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Iran confiscates GPS equipment from seized Navy boats, says it will “prove that the American ships were ‘snooping'”

Jan 12, 2016 7:19 pm By Robert Spencer

And in a few days, Obama will give them 100 billion dollars.

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“Iran Holds Two U.S. Navy Boats After Mechanical Problems, Officials Say,” by Helene Cooper, New York Times, January 12, 2016:

WASHINGTON — The crews of two small United States Navy patrol boats were picked up by the Iranian authorities in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday after commanders lost contact with the vessels, and Pentagon officials said that Iran had agreed to return the sailors soon.

An official said that the boats appeared to have drifted into Iranian territorial waters after one of them experienced mechanical problems. The boats were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when contact was lost late in the afternoon, a Defense Department official said.

The Pentagon said they had been on a routine training mission, but those waters are a frequent location for intelligence collection by the United States, Iran and many Gulf countries. A senior military official said he expected the sailors to remain held overnight and be released on Wednesday.

The detention of the 10 sailors comes at a particularly delicate moment in the tense American-Iranian relationship, just days before the formal implementation of a nuclear deal in which the United States is supposed to unfreeze about $100 billion in Iranian assets in return for the disablement of critical nuclear facilities….

Secretary of State John Kerry, an official said, was notified of the seizure of the sailors while meeting with top Philippine officials and Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter. Mr. Kerry broke off the meeting and called his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, with whom he spent months negotiating the nuclear accord.

Many American and Middle Eastern officials believe that recent actions by the Iranian Navy against American forces in the Gulf may be intended to embarrass Mr. Zarif and President Hassan Rouhani. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps was responsible for the military side of the nuclear program, and many of its senior officers have objected to the nuclear agreement.

The semiofficial Fars news agency in Iran said that the boats had illegally traveled more than a mile into Iranian territorial waters near Farsi Island, in the Persian Gulf, which is the home of a major Iranian naval base. It said that forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Navy had confiscated GPS equipment, which would “prove that the American ships where ‘snooping’ around in Iranian waters.”

But an American official said that military and diplomatic contacts with the Iranians had been professional, which he credited to the stepped-up engagement over the nuclear accord….

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  1. mortimer says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 7:35 pm

    Iran is an existential threat to the world. They have financed unrest throughout the world. Their involvement in Iraq is a threat to the peace of the entire region.

    When will Western elites join the dots? Islam’s jihad doctrine is the problem.

    The Western elites need to remove their ideological BLINKERS of CULTURAL RELATIVISM…Islam’s jihad doctrine is an existential threat to democracy.

    • Westman says

      Jan 12, 2016 at 11:02 pm

      Isn’t it interesting that the world would be better off without both Iran and Saudi Arabia; each considering the other as the archenemy?

      • Susan says

        Jan 13, 2016 at 4:53 am

        Let’s put the blame where it belongs, which is, the WH in Washington DC. Can someone explain to the American people why CAIR was in attendance @ the State of the Union address Tuesday evening in Washington.

        • mortimer says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 11:05 am

          Susan, CAIR was at the SoU because they are the sweethearts of Obummer who LUUUUVS the Muslim Brotherhood and who ‘believes’ with all his heart that they are ‘moderate’…in spite of the evidence.

        • Carolyne says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 11:06 am

          Yes, of course I can explain it. Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim. He was born a Muslim, raised as a Muslim in Indonesia, and attended school registered as a Muslim. He has made many statements which indicate that he is a Muslim, not the least of these “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam,” at the UN. He entertains the Muslim Brotherhood at the White House and his administration is riddled with Muslims. Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s “Right Hand woman” is Muslim and was raised in Saudi Arabia, where her mother still resides, her father having died but while living, he too, lived in Saudi Arabia. Abedin was in a position to be privy to all US secrets and is still negotiating with the US Government over money she received for working for a private company while working for the State Department.

          The ages-old Islamic dream of a world-wide Caliphate is becoming a reality, thanks to Obama and other Western leaders.

    • Jimmy says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 12:57 am

      Mortimer, get real… they where in Irans waters? Iran has every right to contain the boats and soldiers, imagine if Iran had boats off the coast of California? you are ignorant and obviously not well informed.

    • Jimmy says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 1:18 am

      They where in Irans waters? Iran has every right to contain the boats and soldiers, imagine if Iran had boats off the coast of California? We are not hearing what really happened…… The way American foreign policies is going is not very good for the long term, some advice, better start learning Mandarin, because at present China owns you!

