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New moderate Iran sends warships close to US borders

Feb 8, 2014 11:08 am By Robert Spencer

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Truly Barack Obama and John Kerry have secured peace in our time. “Iran sending warships close to US borders,” from the Associated Press, February 8:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A senior Iranian naval commander says his country has sent several warships to the Atlantic Ocean, close to U.S. maritime borders for the first time.

The commander of Iran’s Northern Navy Fleet, Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad, is quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying Saturday that the vessels have already begun the journey to the Atlantic Ocean via waters near South Africa.

Iranian officials said last month that the fleet consisted of a destroyer and a logistic helicopter carrier, which will be on a three-month mission.

Haddad says the fleet is approaching U.S. maritime borders for the first time. The Islamic Republic considers the move as a response to U.S. naval deployments near its own coastlines. The U.S. Navy’s 5th fleet is based in nearby Bahrain.

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  1. eib says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 11:28 am

    Will you help them conquer, Mr. Obama?
    Heaven knows your father would want you to.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 11:33 am

    This “moderate” president Rouhani of Iran, he is good at talking about being moderate nevertheless all this talk is just all words that are nothing but a smokescreen to cover up the fact the he and the other Islamic clerics in power in Iran are just as ruthless and scheming for evil as they always have been. To explain this in another way, Ayelet Savyon, who is the head of the Iran desk of the Middle East Media Research Project stated “Just because Iran has a new president, that hasn’t changed their goals…Their agenda hasn’t changed, the only thing that has changed is the image that they that they are trying to present to the world.”

  3. ArcadiaP says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 11:50 am

    This president is a tyrant himself just as is Iran.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 11:52 am

    As for this new “moderate” Iran that that is the result of “reform” which president Rouhani claims to have started. The only real reform that has come to Iran since Rouhani took office is up put up window dressing and nothing more. In fact , this Islamic “Republic” is even false in it’s name. For a real republic is ‘re public’ which means “the property of the people.” This is one thing the this Islamic regime of Iran is not. Furthermore,getting back to the subject of Rouhani working for” reform.” That is not possible because there is nothing good about the current Islamic regime to base real reform on. That is there nothing to be built on the foundation this Islamic dictatorship that is good to rest reform on. As the Bible teaches “That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.” Ecclesiastes 1:15. [J.K.V.]

  5. Transmaster says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 12:14 pm

    Oh God talk about a scene out of the Movie “The Mouse That Roared”. Not that President Osama Been Token Obama could be bothered but surround them with a USN carrier battle group. Have them staring down the muzzles of enough ordinance to sink them 10,000 time over and see how the act.

  6. Sam says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 12:16 pm

    No respect for USA anymore. Well I myself do not respect a population who elected communist Obama TWICE. What do we expect?

    • Salah says

      Feb 8, 2014 at 1:41 pm

      You’re right, Sam. It’s not Iran, it’s not Obama, it’s not even Islam…it’s the population.
      We turned away from God, we are killing our own unborn children, we are redefining marriage, we are nothing but self-absorbed cowards…we deserve what we get!
      Thank God, there are still a few men and women of honour brave enough to fight back. Not enough though, not enough!

      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/04/one-great-american-woman.html

      • JessieJames says

        Feb 8, 2014 at 3:41 pm

        Exactly Salah, this nation if full of brain dead morons who injest the poison of obama daily and relish it. And they, unfortunately greatly out-number the sane people. This country is going straight to hell, no detours, and no brakes. The infidelity of America to its own Constitution and the moral principals upon which this once great nation was founded by the deluded pawns which this country has chosen to be the voice of leaders has slowly and irrevocably eroded the foundation of our existence like a malicious cancer. We are a dying nation, doomed without hope, unless………………

  7. rockylion says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 1:00 pm

    well done roberts , i salute your courage from Africa specifically Nigeria where we are daily by this evil monster called Islam

  8. pongidae rex says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 1:20 pm

    You could triple the size of the US military and the US would still be a joke militarily. Our leadership, military and civilian, are fools, frauds and conartists. We have no great men and no great vision, so our military is useless. Decades of war In iraq and afghanistan for what? If islamists nuked washington dc this government and its great military would fall to its knees instead of doing what needs to be done.

  9. joeblough says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 1:24 pm

    I think this is a fairly clear expression of what the Iranians think of Messrs. Obama and Kerry’s “negotiations”.

  10. mortimer says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 1:38 pm

    Nato should start by sinking all iranian vessels

    • All about Truth says

      Feb 10, 2014 at 7:02 am

      Don’t be a shameless and self center person, is it not too early for USA to call in NATO at this stage? What can you say about USA presence close to China, close to Iran in Bahrain and across the globe?

      We need more brave nations like Russia, China , India and Iran to check this excesses.

  11. JamesonRocks says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 1:51 pm

    How very nice of the Iranians to provide a couple practice targets for the United States Navy! “All hands, general quarters, this is not a drill.”

  12. Secondtonone says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 3:45 pm

    One could only hope their aim is precise enough to take out odumass and his monkey faced wife!

  13. Aleeee Akbeer says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 3:53 pm

    The Iranians think they are tough and that they are going to make the USA uncomfortable and nervous by putting warships in the Atlantic . America have 2 aircraft carriers off the coast of Iran. They don’t like this. Each aircraft carrier has well over 60 jets on board ready to take off at a moments notice. The USA is not a country that is going to hell in a handcart. I suspect that the people who are posting negative comments about the USA are Iranians or Muslims or four fingered Brotherhood creeps who want people to believe that freedom is wrong and that if they had Sharia law then we would have honour killings of women and gays and people who blasphemed the Koran. It would be a terror state under Sharia. The Iranians cannot understand that freedom is what the West thrives on and that religious kooks will never run the world. The goal for the Iranians and the terror that the Saudis support is for the entire world to be ruled by them and their crazy ass religion.

