Iran to take action if US aircraft carrier returns

[muhammad tariq mahmood]

yes iran should take action politically and armed forces

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

yes iran should take action politically and armed forces

we need peace, so diplomatically is what they should do.

 

[Oldman1]

wow so USA is police man of earth ? these nations was teeth-less and USA invade then anyone carry nukes long range missiles USA just bark do nothing .

Teethless? Taliban refuses to hand over Osama, Saddam refuses inspections and Gaddafi refuses to stop killing his people.

By the way I wonder if the killings in Syria will stop by peaceful means.

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

Teethless? Taliban refuses to hand over Osama, Saddam refuses inspections and Gaddafi refuses to stop killing his people.

I agree sadam needed toppling, but what right do you have inspecting other countries? would you like it if i came your house and said i want to inspect your house because your not my friend?

 

[Imran Khan]

Teethless? Taliban refuses to hand over Osama, Saddam refuses inspections and Gaddafi refuses to stop killing his people.

By the way I wonder if the killings in Syria will stop by peaceful means.

so what you guys earn after all this mess with world? can you move free in Asia Africa now a days? whole world hate USA more then devil. you huys kill uncountable humans and still thirst of blood . no wonder it will stop when USA will bit the dust and falls .

 

[regular]

Iran threatens U.S. Navy as sanctions hit economy
By Parisa Hafezi | Reuters – 7 mins ago.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran threatened Tuesday to take action if the U.S. Navy moves an aircraft carrier into the Gulf, Tehran's most aggressive statement yet after weeks of saber-rattling as new U.S. and EU financial sanctions take a toll on its economy.

The prospect of sanctions targeting the oil sector in a serious way for the first time has hit Iran's rial currency, which has fallen by 40 percent against the dollar in the past month.

Queues formed at banks and some currency exchange offices shut their doors as Iranians scrambled to buy dollars to protect their savings from the currency's fall.

Army chief Ataollah Salehi said the United States had moved an aircraft carrier out of the Gulf from because of Iran's naval exercises, and Iran would take action if the ship returned.

It did not name the carrier, but the USS John C Stennis leads a task force in the region, and the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet website pictured it in the Arabian Sea last week.

"Iran will not repeat its warning ... the enemy's carrier has been moved to the Sea of Oman because of our drill. I recommend and emphasize to the American carrier not to return to the Persian Gulf," army chief Salehi said.

"I advise, recommend and warn them over the return of this carrier to the Persian Gulf because we are not in the habit of warning more than once."

Lieutenant Rebecca Rebarich, spokeswoman for the U.S. 5th Fleet based in Bahrain, said she was not immediately able to respond.

Tehran's threat comes at a time when sanctions are having an unprecedented impact on its economy, and the country faces political uncertainty with an election in March, its first since a 2009 vote that triggered countrywide demonstrations.

The West has imposed the increasingly tight sanctions over Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is strictly peaceful but Western countries believe aims to build an atomic bomb.

After years of sanctions that had little impact, the latest measures are the first that could have a serious effect on Iran's oil trade, 60 percent of its economy.

New sanctions signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama on New Year's Eve would cut off any financial institutions that work with Iran's central bank from the U.S. financial system, blocking the main path for payments for Iranian oil.

The EU is expected to impose new sanctions by the end of this month, possibly including a ban on oil imports.

Even Iran's top trading partner China - which has refused to back new global sanctions against Iran - is demanding discounts to buy Iranian oil as Tehran's options narrow. Beijing has cut its imports of Iranian crude by more than half for January and, paying premiums for crude from Russia and Vietnam to replace it.

THREATS

Iran has responded to the tighter measures with increasingly belligerent rhetoric.

It spooked oil markets briefly when it announced last month it could prevent shipping through the Straight of Hormuz - a narrow shipping lane through which flows 40 percent of the world's oil trade - if sanctions hurt its own oil business.

It then held 10 days of naval exercises in the Gulf, test firing long range missiles that could hit Israel or U.S. bases in the Middle East. But Tuesday's apparent threat to take action against the U.S. military for sailing in international waters takes the aggressive rhetoric to a new level.

The new U.S. sanctions law, if implemented fully, would make it impossible for many refineries to pay Iran for crude. It imposes measures gradually and allows Obama to offer temporary waivers to prevent an oil price shock.

The European Union is expected to consider new measures by the end of this month, possibly including a blockade. EU members such as such as crisis-hit Greece are still buyers of Iranian oil, which trades at a discount.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Paris wants new measures taken by January 30, when EU foreign ministers meet.

"France ... wants sanctions toughened and the president (Nicolas Sarkozy) has made two concrete proposals on that front - the first being the freezing of Iranian central bank assets, a tough measure, and the second an embargo on Iranian oil exports," Juppe told i>tele, a French TV channel.

Michael Mann, spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, said member states would discuss the issue this week in the hope of reaching an agreement on new steps before the January 30 meeting.

"The ball is still in the Iranians' court," he said.

Although China, India and other countries are unlikely to sign up to any oil embargo, they will be able to insist on deeper discounts, potentially reducing the income Tehran receives from oil.

