A certain Mr. Trump might have something to say about this, but in any case, the Islamic Republic of Iran is itching for war with the United States to a degree that few people realize. Get the details in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran.
“Iranian Navy Commander Announces Plans to Send Ships to Gulf of Mexico,” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, November 22, 2017:
The head of Iran’s Navy, Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi, promised in his first speech since his appointment to “fly the Iranian flag in the Gulf of Mexico,” encouraging Navy officers to consider an Iranian presence in the Atlantic Ocean a pivotal goal and soon-to-be routine occurrence.
The Iranian news agency Tasnim reported that Khanzadi asserted the Iranian Navy “will soon go to the Atlantic Ocean, visit some South American countries, and wave the Iranian flag in the Gulf of Mexico.”
“Highlighting plans to develop military gear for operations in international waters, the commander said the Navy would unveil new vessels and submarines within the next year,” it added. Tasnim noted that Khanzadi placed emphasis on unveiling a variety of new technologies that would help Iran dominate the Atlantic Ocean as well as waters closer to the borders of Iran.
Algemeiner notes that, while Khanzadi’s mission of placing Iranian assets in the Gulf of Mexico is a new ambition of the Navy’s, to have an established presence in the West has always been Iran’s goal. The outlet quotes Rear Adm. Habibollah Sayyari, who stepped down in early November as Khanzadi was appointed, saying at Khanzadi’s inauguration that “sailing in open waters between Europe and Americas should be the Navy’s goal, which will be realized in the near future.”
The Islamic Iranian regime, which repeatedly accuses the United States of “terrorism” and support for groups like the Islamic State, has repeatedly insisted on a policy of attempting to contain America’s influence abroad. “The intentions of the U.S. are crystal clear to us. They are trying to weaken our defense resources,” Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, the deputy chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, told state-run Fars News in an interview last month.
Jazayeri insisted that America “created ISIL in order to cause a public phobia of Islam, unleashing it at regional countries as mercenaries in a proxy war” and urged Europe to help contain America’s influence.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei made similar remarks this week. “Several consecutive plots by the U.S., Zionism and the reactionary [regimes] in the region were foiled by the authority of the Islamic Republic. One of them was the eradication of [ISIS],” he asserted. Iran claims credit for the eradication of ISIS from Syria, despite largely attacking non-ISIS anti-Assad elements while U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish militias did much of the work against the Islamic State….
DJ Dajjal says
….There’ll be a popular joke in a year’s time: “Why has the new Iranian navy got glass-bottomed ships?”
….”So that they can see the old Iranian navy”…
WorkingClassPost says
First question on their naval application form:-
“Can you swim?”
Robin says
Yes but the obvious correct answer would be:
“Inshallah”.
Burt Gummer says
That’s right, Admiral, keep dancin’ on the minefield!
Benedict says
Its the chest beating to generate excitement among the Iranian people. The rest of the world and sane Iranians know that this a joke. For him to speak this way is because of the former Muslim President Obama.
Robin says
What’s the big deal? The Washington regime has been undermining Iran for decades (just as they have with the “evil” North Korea). Why can’t the US regime just f off and mind its own business. They have for decades been surrounding Iran with bases and their own navy. It’s not as if theUS is surrounded by enemies as many countries are. It’s not as if it hasn’t got enough land of its own. So just f off and stop causing trouble everywhere else.
PS – this comment here has nothing to do with the matter of 1400 yrs of Jihad which of course also needs to be addressed but not by double-standards diplomacy. There are enough valid points to be made about Jihad without making dud ones Robert!
Barry says
….f off is right….to you.
WorkingClassPost says
There is plenty of evidence that Iran is trying to extend it’s influence into S. America, so this article is entirely relevant to the last 1400 years.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/05/27/iran-rising-tehran-using-hezbollah-in-latin-american-cultural-centers-to-infiltrate-west/
Dustoff says
You do know that Iran is one of the biggest suppliers of terror
Robin says
You do know that the Washington regime are the only ones to use nukes to attack civilians, and they still haven’t apologised 70 years later. Oh but who started that – well the same ol USA calling uninvited to a Japanese port with a rather militarised ship a while earlier, just to build (enforce unwanted?) trade links you do know.
