IRAN says it’s “ready for war” after shooting down a US “spy” drone today as tensions continue to rise in the Persian Gulf.
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The Islamic Republic’s state-run IRNA news agency has insisted the country’s Revolutionary Guard hit the drone when it flew over Iran in a “clear message” to Washington.
But the US military has challenged these claims saying the drone was gunned down in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz by an Iranian surface-to-air missile
Earlier, Navy Captain Bill Urban, of America’s Central Command, said: “No US aircraft were operating in Iranian airspace today.”
Hossein Salami, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, said that Tehran does “not have any intention for war with any country, but we are ready for war” while insisting “our airspace is a red line”.
Speaking on Iranian state television, he said this morning’s incident sends a “clear message” to the US while issuing a threat to the country’s “enemies”.
General Salami said: “We warn enemies of any aggression at this stage and assure them that we can reach them wherever they are.”
That would they’re ready for an ass whuppin’
I believe that Iran has the right to at least two Nukes! One in the middle of that downtown square and one on the heads of the Ayatollahs!
“We can reach them wherever they are”! What about wherever you are!!!!!
The history books soon will be changing! Say goodbye to what used to be known as the country of Iran!
Whose airspace it was in is the big question here.
Iran says one thing, the US another, but I would think there should be satellite and radar tracking data from multiple sources to show which is right and which is wrong.
Saddam talked that kind of shit too…inbreeding is a horrible tardgedy, I mean, tragedy…
This is the equivalent of the Cuban missile crisis, imo. The Russians/Iranians/Chinese/N Koreans/ et al are putting Trump to the test, the same way Khrushchev tested Kennedy by pushing the envelope and bringing the world to the brink. I feel that Trumpster is ready for the challenge.
Dude’s name is Salami. How does that square with his relijum?
Let Israel handle it.
Just an FYI for those who don’t know, US Carriers are able to see all flying objects( on radar), all over the world. They know exactly where that drone took off from and who launched it.
Additionally, we are not currently equipped or trained to respond to the supersonic anti ship missiles. If we are stupid enough to initiate first stoke and be the “aggressor”, it start WWIII. Treaties with Russia and China will activate and we will find ourselves fighting a 3 front war alone.
Bombing a non-US tanker sounds like not our problem.
Shooting down a drone of ours in their territory would be something expected and not illegal.
Shooting down our military hardware in international territory? This is a test.
Drop pamphlets over Tehran telling them to overthrow their leaders or Iran will cease to be a country except in history books on the failed lessons of British colonialism.
Iranian airspace? That’s baloney, Salami.
“General Salami”? Really?
I knew the Mohammedans are a bunch of closet homos but now they are plainly saying if a war starts they will Hide The Salami
If we do blow ’em up, there’s no “rebuilding” this time like we did in Iraq. Leave ’em blown up.
The Mullahs wish for a big bologna implant from Sam the Uncle!
The Navy they have will suffer a big salami enema courtesy of our obliging Air Force.
Good thing the average Persian is greasy.
It will help
I don’t think Russia and China will risk interfering with us after a clearly illegal attack in international airspace. Oh they’ll talk trash but their risk is too high to back Iran for their criminal act.
Both of them have economies too intertwined with ours to risk a collapse.
If something more comes our way it’ll likely be another terroristic attack.
Salami, salami, baloney.
Why aren’t we sinking every one of their patrol boats? What are they going to do about it?
There has to be retaliation of some kind.
Iran and Iraq fought to stalemate for 8 years.
We conquered Iraq in, what, 3 weeks?
Iran knows better. Iran is playing to the chorus. War is the LAST thing they want – they want to bamboozle their “folks” (as Obola used to call us) to keep them from ridding themselves of the theocracy. If not for gov’t theft and corruption, the ayatollahs would have NOTHING (similarly to most of our politicians).
