Iranian Navy - Is CNN downplaying the situation or is Fox creating undue fear?

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Pentagon Paranoia -- a symptom of "Being on top too long", the discomfiture with being unchallenged, with always being on the winning team.

In this case, the American Navy is so vast, so huge, so unjustifiably expensive, paranoia over unrealistic weaknesses sets in.

But maybe the Pentagon's gayest -- I mean, happiest -- branch of the armed services is worried their seamen -- I mean, sailors -- will cave in like the raft-full of RN girls a few years back, when an Iranian coastal frigate seized them without a fight.

So I tuned into Hannity earlier to see him, predictably, freak out about this. In the end, Hannity finally called on Israel and USA to join forces and take out Iran's nuclear sites. We all knew they wanted all out war in the middle east and finally he comes out and says it... we all know why this "threat" is being hyped by the right.

Of course it is not a blue water navy, thats the point the Iranian Admiral was making. They intend to become a blue water navy, or so he proclaims.
Thats the point, announce your intention to project power over the seas. Can they. will they.....

A few years back Hugo Chavez was under internal strain. It first showed up when he rattled sabers with the US, threatening to project power to our shores. Could he, did he ?

Like Chavez, the Iranians are attempting to do two things -
1) Gain internal support and stymie dissent
2) Get a seat at the table with US, the ultimate power for a foreign ruler at odds with the US

Iran wants something, and it is not a war fought all over the globe with their rubber rafts and pipe dreams. It is probably more about internal problems and wanting to get the US to sit down with them, while they save face on the home front.

How does Iran deal with the US, how does talks begin ?
Either from Iranian strength or their weakness, they want to talk with strength, we want them weak.

with graffiti on the hull waiting for ransom. If our black ops people had any sense of humor they'd pay the Somalis to paddle all the way around the Horn and hijack that piece of crap. I'm worried that it will pan out to be a suicide mission / false flag attempt to convince the Muslim world that we Bush Doctrined it to the bottom of the Atlantic. I think there's more to it than posturing.It's not as if any of Iran's allies would see this as brave Iranian defiance as the State Dept seems to be implying is the objective.

There are only a handful of nations in the world who could actually do this without a high risk of embarrassment and/or failure. It's not an issue of Iran "gassing up" in Venezuela, as FOX News puts it. Even if it happens, it wouldn't be the key enabler as Elliot points out--it's the replenishment and refueling part. Seems likely to me that FOX inserted that part about Venezuela just to see if they can contribute to two new wars in the same article. Also, even if Iran did succeed in sending a few ships to the western Atlantic, it wouldn't be an issue of "attacking" us, it would be a strategic signal (and fodder for Sean Hannity's war-mongering). Anyway, in ten years it might be different, but the threat that Iran now poses to us outside the middle east is entirely asymmetrical (Hezbollah). If we elect Ron Paul, that threat will be minimized.

Take a look at Wikipedia. Their fleet is small. Many of their ships are 25 to 50 years old. They have some subs, but they're diesel, so I doubt if they have much range, or can stay away from port for very long. Sure they can be effective at patrolling smaller waterways against smaller vessels, but I can't imagine they would fare very well in the open Pacific.

See above.

Everybody to get from street.

In "international waters" off New York City of course.

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If they were, they might hijack some of our cruise ships and crash them into oil rigs.

like to see the world. The Navy is the way to go.
Fresh lobster in the Atlantic. They probably need a vaction by this time.

Don't forget there is a primary coming due.
SHOW ME the money.

Actually, both reports from these news outlets from yesterday were equally as bad. However, CNN today posted the White House reaction which we see above. Not everything is a conspiracy.

Why do you even listen to CNN or Fox.

Don't you listen to Ron Paul when he speaks at all.

Remember what he said about Iran and the CIA etc..

You guys...

Either you are neo cons infiltrating or you are just not paying attention...

that both foxnews and cnn are turds.

$20 says their ships get stranded in the water and need to be resuced.

Is Iran really this dumb? What could they possibly gain from this? Isn't everything already on edge as it is?