As Iran Flexes Washington Counter Flexes

January 03, 2012

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny

The United States has essentially been on a wartime footing since World War II. Since that time military conflict(s) have either found us or we have managed to find them.

Iran, (the old Persian Empire) is again exerting it's muscle in the Persian Gulf's Strait of Hormuz. With sabers rattling their military officials have warned the west that sanctions against the nation state of Iran will carry consequences.

TEHRAN Jan 3 (Reuters) - Iran will take action if a U.S. aircraft carrier which left the area because of Iranian naval exercises returns to the Gulf, the state news agency quoted army chief Ataollah Salehi as saying on Tuesday.

"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 emphasise to the American carrier not to return to the Persian Gulf," Salehi told IRNA.

"I advise, recommend and warn them (the Americans) over the return of this carrier to the Persian Gulf because we are not in the habit of warning more than once," the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Salehi as saying.

Salehi did not name the aircraft carrier or give details of the action Iran might take if it returned.

Iran completed 10 days of naval exercises in the Gulf on Monday, and said during the drills that if foreign powers imposed sanctions on its crude exports it could shut the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of the world's traded oil is shipped. {Read More
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