Beijing has been driving a hard bargain. China, which bought 11 percent of its oil from Iran during the first 11 months of last year, has cut its January purchase by about 285,000 barrels per day, more than half of the close to 550,000 bpd that it bought through a 2011 contract.

The impact of falling government income from oil sales can be felt on the streets in Iran in soaring prices for state subsidized goods and a falling rial currency.

Some exchange offices in Tehran, when contacted by Reuters, said there was no trading taking place until further notice.

"The rate is changing every second ... We are not taking in any rials to change to dollars or any other foreign currency," said Hamid Bakshi in central Tehran.

Housewife Zohreh Ghobadi, waiting in a long line at a bank, said she was trying to withdraw her savings and change it into dollars.

Iranian authorities played down any link between the souring exchange rate and the imposition of the new sanctions.

"The new American sanctions have not materialized yet," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told a news conference Tuesday. "It will take a few months until these sanctions are fully implemented."

The economic impact is being felt ahead of a nationwide parliamentary election on March 2, the first vote since a disputed 2009 presidential election that led to the worst unrest since Iran's 1979 revolution.

(Additional reporting by Hashem Kalantari in Tehran, Humeyra Pamuk in Dubai, Brian Love in Paris and Florence Tan in Singapore; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Giles Elgood)

Iran threatens U.S. Navy as sanctions hit economy - Yahoo! News

 

[Hussein]

LOL like in Iraq,afghanistan,libya and so on?

Iraq is something to discuss about (many Europeans didn't want this war for exemple).
Afghanistan > it is logic: they were attacked and this was an answer + security of their country against Al Qaeda group
Libya > it was about a massacre that some countries wanted to avoid and THEY were Libyans themselves on ground who did the job to choose their freedom instead keeping with terror of a crazy guy who is threatening its people and say they are rats
(any comparison with Khamenei is ... ah is true)

I don't understand (indeed i do) these so much insults and words, and threatening from Iran

For nuclear : they don't want cooperate then they cry now for a group for discussing and letting controls inside the country
ok ok again and again... how long this game will go on?
Especially with some comments i will not put here but if you listen some words it shows that it is a game: from one side "i want we speak" and one side insulting and saying "we don't care, we do whatever we want"

Explain me why we can consider in our country there is something understandable happening
just check about this:
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how many countries can have such sick people who lead our justice?

You all knwo what is happening in our country: the sanction from USA is making a disaster
The prices of good increase terribly ! (because value of dollar compared to toman)
it was not a long time ago 1000 tomans for 1 dollar US and now it is 1800 tomans !!!

 

[graphican]

I have a feeling that US will chicken out as always.. Israel is willing to fight with Iran at the cost of American blood but America itself is not in position to offend Iran.

 

[indian navy]

well that not good thing

usa should use other option and before iran usa should work on others area

 

[SinoChallenger]

This is virtually a declaration of war! It's an invitation from Iran for USA to launch air strikes. The Iranian government is very clever, so they would not make such a declaration of war unless they are ready.

Possibly, Iran already has secretly acquired many batteries of advanced SAMs like S-300 PMU and HQ-9, so they expect to be a very hard nut to crack for US forces.

 

[Zabaniyah]

The only naive person here is you, The usa fifth fleet is nothing but a sitting duck for Iran, usa knows that, their fleet is just their to make their puppets saudi and Bahrain leaders feel safe.

Little advise: Don't underestimate the USN.

 

[nomi007]

We should not destory it tough, we need to take the onboard stuff then sink the fat yankee.

have you ability to destroy or try to stop him

 

[Chogy]

Ignore the politics for a moment, and focus on the forces...

Look at a map pf the Gulf, the straights, and the horn of Africa; Oman.

Now, consider the combat radius of the F/A-18 Hornet, the range of cruise missiles, the offensive arms that a Carrier group has ready to go. Do Iranians really think a nuclear carrier is going to approach Iran and park 10 miles off shore? Why would they do something like that, when they can operate to the South, around the coast of Sur in Oman, and not only be out of range of the vast majority of Iran's brown water assets, but be terrain masked as well.

All those speed boats would have to cross 300 km of blue water to get anywhere close, and what 20mm cannon fire from a Hornet does to a speed boat is not pretty. Launch the F-5's? Assuming they get through any F/A-18 CAPs, they'd then have to face the defensive fire of picket ships, guided missile cruisers, and the like.

If it comes to blows, the USA will stand off and attack with some impunity. But I don't think it will come to that. I hope it doesn't.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

i have a feeling we will see provocations, see an escalation in the tensions. . .

Iran just held a 10 day naval war exercise in the gulf; they also have a naval ship sitting near to indian waters -probably to keep an eye on diego garcia

the US navy is at their backyard basically....


any small action or mistake could trigger greater hostilities

 

[kawaraj]

We should not destory it tough, we need to take the onboard stuff then sink the fat yankee.

I for one strongly support your proposed way of treating them.

To deal with the US such a cunning yet evil bastard world cop, your need to ignore all civilized path of consideration.




To some: What? Peaceful resolution? What a lying fart.