In Latest Embarrassment For Obama, Iran Releases Footage Of Arrest, Apology Of 10 U.S. Sailors
With just hours to go before Obama's last State of the Union address, the US president suffered his latest foreign policy fiasco when around noon local time, Iran arrested 10 US sailors in a boat that has allegedly entered deep into Iranian territorial waters.
Needless to say, there was no mention of this in Obama's address and the scandal was quietly swept under the rug when the 9 young men and 1 woman were released earlier today, and all questions just why the soldiers were released only well after the SOTU's conclusion (were they a hostage bargaining chip in case Obama said something out untoward last night regarding Iran) were soundly ignored.
However, while there may have been some doubt as to Iran's intentions yesterday, all doubt was eliminated moments ago when Iran's state broadcaster just released photos not just of the 10 captured soldiers, which were shown earlier, but of their arrest as well as the seizure of the boat and their weapons.
Here is the just released TV footage, courtesy of Sobhan Hassanvand:
Fars news shows the video of capturing the US navy sailors pic.twitter.com/7kbsUe8kDR
— Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) January 13, 2016
Here is a video of the US Commander apologizing (via Fox):
Video from Iranian state television shows a US Navy sailor apologizing while being detained. https://t.co/Ymr632ThF1
https://t.co/IlvSh46NLn
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 13, 2016
And here are excerpted photos, showing US sailors being treated as common Somali pirates:
Finally, putting Iran's aggression in context:
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these are huawei class spy boats hms surrender and hms handsbehindyourhead..
No embarrasment at all. And I don't care if that bastard Putin is laughing. He thinks he's so clever with his strongman bullshit. Look at what I achieved with a little humility. Sure it helped that I grovelled a bit but that's what makes me so strong. And don't call it appeasement. When they get back to base I'm gonna have all those stupid sailors kicked out of the navy. Trying to embarress me like that. Well it didn't work you GOP sons of bitches. I've got a year and change to go and you ain't seen nothin' yet. I'm gonna kiss the Ayatollah's backside even though he told me to go to hell. Gotta a reputation to defend, you hear me!
Those boats are bristling with nav gear. And one can tow another.
So they both got lost and both broke down?
What a sack of scurvy horsecock.
The woman was probably getting pegged by one or more of the guys and they sorta lost track of where they were...Having been in the military.....
In the new LGBT millitary and being the only woman there I'm sure she was fine. Not sure what the fellas were up to
You'd be wrong there...Obama can't be embarreased.
You'd be wrong there...Obama can't be embarreased.
This isn't the first and won't be the last time that the Iranian territory violated, remember the drone (RQ-170) that was brought down on Iranian land? This is just more of the same, from the usual suspects. The anglo-zionists don't like it when anybody stands up to them.
Broken GPS system...hmmm...no redundancy?
The Affirmative Action Navy ....
Get ready to shart your pants because this is funny!
https://www.facebook.com/gregorybrothers/videos/10153884847629284/?theater#
+!:):):)
The badass looking boats with jet propulsion and comfy chairs, those are the US Navy's Boat. The little boats that look like Boston Whalers with twin Johnson 250s on the back, those belong to the Iranians.
U.S. Marine Corp(oration) surrenders to 20 foot, fiberglass, center consul, fishing vessel.
https://www.facebook.com/gregorybrothers/videos/10153884847629284/?theater#
Hey. Thats a good one. US Marines Co Inc and US Navy Holdings
The badass looking boats with jet propulsion and comfy chairs, those are the US Navy's Boat. The little boats that look like Boston Whalers with twin Johnson 250s on the back, those belong to the Iranians.
Which makes me wonder how exactly the Iranian's stopped and captured this high tech US Navy boat with somehting you'd see at your local lake. Not that it's impossible but I'm certainly curious how that went down.
I'd guess an Iran fighter did a bit of strafing near the boats until they turned off the engines. Then it took two hours for the fishing boats go pick up the navy guys. Interesting that they carried passports. That's really unusual and suggests something else is going on.
Embarrassment? How? And why only to Obama? Grow up, people...it was a routine detainment, and they have been released. All the rabid anti-anything-Obama makes people simply look petty, childish, and slavishly ideological to right-wing bumper-sticker politics.
Okay, he's been a weak president. Bush was a strong president...who openly committed treason and other crimes. Think the next one will be any better? Dream on. Politicians, all of them, both sides, ARE the problem. They NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER are the solution. Got it?
This may have been an attempt to have another "hostage crisis" to get the sheeple in a more war-mongering mood before we invade. It'll be easier for them if they have an actual reason. I sense panic as the economy steadily crumbles beyond their control. Except for PM's ofcourse. Funny how these "relics" are of such supreme importance now.
Absolutely my first thought too. They were dressed for a prolonged detainment, in comfy clothes, with their passports. LMFAO.
Stupid apes. Look at the threehead on that one, I tell ya...
But yeah these are our best and brightest. Just like Michelle Obama's Gold dress is more important than the SOTU speech itself, the PR mission is more important than the actual one, in today's "military". Surely those kneeling braintrusts with matching tacticoolery knew they weren't doing an ACTUAL false flag. (None of them would've survived.)
False flag hostage crisis. Super ghey, tacticoolguys.