      • Mark Kelly says

        Jan 13, 2016 at 3:05 pm

        Jimmy you need to update your information. China has sold off our debt and Japan is our number one debt holder. However, they recently fired rockets from their small boats next to our carrier. That should have been considered a propagation of war……

      • peter11937 says

        Jan 13, 2016 at 4:24 pm

        Why on Earth would you believe anything that the Ayatollah says or directs to have said ?

    • Christianblood says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 4:26 am

      Mortimer posted: “…Iran is an existential threat to the world…”

      NO. Mortimer. It is actually Saudi Arabia not Iran which is number one threat to the whole world. Both historical and the current global religious genocide and persecution of Christians and other religious minorities, including the Shiites is hugely perpetrated by Sunni jihadists worldwide and across the centuries. Today, from Indonesia to Nigeria, it is the Sunnis muslim jihadists backed by Saudi Arabia, America and other Sunni states that are murdering, raping, beheading, church-bombing and persecuting Christians and others, killing tens of thousands of Christians each year. It is true that Iranian regime does persecute Christians but that cannot be compared by the global genocidal persecution perpetrated by Sunni muslim jihadists worldwide. YOU CANNOT EVEN GIVE ME give me a single case of Shiite suicide bomber blowing up a Church in Iran or Shiite jihadists murdering or burning Westerners on video while screaming allahu akbar and yet Sunni jihadists backed by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and the US do this EVERY SINGLE DAY. Fifteen of the 19 islamic jihadists that perpetrated the greatest terror attacks that the world has even seen which killed 3000 Americans on single day were Sunni salafist jihadists whose religious ideology is based on Saudi Sunni Wahabism. In adition to that, Saudi Arabia spends hundreds of Billions of its petro dollars annually on spreading their very dangerous genocidal salafist ideology all across the world. Please watch the five minute video clip on the link below as this very realistic American senator explains the fact that Saudi Arabia and Turkey are the greatest danger to the world peace:

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Jan 13, 2016 at 6:33 am

        look mate

        I don’t trust *either* Iran *or* Saudi Arabia. Or Pakistan or Turkey or any *other* Islamic entity.

        Trying to tell me Iran is somehow better or nicer than the Abominable house of Saud is kinda sorta like trying to tell me that cat-shit tastes nicer than dog-shit.

        Sorry, mate, I don’t want to eat *either*…they’re both shit. Shit is shit. Islam is Islam.

        End of.

        You claim to be all concerned about Christians. So: Iran arrests and has KILLED ex-Muslims who have become Christians. There is a Christian languishing in jail in Iran **right now**. But that doesn’t matter to you? Iran is ‘nicer’ than Saudi Arabia. less of a threat? PFFFFFT So what, they have a few Dhimmi Jews for show and some Dhimmi Christians…I BET all those people would much rather live in a country that *wasn’t* Islamic at all. The Jews are there BECAUSE IRAN WON’T LET THEM LEAVE…in effect, they’re hostages.

        Here’s one of my reasons for totally distrusting hideous Islamic Iran right alongside hideous Islamic Saudi Arabia.

        In 2009 when Israel was giving (Sunni Muslim) Jihad Fortress Gaza a well-deserved walloping (indeed, giving them far *less* than they deserve) there were huge mohammedan rallies all over the western world.

        One of them was held in Australia. It was witnessed by an ordinary Aussie, who lived on the street down which the menacing mob came marching, shouting “Death to the Jews!”.

        Here’s what the guy said (I am sorry I cannot provide a link; it was in the Comments to an article by a columnist in The Australian newspaper).

        “Jonathan Whybird
        Mon 19 Jan 09 (05:24pm)

        “….On Saturday [17th Jan] in Brisbane there was another demonstration in favour of Palestine at which anybody who bothered to go (I live in the city and they marched in my street so I had a front row ground level seat as my fiance and I had come back from a run) would have heard Muslim Australians chanting “kill the jews”.

        “**I even spoke to one protestor who confirmed he was Muslim and from Iran [nota bene, O ‘Christianblood”, you who want us not to worry about Iran – dda] who said there would only be peace when Israel and the rest of the west was destroyed.** [my emphasis – dda]

        Now this man was supported by many of his fellow protestors who screamed with him, but for three men in the crowd who shook their heads and at that point left the protest (and apologised to us for the comments of the others). {Observe: the *real* tiny minority; the majority were all on board with the rabid Jihad sentiments being expressed – dda}

        ” When I asked the man [ remember, this is A MUSLIM FROM IRAN – dda] why he hated the west he said “because you reject the prophet”….”.

