about this author specifically and not others using handle Tyler Durden:
Consistent across articles spells Strait of Hormuz wrongly.
Innuendo lacking specificity and imply Iran nuclear agreement somehow bad ("Obama's nuclear-deal partners", "Iran is such a good 'partner' in the nuclear accord").
Eagerness in posting crayonic propaganda scrawlings of a guy that revels in fantasy.
But hey, somehow must be a good reason for it...
Your analysis hits the nail. Thanks. Topic can be closed.
1,500 yards? Really? You mean almost a mile? Still close, I get it, but not nearly as sensational..
1500 yards sounds worse than does "a mile". Journalism is all about using the correct units of measure.
Drudge report just says "YARDS" - lol what a sick little kike he is
I totally remember that. Lol...they said they thought the COMMERCIAL AIRLINER was a combat plane...because...combat planes look just like Airliners.
http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/july-1988-us-navy-shoots-civilian-p...
The Serbs are not brown nor muslim, yet Clinton had no problem bombing them along with NATO and all without any UN resolution.
"brown people" is just a polite euphanism for Goyim
Water vs heavy metal =?
So Iran is not supposed to test conventional missiles, even anti-aircraft missiles that would only pose a threat to jets bombing it, but Israel can avoid inspections, steal nuclear triggers from the us, and lie for decades about iran, including the outright clumsy forgery of evidence, after selling China missiles it got from Uncle Sucker which could well threaten us boats... but we still have to take the neocons who lies us into Iraq seriously - is that right?
Who was the American dude who said it would be good if we bombed an Iranian sub a to kick the war off?
Oh that's right, it was Israeli lobbyist Patrick Clawson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfoaLbbAix0
And this faggot President uses his protest whores to divide this nation and make paramount police actions as our number one concern all the while providing a distraction from his DEMONIC desire to see this country and world burned to the ground.
Yeah, because the US military is never "unnecessarily provocative and unsafe"
Iranian is synonomous with Ayran, most present day Iranians are not Ayrans but many are. In other words Iranians are the OG white people.
Ayran is a cold yoghurt like milk drink, with added salt. It's very pleasant on hot days.
Hopefully someone will stop it, but the Oligarchs plan to march us into WWIII to roll in the new communist global government. You probably need to get ready for that eventuallity in the next decase or so.
http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/keytopics/threats.html
Who is going to stop those who own the entire system?
No mortal can stop it.
You should probably do a little reading and study up on such terms as
Communism
Fascism
Socialism
Feudalism
Republic
Democracy
Monarchy
and so on. Uneducated Americans tend to call everything they don't like, "communist". There actually is a difference. What TPTB want is not communist, but something along the lines of Feudalism/Fascism.
What they want is saturnian in cult, their long forgotten golden age revived. You know, the one that built the pyramids. And it would resemble the most closely the third reich in it's total madness, just add in some more earnest human sacrafice, 60 Mil wasn't enough to jump start it.
I agree. However you describe it though, it's still going to suck for the common person.
Not bombing Iran is a great policy despite the fact that Obama's a schmuck.
When the next President takes over you will see why Obama got the Nobel peace prize.
Get the fucking fuck out of the Mid East.
US has 7100 nuclear weapons and Iran has 0.
Iran is not a threat to the US except in the fervid imagination of Neocon warmongers.
According to the START II treaty, the US only has approx 1,800 nuclear weapons. Where do you get your number from?
Here are the numbers:
http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat
I'm surprised Iran doesn't go to the UN and sanction the USA for posessing WMD's.
One nuke per country is one too many as the sole purpose of those things is genocide. No different than the death camps except a lot faster.
Iran can buy some nukes from other countries. They do not even have to take possesion. Just pay and play. Submarines are parked all around the globe. There are not good guys or bad guys.
If this were off the coast of Newport News I'd sit up and pay attention. You'd think with wars raging across most of Northern Africa, stirring the shit in Ukraine, Syria, South China Sea, maaaaaybe the geniuses at the Pentagon would pull their head out of their ass and dial it back a bit. But no. We've still got neocons at the Pentagon pursuing the regime change agenda. The US miitary is 0-3 in the mideast over the last 15 years. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya... all out of control. But the MIC and the neocons are 6-0. Regime change, chaos, mayhem.... all a boon for those pricks. But no one knows how to do the calculus.
