From this article: Iranian officials earlier played down the event, calling it an "ordinary occurrence".
Now that I would have to agree with. This is SOP for Iran. They regularly harrass our warships (and UK, and our allies) with their little speed boats, testing our defenses and trying to spark an incident that they can use for propaganda. Think back less than a year ago.
Like it or not, it’s pretty much an ordinary occurrence. |
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Wulf
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I don’t know, the "You will explode..." voice sounds like something a scout leader would use to scare kids at camp. On top of that, it’s awfully loud compared to all the other sounds in the recording. Not that such a thing is impossible, but it’s a little suspicious.
Maybe the Iranian speaker can’t help but sound a little campy when he’s trying to threaten in English, and maybe the volume was turned way up on the speakers, but it’s not beyond belief to suggest that all or part of the recording is not what it appears to be.
Either way, I agree with Wulf that sending speedboats at our warships is probably a regular event intended to provoke a response that Iran can use for propaganda. |
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I’d note thatt he whole thing is a"photoshop" the speed boats are from a Miami speed boat race, super-imposed on stock footage of Navy vessels steaming, with the obvious voice-over of Cameron Diaz playing the role of the "Iranian" Voice....I’m with Schneeble, who you gonna believe, Iran of the US Navy, and I know who I believe. |
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Well, I guess that means it would have been safe to blow up the boats then. ;-) |
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Well I was thinking of showing up at Cameron Diaz’s place and inviting her to lunch/dinner and plying her with alcohol until she confessed, but the D@mn EPO/TRO prevents me from getting closer than 200 metres! Oh how crafty the BFEE is..... |
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That’s what warning shots are for... |
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Keith_Indy
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That’s what warning shots are for... What to warn off Iranian speed boats or the stalkers of Cameron Diaz?
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Point taken.
And those warning shots probably work either way. |
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The audio tape is even less convincing, mainly because the person speaking doesn’t have an Iranian accent and moreover, sounds more like Boris Karloff in a horror movie than a sailor in the elite branch of Iran’s military. Some how this reminds me of a (old) George Will piece about national parks.
Vistors noted these elements of a paradox ..
1) almost all Civil War battles were at national parks
2) there weren’t any bullet holes in any of the monuments at the parks |
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Neo - As a kid I just figured the National Parks department was very very good at patching the holes.
As an adult I realize it’s because the soldiers were very careful not to take cover behind the monuments presumably out of respect (to themselves).
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It looks like the Navy’s story is starting to fall apart. Ya gotta be skeptical of big government claims, especially military claims. We don’t want another Gulf of Tonkin disaster! |
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Scott Erb
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New info...The U.S. Navy said Friday that one of its ships fired warning shots at a small Iranian boat in the Strait of Hormuz in December during one of two serious encounters that month. I would no longer file it under an "ordinary occurrence", exactly, but Ralph Peters’ comment about the USN losing its nerve was so much BS.
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Wulf
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