Iran says its warships are coming to the Atlantic for the 1st time

[jpak]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-navy-warships-atlantic-gulf-of-mexico-near-us-waters-spring-2019-irna-says/

Iranian warships will sail for the first time into Atlantic waters early in 2019, the deputy commander of Iran's navy has said. The long-distance voyage would bring Iran's military forces closer to U.S. soil, and territorial waters, than they have been since the 1979 Islamic revolution which brought the current regime to power.

Iranian state-run broadcaster IRNA quoted deputy naval commander Admiral Touraj Hasnai Moqaddam as saying the "Iranian mission would take five months to complete" and would likely begin early in 2019. He said one of the vessels in the flotilla would be a new Iranian destroyer, the Sahand, which IRNA described as "the most advanced destroyer of West Asia."

According to the Reuters news agency, Iran claims the Sahand has landing space for helicopters and is armed with anti-aircraft and anti-ship guns, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles and electronic warfare capabilities.

IRNA claimed the new ship was "more advanced than its predecessor, Jamaran destroyer, with radar-evading capabilities."

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[Sneederbunk]

1. A long way from home in event they are "needed" in the Gulf.

[marble falls]

2. Meh. Some day the mullahs will all fall. It takes a lot moolah to project power at sea ...

Saying the USN is about 1000 times bigger than Iran's might be understatement.

The US has more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world by at least a factor of two to one.

[Vinca]

3. Oh wonderful. Another reason for the orange idiot to scare people.

My prediction: another shutdown during the debt ceiling "crisis" coming up next. This one for money to pump up the nukes.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. This is kind of idiotic on Iran's part, being that they don't have any ...

infrastructure or the like to provide support services for their ship(s) if food, perishables, fuel, etc. is needed. Obviously they have problems at home or they wouldn't be doing something like this, other than solely propaganda reasons for their home population.

[Volaris]

5. I'm not really worried about it...the open sea is free to all. Let them sail as they please,

As long as they don't start flipping shots at anyone, all is well.
And even if their Command IS stupid enough to think that's a good idea (and they don't, I'm sure), the core of that flotilla is ONE DESTROYER. The Coast Guard could kill it, if they really really had to lol...

[ProudLib72]

6. My goodness, they must really want to show how much they hate us!

Full steam ahead, and make way for the Persian butt cheeks!

[EX500rider]

7. "Iranian mission would take five months to complete"

That includes the time for the ocean going tug to get them towed home.

[pecosbob]

8. Iran is a boogeyman and is not a threat to us

Exxon, the neo-cons, al Saud and Likud all want a war with them, so they do everything they can to make them out to be our enemy. That simple folks.