War Drums: Iranian Warships Enter Mediterranean Sea...

[Avatar4321]

The world dictator(U.S.) has war ships everywhere, but when Iran has a few in the Mediterranean it's "war drums"!-McCain is that you?

We are a dictatorship now? Really? Which is why Iran has warships in the Atlantic. Because we rule the world.

 

[waltky]

Guess dey didn't learn dey's lesson the first time...

Iran Warship Heading to Atlantic Barely Survived Earlier Tangle With U.S. Navy
February 10, 2014 – One of two warships which Iran says it is sending to the Atlantic Ocean to send a “message” to the United States had a serious run-in with the U.S. Navy 26 years ago, and barely survived to tell the tale.

The Iranian Navy frigate Sabalan reportedly is now underway on a three-month, 25,000 nautical mile voyage around the southern tip of Africa and then to unspecified waters in the Atlantic where, an Iranian naval commander said at the weekend, it would approach the maritime boundaries of the U.S. Assuming the Sabalan and accompanying vessel, logistic support ship Kharg, get that far, one possible destination may be Venezuela, Iran’s closest ally in the western hemisphere. The maritime boundaries of Venezuela and the U.S. are only several hundred miles apart in the Puerto Rico area.

Iranian media reported that the two ships set sail from Iran’s port of Bandar Abbas on January 21 for what will be Iran’s first naval mission to the Atlantic. “The Iranian Army’s naval fleets have already started their voyage towards the Atlantic Ocean via the waters near South Africa,” the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad as saying on Saturday. “Iran’s military fleet is approaching the United States’ maritime borders, and this move has a message,” he said.

The Iranian frigate Sahand burns after being attacked by a U.S. destroyer and A-6E Intruder aircraft in the Persian Gulf on April 18, 1988.

Fars said the trip was a response to a beefed-up U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf, including large war games conducted from the Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet. (Dozens of nations took part in the U.S.-hosted International Mine Countermeasures Exercise 2013 in those waters, and in its predecessor the previous year. Iran has periodically threatened to close the Gulf’s strategic Strait of Hormuz.)

Fars reported that Iran’s top naval officer, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, first flagged the planned Atlantic voyage more than two years ago, quoting him as saying at the time, “Like the arrogant powers that are present near our maritime borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to the American marine borders.” How “powerful” remains to be seen. Sabalan came up against the U.S. Navy in a skirmish back in 1988, and according to published accounts only survived because of a U.S. decision to let her limp back home. The incident occurred during the Iran-Iraq War, after the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts was damaged by a mine in the Persian Gulf. In response the U.S. launched “Operation Praying Mantis,” an action against Iranian naval forces in the area.

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[idb]

Guess dey didn't learn dey's lesson the first time...

Iran Warship Heading to Atlantic Barely Survived Earlier Tangle With U.S. Navy
February 10, 2014 – One of two warships which Iran says it is sending to the Atlantic Ocean to send a “message” to the United States had a serious run-in with the U.S. Navy 26 years ago, and barely survived to tell the tale.

The Iranian Navy frigate Sabalan reportedly is now underway on a three-month, 25,000 nautical mile voyage around the southern tip of Africa and then to unspecified waters in the Atlantic where, an Iranian naval commander said at the weekend, it would approach the maritime boundaries of the U.S. Assuming the Sabalan and accompanying vessel, logistic support ship Kharg, get that far, one possible destination may be Venezuela, Iran’s closest ally in the western hemisphere. The maritime boundaries of Venezuela and the U.S. are only several hundred miles apart in the Puerto Rico area.

Iranian media reported that the two ships set sail from Iran’s port of Bandar Abbas on January 21 for what will be Iran’s first naval mission to the Atlantic. “The Iranian Army’s naval fleets have already started their voyage towards the Atlantic Ocean via the waters near South Africa,” the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad as saying on Saturday. “Iran’s military fleet is approaching the United States’ maritime borders, and this move has a message,” he said.

The Iranian frigate Sahand burns after being attacked by a U.S. destroyer and A-6E Intruder aircraft in the Persian Gulf on April 18, 1988.

Fars said the trip was a response to a beefed-up U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf, including large war games conducted from the Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet. (Dozens of nations took part in the U.S.-hosted International Mine Countermeasures Exercise 2013 in those waters, and in its predecessor the previous year. Iran has periodically threatened to close the Gulf’s strategic Strait of Hormuz.)

Fars reported that Iran’s top naval officer, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, first flagged the planned Atlantic voyage more than two years ago, quoting him as saying at the time, “Like the arrogant powers that are present near our maritime borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to the American marine borders.” How “powerful” remains to be seen. Sabalan came up against the U.S. Navy in a skirmish back in 1988, and according to published accounts only survived because of a U.S. decision to let her limp back home. The incident occurred during the Iran-Iraq War, after the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts was damaged by a mine in the Persian Gulf. In response the U.S. launched “Operation Praying Mantis,” an action against Iranian naval forces in the area.

