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Iranian recon ships probe US Naval Squadron
Strange turn of events....
I believe the US policy in the Middle East is 100X worse than the Iranian policy which is mostly to protect Palestinians from Israel's oppressive occupation of their homeland, and to protect Iranian sovereignty, which if we look at history, has been the victim of American interventionism (CIA-backed coup of DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED & SECULAR Mohammed Mossadegh; support of tyrannical Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)...
All you "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the Hitler of Iran" fail to look at history or even politics in Iran, for which the Supreme Ayatollah makes the final state decision, not the president. Hitler had DICTATORIAL powers, unlike Ahmadinejad...
| quote: | Iranians threatened U.S. ships in Hormuz: Pentagon
By Andrew Gray 24 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iranian boats aggressively approached three U.S. Naval ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a main shipping route for Gulf oil, at the weekend and threatened that the ships would "explode," U.S. officials said on Monday.
The Pentagon termed the action, involving five Iranian boats, "careless, reckless and potentially hostile" and said Tehran should provide an explanation, but Tehran dismissed U.S. concerns, saying it was a routine contact.
Vice Adm. Kevin Cosgriff, the commander of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, which is responsible for operations in the Gulf, said the Iranian boats moved aggressively toward the U.S. ships and their actions were "unduly provocative."
"The ships received a radio call that was threatening in nature, to the effect that they were closing on our ships and ... the U.S. ships would explode," Cosgriff told reporters at the Pentagon via videolink from his Bahrain headquarters.
The incident was the latest sign of tension between Washington and Tehran, at odds over a range of issues from Iran's nuclear program to U.S. allegations of Iranian support for terrorism and interference in Iraq. |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080107...q2gF_rSAF4UewgF
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