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Iran sends warships to Gulf of Aden - navy
Mon May 25, 2009 5:43pm IST
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has sent six warships to international waters, including the Gulf of Aden, to show its ability to confront any foreign threats, its naval commander said on Monday.
Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, quoted by the ISNA news agency, made the announcement five days after Iran said it test-fired a surface-to-surface missile with a range of 2,000 km (1,200 miles), putting Israel and U.S. bases in the area within reach.
Iran said on May 14 it had sent two warships to the Gulf of Aden to protect oil tankers from the world's fifth-largest crude exporter against attacks by pirates but ISNA did not make clear whether they were among the six Sayyari talked about.
Iranian waters stretch along the Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Sea of Oman. Iran has threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 40 percent of the world's traded oil is shipped, if it were attacked over its nuclear programme.
"Iran has dispatched six ... warships to international waters and the Gulf of Aden region in an historically unprecedented move by the Iranian Navy," Sayyari told a gathering of armed forces officials, IRNA reported.
Sayyari said that preserving Iran's territorial integrity in its southern waters called for the "perseverance and firmness" of the navy.
The move to dispatch the warships "is indicative of the country's high military capability in confronting any foreign threat on the country's shores," Sayyari said.
The ISNA report did not mention the threat of pirate attacks, which, fuelled by large ransoms, have continued almost unabated despite the presence of an armada of foreign warships patrolling the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden.
In January, pirates released an Iranian-chartered cargo ship carrying 36,000 tonnes of wheat to Iran from Germany that was seized in November. In March, a regional maritime official said Somali villagers had detained another Iranian vessel.
Nearly 20,000 ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each year, heading to and from the Suez Canal. Seven percent of world oil consumption passed through the Gulf of Aden in 2007, according to Lloyd's Marine Intelligence Unit.
On May 20, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran had tested a missile that defence analysts say could hit Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf, a move likely to fuel concern about Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
The United States and its allies suspect the Islamic Republic is seeking to build nuclear bombs, a charge Tehran denies, but President Barack Obama has offered a new beginning of diplomatic engagement with Iran if it "unclenches its fist".
I know its still very early in the guy's presidency, but at this rate keeps up, I'm going to have to agree with rightwingers about obama's let's talk mentality being received as him being a big pussy to our enemies.
I wonder what is going to be the final straw, or if there will be one.
At this point, I see this move as posturing...kinda like "Obama don't put us on the bottom of your foreign agenda, we have business to discuss too." Plus, i don't know if its an error in translation, but theres a quote of Ahmedinijad scoffing the out of koreans and japs and chinese. Saying they're all the same culture, they should be getting along, LOL. But I'm sure it's a translation thing.
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6 warships ripe for the picking.
That's exactly the way they percieve it, always have, always will, expecially in the ME.
I wonder what is going to be the final straw, or if there will be one.
At this point, I see this move as posturing...kinda like "Obama don't put us on the bottom of your foreign agenda, we have business to discuss too." Plus, i don't know if its an error in translation, but theres a quote of Ahmedinijad scoffing the out of koreans and japs and chinese. Saying they're all the same culture, they should be getting along, LOL. But I'm sure it's a translation thing.
Well...it's almost always better to be the guy who looks he can beat the out of you, rather than the guy who looks like he can't, even if he can...the guy who doesn't look like he can fight is 10 times more likely to have to prove it.
Hence Bush...I don't care how unintelligent he looked or actually was...he gave off this I am just itching to nuke the out of you and take your country away even if every person in the US hates me for it...vibe...
Even if the terrorists were too crazy to pick up on that vibe, the leaders of the countries that sponsor them certainly weren't...especially after Iraq. I mean those leades weren't paying attention to the suicide bombs or civillian casualties, or even the US death toll...they were noticing the Sadam was living in ditches in merely a few days and wound up dying in humiliating fashion at the hands of his political enemies.
It worked. So did the Hitler comparisons, the Cowboy analogies etc.
Last edited by whottt; 05-25-2009 at 12:24 PM.
So what? Seriously, Iran's 2nd rate navy is sending ships out....hhoooooooooo
We could end that threat in 15 minutes.
It's international waters, not US waters, wrongies, so Iran can do whatever the they want to with their toy boats and puny navy.
Stupid for Iran to be provocative, esp just after the NK whatever, but even more stupid to be provoked.
Our navy would up those Iranian ships in minutes. The move is for propaganda to the Iranian people from Iran.
It's election time in Iran.
LOL... morons. They're just asking to get raped by air-strikes from Israel. LOL @ Iran acting they could do in a conventional war.
Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, quoted by the ISNA news agency, made the announcement five days after Iran said it test-fired a surface-to-surface missile with a range of 2,000 km (1,200 miles), putting Israel and U.S. bases in the area within reach.
Double LOL. Then they're just asking to be cornholed by our Navy.Iranian waters stretch along the Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Sea of Oman. Iran has threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 40 percent of the world's traded oil is shipped, if it were attacked over its nuclear programme.
The Iranian gov is desperate. They need an outside threat to keep their people from focusing on internal problems. They are provoking in hopes of some agressive response from USA. The smartest thing for Obama to do is nothing.
Why is anyone getting their panties in a wad over this? Let them play wargames, and we can assess them better. Good for them is they actually will help with the pirate threat.
Here he is. Tha co o bra. Here's cooobra.
One of our ballistic missile subs could sink that entire patrol and turn every Iranian city into glass.
One.
Russia, the UK, and France could do the same.
Yes, France.
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