And you know that the same Washington regime dropped more bombs on NK than were dropped in the whole ww2 (after installing their puppet regime in the south), reducing the NK to a moonscape, and they wonder why NK is ever so slightly hostile after decades of subsequent sanctions, and oh those evil NK people with the starving victims and many trying to flee, no connection whatsoever with the Washington regime having been so helpful for so long, You do know.
And in 2014 the Washington regime helping to get rid of Ukraine’s elected president in the “revolution” there, followed by some mysterious great hostility from residents of Odessa, Mariupol, Donetsk, Lugansk…you do know.
And you do know a whole huge list of such international “aid” I could hardly fit on this page. And you do know that’s why the USA is The most popular and loved country ever anywhere, you do know. (Or maybe they forgot to teach you that in school you do know?
Robin says
And you do know that I forgot to mention a certain Shah whose rise to power couldn’t possibly have had anything to do with the Washington regime.
gravenimage says
Oh, good God–it seems that Robin is upset that Adolph did not triumph, that all of Korea is not suffering under Communism as is the north, and wishes that Iran had fallen to the Mullahs even earlier. *Ugh*.
Wellington says
You’re a fool, Robin, only the reason for such remaining a question mark. Well, if one is going to defend poor Imperial Japan, North Vietnam (which you mistakenly referred to as “NK” respecting the amount of bombs dropped, but then a silly person like you could hardly be expected to make a distinction between Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia) and think that the Shah, whatever his faults, was worse than what followed him, then any idiotic notion is possible———–such as your idiotic notions.
And really, the “America is the only country to use nukes” is such a tired and stupid argument that only those out of arguments use it. Truman’s decisions about Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved far, far, far more lives, both Japanese and American, than those decisions destroyed, and which brought a quicker end to man’s largest war in history than would have occurred otherwise, and one knows this or should know it; you either do, in which case you are a liar, or you don’t, in which case you are an ignoramus. I might add that General MacArthur’s administration of a completely defeated Japan was an enlightened and generous administration of a totally conquered enemy that the pages of history reveal no equal of. Apparently you’re clueless here too.
Here’s another thought you might want to ponder, though it will almost certainly escape you: Imagine the world over the last century with one difference—–no American military. Yes, everything the same but no American military. Do you really want to argue that the world would be better off today if so? If so, tell me why, doofus.
gravenimage says
Poor, poor, Iran, always victimized by the “Great Satan”…sarc/off
AleX says
Robin, you sound like a troll from the RT comments’ section.
Cut short your anti-US propaganda and refer to the subject in question.
Or else.
ChristianBosnia says
Do they know how to swim?
WorkingClassPost says
They’d better be quick learners.
Very quick.
John W says
We can send Anni Cyrus out to great them. 🙂
John W says
We can send Anni Cyrus out to greet them. 🙂
Cornelius says
Obama once implied that Iran was nothing…incapable of ever challenging the USA.
I can readily imagine a day when Iran (and North Korea) has produced hundreds of nuclear-tipped ICBMs. If you can produce one, you can produce a hundred. If you can produce a hundred, you can produce a thousand.
The world is changing folks.
Westman says
Humans have never developed a technology that was only used never, once, or twice nor has that technology remained within the control of one nation. There are now 9 nuclear armed nations and about 9900 estimated nuclear weapons.
Does any thoughtful person, reading history, really think, like the hedonistic liberals, that nuclear detante will last in the hands of religious nuts and personality-cult dictators?
Older Canadian says
Yes obama.
To mean what you say is not at all the same thing as to say what you mean. Lewis Carroll.