        It’s a safe bet this bloke was a Shiite Muslim. Shit is Shit. Islam – Shiite or Sunni – is Islam. Israel and the USA are HATED because they typify dar al Harb. But if you live in Russia, if you are Russian, then YOU my friend are a harbi just like us. You may hate the Joooooz so much that you want to see the Muslims destroy them. You may hate America so much that you get all warm and fuzzy when you hear huge crowds in Iran chanting “Death to America”. But YOU ARE AN INFIDEL TOO and the jihad is gunning for you, too, so if you are not a Muslim in a mask , you are a fool.

        • Christianblood says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 7:20 am

          dumbledoresarmy

          Saudi Arabia is infinitely more shit and more barbarically dangerous than Iran and yet America is in bed with Saudi Arabia. Shame!
          Saudi arabia is the only country where a Christian could be executed for displaying a Cross or a Bible publicly!

        • Sam Hawkins says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 9:09 am

          “Christianblood”, your pathetically weak comeback will do as a declaration of surrender. ‘Bye now.

        • Spot On says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 10:28 am

          Thanks, DDA for bringing sanity to this argument. Anyone who wants to compare Saudi barbarity as bad and Iranian barbarity as nice, is nuts. We just gave Iran 150 Billion dollars and they stole our communications equipment from our disabled ship last night.

          Worse, we (the US government) finance both of these barbarian countries and present excellent PR on their behalf as to how civilized and nice they are. There is only one valid reason for Obama and Kerry making the grossly dangerous $150B deal with Iran….the kickback (the bribe). Obama said he needed $1 Billion for his library. I’m sure Kerry’s kickback was tiny in comparison.

      • mortimer says

        Jan 13, 2016 at 11:34 am

        Christianblood, You’re uninformed. The ayatollahs want to start World War III and bring on the Mahdi.

        (I hate your pseudonym…it’s arrogant…We are not discussing which religion is correct here…we’re discussing the errors in Islam)

        You are just another supremacist.

        • Christianblood says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 1:38 pm

          Mortimer,
          it seems you don’t understand. Please watch this American leader and what he has to say about the subject matter we are discussing here. it is only 6 minute clip. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBTH1O_pIvE

        • Adrian says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 2:00 pm

          o look… here is “Christianblood” posting his RT propaganda again – the Russian troll who hates America, still posting his disinformation on Jihad Watch…. haven’t you fulfilled your daily quota for posts for today, yet, Tovarish?

          u are right Mortimer, “christianblood” is a supremacist, – a Russian supremacist who is using this JW site to muddy the waters with his Russian propaganda… the KGB were masters at infiltrating and besmirching movements… “christianblood” has a long pedigree.

          btw, the whole world knows how much your “christianblood” and Pravoslavya have cost in rivers of blood and shattered lives inflicted by Russia through the centuries and now your “Dear and Esteemed ” Putin…

          da svidanya, “christianblood”, what a pathetic joke you trolls are… and how transparent.

        • Christianblood says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 5:16 pm

          Mortimer says

          (…I hate your pseudonym…it’s arrogant…We are not discussing which religion is correct here…we’re discussing the errors in Islam…)

          Mortimer, I did not get what you meant in that statement.
          Do you mean you hate my screen name which is “Christianblood”?
          if that is what you meant understand that the blood of over 100.000 Christians are annually being shed (murdered) by Sunni islamic jihadist fascists all across the globe and that is why I keep that screen name and I don’t understand why that is ‘arrogant’ to you.

        • Christianblood says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 5:33 pm

          Adrian says

          (…u are right Mortimer, “christianblood” is a supremacist, – a Russian supremacist who is using this JW site to muddy the waters with his Russian propaganda… the KGB were masters at infiltrating and besmirching movements… “christianblood” has a long pedigree…)

          Adrian, you got it wrong. I am not even Russian but I do share the Orthodox faith and cultural links with Russia and I am proud of it. Adrian, the Orthodox Christians of the East lived under islamic control and slavery for centuries and Westerners have continuously allied with muslim jihadists and are still allied with muslim even today. Hope you understand this. Please also click
          on the link below and watch Luke Rudkowski who is an American journalist in what he says about these current affairs such as the US and Russia and the M.E.

  2. epistemology says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    Unfreezing an amount of 100 billion bucks makes me stagger, I feel dizzy. It means 100 billion for terrorism. We’re digging our own graves in the West not only Europe but America as well. Please get rid of this Obama scumbag

    • Goat Pimp says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 3:20 am

      It appears that Obama is hell-bent on releasing that money no matter what Iran does, and Iran knows it.