    • Brian C. Hoff says

      Feb 8, 2014 at 4:11 pm

      Iran have the perfect legal right under international law to sent warship into internation water in peace time if america sink then america is wrong than america is in the wrong. If we donot want Iran warship near america we need to bring home our two aircrafts group away from Iran.

      • BlueRaven says

        Feb 8, 2014 at 5:50 pm

        It will take US a couple of mS to sink the entire fleet of the two Iranian “WAR” ships if they pose any threat to the US borders, however. We have a excessively weak and pro-Islamic Government to use the resources to just do that. Iran is not threat – I am pretty sure Israel is watching this with some serious interest. Perhaps, Wash may change its mind about Iran and give Israel the green light to go ahead and oblige.

  14. george says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 4:19 pm

    How on earth am I supposed to interpret this as a threat?

  15. Clearsighted says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 5:06 pm

    The explosion of a nuclear device at altitude above the United States would create an Electo-Magnetic Pulse which would fry every computer chip from the one in your laptop computer, to the ones in your smartphone, car, microwave oven, your television and the nation’s power grid which is criminally unprotected.

    Now, imagine you are a country 11,000 miles away from and hostile to the United States and you have developed a nuclear bomb but don’t have the delivery system to send the warhead all the way to the United States but you had shorter range missiles that could do the job.

    Wouldn’t putting warships with that capability on the US maritime border (which is only 12 miles offshore) be one way to solve that problem?

    Understand the threat, now?

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Feb 8, 2014 at 6:01 pm

      Say, President Ahmajenidad gave a speech on this very subject to a hall of Persian college engineering students a few years back. As he envisioned the EMP blast and the debilitating effects it would have on the eastern half of the United States, the democracy loving students erupted into cheers.

    • Bear1909 says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 3:06 am

      The Americans who voted for President Obama’s re-election made it clear they want the USA made vulnerable to massive attack. Small ships approaching US territorial waters can inflict catastrophic damage as you’ve outlined quite succinctly. But the dimwitted voters who put Obama into office- again- have little between their ears that would allow them to understand the threat.

      Just give them their media bandwidth and their spending cash and all is well.

      Moo!

  16. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 5:56 pm

    … the fleet consisted of a destroyer and a logistic helicopter carrier, which will be on a three-month mission.

    Moslem meat defiant and daring any Infidel to destroy their pathetic three ship fleet to get that public justification chip on their shoulder.

    It’s good that Prez Barack Hussein is reducing the size of the Navy so much, even as the Persians and Communist Chinese set sail to fill hegemonic vacuums left here and there.

  17. EYESOPEN says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 7:39 pm

    Lesson to be learned by that…individual infesting OUR White House and his sycophantic acolytes. This is what happens when you show weakness, “accommodation” and downright stupidity to muslims. You embolden them. I have never seen a worse excuse for a president or an “administration” that the current band of jokers. We may be paying for their willful blindness, cowardice and stupidity for a long time.

  18. EYESOPEN says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 7:40 pm

    Sorry. “… than this current band of jokers.” My mistake.

  19. Brian C. Hoff says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 11:11 pm

    Iran only want to protect they merchant ship from america islam0probic pirate base in america like Jerry Jone who want to burn over 3,000 koran last year.

  20. fair_dinkum says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 1:45 am

    the iranian fleet is a hodgepotch of antiquated (1970’s 1980’s) Vessels with a few ships being constructed around 2012.

    this is a nation moral thing for iran. to stir up fervor at home.
    even sending half to all of the fleet is laughable. their missile programme is still weak. their ships cant last long without refueling and are truly a joke.

    they are not and never will be a prominent naval force. its ragtag.

  21. Brian C. Hoff says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 7:16 am

    Here is than video why the GOP lost the 2012 president election http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1-R6UEP31s. You alway are saying how can the america people for him.

  22. Bezelel says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 9:12 am

    The Iranian move is obviously “F’ed up” for any number of reasons. Denial ain’t just some river in Africa. The fact that they are doing it on obaMUD’s watch speaks volumes. Add it to the long list of Iranian current events and the plot thickens. Didn’t “o” take an oath of office?

  23. jewdog says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 7:46 pm

    I’m very surprised that the obvious ingratitude by Iran after all the appeasing favors they have received from the Chamberlain Administration (aka Obama) hasn’t been more discussed by the pundits. Doesn’t the irony sort of scream at you?
    See, it really is true that being nice is perceived as weakness by the Islamo-fascists.

  24. Petey says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 8:13 pm

    The Iranian FLEET??? This is utterly laughable, the Canadian Navy deploys more ships to the persian gulf then Iran can ever send to north american shores,

  25. Brian C. Hoff says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 8:22 pm

    Here is than other video about the teabagger party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKNUK7hxuo.
    The supid thing the GOP can do is impeackh this president, in 2014 the GOP will be destory.

  26. Waking West says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 10:39 pm

    Never mind the iranian ships. There is already a greater threat present in the form of thousands of iranians inside our soil. These are the iranians who one IC chip at a time and other ripped off technology, have enabled the jihadist nation of iran to slowly advance their growing military machine.Time and again they have proven to have a greater fealty to iran and isalm than the host country they leach off. Case in point , reza aslan, propagandist at large for the iranian regime and islam. His deceptive attempts to portray islam as not only benign but somehow beneficent in effect hide form especially the gullible left , the ongoing espionage and small acts of jihad continuously perpetrated against us.

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