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Iran to send warships to the Atlantic, closer to U.S. waters
REUTERS ^ | January 4, 2019

Posted on 01/04/2019 5:04:58 AM PST by McGruff

The Iranian navy will send warships to deploy in the Atlantic from March, a top commander said on Friday, as the Islamic Republic seeks to increase the operating range of its naval forces to the backyard of the United States, its arch foe.

A flotilla will leave for the Atlantic early in the Iranian new year, starting from March, Iran’s naval deputy commander said.

“The Atlantic Ocean is far and the operation of the Iranian naval flotilla might take five months,” Rear-Admiral Touraj Hassani was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA.

Hassani said in December that Iran would soon send two to three vessels on a mission to Venezuela.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: McGruff

we won’t have to travel as far to sink them . . . . .


41 posted on 01/04/2019 6:24:56 AM PST by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
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To: sit-rep
... Dont we after all have control over GPS and Satellite communications??

They probably have access to the Russian GLONASS constellation.

42 posted on 01/04/2019 6:28:01 AM PST by Tonytitan
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To: bert

Historically... Reality is we started the problem and have been perpetuating it since 1953. Why?


43 posted on 01/04/2019 6:28:54 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: McGruff

Pro Tip: Bring lots of tow cables...

regards,


44 posted on 01/04/2019 6:29:23 AM PST by Thunder 6
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To: McGruff

Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia


45 posted on 01/04/2019 6:35:31 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: McGruff
I didn't know you could take bass trackers into the open ocean. 😆
46 posted on 01/04/2019 6:37:12 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Openurmind

If you can, recall that a conference to prosecute WW II was held in Tehran. Iran was a vital corridor for supplies delivered to the Russians.

By bringing up 1953, you ignore the fact that things change. You are attempting to insert irrelevancies into the current reality


47 posted on 01/04/2019 6:43:01 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Princess Gray Beaver, for President?)
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To: McGruff

How the hell do you say you’re leaving “from March”? You leave from a place not a month. Ffs do these towelhead journos know English?


48 posted on 01/04/2019 6:45:37 AM PST by DC Packfan
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To: McGruff

Internal politics, me thinks.


49 posted on 01/04/2019 6:47:58 AM PST by Bogie
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To: McGruff

From a quick look, it doesn’t look like Iran has any sort of oiler or supply vessels, not sure if they have unrep capabitities, should have some vert rep capability. Not sure what the range of the ships are. Any port visits scheduled?


50 posted on 01/04/2019 6:52:31 AM PST by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Tonytitan

copy that...


51 posted on 01/04/2019 6:54:10 AM PST by sit-rep
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To: aces

nira?


52 posted on 01/04/2019 6:55:19 AM PST by null and void (If they don't respect our borders, why would you expect them to respect our National Parks, or us?)
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To: McGruff

All those sanctions must be working well, if they have money to send warships around the globe!
Oh, wait! $150 million? On pallets, you say? Oh!


53 posted on 01/04/2019 6:56:37 AM PST by Fireone (Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
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To: bert

“Meanwhile on Free Republic, many support Iran by constantly demanding we get out of theMiddle East.”

That’s quite a stretch.


54 posted on 01/04/2019 6:57:15 AM PST by semaj (We are the People)
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To: semaj

No, it is not. It is plainly seen every day, constantly.


55 posted on 01/04/2019 7:04:18 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Princess Gray Beaver, for President?)
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To: McGruff

Are the Bahamas and Bimini on alert?
Should Haiti take note?


56 posted on 01/04/2019 7:09:36 AM PST by GOYAKLA (Winning not whining!)
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To: buckalfa

You should have realized it when Iran started using IEDs
against us in Iraq

They should have been flattened then


57 posted on 01/04/2019 7:18:11 AM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: bert

It’s everything but irrelevant. There has been an on going toxic environment in US/Iranian relations with the Iranian PEOPLE, not government administrations, since the Truman administration embraced Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in the late 1940’s to protect private British oil interests and the M16/CIA coup in 1953.

The list of repeated “bipartisan” mistakes on our end has perpetually continued up through Obama’s administration. No matter how ugly and ignorant the dog is, when you keep kicking it over and over it will indeed come to hate you. Cause and effect. We need to also address “why” the dog hates us, this is just as important as how dangerous the dog has now become or we will continue to keep repeating these same actions.

https://origins.osu.edu/article/frenemies-iran-and-america-1900/page/0/0


58 posted on 01/04/2019 7:34:59 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: McGruff

Who cares?????


59 posted on 01/04/2019 7:51:57 AM PST by terycarl
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To: LukeL

#9 They will get stuck in the flotilla island of plastic : )


60 posted on 01/04/2019 7:57:39 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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