      Obama’s crude logic goes: “if I don’t release the money, it means my Iran Deal is a failure”. Reality is never a consideration to him, only the fantasy.

      • guide inside says

        Jan 13, 2016 at 1:23 pm

        The prophet Forrest said–“Stupid is as stupid does”. P.S. dirka, dirka, dirka

    • Gary says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 4:44 am

      And how can Iran destroy The Great Satan? There are too many Christians here for us to buy into the allah akbar crap.

      Solution: The push of a button. Nuclear.

      So yes, it’s staggering that our Commander-In-Chief would do what he’s doing.

      Yet. It’s intentional…..

      TAQIYYA: The advance if Islam.

      • Carolyne says

        Jan 13, 2016 at 11:16 am

        Gary, I agree it is entirely intentional. Obama hates the US as do all other Muslims and he wants to install a world-wide Caliphate even if it means we are hit with nuclear weapons.

    • salim says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 5:02 am

      Worried about Iran sponsoring world terrorism?
      We already support the Saudis, UAE, Pakistan, Qatar and Turkey and they are the countries that we should be more worried about. The governments of those countries and the hearts and minds and money of their peoples are with isis and other terrorist organisations. I could also add the Kuwaitis and Jordanians, I have been there and I know how odd you appear to be once they know you are not pro isis.

      • Christianblood says

        Jan 13, 2016 at 7:23 am

        @Salim

        Tanks Salim. I totally agree. These people have NO clue what they are talking about, they are listening to American gov propaganda!

        • Ernie says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 12:25 pm

          Dear Christianblood . Not so long ago you said ; ” the Great Nation of Israel ” . That indeed Great Nation of Israel has arch enemies pushing for it’s destruction , and Iran is one of them . Iran is supporting murderers ( terrorists ) the world over . The islamo fascist regime in Iran is a very bloody ugly affair so to say ; it’s ruthless in persecuting and murdering all of it’s oppenents in Iran and even abroad . Most of the victims of this regime are totally innocent people . This is going on since 1979 , and nobody can denie this , because it is factual . The pushing for power in the Middle East by and Sunni and Shia regimes is equally ruthless/bloody/EVIL AND SATANIC . From your comments I’ve learned that you are a Christian , bright/intelligent and still young . I don’t understand how you can whitewash the Iranian regime’s crimes . I know of the horrors perpetrated by Sunni regimes , backed by many corrupt and evil Western administrations . And I know off the horrors of the Iranian regime , now backed by Russia’s administration . That Russia is aiding the Baath government in Syria is only logical : they have been allies for a long , long time . Christians and other religious minorities have freedom to practise their respective religions in Syria under the Baath government, and that’s a good thing . The obsession of Western Nations with the removal of Bashar AlAssad is dead wrong in my eyes . The involvement of certain Western nations/Turkey/Saoudi Arabia/Qatar etc . with the AlNusraFront ( and other so called moderate factions , read bloody thugs ) and Islamic state and other terrorists is pure EVIL . That the Baath government of Syria is doing ANYTHING to survive , I understand . The Baath government has harboured and pampered many terrorist organisations ( Hezbollah , and other ,’ Palestinian ‘ factions for example ) , and that’s another side of the coin . That’s an ugly side of this government ( and there are many more ugly sides to this government ) . Christianblood , what I’m trying to say is , that there are bigger and lesser evils here , and NOBODY is clean or good . It’s not good or bad . It,s bad against bad , or evil against evil . Maybe it’s because you’re young , that you don’t see these things and have a black white vision , and that you can’t see through the Russian propaganda yet . WITH RESPECT AND LOVE MY BROTHER IN CHRIST : Ernie

        • Ernie says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 12:43 pm

          P.S. Christianblood . my opinion is that Shia and Sunni islamist agendas are equally dangerous and evil . Crudely : Sunnis are experts in cutting throats and decapitating , shias are experts in hanging people .= same result : Death .

        • Christianblood says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 1:52 pm

          Ernie,

          Thanks for you good, positive words. The only reason why I hate Iran and we should all see Iran as a danger is because it keeps threatening Israel again and again and that is evil. If Iran, would abandon threatening Israel and restores diplomatic relationship with Israel, Iran and the Iranian people would be a good ally against the more destructive evil Sunni jihadist islam. I know, Iranian people are smart, cultured and more rational than their Arab and Paki counter parts, the only problem is how to persuade the Iranian mullahs to stop hating and threatening Israel. I believe this could be done and I believe we have pray hard for God to change the heart and the mind of the Iranian mullahs. The Iranian people are really good smart people but they have been hijacked by Shiite mullahs.

