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Well Well Well... Guess who saved an American Cargo ship from Pirates?

(CNN) -- Iranian sailors helped scare off armed pirates who attacked an American cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman, Iranian state media reported Thursday.

It's the latest example of U.S.-Iranian cooperation on pirate-infested high seas despite a wave of tensions between Washington and Tehran over the decades.

The incident occurred northeast of Fujairah, a port for refueling oil tankers, the Fars News Agency said. The port, in the United Arab Emirates, is close to the Strait of Hormuz, an important oil shipping lane.

Iranian navy vessels received a distress signal from the U.S. cargo ship Maersk Texas during patrols.

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As far as I know...

.... I ran has not started a war with any country in the last 300 years. The Neo-CONS axis of evil is their own reflection.

The elite criminals can not tell the truth, it is not their nature. EVERYTHING I read or see in the Lamestream is 180 degrees from the truth.

War is peace etc... They are completely and wholly evil, Satanic if you will.

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Hey Archons', we are taking our planet back and there's nothing you can do about it!

I will -Satanic is the correct classification, thank you!

The morning of 9-11, before Bush told a powerful lie, "You're either with us or you're with the terrorists," I had said, a line is now drawn in the sand and the question is, "Who is on the LORD'S side?"

You are so right about these elite criminals who can not tell the truth and about it not being their nature. You are so right about them being wholly evil.

Jesus said, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44

There is something to be said for rejecting false enemies and knowing who the enemy is.

Thank you for correctly identifying the source of the evil we are up against.

Peace and good will to all men, in Iran and around the world.

I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war. Ps 120:7
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Better to be divided by truth than united in error.
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The local church(not a building -a people) is the missing link. Help build it now!

Iranian Navy

I like how they imply that it was normal sailors that saved them even though it clearly was the Iranian navy that stepped in. Either way, these definitely sound like the actions of a people that want us dead! They need to be stopped!

I don't believe anything the

I don't believe anything the MSM puts out anymore really unless i see it. This story is just a pawn moved by someone. Who? F'ed if i know

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i must agree with you

on this point.

I don't believe a word of the lame stream media.

I'm actually quite surprised that something 'positive' was posted about Iran on CNN.

The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

- Calvin Coolidge

I guess we didn't have enough

I guess we didn't have enough presence in the area.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=20...

About time they return the favor.

We have saved their sailors about 3 times in the last year...

Freedom may be worth searching for.

I have given up on my fellow Americans, (not DPers) as I will not shed one more calorie trying to awaken anyone else who is not a critical thinker and does not have the inherent feeling that something is wrong with

The people of Iran and the

The people of Iran and the people of the United States are not enemies of one another. It is our governments--those who falsely claim to represent the people--who fight. Unfortunately, the people are often implicated by those few who have taken the most power.

Iran is not our friend

Neither is Israel.

Trade and talk with both. Trust neither.

Iran was our best friend

in 1953! you need to do some research on Operation Ajax.Their not our friend because our CIA install the middle east butcher AKA shah to replace a freely elected Prime minister.

There is very legitimate reasons why the middle east people hate the USA and don't trust us. I never understood why they called us the great Satan until I checked it out my self.

This is when hostilities really started: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzS5Y1f8zVM

Then while your at it find the reason for 1979 hostage crisis in our Iranian Embassy, maybe you'll find it is related to 1953.

Gold standard: because man can not be trusted to control his greed

half true...

The majority of American people don't give a hoot for either country. If they don't bother us, we won't bother them; however, Israel get $4 billion a year in charity aid, untold military weapons, local and federal government contracts, the Executive branch of government running the puppet Obama show are "for Israel" Jews, Congress is bought by American Jews "for Israel", the Fed are run by Jews "for Israel" (there's $2 trillion dollars unaccounted in the Fed's books, it's believe it made its way to Israel to give them the money to "buy" our weapons--thus Israel essentially got free military arsenal from the US), a large portion of our Jewish politicians are "for Israel" and they make this vow in public when they campaign as an American politician--boldly stating such in their campaign speeches. I've never heard any other nationality politician vows support for another country in their campaign speeches. I've never heard an Irish American politician say "I'm for Ireland" or a Asian politician/Congressman say "I'm for Japan" or "China" or "Korea" or an Italian say he's for Italy. I only hear such insulting unpatriotic comments from the Jewish candidates--ALL politicians should be "for America" ONLY. We are what we say, and I think it's racist to say you're for your own kind when running for office in an multinational country! In conclusion, on the whole we are no friends to either of the two countries, but the "for Israel" Jews sure gave Israel the cousin treatment. This is fact and I am saying as such. I am against anyone group of people whose speaks of their own to exclude others.

I say: if you can't make it better, don't make it worst!

A comment below is correct,

A comment below is correct, the people over there dont hate us.

The problem here is our governments, mainly the US government. People from both countries dont want there to be war(ok, I am sure there are a few diehards that think otehrwise), its the government thats the problem here.

I wish if there was a planned conflict(as in offensive), the people(leaders) who wanted it would get a major chance to have to lead from the front lines. Lets see how quick they are to stop making threats in this case.

Isn't that the truth!

They say less than 3% of Congress has anyone in their immediate families in the military. If more did, they'd no doubt be more careful with our soldier's precious lives. Having warmongering Congressional leaders on the front lines, well, that would be even better.

I Guess They Are Not Our Enemy!

