Iranians Tell U.S. Navy: 'I Am Coming At You'

[Flabbergasted]

(I'm going to have to call B.S. on this.)


Iranians Tell U.S. Navy: 'I Am Coming At You' (Updated)
By Sharon Weinberger
January 07, 2008 | 12:55:00

U.S. military officials are saying that five boats operated by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard swarmed three U.S. naval ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The incident, which took place Sunday, occurred in international waters, the U.S. officials said.

According to CNN, the Iranians made some very specific threats:

In one radio transmission, the Iranians told the U.S. Navy: "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes," the U.S. military officials told CNN.

When the U.S. ships heard that radio transmission, they took up their gun positions and officers were "in the process" of giving the order to fire when the Iranians abruptly turned away, the U.S. officials said.

After the radio transmission, one of the Iranian ships dropped white boxes into the water in front of the U.S. ships, the officials told CNN. It was not clear what was in the boxes, the officials said.


http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/01/iranians-tell-u.html



Iran calls incident with U.S. naval ships "normal"
www.chinaview.cn 2008-01-08 03:38:37

TEHRAN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini on Monday played down an incident between Iranian boats and U.S. naval ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, saying it was "something normal", the official IRNA news agency reported.

"It's something normal and takes place every now and then for each party, it has been resolved when the two parties identified each other," Hosseini was quoted as saying.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini,seen in Tehran Feb. 12, 2007, on Monday played down an incident between Iranian boats and U.S. naval ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, saying it was "something normal".

"The new case was similar to the past cases, it's regular and natural," he added.

Meanwhile, a Revolutionary Guards official also confirmed "there was no unusual confrontation between Iranian patrol boats and U.S. vessels" when he was interviewed by the state television.

He was quoted as saying that the Guards boats were patrolling in the Strait of Hormuz when they saw three U.S. ships there and "routinely asked the ships to identify themselves."

"They (the U.S. ships) did so and continued their path," the Guards official added.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/08/content_7381338.htm

[kurth]

1. Stupid martyr wannabees

[Rageneau]

2. We aven't killed any innocent civilians in the Gulf for years and years.

Remember when saber-rattling Ronnie the Raygun intentionally heightened tensions in the Gulf and so harrassed our forces to be ready to shoot at a moment's notice, that one of our oh-so-slick NTDS Cruisers shot down an Iranian civilian airliner mistaking it (somehow) for a fighter jet.

We killed about 500 innocent people that day -- only a fraction of the people Reagan killed while making me so proud to be an American.

Let's kill some more! USA! USA!

Hoo-Ah!

[TomClash]

3. Can anyone say . . .

Gulf of Tonkin?

[Pavulon]

4. Or Praying Mantis...

Still taught at the Naval Academy. We used to shoot their speed boats back when they were mining the gulf. Mining was an act of war.