        • Christianblood says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 2:03 pm

          Ernie says

          (…my opinion is that Shia and Sunni islamist agendas are equally dangerous and evil . Crudely : Sunnis are experts in cutting throats and decapitating , shias are experts in hanging people .= same result…) Not so Ernie!

          Ernie, I believe Sunnis are far more dangerous and far more destructive than the Shiites. If you could give me a single case of a Shiite suicide bomber blowing up a Church in Iran or Shiite jihadists murdering, beheading, stabbing or burning Western civilians on video while screaming allahu akbar or flying planes full of civilians into buildings or a Shiite terrorist murdering and enslaving Yazidi and Christian women I will really believe your argument Ernie.

        • Christianblood says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 2:08 pm

          Ernie says

          (…my opinion is that Shia and Sunni islamist agendas are equally dangerous and evil . Crudely : Sunnis are experts in cutting throats and decapitating , shias are experts in hanging people .= same result…)

          Ernie, I believe Sunnis are far more dangerous and far more destructive than the Shiites. If you could give me a single case of a Shiite suicide bomber blowing up a Church in Iran or Shiite jihadists murdering, beheading, stabbing or burning Western civilians on video while screaming allahu akbar or flying planes full of civilians into buildings or a Shiite terrorist murdering and enslaving Yazidi and Christian women I will really believe your argument Ernie.

        • Ernie says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 3:24 pm

          You’re welcome Christianblood . You are right in saying that the Iranian people have been hijacked by (the) shiite mullahs . These mullahs ( or the regime ) reign with terror ; sounds familiar ? Of course it sounds familiar , it’s an intrinsic value of islam . Hate for Jews , Christians and all people of other denominations , or secular people are intrinsic values of islam also . Islam is the reason for existence and the actions of this satanic regime . I think it’s impossible to seperate islam from it’s core values . Fourteenhundred years of islam are a good indication I would say . The mullahs will never change the core values of islam . An islam-light doesn’t exist . Before the balkan- wars many people in the West had the impression that islam in this region was somehow a mild form of islam . Oh boy , how wrong those people were ! We all know ( or should know ) about the atrocities committed by muslims to their non muslim neighbours . And all these people had lived in ‘peace’ next to eachother for many years . Jihadis entered the region and…… O.K. Christianblood , the rest is history , what can I say more ? You know !!! I don’t see any other possibility then the destruction of islam if we want to live in a world worth of living Christianblood . And we better work and pray for that my friend . This regime in Iran has to go . It must be destroyed comletely . As must every islamic regime in the world , and islam itself . To achieve this there is no other way then Western Nations and Russia working together , I’ve said this several times before . We must settle our differences , at least untill this problem ( of islam ) is out of the world ! In time our leaders will come to this conclusion , that’s what I hope . O.K. ? And let’s work and pray for that too , Lord , give our leaders WISDOM !

        • Ernie says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 4:02 pm

          Well Christianblood I know that Iran used suicide missions in the war with Iraq , and maybe they are doing this now in Syria too , but I have to look it up . Suicide attacks or non suicide attacks , I don’t see any difference concerning the victims . Maybe you ( try ) to see a difference in the fanaticism between Shia and sunni . I don’t really see a difference . Sharia is the law in every islamic state . Iran applies it , and that says it all for me . I don’t have the impression you would like to live in Iran , and that should say something too, dont you agree ?

        • Ernie says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 4:20 pm

          You know what Christianblood : let’s agree we disagree and leave it there for the moment, o.k. ? Have a nice evening !

