Report: Iranians deny threatening U.S. Navy ships

Report: Iranians deny threatening U.S. Navy ships
By Ali Akbar Dareini, The Associated Press
Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Wednesday, January 9, 2008

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards corps on Tuesday denied that its boats sent threatening messages to a U.S. Navy convoy in the Gulf in an incident over the weekend, and it defended its right to ask American vessels to identify themselves.

The Guards have said their boats approached the convoy early Sunday and asked the U.S. ships to identify themselves, then allowed them to continue into the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz — a prime Middle East oil-shipping lane.

“No threatening messages were exchanged,” state television quoted an identified Revolutionary Guards official as saying Tuesday.

American officials said the Iranian boats harassed the U.S. vessels and threatened to blow them up, calling the incident a dangerous provocation as President Bush prepared to leave Tuesday on his first major trip to the Middle East.

A top U.S. Navy commander in the region said Monday that the Iranian boats radioed a message “to the effect that they were closing (on) our ships and that the ships would explode — the U.S. ships would explode,” said Vice Adm. Kevin Cosgriff, the commander of U.S. 5th Fleet, which patrols the Gulf and is based at nearby Bahrain.


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Give then a few days to make it.

But hey, enjoy your conspiracy theories.

Saddam personally flew both planes into the Twin Towers while evading all the fighter planes we had in the air to stop him. :sarcasm:

:eyes:

Drop an accusatory bomb, as though Bush is PERSONALLY involved in this shit (that happens fairly often in the gulf, only this was a bit more intense), throw Saddam in for good measure, and then dismissively add that little sarcasm tag.

Why did you even fucking bother? You didn't advance the discussion one whit.

Why don't you articulate some convoluted halfassed conspiracy theory, that has Spielberg faking the tape at the behest of DOD?

At least make it interesting....