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| Iran proves negative by airing their video of Gulf "standoff" |
| 2008-01-10 |
| Iran aired video Thursday of its boats and U.S. naval ships in the Persian Gulf in an apparent attempt to show that there was no confrontation between the vessels. The grainy 5-minute, 20-second video — without sound or narration — showed a man speaking into a handheld radio, with three U.S. ships floating in the distance. It appeared to be shot from a small boat bobbing at least 100 yards from the American vessels. The footage did not show any Iranian boats approaching the U.S. ships, nor any provocation. But the short clip likely did not show Sunday's entire encounter, which U.S. Navy officials have said lasted about 20 minutes. It aired on state-run English-language channel Press TV, whose signal is often blocked inside Iran. How convenient. The Pentagon has released its own video of Sunday's incident, showing small Iranian boats swarming around U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz. In the recording, a man speaking in heavily accented English threatened, "I am coming to you. ... You will explode after ... minutes." The incident, which ended without any shots fired, has heightened U.S.-Iranian tension as President Bush visits the region. Bush was in the West Bank on Thursday, and heads next to Arab Gulf nations where he is expected to discuss strategy on Iran. Iran has denied its boats threatened the U.S. vessels, and accused Washington of fabricating its video. The Pentagon dismissed that claim and warned its ships would respond with force if threatened. Actually, I heard they're going to open a six-pack of Whoop-A$$ if they do it again. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #1 ION IRAN, FRAVAHR.org > IRAN is planning to bury the TOMB OF CYRUS OF THE GREAT + other PERSIAN icons from Iran's past as part of a massive nationwide system of new dams = water projects. Also from FRAVAHR > THE AYATOLLOLAH'S NATIONAL THEOCRACY AS FREEMASONIC MACHINATION. HMMMMM, first ALEXANDER THE GREAT, now CYRUS' - maybe CYRUS will get perturbed at his tomb/grave being underwater and "go for a walk" ala "PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN" [underwater walking pirates] + GUNS-N-ROSES. D *** NG IT. MORIARITY, WHOM KNEW THE BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA CAPSIZED AND SANK IN IRAN DURING PEARL HARBOR! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-01-10 19:50 |