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Iran Vows To Target More Enemy Ships in Global Waters
gCaptain ^ | January 6, 2024 | Jan Harvey

Posted on 01/07/2024 6:14:58 PM PST by artichokegrower

he commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed on Saturday to reach “the enemy” far and near as tensions soar on key shipping routes where Tehran’s allies have been attacking vessels.

“Today, we are facing an all-out battle with the enemy,” said Guards commander Hossein Salami at a ceremony in the southern Gulf port city of Bandar Abbas, where the Guards’ navy unveiled a new ship named “Abu Mahdi” and 100 missile launchers.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bidenlegacy; iran; navy; shipping; trade; war
Schooner Enterprise vs Barbary Corsair Tripoli

On August 1, 1801, the schooner Enterprise, commanded by Lieutenant Andrew Sterett, encountered the Barbary corsair Tripoli west of Malta and prepared for engagement. After a three-hour battle and false surrenders by Tripoli's commander, Admiral Rais Mahomet Rous, Enterprise broadsided the vessel. Admitting defeat, Rous threw the Tripolitian flag into the sea. The success of the battle inspired the United States to continue the war against the Barbary States. Sterett resigned his commission from the Navy in June 1805.

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/forgotten-wars-19th-century/barbary-war-1801-1805/enterprise-vs-tripoli.html

Let's do it again

1 posted on 01/07/2024 6:14:58 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

How many wars can we fight at the same time? Right now it looks like the answer is zero. Not “properly”.


2 posted on 01/07/2024 6:18:29 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

None of this crap would be happening if Trump were Prez.


3 posted on 01/07/2024 6:22:16 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: artichokegrower

WWIII


4 posted on 01/07/2024 6:27:15 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: artichokegrower

The Mullahs in Tehran are in affect declaring war, and the response to them should be more than equal to the Mullahs declarations.

All the nations whose ships are in danger should declare war on the Houthis and eliminate them, removing a proxy of the Mullahs, as Israel is doing with Hamas in Gaza.


5 posted on 01/07/2024 6:32:31 PM PST by Wuli
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To: artichokegrower

Operation Praying Mantis 2.0- let’s do it again.

CC


6 posted on 01/07/2024 6:37:11 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: artichokegrower

On pirates in the past....

“Captain Bainbridge remarked, his resolve firm, “I hope I shall never again be sent to Algiers with tribute, unless I am authorized to deliver it from the mouth of our cannon.”
― Brian Kilmeade, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History
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Obama made it a little different and begged to be able to humbly present pallets of cash to the Iranians. Sort of the same thing. /S


7 posted on 01/07/2024 6:37:30 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: wardamneagle
WWIII

Nope, not the whole World

Just Iran vs. the US + UK + France ... most other countries don't have the offensive weapons/ships necessary

And it won't be like WWI or II, with intense daily battles going on for years ... Iran's military will be flattened pretty quick, if they really want to push things


8 posted on 01/07/2024 6:46:05 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian vermin out!!)
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To: artichokegrower

President Retard vows to keep his head up his butt until they do and then he’ll bomb some tents and call it a day


9 posted on 01/07/2024 6:48:11 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: artichokegrower
The U.S. engaged in military action against the Barbary Pirates to protect AMERICAN shipping.

If President Jefferson had authorized the U.S. Navy to protect Danish ships flying a Panamanian flag and transporting cargo from Asia to Europe with a crew of Filipino sailors, he would have been set on fire on the front lawn of Monticello.

This is one more situation where the U.S. should just break out the popcorn and be a spectator.

10 posted on 01/07/2024 7:10:34 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

I guess Operation Prosperity Garden hasn’t achieved its objectives ?


11 posted on 01/07/2024 9:01:29 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: artichokegrower

Salami’s full of Baloney.


12 posted on 01/08/2024 5:08:16 AM PST by SC DOC (A)
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To: Alberta's Child

You do have a way with words.

L


13 posted on 01/08/2024 5:12:23 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Alberta's Child; canuck_conservative; ought-six

Unfortunately we can’t just afford to sit and eat popcorn because disruption of Suez and other international shipping is one of the causes of our current inflation. Biden or his handlers are well aware that disrupted shipping significantly contributes to supply chain problems and thus to the current increase in prices that has US voters looking at change. I’m not sure even a President Trump will have more success in dealing with this issue. He will have to reconcile his anti war position with his tough guy inclinations to achieve success dealing with some of these monsters.

At least we can be glad that we are in better shape than Europe regarding inflation. Our regular gasoline prices seem to have stabalized around $3 a gallon, at least in the mid Atlantic area. The bird flu epidemic here seems to have subsided, and as laying hens increase the price of eggs will come down as will the price of chicken. Our low unemployment rate means more money in the hands of consumers, so prices for imported items will not go down unless supply chain movements become more efficient. The strike against Suez shipping has certainly been a clever Houthi move. Fifteen percent of world shipping goes through Suez and 30% of container shipping. Most don’t realize there are 20 million Houthis in Yemen. They may have an unlimited amount of Iran supplied drones to play with. Perhaps some clever Mossad agents can get the drone works in Iran blown up. A happy result for Ukrainians as well.


14 posted on 01/19/2024 10:22:55 PM PST by gleeaikin ( Question authority.)
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To: gleeaikin
Americans do not have some kind of God-given right to inexpensive consumer products manufactured halfway around the world. In fact, the whole purpose of an "America First" political/economic model is to get over this idiocy and do more manufacturing here domestically. And at a bare minimum, we should be looking to repatriate the maritime shipping industry back here to the U.S. so we don't have this idiotic scenario that's being played out now.

As a nation we have made a number of political and government policy decisions over the years that have brought us to a situation today that is completely untenable for a sovereign, independent nation. International trade is not a bad thing, but international trade that is seemingly carried out on everyone's terms except ours is a disaster -- and what you're seeing now in the Red Sea is one case study in how it all goes off the rails.

Let's look at where the last 50+ years have brought us ...

1. Chase many of our major manufacturing industries overseas through excessive regulation and unfavorable business conditions.
2. Make large swaths of America destitute in the process.
3. Chase all our maritime shipping companies overseas, too -- for the same reasons so many manufacturers have left.
4. Have U.S. taxpayers foot the bill for the U.S. Navy to protect Danish ships ... flying Panamanian or Liberian flags ... with crews of Filipino sailors ... delivering everything from cheap Chinese crap to critical materials and high-value electronic components here to the U.S.

There is nothing about this that makes any sense to me. If you are a maritime shipping company you have every financial and regulatory incentive to domicile your company and flag your vessels in any country but the U.S. -- and you can still count on the U.S. taxpayers to pay for the military protection of your ships.

15 posted on 01/20/2024 1:47:31 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Alberta's Child; canuck_conservative; ought-six; cll

Paying US wages it unfortunately makes sense for corporations to off shore a lot of their production. Of course that also enables them to pay at the top outrageously high wages in the many multi $millions. Thus a lot of our medicines and vitamins are produced in China., and heaven help our sick if they decide to play gamss with production or delivery.

We once had a healthy drug production complex in Puerto Rico, but then Congress in it’s wisdom decided to eliminate the special rule that made it sensible for our drug companies to produce their products there. Now a 5 mile square production complex sits slowly deteriorating as the years go by and we complaine about getting our essential drugs from China. why can’t we take the steps to put this large production complex back to work where it is close to home, and not controlled by a potential enemy.

One question, do we have enough port facilities to support the ownership of our current shipping needs or would a lot of time and money be needed to develop such port facilities and ships?


16 posted on 01/20/2024 9:14:40 PM PST by gleeaikin ( Question authority.)
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