Iranians aren’t stupid – they ARE tribal, though, and prone to “follow the leader.”
izlamo delenda est …
The “press” and the other usual talking hoplophobic libidiots are gibbering about “measured responses” to Iranian provocations – those that aren’t blaming all the attacks on President Trump, that is. The proper “measured response” would be the forceful and total elimination of Iran’s military capabilities, in toto. That “state” is the primary source of governmentally sponsored terror and paramilitary aggression in the ME (not to excuse Islam in general, region wide). Only an idiot allows someone to attack and strike him repeatedly until the asshole finally figures out a real, effective way to hurt him. Better to get it over completely and quickly. Less damage all around. “Measured responses” of the type nattered about by our “elites” only encourage further attacks and abuses. I’d guess that many of our “elites” know this and approve. But I don’t think most of the rest of us do. And we all need to remember that it was the ancestors of the present day Iranians who tried to eliminate all democratic impulses in the then known world at Marathon (Darius) and, 10 years later, 2499 years ago, at Thermopylae (Darius’ son Xerxes).
Wipe out the theocracy and let the currently oppressed Iranians sort it out -and rebuild – for themselves.
What the USA has done to Iran is an act of war. Iran had the right to shoot down an intervention in its own territorial airspace. The war hawks in Washington are drooling rabid dogs wanting any excuse to attack Iran to destroy it for Israel and the Global banks. This very type of intrusive action by the US has happened before, and the US got caught. The US is the aggressor, as usual!
GARY POWERS AND U-2
In 1960 the US conducted U-2 runs over Soviet bases, test sites and missile silos in central Asia. These operations were conducted by the CIA, largely because the presence of an American military plane over Soviet territory could be construed as an act of war. In April, a U-2 launched from Pakistan played cat-and-mouse with Soviet MiG jets before landing in Iran. Another U-2, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was launched on May 1st with orders to photograph Soviet installations, including ICBM silos and a plutonium factory. Soviet air defences became aware of this mission and scrambled jets – but the U-2’s altitude prevented it from being located. While flying over the Ural Mountains, Powers’ U-2 was struck by a surface-to-air missile and forced to crash-land. Powers ejected from his crippled plane and parachuted into Russia, where he was immediately arrested, detained and questioned by the KGB.
https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/gary-powers-u-2/
^ She’s baaaaaaack.
And if the drone wasn’t in their territorial space? What say you then?
Is the USA not allowed to keep an eye on it’s sworn enemies?
Can you answer these straight-up questions in the spirit they are asked?
Betting it will be an intellectually dishonest response to these questions.
Make my day – prove me wrong and give straight-up answers.
They take out a 1.8 million dollar drone over international waters.
Our response:
A. Take out a $25.00 tent and two camels in the desert just to show them what we’re capable of.
B. Don’t Panic. Let’s access the situation.
C. Monitor the situation closely.
D. Pick three military targets in Iran. Notify Iran through the United Nations, of course, to expect a visit within the hour.
E. Within the hour “Bomb the shit” out of the three targets.
The correct answer is:
Moe Tom I vote BCD&E in that order
Lazio gets a apple. Perfect answer. Must be a warrior.
Rest of you, be at ease, back to what you were going, smoke em if you have em. Position filled.
next week’s headline: “Trump decision to open giant Glass Factory in Iran: Dow Jones soars on economic boom news”
So! They’ve probably got some working, Russian SA-400 anti-aircraft missiles and they think they’re invulnerable. (And some no doubt manned by Russians.) If this is not a false-flag operation, some response is called for… somewhere between peeing on their ambassador and lobbing one over Tehran or Isfahan.
♪♪♪ ♪♪♫
Bomb, bomb, bomb,
Bomb, bomb, Iran.
Bomb, bomb, bomb,
Bomb, bomb Iran!
♪♪♪ ♪♪♫
Seems to me the UN should be stepping up to the plate to protect international waters, they have all the answers any other time. Why do they exist anyway????
The tanker attack was done to Japanese tankers, NOT US flagged, American, which means the US was NOT attacked and has NO legitimate reason to attack Iran. Now the US claims the right to retaliate against Iran for bringing down a US sleuth aircraft. flying over Iran’s own territory.
20.06.2019
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed Thursday they shot down a US drone in the southern province of Hormozgan.