Still treated infinitely better than the sailors of the USS Liberty.
Thank God they didn't drift into Israeli waters!
Thank God they didn't drift into Israeli waters!
Grow up and stop your implied anti Jewish relativism. The USS Liberty attack by Israili forces is both a tragedy and an abomination perpertrated on an Active Duty US naval ship by Israel. The US coverup is a stain on the US Political Leadership of that time.
That said - your attempt to bring a moral relativism to the discussion concerning the actions of the State of Israel and the State of Iran is sheer lunacy. There is and never has been any kind of morality attached to most Muslim States throughout history.
invasion isnt possible without taking usa down.
Some commenter said, "But its not Obama's fault"
I wont get into the nanny state psychology that this comment engenders.
ZH is a "safe space" , so I say, "Good point regarding placing blame. The converse works as well, any good that comes from our nation is due to properly motivated and honorable citizens. Not the puppet in office."
We'll never know what ACTUALLY happened . Keep it simple . . .
Do US gunboats photo opped as being outflanked by Boston Whalers make the US look good?
No it looks bad and I can't imagine anything positive coming from this.
But its not Obama's fault"....course not he's only half white
So, The Navy Boats get caught by the Irianian Charter boats with Tuna Towers?? Were they 2-stroke or 4-stroke...article didn't say..... Seriously, I guess the Irianians are trolling for Mahi and Wahoo with their clients until a U.S Navy boat shows up then turn into a Military unit....
Looks like a ,fiberglass, 18 foot or 20 foot center consul? Wonder if they were trolling with live bait or lures?
USA! USA! USA!
Apologies aree easy to come by. Just hold a gun to the captives heads.
I'd apologize too.
Then mail their embassy a bag of my poop when I'm safe in the USA.
The idiots giving me thumbs down must never have had to look down the barrels of an enemy's weapon. They have no idea.
Perhaps I should mail them some poop too.
I bet they asked the soldiers whether Obama is .....
Apologies on the front end, hard looks from Obama when no one is watching on the back end.
That'll learn 'em!
Our guys have no problem admitting they were wrong -In Iranian territory. Erogan seems to not be able to do the same. We got caught -so what -that's the way the game is played. Russia arguably gets caught and Turkey shoots down their plane and refuses to apologize. That's how wars are started.
Funny, this is what MSM is saying. They weren't lost. There was no malfunction.
The "commander" sure was keen to break the Code of Conduct after a brutal 24 hours of hospitality.
Wake the fuck up.
U.S. boats (sorry...vessels) are probably $10 MM each (the Black one is probably $15 MM because...well it's black and .MIL grade so fuck it why not).
How many Boston Whalers can you buy for $25 MM???
50 miles off course. Carrying passports.
Hands up, don't shoot. We are newly integrated and have a female with us.
We apologize for getting lost. You treated us so nicely.
I have no problem saying that to the camera.
Thanks to the new and wonderful relations between our countries and cultures, our leaders reached an agreement swiftly and diplomatically. In years past, seizure of American military personnel would have resulted in horrible disagreements.
Now, if you don't mind, we will now leave in the same lost/malfunctioning vessels we came in.
Wake the fuck up.
Here, take my wager. We will never hear the results of the debrief, and if we do it won't come straight from one of the twenty. The investigation will be "ongoing," and the Sec State/Def/WH "will not comment on an ongoing investigation", other than to say that thanks to their brilliant diplomatic negotiating partners in Tehran, the situation was resolved quickly and peacefully. Goddam, we're good.
Wake the fuck up.
It almost sounds as if they were terrified that they would be caught for something that they were doing or distracting for. Something that might assure that they would never be leaving that country.
George Soros' thugs humiliated. Who knew!
This is and was a nonevent. It is customary to apologize if you violate someone else's territory. Everyone went home alive.
The Code of Conduct, which I presume the "commander" was familiar with, requires furnishing name, rank, ssn. Unless they fete you with fine Iranian cuisine and put you up for the night, then yeah, go ahead and apologize. I think that's in there now. Obama put it there.
Any and all speculation as to why the "sailors" were carrying passports, love to hear.
Blackop$
It's a very simple concept my American cousins. Respect national waters and airspace. The problem with the USSA, is they love to stick their nose where it doesn't belong, strut on the world stage like they know it all and act like Billy-Big-Bits, harrassing and preaching to others, while employing staggering levels of hypocrisy and double standards. Iran is virtually the other side of the world, yet the USSA wishes to patrol these waters and infestate the region with 39 bases.
Every empire is the bully; it is the course of human events and the moral corruption of human beings. It is as it is written; the entire creation is under a curse as noted by the increasing penetration of sin/evil permeating from everywhere and everyone. Man is devolving; the genetic information is breaking down; not improving as the liars, in the medical and educational fields have deceived many to believe despite the obvious evidence to the contrary.
something more may have been going on, or about to go down when these sailors got snagged.
reports are surfacing that the Eisenhower and it's battle group was making it's way towards and was very close to entering Iranian waters at the time of this incident. so close that the IRGC claims that they were actively targeting the battle group with coastal anti ship missile batteries.
apparently they weren't sure whether or not the US was about to launch a major attack in the area.
to be a fly on the wall of that debriefing.