        • Christianblood says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 5:05 pm

          @ Ernie

          Thanks again Ernie. I do agree (in principal) with you in what you said in your last note. But Ernie, you did not provide me even a single case of a Shiite suicide bomber attacking civilians and blowing up a Church in Iran or in Lebanon or Shiite jihadists murdering, beheading, stabbing or burning Western or other civilians on video while screaming allahu akbar or flying planes full of civilians into buildings or a Shiite terrorist murdering and enslaving Yazidi and Christian women. Again, Sunni muslims all across the globe are committing these barbaric crimes on A DAILY BASIS ALL ACCROS the globe Ernie. We just had 130 French civilians coldbloodedly murdered in the streets of Paris a few weeks ago and 14 American civilians murdered by a co-working Sunni jihadist and his wife in Sanbarnadino California as they celebrate Christmas, and the downing of the Russian plane with 225 people on board and even yesterday the 10 Germans who were murdered by another Sunni jihadist suicide bomber and the Baghdad Mall bombing two days ago done by ISIS which killed dozens of Shiites and much more. Ernie, let us be realistic, all the muslim jihadists that are doing this daily barbarity are Sunni wahabi Salafist muslims and you can’t even give me a single case where a Shiite jihadists involved in this kind of homocidal wickedness. Ernie, apart from the evil theocratic and profoundly anti-semitic Iranian regime, Iranian people and other Shiites cannot be compared with their Sunni counterparts. I can’t understand why you and others don’t see this Ernie! It clear. It daily happens multiple times before our eyes globally. Also do you know, in Lebanon and even in some parts of Syria, Hezbollah is actually protecting Christian villagers and Christian monasteries from the Sunni jihadists?

          Thanks again and may God Bless you brother!

        • Ernie says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 5:05 pm

          Dear Christianblood , Dumbledorusarmy certainly knows what he is talking about , he does his homework well , that’s my experience .

    • Spot On says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 10:38 am

      How does Obama gain from this Iranian deal? How does anyone but Iran gain? The only answer is bribery. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

      BTW, $100 for someone’s campaign is not bribery. Even $1000 is not. $1 million or $10 million is bribery. Hillary acquired a $2B fund, all under her and Bill’s control. Obama want $1B for his library, also all under his control. Candidates routinely get big donors with $10 Million and much more for their re-election campaigns. Money don’t just talk, it screams.

  3. Mike says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    Well that’s one big clusterf*** for the Commander in chief and another nail in his parlous legacy. Bet he never even mentions it tonight !

    • Westman says

      Jan 12, 2016 at 10:57 pm

      Got that right..

  4. PJ says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    Something’s fishy. Did we just get caught spying? Surly one boat could have pulled the failed boat before entering Iranian waters?

    • Beagle says

      Jan 12, 2016 at 7:56 pm

      Your comment was not here when I first opened the story. But yes, that’s what it sounds like.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 12, 2016 at 10:08 pm

      GPS!!!! Oh my gosh…not the dreaded GPS?

      What morons. Every boat and ship has a GPS nowadays. So what? They’d all better have one.

      The Iranian news agency is bunch of maroons.

      GPS!!! Wow!

      • Champ says

        Jan 13, 2016 at 3:27 am

        Iran: oh you’re good!! Yep, I can see them ruling the world one day ..uh huh.

        • mortimer says

          Jan 13, 2016 at 11:21 am

          Nukes in the hands of kooks.

  5. Beagle says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 7:54 pm

    Why would small boats designed to be deployed from larger boats be making a fairly long sea voyage near Iranian waters? Not going to speculate, but the official story sounds implausible.

    • Arthur says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 1:55 am

      Perhaps it should concern us all that the lies we are told these days are of such low quality as to indicate that the leadership elite feel no need to even pretend to tell the truth. Public opinion is no longer of any significance in this ‘democracy’.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 8:09 pm

    Iran confiscates GPS equipment from seized Navy boats, says it will “prove that the American ships were ‘snooping’”
    …………………………….

    How would GPS information “prove snooping”? Of course, it could not.

    But let’s keep dropping sanctions and sending more money to the Mullahs, and we will guarantee that they will continue to kidnap our sailors. What suicidal madness.

    As for our supposed Commander in Chief, from what I’ve heard he plans to ignore this crisis entirely, and not even mention it in his State of the Union address.

    • Rob Crawford says

      Jan 12, 2016 at 10:40 pm

      They confiscated the GPS so there’s no electronic record that the boats never entered Iranian waters.

  7. Elton says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 8:29 pm

    The article states that the revolutionary guards who are responsible for the military side of the nuclear deal are not in favour of the deal and this is why they confiscated these boats and sailors. Why do they not like the deal and who exactly in Iran does want the deal? I wonder how long before Israel gets fed up with the pussy footing around and just starts their own nuclear war. One thing for sure, they will never allow Iran to go nuclear.

  8. jewdog says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    This sounds like a culture clash. In the West, GPS stands for Global Positioning System, but in Iran it means Goat Phone Service. The Iranians must be wondering where you mount the so-called captured “GPS” on the animal, so they’re understandably suspicious.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 12, 2016 at 10:18 pm

      Are the mullahs running out of goats? Is that why they try to resemble one?

