Iranians point weapon at US troops
AW1Ed sends us a link to MSN which reports that a small Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard boat pointed one of it’s armaments at a US helicopter that was in international waters;
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the incident took place when a Navy MH-60 helicopter flew within half a mile (0.8 km) of two Iranian vessels in international waters. One of the vessels pointed a weapon at the helicopter, the U.S. officials said.
“The behavior by our standards is provocative and could be seen as an escalation,” the officials said. At no point did the crew of the helicopter feel threatened, they added.
It was not immediately clear what type of weapon was pointed at the U.S. aircraft.
From Reuters;
There was no immediate Iranian comment on the incident. Trump’s transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is just the latest in a series of incidents exasperated by the Iranians’ inhospitable behavior in the region. For his part, President-elect Trump has claimed that any Iranian vessel that harassed the U.S. Navy in the Gulf would be “shot out of the water,” during a Trump presidency.
Category: Terror War
Heinz Kerry sent to negotiate terms of Obama’s apology letter and reparations.
…after he gives Raoul Castro a BJ
And a ride on his pink bike.
Cause nothin’ says manly-man like a pink, girl’s bike with fenders.
Don’t forget the pretty pink streamers on the handle bars!
Meantime, Mosul’s facing a siege for real.
but the big news is that Kanye is still hospitalized.
His father in law (sarc) will show up in nurse outfit all better.
I suspect that, just like when Regan took over from Carter, the raghead imams will quiet down in January.
Remember the old joke “What is flat and glows in the dark?”
I remember those days well (was on active duty in Alaska). I’ve often wondered what action the Reagan administration would have taken if the hostages in Iran were not released.
They won’t get away with that shit as of January 20, 2017! I hope it’ll be like Reagan’s inauguration, I remember watching ti and hearing someone yell “THEY’RE FREE Mr. President…” referring to the US Citizens held hostage by Iran as Reagan was departing the arena he was sworn in at. I hope Trump succeeds in getting Mattis as his SECDEF, I can imagine the new ROE’S, something like “Vaporize them if they fuck with you…”
“Give the some HELLFIRE”…
This shit will end when we get the weapons free call.
Three words: Operation Preying Mantis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis
Operation PREYING MANTIS definitely gave the Iranians a pounding, but it wasn’t the first U.S. military operation to punish the Iranians for acting stupid in international waters. On 21/22 September 1987, the year before Operation PREYING MANTIS, U.S. forces operating as a part of Operation PRIME CHANCE attacked and captured the Iranian minelayer ‘Iran Ajr’, which had been spotted laying mines in international waters. ‘Capturing the Iran Ajr’ http://www.navybook.com/no-higher-honor/timeline/capturing-the-iran-ajr/ ‘The Iran Ajr, formerly known as the Arya Rakhsh, was a Japanese-built amphibious landing ship used by Iran to lay naval mines during the Iran-Iraq War. The 614-ton, 54-meter ship was the focus of one of the most dramatic moments of Operation Prime Chance, which was the secret portion of Operation Earnest Will, which was the mission to protect U.S.-flagged petroleum-carrying ships in the Persian Gulf. On 21 September 1987, U.S. forces tracked the ship as it left Iranian waters. Army helicopters were dispatched from their secret perch aboard the Navy guided missile frigate Jarrett (FFG 33) to shadow it. When the aviators reported that people aboard the Iran Ajr were laying mines, the U.S. commander in the Persian Gulf ordered the Army pilots to “stop the mining.” The helicopters fired on the ship, killing some of the mariners and chasing others into the water. Navy SEAL commandos later boarded the ship, confirmed the presence of mines, and detained the surviving Iranians. On 26 September, the SEALs scuttled the ship in international waters. The detainees were later transferred “in the dead of night” to an Iranian C-130 airlifter at an Omani airfield, according to a 22 July 1992 article in Newsweek. When the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) struck a mine the following April, Navy explosive ordnance specialists matched the serial numbers of nearby unexploded mines to the ones aboard the Iran Ajr. This evidence of Iranian involvement in the Roberts mining led to the biggest surface-warfare battle since World War II, the retribution campaign of 18 April 1988 called Operation Praying Mantis.’ The link to the article that I posted above also has actual photos from the ‘Iran Ajr’… Read more »
I hope we are not already looking for another war. This seems to be a overblown report to me.
Another war, Chip, or an unacknowledged aspect of the war that the Imams have declared on us?
Whatever the mediots believe and preach, those trying to kill us because we refuse to acknowledge their fiction as god will not lay down their arms and gather ’round the drum circle to sing “Kumbaya” with us.
When threatened with death the appropriate response is to neutralize the one(s) making the threat with copious quantities of judiciously applied lead an HE.
Iran has been at war with us since 1979.
The U.S. and Iran have worked together even currently in Syria. The relationship seems sort of complicated to me.
Huh? Was that when we intercepted their ships delivering weapons?
Iran declared war on us in 1979. We should have finished it a long time ago.
Our relations with Iran are excellent. We signed a treaty with them not so long ago. Helluva deal. We allow them to acquire the stuff to develop nuclear weapons, we pay them mountains of money not to withdraw from the agreement, we dutifully note each of the violations of that agreement Iran commits, and we do nothing except, perhaps, sweeten the honey pot. We pay. They laugh. Great deal.
“At no point did the crew of the helicopter feel threatened…”
Is anyone else as bothered by that comment as I am? If you’re walking down the street and some ass monkey points a gun at you, are you just going to stand there and wait for bad things to happen? “Aww, he’s gonna sell me the gun so he can buy a loaf of bread for his starving kids…” NOT! If you are stupid enough to stand there with your head up in the shade, well, you get what’s coming.
This so typifies the whole fucked-in-the-head attitude of Dumbocrats in general and Barry The Wonder Nut specifically. But hey, it’s just American boys and girls out there at the pointy end of the stick… something these pecker-pulling, pants-around-the-ankles-waddling, pud-pounding, ass-grease-for-brains pissants have no concept of. Once again documenting why dumbocrats should not be allowed to even talk about National Defense, much less try to run it.
This keeps up something very bad is going to happen to one of our ships or to one of our cities or maybe two or more.
They point at us then we should fire ours at the islams.
Showing them we are mad a HELL and we are NOT going to take it anymore!!!!