What surprises me more and more is that the military continue to play the bendover bitches for these chickenhawk faggots. So... what does that say about our military?
Pathetic.
Obama did a purge of the military brass.
Or the military brass 'retired' to collect their payola in the private sector
How far were each nation's boats from their respective shores?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Strait_of_Hormuz.jpg
This neocon horseshit on ZH is tedious - it is readily available all over the msm. Don't really need to see it here. It's inescapable.
Also - fuck Ramirez.
How far was each boat from their shore? Is this a trick question?!
Iranian boat is 20 miles from its home port, the American boat is 20,000 nautical miles from its own home port.
And...the American "boat" is an Aircraft Carrier! No reason to expect people to get excited...
Fuckin' Americans...looking at things one way and one way only, Since 1776.
And of course the Iranian captain will be dealt with harshly by his supriors for this provacative act.
Dates, anyone? ;-)
hey stupid - the straits there are very narrow - 15 football fields away, firing away from the us ships, and after advising ships in the area of a live drill right of iran's coast, is not provocative to anyone but a neocon twit like you.
The commercial ships & navy ships were in INTERNATIONAL waters.
The Iranians were being immature dickheads (like you), furthermore, if they are so fucking badass they sould have shot their unguided missiles AT THEM and then we could all see just how Joey Badass the little dickless wonders are.
THATS WHY they didn't shoot at them, they would have been annihilated.
Douchebag.
no one is arguing that the american ships were not in "international waters" - so your repitition of this is inane.
the point is they fired away from us boats, after a warning, right off their own coast.
Meanwhile, Israel constantly violates Lebanese and Syrian airspace in support of isis - that's fine. The Us constantly conducts live fire drills all over the placve = that's fine.
When the iranians do it though, right off their own shores - its a "provocation" which offends your faggor hypocrite sensibilities though.
They have every right under international and maritime law to engage in live fire exercises in that area. No doubt. Funny how a country threatened and covertly attacked by the us and israel can't seem to do anything to test its military equipment without some fuckhead like you whining what a'provocation' it is to US boats which are precisely off iran's shores to threaten and provoke it...... thousands of miles from the United States.
Again, fuck you, stupid.
You have a little bit of that white spittle forming in the corners of your mouth, you might want to wipe ;-)
ZZZZZZZ
nmewn is Nut-n-yahoo's Zero Hedge avatar. For those who have not been on here long enough to notice.
I've been here way longer than you little psyop girl.
That doesn't make you smarter than me. Just means you have been spewing your crap here longer by the rate of down arrows you are getting now and in the past.
Johnny just pwned you newmie.
PS. The bodily fluid thing is getting old.
Oh my goodness, look at those votes! Surely this must mean democracy is some higher form of intelligence!
Yeah...so...how's that workin out? ;-)
stop with your gross shit, nobody wants to hear it.
I think you meant...read it. You can't hear text, cuz ya know, it's visual.
Ya'll carry on being idiots and good luck with all that.
So far the only idiot is you and you just cant drop it, making you look more like an idiot.
You have a general issue with free speech, I already got that from your previous comments on numerous threads.
No seems like you are the one having a problem. What you dont like being called an IDIOT ?
To me this type of posting sounds Jew. I have great experience with Jew posters.
They are so infantile they love to post about toileting and incest as an insult.
Things that most others never think about or consider posting in public, and this is public.
They are the gross out festival of internet posters.
Lord knows why, something happened on the way to adulthood.
This type of posting on a public forum sounds...joooo? Because I said...spittle?
Not this?...
"offends your faggor hypocrite sensibilities though.
"without some fuckhead like you"
"Again, fuck you, stupid."
...why of course not, spittle is sooo MUCH WORSE...lmao!
Idiot.
You really should take your meds.
Reading this exchange I feel like I sailed directly into a live fire exercise.