    • Biff H says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 3:21 am

      GPS – Goat Philandering Sex

  9. John C. Barile says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    Great timing. Uncanny, isn’t it? Obama is poised to crow about his glowing accomplishments, but if Iran is true to form, they won’t release our Navy personnel until they have first thoroughly humiliated the Great Satan.

    • Scott M says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 3:45 am

      I dont think Trump would nuke them – but there would be NO MONEY for a a start and there would be some nasty stuff happening to Iranian assets, etc. I mean, the USA has everything any angry and determined leader needs to make creeps like these muslim iranian hot shots truly understand that they are nobodies. – Give it 5 years and Iran will finished. they will have got involved in a war with someone and it will be all over.

  10. JUDAEOGLADIATOR says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    Now weak imperialist give us give give or else. Taqiyya is great tool which the Islamic world uses with great effectiveness against nebbish obama and his college advisors.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 12, 2016 at 10:21 pm

      The ayatollahs all have post-graduate degrees in TAQIYYA!

      Taqiyya is a vital part in the life of every mosque.

  11. Myxlplik says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 9:35 pm

    First of all, why in the heck would anyone send a patrol boat to spy when we have drones the size of a parakeet?

    The patrol boats were patrolling, then got nabbed by the Iranian Navy. Wonder why the Iranians keep firing at our ships? Testing our resolve, or possible ferreting out what sort of stance our Navy takes for rules of engagement?

    Why would it be any different than what Obama puts our Mariens through in Afghanistan… which would be something like, only fire back after you’ve taken a direct hit by a cruise missle.

    This is what happens when you exude weakness as commander in chief. You get socked in the gut.

  12. Dennis says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    Hey Iran, What do you have that is worth snooping on? You really want our technology and a little humiliation. One day we will return the favor 1000 fold.

  13. Peter Charles says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    Seized boat of another sovereign nation at sea, than steal parts , hold the boats and crew….sounds like piracy to me.

  14. JP says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    I’m sure they can’t afford GPS in Iran so they’re confiscating ours to add to their high tech arsenal.

  15. Champ says

    Jan 12, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    And yet team obama works sooo hard to make peace with these perps …c’mon you guys try harder it’s bound to work ONE day!

    /sarc

    • Champ ✿ says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 1:46 am

      …oh no I used “sarcasm” gosh I hope I didn’t offend any muslims.

      /sarc

      Ahhh I did it again …sooooo sorry 😉

  16. DVult says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 12:26 am

    Nice little naval base you used to have on Farsi Island suckers – what a real American president would say this time tomorrow.

  17. particolor says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 4:29 am

    NO ! NO !! Something Smells Really BAD Here !! 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
    Something is ROTTEN IN DENMA .. ER ! DC.
    ..

  18. particolor says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 4:43 am

    America doesn’t have Spy on Iran with boats ! This stinks to Me ! 🙁
    They can see an Iranian Pissing off the Jetty with Satellites, if they want! ! And see what Time it is on His watch ! 🙂 This is some sort of a …I cant put a name to it ?

  19. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 6:18 am

    Here’s my two cents.

    Iran Hostage Crisis.

    So long as Carter was President, the Iranians knew they could thumb their noses at the USA and they did.

    BUT

    When that tough cowboy Reagan took office….the Hostage Crisis ended quicksmart.

    We might be going to see something similar this time around, if Trump gets elected.

    The captured people might well remain hostages all the way to the US elections…with Iran thumbing their nose at the USA and using the hostages as bargaining chips (and breaking deals left right and centre).
    BUT

    IF the great American public plays the game that G K Chesterton called “cheat the prophet” and elects…Trump…and Trump ignores the Islamophiles and does what his common-sense prompts him to do….

    I think *this* hostage crisis might also suddenly come to an end.

    • Mazo says

      Jan 14, 2016 at 5:25 pm

      “Tough cowboy Reagan” was a great friend of Muslims. I know many Muslim Americans and Chinese in America who voted for him because of his support to the Muslim world and expanding relations with China against the Soviet Union.

      Reagan supported the Afghan Mujahideen and praised them as the equivalent of America’s founding fathers. Reagan was a friend and ally of the Saudis and other Gulf monarchs.

      Reagan withdrew all American soldiers from Lebanon and did almost nothing in response to the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombings which killed 241 American military personnel.

      Reagan did Iran Contra deal ROFL.

