Posted by Jack
“TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran flew a surveillance drone over a U.S. aircraft carrier and published video of the encounter Friday, the latest in a series of edgy naval incidents between the two countries in the Persian Gulf after the recent nuclear deal.
While the U.S. Navy stressed it knew the drone was unarmed and the flyover didn’t interrupt U.S. operations in the war against the Islamic State group, the incident underlined the continued tension over control of waterways crucial to global oil supplies. It follows a rocket test last month by the Islamic Republic near coalition warships and commercial traffic, as well as Iran’s brief capture of American sailors who strayed into its territorial waters.
Iranian state television and the semi-official Fars news agency, which has close ties to the Revolutionary Guard, published identical images Friday both said came from the drone.
The Iranian reports suggested the footage was from Friday. However, Cmdr. Kevin Stephens, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet based in Bahrain, said an unarmed Iranian drone flew near the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and “directly over” the USS Harry S. Truman on Jan. 12 as the vessels were in international waters in the Persian Gulf.”
The US should have shot the drone down. I see very little difference in flying over a US warship and flying over US territory. Maybe this drone was not armed, but taking surveillance pictures is a provocation and it came at a time when President Obama was extolling the virtues of the wonderful new cooperation we have with Iran after giving away the farm in the nuclear agreement…which Iran violated 5 minutes after it was signed.
Iran’s drone technology seems to have greatly improved after an off course US drone landed in Iran and was captured. If we shot this one down, I wonder if we would find US technology inside it?
Eventually, a leader with stones will have to take on Iran. But stones are definitely missing in the Obumble admin.
Iran will keep poking this administration they eye. Obama/Kerry are a big joke in their eyes. Hillary would be held in disdain no matter what…she is a bumbling woman (Benghazi-another joke). Bernie will probably crawl in bed with them and the Russians; he is a comrade in good standing.
Whereas our drones kill people … regularly.
Honestly, Jack.
I know you like to think that everything “they” do is horrible, and everything we do is lovely and virtuous … but it is a whole lot more complicated than that.
Do we have drones in Iran?
I think the rhetoric about Iran here has definitely been extreme lately, but this seems like a legitimate thing to be concerned about.
Our drones kill people who are killing the “wrong” kind of Muslims in their own nations and plotting to kill and oppress the Western nations and Israel.
War has been declared on us. Iran is the biggest supporter nation of terrorism. Jack has a point. As long as we appear weak and grovel to these monsters they will continue to expand and toy with us like cats playing with a mouse.
Complexity, real or imagined, is beside the point.
Bottom line…the goal must be: We win, they lose.
Why don’t you also condemn Republicans for cozying up to Saudi Arabia, which is also a major sponsor of terrorism, including 9/11?
Is it because when Republicans do it, you recognize that the real world is hard and negotiation is necessary, but when Democrats do it it’s because they secretly want to destroy America from within?
Oh, Chris, don’t you remember? … we crashed a biggun in their country. So, yes, they have drones.
Well, Tina, they may well be the “wrong” kind of Muslim, but it would have to be a “Great Satan” that smites them from the heavens.
Are you getting any whiff at all of the circular pointlessness of all this violent sentiment.