Iran: We pointed our iPhone at you, America! Tremble at our awesome technical prowess!

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TEHRAN, Iran—An Iranian surveillance plane has recorded video and photographed a U.S. aircraft carrier during an Iranian navy drill near a strategic waterway in the Persian Gulf, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday.

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The Tehran report about the aircraft carrier didn't provide details, and it was unclear what information the Iranian military could glean from such footage.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203899504577128542563309880.html

[Pooky 3,825]

It's difficult to miss a US aircraft carrier. They're not exactly small.

Edited December 29, 2011 by Pooky

[Susita 175]

We pointed our iPhone at you, America! Tremble at our awesome technical prowess!

bwahahaha

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Why is oil going up due to Iran's threat to block the straight? We could destroy their entire navy in one day.

[Susita 175]

Why is oil going up due to Iran's threat to block the straight? We could destroy their entire navy in one day.

It's like an international reality show. Entertainment for the political peeps.

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Why is oil going up due to Iran's threat to block the straight? We could destroy their entire navy in one day.

And start WW3 in the process. Demand for oil will shoot up as will prices.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

And start WW3 in the process. Demand for oil will shoot up as will prices.

If that's what Iran wants, give it to them. The rest of the region won't be on their side for blocking oil shipments.

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If that's what Iran wants, give it to them. The rest of the region won't be on their side for blocking oil shipments.

Russia and China are on their side.

We have Bahrain on ours

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Iran threatened to create chaos in the world economy Thursday by blocking a key oil supply route.

The beligerance came as the U.S. and its allies pursued tough sanctions — including an oil embargo — to pressure Iran to abandon its fledgling nuclear program.

As a result, Iran raised the specter of moving warships into the Strait of Hormuz to disrupt oil shipments — a move the U.S. Navy vowed to thwart.

“The U.S. in not in a position” to tell Iran what to do, Gen. Hossein Salami, acting commander of the Revolutionary Guard, told the government-controlled Fars news agency.

“Iran does not ask permission to implement its own defensive strategies,” he said.

Earlier, a top Iranian naval commander boasted that his country has “total control over the strategic waterway.”

“Closing the Strait of Hormuz is very easy for Iranian naval forces,” Admiral Habibollah Sayari told Iranian TV.

It’s not the first time Iran has vowed to close the strategic, 34-mile wide passage at the mouth of the Persian Gulf through which about a third of the world’s oil shipments flow.

The Obama Administration has already put Tehran on notice that it will take whatever steps necessary to keep the passage open.

“The free flow of goods and services through the Strait of Hormuz is vital to regional and global prosperity,” said Lieutenant Rebecca Rebarich, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman in Bahrain, site of the 5th Fleet headquarters. “Any disruption will not be tolerated.”

But tough words out of Washington don’t seem to have scared off the Iranians, who have been doing naval drills near the strait.

Experts, however, say the Iranian Navy is no match for the 5th Fleet.

There’s another reason why Iran might think twice about blocking the strait — it too relies on that waterway to get its oil imports out to the rest of the world.

“Iran is as reliant, if not more reliant, on the Strait of Hormuz than any other country,” Ali Nader of the RAND Corp. research institute told Bloomberg News.

Iran has been hit repeatedly by United Nations sanctions over its refusal to halt its nuclear program.

Oil-rich Tehran says it needs nuclear technology to generate electricity.

But the Israelis view a nuclear Iran as a threat to its very existence and hardliners in Jerusalem have been calling for preemptive strikes.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/iran-threatens-block-vital-strait-hormuz-oil-supply-route-persian-gulf-article-1.998376

Edited December 29, 2011 by kytwell

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Russia and China are on their side.

We have Bahrain on ours

The Saudis too.

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The Saudi royal family is risk averse. They won't be joining any hostilities if it means laying off their filipina and russian sex slaves.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

It's time we stopped letting these shitkickers get away with their idle threats. Take them out now. Strike first. Strike hard. Show no mercy.

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It's time we stopped letting these shitkickers get away with their idle threats. Take them out now. Strike first. Strike hard. Show no mercy.

Why?

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Why is oil going up due to Iran's threat to block the straight? We could destroy their entire navy country in one day.

fixed.

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You sure? It's a big country.