      Trump? Forget about Hindus or any other non-Muslim POC ever cooperating with white nationalist Trump supporters who hate their guts.

  20. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 6:35 am

    “…The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps was responsible for the military side of the nuclear program, and many of its senior officers have objected to the nuclear agreement…”

    The same zealots and thugs who stole the Iranian Revolution for a Religious Elite, who now rule by divine right and hope to keep their nations youth in a state of perpetual juvenile submission and moral subordination.

  21. Baucent says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 7:49 am

    This is an interesting little international incident. Undoubtedly engineered by the Iranians to embarrass America. In December they provocatively fired a ship missile near a US vessel. Now they intercept a US patrol boat for allegedly straying into Iranian waters. Media reports say the US boat had “mechanical problems.” What does that mean? Does it mean it had engine problems or a navigational problem?
    Reminds me of the loss a few years back of the CIA drone that had “mechanical problems” and ended up landing in Iran, apparently controlled by the Iranians. Clever and devious people those Iranians, could they have interfered someway with the boats navigation?

  22. JIMJFOX says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 9:10 am

    They have all been released. Storm in a teacup.

  23. steve says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 10:35 am

    It sounds like a big show served up by the US just to make the Iranian nuke deal more palatable if such a thing can be possible except when you think of the mass thought of the American people to believe such crap. Odumber will try anything at this point to go out with a bang for legacy except in this case he really is giving a bang to the Iranians. Now the iranians can play nice Muslims giving us back our people!

  24. Juan says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 1:53 pm

    It wasn’t the negotiation. It was the 900 million dollars.

  25. Pumbar says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    The BBC reported that the sailors have been returned unharmed. Kerry was on thanking the Iranians and saying that this could not have happened two or three years ago. If I was an old cynic I might say it’s a stitch up for media consumption.

  26. Custos Custodum says

    Jan 13, 2016 at 11:26 pm

    The boats were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when contact was lost late in the afternoon, a Defense Department official said.

    The official story makes no sense.

    With multiple, robust communication systems and a minimum of good practice it is virtually impossible to “lose contact” even in the face of heavy electronic jamming (which the Iranians are quite capable of).

    Also, no sailor with his salt would rely solely on GPS, particularly in the Persian gulf. One ALWAYS cross-references several methods of navigation.

    EITHER this is a special op that went wrong and had to be smoothed over – this would at least not be dishonorable.

    OR we are looking at outright piracy.

    Note that the boats were seized by the naval forces of the “Guardians of the Islamic Revolution” (aka “Revolutionary Guards” to the Islam-sensitive). This quasi-military corps is in part modeled on the National Socialists party-controlled SS forces.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Jan 13, 2016 at 11:46 pm

      … no sailor *worth* his salt …

  27. Mark Kelly says

    Jan 14, 2016 at 9:29 am

    This will allow Obama his justification for freeing seized funds of known terrorists elements. All high speed assets and rescue assets have multiple engines to support any failures. Not to mention tow lines. But this is false flag “take one for the team” so tyrant, communist, muslim loving lack of spine prez can kiss more islamic booty. They all deserve a direct route to satan’s future abode. Zeroes deserve zeroes. That’s why they have pitiful military organization over there. They only know how to attack women and children and the unarmed. That’s why Obama wants your guns. He never addresses the criminal cause they are his friends. It’s those bad guns running down the street shooting at people…. butter up buttercup…… You liberals smooch up to some more corn hole via sharia pedophile law… next up beat your wife day or honor kill your sister…. Religion of PEACE so Dorothy “click your heals and say there’s no place like Islam….. I want to be around to see those faces as reality falls…… IDIOTS=LIBERAL WOMEN….

  28. pumbar says

    Jan 14, 2016 at 11:41 am

    I’m sure this guy is the cleric formerly known as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.

  29. david troutman says

    Jan 17, 2016 at 6:27 am

    you know there had to be collusion, most likely decided in advance so the Iranian government will look like they are standing up to the americans rather than total capitulation- 2 boats 90 miles off course? how many times do we get 90 miles off course with our gps? navigational equipment was not working? on both boats? when one boat breaks down the other is trained to tow it back but that did not happen-I am not criticising this method if it stabilizes a government in the region that can potentially help us-I am just saying what we have been told does not make sense and if we think we will know what is going on I would say not in our life time.

  30. Peter says

    Jan 17, 2016 at 10:24 am

    Anyone who has to resort to names like “Obummer” or “Ovomit” to refer to our President has already proven himself to be an asshole.

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