W says
the Atlantic is for men..real sea dogs..us Brits have been deployed for 500 yrs in the Atlantic ..from Drake to Nelson, to defeating the Germans in Two World wars…and then the Falkland War…
The iranians won’t be able to cope with REAL seas with REAL Waves,,bitter cold…
Monty says
Yeah? The “Brits” are more likely to side with the Iranians. Drake, Nelson, Churchill, even Thatcher would not recognise (no longer Great) Britain today. I’m English btw.
Geoffrey Britain says
BRING IT ON BUBBA!
WPM says
More saber rattling they forget Obama is no longer president.
Dustoff says
He gave them the cash to make more trouble.
Dustoff says
Hey Iran Navy. How long can you treed water?
Guest says
Don’t mess with Texas. We aren’t just Republicans we are fighters forged in the Texas heat. We won’t surrender to our worst enemy since Hitler
ConanKong says
What is Farsi for S.S. Minnow?
Voytek Gagalka says
The Navy without strong air support is absolutely WORTHLESS. Say that to Iranians who, currently, do not have sufficiently powerful air-force. Saudi Arabia has bigger air-force than the Islamic “republic.” They apparently learn nothing from the WWII as far as military might is concerned.
Older Canadian says
Don”t underestimate this. Iran’s navy has been pumping up for several years.
My great PM’s brother, Sasha Trudeau actually did a propaganda film for Iran a few years ago re their expanding navy, plus he did a interview on our Canadian network supporting this film and Iran’s need to have missiles to protect themself from Israel,
Their first stop in south america most likely will be Venezuela where they get most of their uranium from for their nucular needs. Also check out who the vice president of Venezuela is, sort of draws some dots.
Hard to believe? Yes it is but also don’t forget the 10 day visit they had I think in June this year from North Korea by their top military guy.
Agree though most of the Iranians I have met are nice pople. But then again it only takes a small percentage of a population of any culture or country to shape and create history not in a favourable way.
gravenimage says
Cuba is sucking up to the Mullahs along with Venezuela.
Older Canadian says
Yes I heard.
Trudeau is sucking up Cuba, again, have concerns.
Walter Sieruk says
The foundation of this whole Islamic “Republic “of Iran is based on the “holy book” of Islam the Koran, as in 47;4. Some call this religious book, the Quran. All this leads to a very important question: “Is the Quran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?” The jihadists use many verses from the Quran as the main source of justification for their violence, mayhem and murders. As found in For example, 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. The answer is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.” In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax and therefore This Islamic regime rests on a “house of cards.” That is total and complete falsehood.
Moa says
Islamic is fiction and is false, The archeology is clear, Islam’s claims about its origins don’t match the physical record:
“An Historical Critique of Islam’s Beginnings”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9lIuUjPs0
Islam is the Scientology of the Dark Ages, invented by evil men to enslave other men and, especially, women.
mummymovie says
Great- they can finish off their South American cruise by being blown out of the water by American forces.
Though we put up with a lot of harassment from those Houthi attack boats, which should have been destroyed immediately.
These cocky Iranian despots need to be put in their place, NOW. This is our next big problem (i.e. Kim Jong Un, etc.), and we need to nip it in the bud post-haste.
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Charles says
Someone, in comments above, was “bitchin’ ” about Harry S. Truman’s decision to ends WW2 with two baby nukes dropped on Japan!
Only someone totaly ignorant of the FACTS OF HISTORY could possibly go there.
For the time (1945) and place, this was THE ONLY POSSIBLE CHOICE!
And it was the right one!
gravenimage says
Very true, Charles. Apparently, Robin is still aggrieved that we defeated Fascism.
tired vet says
Remember Operation Praying Mantis?
gravenimage says
More ridiculous saber rattling from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
It is good move from Iran to check the excesses of evil hegemonic United States. All nations are entitled to navigate in international waters if they can. Iran is now technologically advanced and could compete in all spheres of influence.
Infidel says
Mad jehaadi midsummer dreams…