Pravda.ru writes that Iran (a quasi nuclear power) will send Navy vessels to the US to build up an open sea presence along the East Coast. "Just like the global hegemony that is present near our marine borders, we ... also plan to establish a strong presence near U.S. marine borders," Iranian Navy Commander Habibollah Sayyari said, according to Iran's state news agency.
It must be a joke, this cannot be real.
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No one can stop the Iranians from legally sailing in international waters but realistically they have no ability to project force to the American coast and are just making some stupid symbolic point that will resonate domestically - if the US can sail in the Persian Gulf then the Persian navy can said in the Gulf of Mexico. To really project force (in a way that would last more than the 1st five minutes of any conflict) requires a carrier battle group. The US has 11 carrier groups each headed by 100,000 ton supercarriers. No other country has more than one carrier and these are mostly in the 20 to 40 K ton class and not comparable. The Iranians have a handful of frigates and are not a serious naval power. For them even to get one of their frigates across the open Atlantic without sinking would be an accomplishment given their lack of experience.
K
That's why I said that this must be a joke.
That's why I said that this must be a joke.
To us it is a joke, but one of the Ayatollahs once said that "there are no jokes in Islam". Unfortunately, in their own retarded way, these people take themselves seriously even if they seem laughable to us. It's like laughing at Kim Jong Il - he would be a funny little character with his elevator shoes and bouffant hairdo, except that he has nuclear weapons.
K
I think they have nuclear capability at least of the same level than Cuba fifty years ago. And Pres. Kennedy took it very seriously.
Castro had and has no nuclear capability, but his Russian sponsors did. The Iranians are receiving help from N. Korea and probably Pakistan (for a price) but every time they take a step forward the Israelis (so far) have been able to push them 2 steps back, by hook or by crook, by computer virus or by assassination of key scientists or by whatever it takes.
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