Even more, every nation runs all kinds of tests against the other guys' electronics and command structure. Outright provocation under carefully controlled and monitored conditions is good for all sides, it builds confidence in our judgment.
I have very little confidence in anything in our governments, so every little bit helps.
Bullshit. There is no such thing as "live fire exercise" when you're in a combat zone and on duty. If any rockets were fired - they were fired on purpose.
huh???
They were fired on purpose, reading is fundamental...the Iranians announced it, then fired.
As well as...
"...the rockets were fired from a position about 1,500 yards off the carrier's starboard side and in a direction away from passing coalition and commercial ships and the traffic lane, the official said. The rockets were not fired at the Truman and other ships, only near them."
Calm down Ian ;-)
Except I'm clearly more intelligent and informed than are you - and at issue wasn't the "on purpose" bit. Missiles are typically fired 'on purpose.'
not the issue, stupid.
"Bullshit. There is no such thing as "live fire exercise" when you're in a combat zone and on duty. If any rockets were fired - they were fired on purpose."
waas the OP. I wrote "huh?"
Then you, clueless as always, chimed in with nonsense.
fuck yourself, nmewn.
You didn't read it before commenting and got caught with your knickers down didn't you Ian?...lmao!
you can't be this stupid. can you? Ian??
""Bullshit. There is no such thing as "live fire exercise" when you're in a combat zone and on duty. If any rockets were fired - they were fired on purpose."
This comment doesn't make any sense. Once again, that the missiles were test fired on purpose is obvious and not in dispute.
Saying "if any rockets were fired - they were fired on purpose" is like saying if NASA test fired rocket engines, they did so on purpose.
No fucking shit.
The area is not a "combat zone." It's "international waters"
I also defer to Navy vets, but I don't believe the claim that there are no "live fire exercises" in a combat zone. There are certainly exercises near areas where there is combat all the time. The US and Israel for example had a large scale joint air combat sim at the same time the Russian airliner went down over Sinai.
Coincidence of course - it simply must have been eeevil muslims. Jews and Christians would never!!
You continue to be an idiot, but at least you aren't shy about it, Moishe.
I'm pretty sure I said the ships NOT FIRING ROCKETS were in international waters AND I'm definitely sure I didn't say anything about a combat zone, as the text plainly states.
Now, about that spittle, you don't own rockets yourself, I hope ;-)
Militaries do conduct live fire exercises where they test their arsrnal once in a while. It's US fault not Iran's because Strait of Hormuz is near Iranian territory not US. US bloated and drunken army can take their floating targets back home.
The Iranians were being assholes, all the ships (commercial or otherwise) were in the channel, in international waters.
They shot them off there and then to be dickheads.
Aw, but when the US and Israelis do it nowhere near their own shores - that's always about defending "freedom," right, dickbreath?
Did the article say the carrier group fired at all? Or were even concerned for THEIR safety? Nope, not finding that line in there either.
They probably laughed at the little dickless wonders...lol.
honestly - do you have brain damage or just a pure troll tossing in red herrings?
I didn't say the article said this carrier group fired. I said the us and israel do the sort of thing the iranians do - all the time - often far from their own shores.
But this is interesting - here, now, the carrier group wasnt concerned for their own safety, but it was still such a provocation your vagina is crammed with sand?
Which is it, Rachel, a dangerous provocation the Americans and Israelis would never engage in, or a silly non-provocation by a "dickless" side that is no threat at all?
I suspect a carrier group that opened fire in that location on boats that were conducting an announced live fire drill aiming directly away from the carrier group would subsequently have one or two shore to ship missiles to contend with in a narrow strait. Not that you've thought about that. LOL.
Your responses to my posts generally indicate that you are not interested in actually responding to them - whether this is stupidity or a tactic I can't be sure, but I lean toward you just being a fucking idiot.
;)
"I suspect a carrier group that opened fire in that location on boats that were conducting an announced live fire drill aiming directly away from the carrier group would subsequently have one or two shore to ship missiles to contend with in a narrow strait. Not that you've thought about that. LOL."