State news agency IRNA quoted the Guard’s news website, Sepah News, as saying that the Islamic country’s military force targeted the RQ-4 Global Hawk drone when it entered Iran’s airspace “near the Kouhmobarak district in the south.”
https://www.dw.com/en/tensions-run-high-after-iran-shoots-down-us-drone/a-49273735
The Trump-Bolton Duo Is Just Like the Bush-Cheney Duo: Warmongers Using Lies to Start Illegal Wars
By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay
Global Research, June 18, 2019
“Now, in 2019, a short sixteen years later, the same stratagem seems to being used to start another illegal war of aggression, this time against the country of Iran. The masters of deception are at it again. Their secret agents and those of their Israeli and Saudi allies, in the Middle East, seem to have just launched an unprovoked attack, in international waters, against a Japanese tanker, and they have rushed to the cameras to accuse Iran. They claim that the latter country used mines to attack the tanker.
This time, they were unlucky. —The owner of the Japanese tanker, the Kokuka Courageous, immediately rebuked that “official” version. Yutaka Katada, president of the Kokuka Sangyo shipping company, declared that the attack came from a bombing from above the water. Indeed, Mr. Katada told reporters:
Source: The Washington Post
“The crew are saying it was hit with a flying object. They say something came flying toward them, then there was an explosion, then there was a hole in the vessel.”
His company issued a statement saying that “the hull (of the ship) has been breached above the waterline on the starboard side”, and it was not hit by a mine below the waterline, as the Trump administration has insinuated. —[N. B.: There was also a less serious attack on a Norwegian ship, the Front Altair.]”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-bolton-duo-like-bush-cheney-duo-warmongers-using-lies-start-illegal-wars/5680929
Military Propagandists always promote war!! Resist their lies! :
Pentagon Unveil ‘Troll Army’ To Spread American Propaganda Online
January 12, 2018 Sean Adl-Tabatabai
https://newspunch.com/pentagon-troll-army-propaganda/
CIA-Sponsored Trolls Monitor Internet & Interact With Users to Discredit Factual Information
By Occupy Corporatism – November 29, 2012
https://www.occupycorporatism.com/2012/11/29/cia-sponsored-trolls-monitor-internet-interact-with-users-to-discredit-factual-information/
@ Moe Tom – Correct answer to you?
F: Priceless. OR all the above I suppose.
That said, I disagree, POTUS should not do a dam thing. He is being provoked by many sides right now and this is not worth responding to. POTUS even said it may have been a ‘mistake’.
I will take a Grizzly Bear over a spitting desperate Camel any day.
We have a vid of that drone being taken, before it was taken out. The pilot is in Florida at CentComm. He has a back up vid flying at a known altitude and position.
Ghost
You avoided the questions.
They were simple.
We are talking about the drone being in their territorial space or not.
So far, you are proving to be intellectually dishonest.
Iran wasn’t attacked. That would be another lie you perpetrate.
One more time:
Bill Whittle’s take in it is spot-on:
https://youtu.be/z8DLddNFaog
For Ruth’s edification the tanker that was hit and burning was US flagged via the the Marshall Islands which is a US territory and the footage of the drone being shot down was old stuff. Having grown up as a Navy Brat and an Air Force Veteran I can assure you we knew exactly where the Drone was located
TRUMP was in the process of starting the war with Iran today. NO WAR President? ALL LIES!
Trump Approves Strikes Against Iran on Thursday but Abruptly Backtracks on His Decision – Report © AP Photo / Evan Vucci
MIDDLE EAST
06:14 21.06.2019(updated 08:29 21.06.2019)
“US President Donald Trump approved a military operation against Iran after the downing of a US Global Hawk spy drone, but stepped back from launching it on Thursday night, The New York Times reported.
According to the report, military and diplomatic officials were expecting a strike order as late as 7 p.m. (23:00 GMT) Thursday. Prior to that ,there were heated debates at the White House involving Trump’s top national security officials and leaders from Congress.
The outlet added, citing a senior Trump administration official, that aircraft and ships had been in position to fire missiles when the order came to cancel the operation.
Donald Trump initially approved attacks against a series of Iranian targets, including radar and missile batteries, The New York Times reported, citing multiple senior administration officials.
The operation, although underway, was abandoned in its early stages.”
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201906211075998209-trump-approves-strikes-against-iran-on-thursday-but-abruptly-backtracks-on-his-decision—report/