But, they are our friend. The government needs an excuse to support our Military Industrial Complex with yet another war on the horizon.
Thank you protecting our cargo ship.

This wonderful incident should of been covered by the MSM.

Not the enemy!

The people of all of our countries are led by elitists and not populists? "we the people" types, anyway! This is the second time the Iranians made the news, helping fight off pirates!! I bet there are a lot of Iranians who do not see us as Satan, now. They should be an inspiration to our humanity, if not our damned politicians!

Then, think about the two fishermen that died in the Caribbean, because a cruise ship was "too busy" to save their lives. I would hope that bookings would go down for that cruise line, until they make reparations to the families that lost the young men, just trying to put food on the table. I cannot say it was the US's fault. The cruise lines are run by many foreign countries, as well!

God...

Bless The Iranians. RP2012 And the rest of the middle east...

9/11 was an inside job .....time to get some answers..RP 2012

I know this is subjective...

I know this is subjective... but this may have been the best thread I have seen on here in awhile(i dont own a TV and try to avoid media/programming in general), in terms of how it made me feel. Whether or not you believe in divine intervention, this seems to carry the characteristics of something that could be called that.

Hopefully this is enough of a blow to the empire that their media will have to lay off of Iran for quite some time. This is potentially a monumental day for the cause of liberty!

CNN would cover this? I thought it came out from Press TV of

Iran, of which I watch it every time on Roku (over the CNN "Propaganda Channel").

Press TV = unbiased, balanced and fair (akin to RT).

As an Iranian American

Born here and raised here but have roots as an Iranian, They dont hate us at all trust me I been there. They dont hate jewish people, they have jewish people that even live in iran. This country has deep deep wordwide history.

They just disagree with the american govt. I dont blame them because ever since 1953 the elite has been trying to take there natural resources and try to heavly impose a central bank which they are against. And we all know what a central bank does to a country.

I just made a similar

comment to yours one the article with a few more facts of the history of Iran and it kept saying there was an error. Yeah right....
It was in reply and somewhat question form to another comment about how Iran can't be trusted because of so many of it's past actions.
I think they have been very tolerant considering. Maybe everyone here doesn't know it , but 98% of what we are told about Iran by our government and media are lies.
I don't suppose that surprises most of you.

Trust me many of us know that

that's why we're so against wars. The US have been taking other countries's natural resources around the world for decades.

First they send the economic hitmen, then the jackals and if they fail TPTB sends the military.

I wish veterans on this site would watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29GhXsx7-Rs&feature=related
and understand why they are being sent to wars for the elites.

What ... what ...what

But ...but They hate our freedoms. They are terrorists ...right. They hate Israel. Iran wants to wipe Israel off the map. We have to put more sanctions on them. They hate Americans and our Democracy.
I heard it on FOX.
They hate our Freedoms.

( End Sarcasm )

Bump for Peace

Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% fatality rate.
Thank You Fishy !!!

Sounds like a good reason to bomb Iran immediately

YES! I'm kidding.

Because Iranians like Americans

I saw a documentary from an American who visited Iran and visited different cities and talked to the people. Iranians actually like us a lot (and they have beautiful women!)

Our governments have beef with each other, that's all... And to keep it honest it's been mostly our government instigating/provoking theirs.

This seems to be the case not just in Iran, but in many countries we bomb or go to war with (or think about going to war with)... The white house decides they are a "threat to our safety" (aka we need their resources or the military industrial complex needs more profit) and engages in another unconstitutional war. Even though the people of both countries would otherwise get along just fine.

Less bombs, more trade = better world. Too bad sheeple keep electing war-mongers as POTUS.

I guess their women

are beautiful. it is the nose job capitol of the world. Oh and they have awesome shopping malls and love fashion. Most people here in the west think they have to wear Burkas. Not so. they wear scarfs and they use them more for a fashion statement for the most part. They love there make up too. They do dress conservatively to a point. Not like women here with their cleavage showing etc. but they love their fashionable snug jeans and shoes as well.
Some out lying towns and some people by choice have a stricter dress code.
Women also hold very prestigious high paying jobs in Iran.
People here (many of them) are ignorant and think Iran is a sand pit and backward. Not at all. They even have some nice snow skiing. They also think it is just like Iraq. Saudi Arabia, and all the other ME countries. They are Persian. They even speak a different language. Persian Farsi. Not Arabic.

OH NO! NOT THOSE EVIL

OH NO! NOT THOSE EVIL MOOSLIMS! They must be bad! Israel said so! O____O

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from his government." - Thomas Paine

(╮°-°)╮┳━┳ (╯°□°)╯┻━┻ "RON PAUL 2012 DAMNIT!"

very "feel good" post for me.

very "feel good" post for me. happy to see that no matter how terribly they are being treated by the U.S., goodness prevails! on the other hand they probably can't read and don't have a source of news so they could be clueless about what's going on...

Me too...

When the war drummers are out in full force, I get depressed when I reflect on the apparent inevitability of aggressive wars.

When I read this, I am encouraged that we are at last paying attention to the good people in Iran.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson

People are people

This is why corporations should not have Constitutional rights designated for PERSONS - and nor should governments nor any institutions have rights - unless expressly granted BY the people. There's a difference between PEOPLE and institutions: PEOPLE hear distress signals and spontaneously act. All PEOPLE share DNA; they share emotions; they can relate - all being God's children, so to speak. That's why we need to decentralize this government back to the way it was intended and put the power back in the hands OF the people.