Iran moves ships towards Yemen

| April 19, 2015

Iran Navy

Our buddy, Kristina Wong, writes in The Hill that a convoy of Iranian ships are moving towards Yemen ostensibly to lend support to the Shi’ite Houthis, where Saudi Arabia is enforcing a blockade of the ports in the war-torn country;

What’s unusual about the new deployment, which set out this week, is that the Iranians are not trying to conceal it, officials said. Instead, they appear to be trying to “communicate it” to the U.S. and its allies in the Gulf.

Even Jimmy Carter would have moved another carrier group or two in response to this latest threat in the region.

Category: Terror War

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Thunderstixx

You know things are bad when your foreign policies are being compared to Jimmuh, and you end up losing…

Old Trooper

The geraniums know that President limpwrist won’t get off his knees to try and stop them, because he wants that nuke agreement too bad.

Ex-PH2

Geraniums?

rgr1480

Cockney rhyming-slang? Geraniums-Iranians ??

Poetrooper

Ex-PH2, 10:39 am and you still hadn’t had your coffee?

Poetrooper

And now that I think about it, I believe the geraniums appellation is quite appropriate. Some geranium plants are known to be protocarniverous, meaning they entrap insects but lack the ability to digest them as food.

In other words, they bite off more than they can chew.

Iranians/geraniums indeed…

Ex-PH2

Tea, Poetrooper, not coffee. Tea, black tea with 2% milk, no sugar, brewed strong and hot until summer sets in. Then it will be iced tea with lemon.

And I was up at 4:50AM, trying to figure out if the day would dawn sunny or not, or even dawn at all.

Poetrooper

Well hell’s bells Ex-PH2, if you got up that early you were probably napping when Old Trooper introduced those geraniums.

Old Trooper

I heard a comedian, back in the day call them that and I couldn’t breathe I was laughing so hard.

68W58

Looks like the Saudis have the edge in surface warships (7-6 in frigates), but the Iranians have three Kilos to no Saudi subs. Lots of F-15s for the KSA though as opposed to Mig 29s and some Chinese fighters for the Iranians. Got to give the edge to the Saudis if it comes to a fight.

11B-Mailclerk

Israel, on the other hand, has submarines.

Hmmm….

W2

The Saudi navy has some capability, but ASW in the gulf, against diesel subs, has always been a dicey business. I will say that is one of the worst places to fight a sea battle, with lots of commercial shipping and somewhat restricted navigation. If someone starts shooting, the situation is going to degenerate very quickly.

Chris Mallory

The Iranians are fighting against ISIS and are supporting a group in Yemen that is fighting against Al Qaeda. The Saudis support ISIS and AQ. Not to mention the war crimes being committed by the Saudi attacks on Yemen. So, why are we supporting the Saudis?

John

The saddest of all that is happening, especially with how we deal with the tyrannical threats, is the brutality and indifference our government shows the American citizen. They are timid and weak with the threats against us, but brutally indifferent and punitive to us, the American citizen. That is a disturbing trend. Wake up America and inform yourself.

TankBoy

This is all a direct reflection of the stupidity of the American voter, the culpability of the mainstream media, and the criminal negligence and ignorance of the princess of academia currently occupying the White House. People bitch about his vacations. I consider that a small price to pay to not have him actually breaking things more.

Blaster

+1

11B-Mailclerk

Better an incompetent malignant narcissist, than a competent one?

That would tend to keep the body count down to survivable levels.

TankBoy

Unfortunately he is also incompetent at pretending to be effective, which has emboldened all of the not so friendly players to step into the power void and make things even more unstable, which could lead to that unsustainable body count.

TankBoy

Slow golf clap in Sterling Heights.

A Proud Infidel®™

Meanwhile, B. Hussein 0bama himself had no comment other than “Present!” as he headed for the golf course.

UpNorth

Indeed, Øbola will board AF1 tomorrow or Tuesday and head to Florida. Ostensibly, to deliver an Earth Day address. I hesitate to point out that climbing on board a 747 to burn up a few thousand pounds of carbon dioxide is no way to honor Earth Day. Not even mentioning the follow-on flights of the C-17s.
But, I’m sure it’s coincidence that his favorite golf course is near the destination for his flight. And, another coincidence, there is nothing on his public schedule this week.

UpNorth

Should have been “to churn out a few thousand pounds of carbon dioxide”. I hate auto-correct.

rb325th

President Mom Jeans is going to be very perturbed for sure… or not.

Ex-PH2

If the voters in this country ever stop voting with their crotches and their stomachs, someone please notify me.

Remember the fussing when Willie the Pageporker said he smoked pot but ‘didn’t inhale’? Oh, that’s not such a bad thing, now, is it? No, ’cause THIS one has not only smoked that crap, he’s endorsing medical maryjane, because…. bodaprez!!! At some point, Medicare will pay for prescriptions for a bunch of aging oldfart hippies to get high.

Oh! While I’m at it: there is recent research, including MRIs, that clearly shows a physical shrinkage of the hipppocampus – the memory center in the brain, kind of like the hard drive in your computer – that accompanies prolonged use of marijuana. Well, happy day!!!! Not only will those aging slackers and trainspotters get it for free because… Medicare!!. They will also lose what is left of their tiny minds. And you’ll have nursing homes full of these stone-brained gasbags who can’t remember whether or not they are wearing underwear, but boy, can they recall the Summer of Love…sort of.

I hate that shit.

It doesn’t help that the morons who voted him in and displaced brillary with him blew off that irresponsible crap. No one else could have gotten away with it.

Well, these things all come full circle, you know. You reap what you sow. It was not US who voted for this jackass and his ilk not so long ago.

Those who did – well, they got a smarmy, smug slacker who doesn’t give a crap about anything at all and never will, whose pettiness is more and more evident every day, and they don’t like what they got.

Tough bananas.

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

Jack Kennedy and Ronnie are spinning in their graves!

Next week we will read about Iranian boarding parties, detained Americans and a Saudi/Israel solution (yes we will).

Obama is visiting the Everglades on Wednesday of Earth something or the other.

charles w

Stalin’s birthday.

A Proud Infidel®™

Yeah, Earf-day and Stalin’s birthday fall on the same date. Happenstance? Coincidence? I think not.

Blaster

If we (and by “we” I mean the U.S. government) could get our nose out of Irans ass, we would be able to put our boot in it.

Ex-PH2

And update on US Navy ships:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-navy-aircraft-carrier-cruiser-steam-toward-yemen-amid-fighting/ar-AAbpek8

I noticed one thing: the ‘reporter’ (and I use that term loosely) didn’t bother with spellcheck. I’ll see if I can find a Reuters link on this, something that has some actual detail.

Steam? The Roosevelt is coal-fired now? Hmmm. I did not know that.