And I suspect you would die like all the rest because a carrier group making that passage ALWAYS has it's "umbrella" up.
What a fucking dumbass...what part of CARRIER GROUP are you having a problem with?
The SMARTEST thing those fucking ignorant bastards did was firing AWAY FROM them...lmmfao!
Every Iranian in uniform would be dead, including (unfortunately) anything in close proximty to any puff of smoke from shore, for fifteen miles inland.
What a fucking idiot.
Huh???
Inane as always.
Good thing you arent one of our admirals.
Your bolds and caps indicate a very sandy vagina. Why not go take a bath... Light some candles, sip some chardonnay, and maybe throw on some Nickelback. You'll feel much better.
I'll explain choke points and why picking a fight in a narrow strait right off the enemies coast because the enemy was trst firing rockets in the opposite direction, completely legally, after you've douched. a navy vet might jump in to explain why the 'unbrella' you speak of is not magic.
Sound good, sugar tits?
;)
I guess nmewn is on his/her/its period. Once in a while it can get a lot more annoying than usual.
I think they shot them off to make a point and the point they were making was very simple, clear and well understood by all. Especially by the people on board the ships.
Combat zone? You're saying the Strait of Hormuz is a combat zone? When did that happen? Who made it a combat zone? Who fired at who?
No idea? Thought not.
Did I somehow miss that the Iranians were in a combat zone? Whose combat zone?
This shit is so scripted. Who's buying the Turkey next year?
What's really troubling, is the fact, that the idiots running the show, aren't even trying to hide it.
Why hide it, nobody can stop them.
Bill Clinton's mentor said that years ago in Tragedy and Hope.
Satan runs this world, and by the mere fact we were born here we are part of that evil.
I accept that and I don't give a damn if they kill me, I won't give them my fear.
I'm movin on and they are not.
I like they way you think kid.
Seems like to me we are getting ready to take it back. Sabotage, not guns. Do not hurt people, we just aim at making the oligarchs very poor very fast. We can drive anyone we want out of this country by concentrating on their property.
Airlines don't fly unless pretty much everyone around an airport agrees that it should, as an example. One bullet in one parked airliner every night at some airport means they have to inspect them all, money and schedules. Crap on the runway, blocking entrances, bugs in software, screwed up orders for EVERYTHING, ... If citizens wanted to make bullets in airliners safe, they would bang on pans at 10PM every night for 20 minutes.
All we have to do is decide we won't stand this shit any more, and we end it.
I have prepared the surrender papers :
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/amnesty-program-for-israel...
And the stage is set for WWIII. Everybody is there, the lights are turned off and the music is starting to play.
https://youtu.be/OgV88Nkzx2w
So some Iranians fired a missile from almost a mile away (1760 yards to a mile), and headed the other direction (away from the US carrier group). The Strait of Hormuz is 32 miles across, just for reference.
Meanwhile, Obama supporters were firing weapons all over Chicago, Washington DC, etc. Most of the time, they were aiming toward US citizens, and a fair number of times they hit US citizens. Both cities are less than 32 miles across (a lot less), and none of the gang members involved would be subject to Obama's Un-Constitutional gun grabs.
Conclusion: it is much, much safer in the Strait of Hormuz than these two major US cities
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Message received - Check....
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is standing by, should his assistance be required.
To the Iranian government...
You really need to work on accuracy in hitting your "targets"!
You need to buy some more "firworks" from your Russian friends to make it happen!!!
For all you landlubbers out there, 1500 yards is nothing when you are in an aircraft carrier. Yes, it's almost a mile and guess what, that's only five carrier lengths. It needs many times that distance just to come to a halt. They must have had a spectacular view.
^ gun lover, has all his guns layed out on a bed with semi nude woman posing alongside.
Semi?
For all you directionally challenged readers out there, the Iranians fired ***AWAY*** from the carrier group. As in the opposite direction. As in the sailors on the carrier got to see the tail end of whatever missile, from almost a mile away, moving even further away from them.
