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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader has awarded medals to navy commanders for capturing U.S. sailors who entered Iranian territorial waters this month, Iran’s state media said on Sunday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has said Iran should remain wary of its arch-enemy the United States even after a landmark accord over Tehran’s nuclear program, awarded […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s navy warned a U.S. warship on Wednesday to leave waters near the Strait of Hormuz where the Iranians were testing submarines, destroyers and missile launchers, news agencies reported. The commander of Iran’s fleet, Rear-Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, told Tasnim news agency the U.S. ship was trying to collect information in the Sea […]
Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei boasted to his IRGC forces that it was God who led the U.S. sailors into their hands.
Saudi Arabia has made no secret that they intend to do whatever they must to protect their people in the event that Iran obtains full nuclear capabilities. However, while they would not outright admit their own pursuit of nukes, it is apparent that they would have no choice but to go that route. The source […]
In a move that will do little to ease American minds, Iran’s supreme leader has apparently “softened” his stance on the United States by referring to our country as “the Great False Idol” instead of the typical “Great Satan”. The apparent downgrade in his level of disdain comes after sanctions were recently lifted on Iran, […]
What was worth of the lives of the four American hostages – Jason Rezaian, U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati, Pastor Saeed Abedini, and Nosratollah Khosrawi Roudsari – that Iran had been holding onto? According to Iran, $425 million dollars per person ($400 million in debt along with $1.3 billion in interest). The U.S. State Department has […]
Adding to the controversy surrounding the capture of US sailors by the Iranian military last week is the fact that Iran kept the SIM cards of two US satellite phones. All other items were returned. CENTCOM has published a report that detailed the situation. WASHINGTON — Iranian soldiers removed two SIM cards from two […]
April 25, 1980, was a defining moment the American people and Special Operations. At 7 a.m., a somber President Carter announced to the nation and the world the tragic news of Desert One. He revealed a secret hostage rescue mission had failed; eight American servicemen were dead and several others were seriously injured. Problems with […]
Unless you’re an Iran analyst or have read, The Twilight War, by David Crist, you likely don’t know that the United States and Iran have been playing a game of cat and mouse in the Persian Gulf for decades. The “tanker war” of the 1980s pitted American naval might against Iran’s far less capable fleet […]
Iran has freed the 10 U.S. sailors who strayed into its territorial waters Tuesday, Iranian and U.S. officials say. The two U.S. vessels had been en route to Kuwait from Bahrain on a routine exercise, when, a senior defense official said, contact was lost with them Tuesday. Iran said they were detained and held at a base on […]
This most recent flare-up in hostilities is shining a spotlight anew on the mostly clandestine conflict that has simmered between the two countries for years.
[Editor’s Note: When tensions are high in a particular region, we can always trust the loudmouth in the neighborhood will continue to do what it does best: run its gums, deny, and make counter accusations. Same Iranian story, same lame rhetoric, different day.] The U.S. military released a video Saturday showing what it says is […]
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