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Title: Territorial Waters Off Iran's Coast Are Persian, Not American
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Published: Aug 25, 2016
Author: Stephen Lendman
Post Date: 2016-08-25 11:40:37 by Stephen Lendman
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Territorial Waters off Iran’s Coast Are Persian, Not American

by Stephen Lendman

You’d never know it based on how Washington operates globally, seeking dominion over planet earth, its resources, populations and space - naked aggression its main strategy of choice.

On Wednesday, the USS Nitze and USS Mason guided missile destroyers provocatively entered Iranian waters in the Strait of Hormuz - admitted by US Central Command spokesman Commander Kyle Raines.

Four Iranian small vessels interdicted them, both US warships changing course to avoid confrontation. The US Navy called the incident “unsafe and unprofessional.”

What legal right have US warships to sail in Iranian waters or those of any other country like Beijing’s in the South China Sea or Russia’s in the Black Sea.

Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan said “(i)f any foreign vessel enters our waters, we will given them a warning and it is an act of aggression, we will confront them.”

Iranian vessels monitor all movements in Persian Gulf waters. America maintains a strong naval presence there, including occasional provocative war games. Its Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain includes a formidable array of warships and support vessels - too close to Iranian waters and coastline for comfort.

Iran’s Defense Minister Dehqan earlier said “(t)he Iranian Armed Forces are an intertwined and coherent complex that can give a decisive response to any threat at any level and any place under the command of the Commander-in-Chief.”

“The enemy can never assess and think of the range of the response given by the powerful and mighty Armed Forces of the Islamic Iran.”

He vowed a strong response to counter any US provocations. America acts irresponsibly, then blames Iran for “unsafe and unprofessional actions (risking) escalation and miscalculation” - claiming US forces “have an inherent obligation for self-defense.”

Longtime US policy calls for regime change in Iran. Perhaps a provocative action instigated by Fifth Fleet warships one day will be a Gulf of Tonkin type incident used to declare war.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."

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#2. To: Stephen Lendman (#0)

I will have to disagree, according to the US government that goes back to early 1900's, the US of A can claim anything and everything they want. They will prove their right at the point of a gun, drop of a bomb, the use of a missile.

Darkwing  posted on  2016-08-25   12:10:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Darkwing (#2)

Yep and that is why the US is the most hated nation on earth. Enter WWWIII. I see this happening in the very near future.

purplerose  posted on  2016-08-25   13:37:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: purplerose (#4)

Enter WWIII. I see this happening in the very near future.

WWIII or another large land war, like Korea or Viet Nam?

Cynicom  posted on  2016-08-25   13:56:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Cynicom (#5)

WWIII will make the Vietnam and Korea look like nothing.

purplerose  posted on  2016-08-25   14:11:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: purplerose (#6)

WWIII will make the Vietnam and Korea look like nothing.

That is understood.

However, will it be WWIII at outset, or another Korea or Vietnam?

Cynicom  posted on  2016-08-25   14:14:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Cynicom (#7)

This will be something beyond those two.

purplerose  posted on  2016-08-25   14:27:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: All, Cynicom, Lod (#8) (Edited)

Russia, China and even Turkey want to turn America into wasteland. Meanwhile, American intelligence and Pentagon have yet to come to grips with who their enemies are because they talk out of both sides of their necks putting the rest of Americans at high risk.

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#12. To: purplerose (#11)

The pump is primed for a big false flag.

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