Carrier stopping distance isn't really anyone else's problem, now is it? The carrier Captain must make a determination whether he can safely maneuver his vessel in tight quarters, it is not the responsibility of captains of other vessels.
Back when the US was the only game in town, before we had $20 trillion in balance sheet debt, and another $80 trillion off balance sheet -- we could set terms and order other countries around.
Now that Obama has made the US the biggest debtor in the world, our carrier groups should really think about whether its smart to put $1 trillion of money borrowed from the Chinese and OPEC into such a small passage.
Don't like my attitude? Feel free to tell Obama to stop pissing away money we don't have. maybe he'll listen to you. He certainly doesn't listen to most US voters.
Theatre
Only not fine art.
Fast and short boats, that like short and sweet?
http://www.naval-technology.com/features/featureiran-fast-attack-craft-f...
The threat isn't rockets, it's the 200 knot reverse engineered Shkval torpedoes. The rockets are a joke and distraction. If they were serious about sending a message they would test those in the gulf, instead of restricting testing to the Caspian only. Besides, Iran's oil markets are just about to swing open, are they really dumb enough to cut off their own golden goose's head. Some one else has a huge interest in doing so.
www.payvand.com/news/11/dec/1216.html;
Good post. Was wondering about that.
Its a bit like the us citing to international law as an excuse to topple libya or syria's legal governments after breaking and ignoring international law as a matter of course.
Or like turkey shooting down a russian fighter bomber, headed away from it, on an announced flight plan, for 'violating turkish air space' (which it did not) and pursuing it into Syrian airspace to lock and fire.
Or just about every hypocritical act of Ashkenazistan.
Sorry George Soros: your bullshit global government and its rules only matter when real soldiers decide to enforce them. The UN is made up of 168 "representatives" of nobody. Not one of these so called representatives is elected by the people they purport to rule over. Then UN is as illegitimate as the EU (also run by unelected bureuacrats who want a global government).
The law of the sea is set by people who actually work on the sea, not by stupid arrogant pencil pushers issuing decrees in NYC -- in a giant hurry to spend taxpayer money on their next lunch at Le Cirque (get me table near George Soros PLEASE!!)
US and French ships have no business being there, go the fuck home
first ships to go will be carriers... need to practice the lifeboat training
I've never understood the mental shortcomings required to place an aircract carrier in the persian gulf. Are they disposable now?
Iran could sink any US CVN without any problems .... better move your ass out of dodge, Murricans. This is a game for grown up kids only.
Just a matter of time until the most evil country the world has ever known does another evil thing, or pulls off another state sponsored False Flag Event, like they did on 9/11.
Seems, isreal only knows how to do evil things for the satanic woar profiteers, and banksters that own them. Definitely not God's people, nor do they practice what the God of Love and Goodness taught. Isreal does however, practice what satan teaches.
http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com.uy/
Putin has won this year's championship for 'false flags' downing his own passengers, just for his own wealth!
Geez! the peace-loving US Navy parades a battle group through the Straits of Hormuz to entertain the Iranians with the splendor of US weaponry and military might and the ungrateful Iranians do no more than fire a firecracker almost a mile from the carrier and in the opposite direction. What do the peace-loving US forces have to do to get the Iranians to take potshots at the US targets being paraded in front of them? All those men and women on the US ships and all that wonderful military gadgetry dying (sic) to be used to kill and destroy, (in the name of the peace of the World) and the ignorant and unappreciative Iranians do not give a worthwhile excuse to launch.
Think of all the fuel, food, and machine maintenance expense, let alone salaries, wasted on delivering the bait to the Iranians, thousands of miles from home base. If the Iranians cannot do better than this, why, the US Navy might just give up and go somewhere else for shits and giggles. The long-suffering US taxpayers and military personelle deserve a better response than this. Ungrateful Bastards!
As always, USA will have to learn again the lessons of military preparedness. You'd think the evil one would learn we are good at re-building!
Pity the Iranians didn't sink that large ugly murderous Tub - now that would have been worth seeing !
