Showing posts with label The War with Iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The War with Iran. Show all posts
Monday, January 29, 2024

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 27 December 2023 - 24 January 2024

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U.S. Navy Office of Naval ... by lawofsea
Wednesday, February 01, 2017

"Iran confirms new missile test, says it does not violate nuclear deal"

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UN Resolution 2231 section dealing with ballistic missiles found here . You need to look at paragraph 3 of Annex B, which reads in pertine...
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Monday, January 09, 2017

Fun with Iran: "Destroyer USS Mahan Fires Warning Shots in Standoff with Iranian Forces"

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Sam LaGrone at USNI News Destroyer USS Mahan Fires Warning Shots in Standoff with Iranian Forces : The crew of the guided-missile destro...
Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Fun with Iran: Iran "Naval Ambitions"

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I think we've covered Iran's desire to control the flow of oil from the Middle East to the world before, but there is an interesting...
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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Fun with Iran: "US intercepts multiple shipments of Iranian weapons going to Houthis in Yemen"

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CNN reports US intercepts multiple shipments of Iranian weapons going to Houthis in Yemen American warships have intercepted five shipm...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

The Iran Deal: Sanctions Lifted with Threat of More Sanctions

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So there is an Iran nuke deal Iran and world powers capped a decade-long dispute by reaching a historic deal early Tuesday for Tehran t...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Yemen: Iran v. Saudi Arabia? Shia v. Sunni? Oh, By the way, It's a mess . . .

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Nice article on The Economist website that you should read in its entirety (may require free registration), Instability in Yemen: The Hout...
Thursday, May 02, 2013

The War with Iran: Kenya Convicts Iranian Bomb Plotters

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VOA reports Kenyan Court Convicts Two Iranians of Planning Attacks : A Kenyan court has found two Iranians guilty of possessing explosiv...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

Iran: Grand Scale Press Puffery

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Iranian press releases concerning their military capabilities never cease to amaze - much like the lurid covers of the lamented World Week...
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Thursday, May 03, 2012

Some Countries Offering "Insurance" Money for Evading the Iranian Sanctions

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Short report from PennEnergy on a couple of countries offering "insurance" money to support tankers which evade economic sanctio...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Iran Media Hype: "US uses piracy as excuse to control energy passage: Iran Navy official"

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Iranian Aircraft Carrier "The Bob" In the world of information warfare, the Iranians follow the old Avis slogan of "We Tr...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

When the time comes . . . Mine Iran!

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When I was a young naval officer, the gloves finally came off in the protracted war against what was then North Vietnam and we loaded up on ...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Iran: Increases oil storage capacity on Kharg Island "to foil EU sanctions"

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Kharg Island from space (2002) Well, it's an Iranian Press TV report, so it doesn't need to make sense, I guess, but the logic o...
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The U.S. Navy and the Persian Gulf: Ramping up slowly

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Iran rattles sabers and the U.S. Navy does a slow ramp up. L.A. Times reports, "Navy says it will add ships to Persian Gulf amid Iran...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Things having to do with Iran

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Paying a premium for strategic incoherence | Shadow Government : Here the administration's incapacity to develop a strategy has had ...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Strait of Hormuz: Triple Carriers (Briefly?)

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Let's see now, one carrier leaves the Arabian/Persian Gulf and hangs about the Northern Indian Ocean/Arabian Sea because its replaceme...
Saturday, January 07, 2012

How Iran Says "Thanks"

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The photo is a message from me to the FARS propaganda machine. BBC News report here; : According to a New York Times reporter who boarded ...
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Iranian threats

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U.S. Energy Information Administration Map In for a penny, in for a pound, I suppose, as another irrational Iranian spokesman threatens (...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Hormuz Strait Word Games Ratcheting Up

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A few days ago, we had an Iranian political bozo stirring up international concern with a threat to close down the Strait of Hormuz, followe...
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Sunday, December 04, 2011

Iranian Press TV accused of making up stories about U.S. drone strikes in Somalia

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Not really surprising, giving the silliness of some of their other fake reporting, but it is nice to see other people noticing. Here's a...