Iran quietly admits there’s a new cop in the White House

[Solomon2]

EDITORIAL

In the Gulf, Iran quietly admits there’s a new cop in the White House
By Post Editorial Board
January 28, 2018 | 8:32pm | Updated

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Iranian military boats have quietly ended years of harassment of US Navy vessels in the Persian Gulf, and it looks like another welcome sign of a new cop on the beat.

For years, armed Iranian “fast boats” would charge at US ships in a dangerous game of chicken, rising to a level the Navy deemed “unsafe or unprofessional” at least twice a month. It was a clear signal of disrespect, and a test of what Washington would put up with.

But the game stopped last summer, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Officially, the Navy doesn’t know why. US Central Command chief Gen. Joseph Votel says, “I hope it’s because we have messaged our readiness . . . and that it isn’t tolerable or how professional militaries operate.”

But Tehran surely takes that “isn’t tolerable” message a lot more seriously now that President Barack Obama is out of office.

Obama, after all, had shown he wouldn’t enforce his own red lines, infamously blinking rather than live up to his own vow that use of chemical weapons by Syria’s bloody Bashar al-Assad would be a “game-changer.”

Plus, he’d proven unwilling to confront Iran over anything, staying silent during the critical early days of the 2009 Green Movement protests and then later giving up the store in negotiating the 2015 nuclear deal.

Not to mention letting Tehran get away with taking two Navy crews hostage in 2016, and ignoring countless other Iranian provocations after striking the nuke deal.

To be fair, Iran might have backed off in the Gulf if Hillary Clinton had won in 2016. But it’s facing President Trump instead: a leader who has enforced Obama’s red line in Syria and overseen the ruination of ISIS, and who’s anything but wedded to preserving the nuclear agreement at all costs.

The fast-growing US economy is far from the only fruit of change in Washington.

 

[Big Tank]

Cop my a$$. They know how to deal with these orange psycho cops.

 

[BHarwana]

Good morning Israeli propaganda starts.

 

[SALMAN F]

Iranians didn't stop anything

 

[somebozo]

Iranian bluffs cannot go forever...provoking american fire power can be deadly..especially with US occupying both wings of Iranian state via its presence in Iraq and Afghanistan..

 

[Avicenna]

EDITORIAL

In the Gulf, Iran quietly admits there’s a new cop in the White House
By Post Editorial Board
January 28, 2018 | 8:32pm | Updated

AFP/Getty Images

Iranian military boats have quietly ended years of harassment of US Navy vessels in the Persian Gulf, and it looks like another welcome sign of a new cop on the beat.

For years, armed Iranian “fast boats” would charge at US ships in a dangerous game of chicken, rising to a level the Navy deemed “unsafe or unprofessional” at least twice a month. It was a clear signal of disrespect, and a test of what Washington would put up with.

But the game stopped last summer, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Officially, the Navy doesn’t know why. US Central Command chief Gen. Joseph Votel says, “I hope it’s because we have messaged our readiness . . . and that it isn’t tolerable or how professional militaries operate.”

But Tehran surely takes that “isn’t tolerable” message a lot more seriously now that President Barack Obama is out of office.

Obama, after all, had shown he wouldn’t enforce his own red lines, infamously blinking rather than live up to his own vow that use of chemical weapons by Syria’s bloody Bashar al-Assad would be a “game-changer.”

Plus, he’d proven unwilling to confront Iran over anything, staying silent during the critical early days of the 2009 Green Movement protests and then later giving up the store in negotiating the 2015 nuclear deal.

Not to mention letting Tehran get away with taking two Navy crews hostage in 2016, and ignoring countless other Iranian provocations after striking the nuke deal.

To be fair, Iran might have backed off in the Gulf if Hillary Clinton had won in 2016. But it’s facing President Trump instead: a leader who has enforced Obama’s red line in Syria and overseen the ruination of ISIS, and who’s anything but wedded to preserving the nuclear agreement at all costs.

The fast-growing US economy is far from the only fruit of change in Washington.

LOL NY POST.

 

[Muhammed45]

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/ebra...pied-palestine-in-syria.541839/#post-10211943

 

[Cthulhu]

I specially like it when the Americans automatically think of themselves as "The Cops" and others as "The Thieves".

 

[SALMAN F]

Iranian bluffs cannot go forever...provoking american fire power can be deadly..especially with US occupying both wings of Iranian state via its presence in Iraq and Afghanistan..

It's also the other way around

 

[Tokhme khar]

You crack us up. Iran has already defeated the U.S. in SyRaq, in case you haven't noticed.

Iranian bluffs cannot go forever...provoking american fire power can be deadly..especially with US occupying both wings of Iranian state via its presence in Iraq and Afghanistan..

 

[Fafnir]

Iranian bluffs cannot go forever...provoking american fire power can be deadly..especially with US occupying both wings of Iranian state via its presence in Iraq and Afghanistan..

Yeah...ahhh,last time I looked the us/nato has been occupying afghanistan for 17 years now with no sign of "final victory"[mission accomplished LOL!!] in sight and as for iraq,well these days its more of an iranian ally than an american one.
I can remember back in the early 2000s,there were people like yourself making the exact same claims ie that iran was surrounded on 2 sides by us forces and that it would be next on the "regime change" list if it didnt change its behaviour,but of course the reality turned out to be very,very different from what the bushites and their neocon fellow travelers had imagined with these usraeli/nato occupation forces finding themselves bogged down in a bloody never ending quagmire fighting the locals some of whom ironically did wind up being supplied and trained by iran.
Ultimately instead of being any kind of threat to iran they instead wound up as targets and potential hostages to iranian retaliation in the event of any us/nato misbehavior.
The irony is that there were probably many who thought as you did during the bush jr regime that not only would this take care of saddam and al qaeda,but that this would have the added benefit of putting pressure on iran,only to then have to watch in horror as all their "carefully laid plans"[lol! what a joke] turned to sh!t and iran once again gained a big advantage from usraeli/nato/gulfie military and political blunders.

 

[mohsen]

Translation from Americans propaganda to English:

U.S finally decided to recognize the true cop of Persian gulf and end whining pf IRGC presence.

 

[Path-Finder]

Iranian bluffs cannot go forever...provoking american fire power can be deadly..especially with US occupying both wings of Iranian state via its presence in Iraq and Afghanistan..

That has become manure now. As both iraq and afghanistan are out of their control.

 

[Tokhme khar]

We are waiting for Trump to concede defeat and surrender to Iran. Just like Obama before him.

Trump will bend over.......that much we know, he's just on the cusp of admitting defeat. lol

 

[AmirPatriot]

I specially like it when the Americans automatically think of themselves as "The Cops" and others as "The Thieves".

They are actually "the trespassers".