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"Operation Praying Mantis"?
Hahahaha!
Why don't the US military employ decent marketing people?

 

[waltky]

Granny says Obama needs to be admiral-in-chief an' sink dey's boats first...

Iranian Navy Commander Threatens to Sink US Fifth Fleet after Warship Deployment
February 10, 2014 ~ A top Iranian navy commander has stepped up threats against the US, vowing to sink America's Fifth Fleet in the Middle East if provoked.

The threats came after Iran reportedly deployed warships, apparently in response to America's movement of ships into Iranian territory. According to a senior naval commander, Afshin Rezayee, the Iranian deployment of a destroyer and a helicopter-carrying supply ship was a direct response to the presence of American naval forces in the Persian Gulf. The Fifth Fleet of the United States Navy is responsible for naval forces in the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and parts of the Indian Ocean. "Iran's military fleet is approaching the United States' maritime borders, and this move has a message," Rezayee was quoted as saying.

A file photo of an Iranian navy warship arriving to dock at Port Sudan in the Red Sea state

Rezayee's belligerent stance was echoed by Ali Fadavi, navy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, who warned the US not to encroach further into his country's waters. "The Americans can sense by all means how their warships will be sunk with 5,000 crews and forces in combat against Iran and how they should find its hulk in the depths of the sea," Fadavi told the country's quasi-official Fars news agency. "They cannot hide themselves in the sea since the entire Middle East region, western Europe, the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman and the Straits of Hormuz are monitored by us and there is no place for them to hide." The Islamic Republic's defence minister, Hossein Dehqan, also vowed that US provocation would be met with a strong Iranian military response.

Speaking during a military ceremony, he said: "The Iranian Armed Forces are an intertwined and coherent complex that can give a decisive response to any threat at any level and any place under the command of the Commander-in-Chief. "The enemy can never assess and think of the range of the response given by the powerful and mighty Armed Forces of the Islamic Iran." The Iranian fleet is said to be on a three-month voyage, although the US has played down its deployment. Iran's bullishness comes despite a recent nuclear agreement which saw Iran scale down its belligerence under new, moderate president Hassan Rohani.

Iranian Navy Commander Threatens to Sink US Fifth Fleet after Warship Deployment

 

[Meathead]

The entire Iranian navy is not designed to combat far from the country's coastal waters. Without air cover they are sitting ducks. Even the ignorant mullahs and ayatollahs know this.

 

[paulitician]

The entire Iranian navy is not designed to combat far from the country's coastal waters. Without air cover they are sitting ducks. Even the ignorant mullahs and ayatollahs know this.

I'm pretty sure they do know that. That's not really the point of this. They're just flexing their muscles. They are en emerging Powerhouse. And they just want the West to know it.

 

[waltky]

Dat's what Uncle Ferd said...

APPROACHING IRANIAN WARSHIPS RAISE EMP THREAT
WASHINGTON – Experts: U.S. 'defenseless' against high-altitude explosion

National security experts have expressed alarm over the announcement by Iran that it will position its warships off the coast of the United States, from where they could launch a nuclear warhead to explode at high altitude to create an electromagnetic pulse. That could knock the American electrical grid out of commission, disrupting supplies of energy, food, communications, fuel and more for a long period.

These experts agree that there would be no warning and that the U.S. missile defense system would not be able to respond in time to prevent the high altitude nuclear explosion. They also believe that if such a missile were launched, it would not be from an Iranian warship but from a commercial vessel sailing along the East Coast or in the Gulf of Mexico. “It shows they could put a weapon on a boat or freighter, and if Iran has ballistic missiles it could put it anywhere on the U.S. coast,” said John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and currently a senior fellow at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute.

Last month, the Iranian Fars News Agency announced that the fleet would undertake a three-month mission and would consist of a destroyer and a helicopter-carrying vessel. While the Iranian deployment may consist of two vessels, the commander of Iran’s Northern Navy Fleet, Adm.l Afshin Rezayee Haddad, said that Iran would send a “fleet” to the Atlantic Ocean. These ships undoubtedly would be under constant U.S. Navy observation while trolling along the U.S. East Coast and possibly in the Gulf of Mexico. The ships could use Venezuela as station to refuel and resupply, or could return to Iran.

Iran’s decision to place its warships off the U.S. East Coast was prompted by the U.S. decision to place warships of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet at Bahrain, not far from Iran. And there are U.S. carrier task forces constantly patrolling through the Strait of Hormuz, which skirts Iranian territory. This deployment to the U.S. East Coast would be the first time Iran has stationed ships outside the Persian Gulf. For the past three years, it has been sending its warships through the Suez Canal and into the Mediterranean to show its capabilities. Bolton said that the Iranian exercise is more of a training mission to show that it can sail across the Atlantic and come up to the U.S. coast.

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[bianco]

Well Netanyahu tried to tell Obama and the rest of the West that it was 5 minutes to midnight, but was basically just laughed at.

Not so funny now is it?