This does not make sense. The US has major firepower. Let us not be stupid here. I do not think we need to use it. This game is stupid. Don't fuck around. I could not name a single person who would want to kill and Iranian. No one really wants anything like that. It is obvious that we can turn the entire middle east into glass if we want to. So here is the deal, we need to get out of there. We need to to talk. We can get along. Muslims, I w want you to to know that you have now chance of winning. Muslims, If you think that you can easily beat us you watch too much TV.
Peace to everyone.
<-- Satan America's days are numbered
SURE wish we would stop deploying large warships on the Persian Gulf. That's a very small body of water in a crisis, and there's only one way out. Why should the US Navy take that risk?
At least 8 Saudi ships have been sunk since the crisis started in Yemen. Why are we expecting a different outcome?
Do they really sail like that - all lined up like little ducks?
Point of contention, so Harry sails into the Med presumably to station off Syria but then Suez's around Yemen (don't tell the Saudi's) and is now off Iran in the bathtub?
Hmmm, Stratfor and ZH armchair admirals not get the memo?
Missed 'em by a mile
(well, 0.8523 miles anyway)
close only counts in hand granades, nukes and things of that ilk...
sorry, double post
Ok, let's talk baseball. You know when a batter hits a long fly ball to centre field? The fielder runs toward where he thinks the ball is going to land and if there is a collision between the ball and his mitt... mission accomplished.
That's what the USA is trying to do here. They're looking for a collision with an incoming hotball, in an area of the world that is none of their fucking business. They're acting like one of those drunken fans who jumps onto the playing field thinking he can do a better job than the official players. Just go home, go to bed and MYOFB for a few decades.
Americas Imperial Military, speading it's noxious form of freedom and democracy on any sovereign country whose "resources" it wants, being anywhere other than within the borders of this country, is "unnecessarily provocative and unsafe"
Necessarily provocative and perfectly safe, I would have thought.
As for Iran's nuclear-deal partners, there are many countries and many players involved, not just Obama.
Try not to be so fucking US-centric all your lives.
With modern missiles, large ships are the castles of the medieval period as canons became practical. They're just tombs waiting to happen. Same for tanks.
If you watch the Yemen fighting on youtube you'll see them turning M1 Abrams into fast cookers.
In the straits of Hormuz at least one of the two shipping lanes, if not both, is in Iranian territorial waters. Iran signed an agreement allowing ships to pass through these lanes, but they do belong to Iran.
US is not a participant in this agreement, so can claim no rights under the agreement
"Missed them by a mile" puts it into the proper context.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge
How does 20k dead Americans sent to Davey's Locker sound in Peace Prize's little game of chicken
i cant wait for the first "zionist war ship" of many to hit the bottom of any ocean, they have had it coming to them for too long, no matter what flag they falsley fly... "they are zionist FORCES", be they UK, US, French or Saudi. Yes im Christian white & British & want the zionists out OUT O U T for good, bigger fool any any British or US man / woman who's dumb enough to sign up to die for the jews.
What? Another lying ZH headline: "Iran Fires Rockets 1,500 Yards Away From A US Aircraft Carrier!" Well, no! As the small print explains, the US placed its aircraft carrier 1,500 yards away from where Iran was firing rockets. THAT'S A BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE, YOU LYING WHORES!
And where did this happen? Was it off the coast of Virginia near where the US Atlantic fleet is based? Was it off the coast of San Diego? Nah! It was within territorial waters of, wait for it, Iran!
The official said the U.S. ships were in the "internationally recognized maritime traffic lane" at the time, not in any territorial waters,
the rockets were fired in a direction away from passing coalition and commercial ships
Rights of nations in their own territorial waters as well as transit/passage rights of military vessels are spelled out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Under this Convention, military vessels have certain specified limited rights of transit in coastal areas "in an an expeditious and continuous manner that is not prejudicial to the peace, good order or the security" of the coastal state
US is one of the very few nations that is NOT a ratified signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and as a non-participant in this International Treaty ----and having a major warship that is obviously prejudicial to the security of Irapositioned in the Strait of Hormuz----,
it is hard to see how the US claims to have any rights or standing to complain about this incident