Topic: Unilateral Israeli Strike on Iran?

[Libertas]

Things are heating up.

Obama continues to tork Israel off and blame it for the worlds ills, it would never occur to the SCoaMF that she needs to protect herself by any means necessary.

And as far as our reaction to Iran, two carriers in the 5th Fleet is nothing new, the Lincoln is in the S.China Sea after enjoying a layover in Thailand, if she steams west then perhaps things get serious for us.

http://www.debka.com/article/21652/

Stymie's Cold War with Israel gets warmer -

http://www.debka.com/article/21650/

Hopefully Bibi told the SCoaMF to bugger off and slammed the phone down.

Meanwhile, Stymie appears content to rip Israel and sit on his hands while Iran marches toward a possible 1KT underground nuclear test sometime this year.

http://www.debka.com/article/21635/

Yeah, that will have a positive impact upon everything, eh?!

 

Interesting tidbit here about The Institute using Kurdish recruits to cause mayhem in Iran.  Perhaps they had a hand in whacking their scientists?!  If so, well done!  Either way, keep going after those Persians!  Since Stymie has no problem letting them go nuclear, Israel is the only one that can do anything.

[Libertas]

Iran threat -

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/01/18/iran-threatens-us-persian-gulf-cities-with-missile-attacks

Cordesman is heavily cited, he has been around a while, some may remember him as far back as GW-I or before, he can be a master of the obvious as well as over/understate some issues, but in general the article is an OK read.

He is dead right on one thing, Iran does anything stupid in the straits or launch any attacks, they are cutting of their own heads.

More typical (and nauseating) Rooskie posturing.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Russia-says-strike-on-Iran-would-be-catastrophe/articleshow/11539555.cms

Screw 'em!  We'll treat them like they treated us over Georgia...tell them to fvck off!

If the Persians are insane enough to start something, I seriously doubt even Stymie can hold back the stick.  There is some rumor flying around (based on a conservative member of the Iranian parliament, so I see no credence in it to link it) that Stymie supposedly sent a letter chastising the Persians and requesting to open a dialogue...the latter reeks of his naive stance during campaign '08, the former sounds nothing like his typical behavior towards Islamic nations...so at present I see no option but to call BS on this story...sounds more like Persian posturing to justify whatever stupid ideas they may have in the works!

[Libertas]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-iran-claims-subs-can-easily-target-u-s-carriers-in-persian-gulf/

Jeesh!  Iranian Admiral?  What does that qualification look like?

Question #1 - Hate the Great Satan?

Question #2 - Want to wipe Israel off the map?

Question #3 - You know what water is and what floats and what sinks?

Question #4 - Do you have a 12 word vocabulary?

Question #5 - Do you have your own life preserver?

Question # 6 - Do you have your own goat?

Question # 7 - What is your favorite method of beheading?

Question #8 - Do torpedoes remind you of your childhood?

Question # 9 - Can you follow orders no matter how stupid or suicidal they may appear to you?

Congratulations, Admiral!  Here's you keys to the officers shower room!  Don't bend over for the soap!

 

Seriously, who do these jokers think they are dealing with?  The Yemeni navy?

These idiots have no clue what our own attack subs are capable of (there is always at least one in any task force, and we have two carrier groups on station) and they are not prepared for the ASW elements we can bring to bear from sea or air.

Persians!

 

[charlesoakwood]

They have no clue but they have got a good handle on the CIC.

Back to the muzzies and the Jews, (did I read it here?), some Saudi's hacked
El Al and shut their computers down so the IDF hacked the Saudi stock exchange
and shut it down with a love letter enclosed saying they will treat hacking as a
terrorist act and the next time they will shut down things for a week or a month
maybe.

And the beat goes on...

[Alphabet Soup]

Question # 10 - Do you feeeeel that you can keep yourself alive long enough to sacrifice yourself for allah?

[Libertas]

Question # 10 - Do you feeeeel that you can keep yourself alive long enough to sacrifice yourself for allah?

Heh, how'd I miss the obvious?!

 

Good catch! 

 

[Libertas]

Heating up again.

Lincoln transited the strait, Vinson in the gulf and the Enterprise is in Atlantic steaming east and due to transit the strait in March.

http://www.debka.com/article/21671/

Fairly meaningless assets freezes -

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/currency-wars-iran-banned-trading-gold-and-silver

EU agrees to embargo Iranian oil, not that that cannot be circumvented either -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9032261/European-Union-agrees-on-Iran-oil-embargo.html

Iran says it will close the strait -

http://rt.com/news/iran-close-strait-hormuz-embargo-455/

Go ahead, I dare ya, Persian punks, slit your own throats, really, I won't mind!

Good link to see current merchant traffic in the strait...I assume if a tanker has been set ablaze by Iran, the ship icon will have flames indicated -

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?level0=100

[trapeze]

I would be looking for the Iran refinery icon with flames.

[Libertas]

Yeah, followed by their nuclear sites.

Get ready to hear the Rooskies and Chi-Com's bitch and moan.

[Libertas]

Here we go!

"Hello, Iran?  Yeah, America here, got a present for ya.  Meet Mr. MOP!"

"Who's Mr. MOP?"

"Look up!"

"Ooh, shishkabob!"

 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/want-to-see-what-a-massive-30000-pound-penetrator-bomb-can-do/

Too bad Stymie won't do it, hope we sold some to Israel!

 

[charlesoakwood]

Where's the vid of it busting buried Iranian nuclear facilities?

[Libertas]

It's still in production.

 

[Libertas]

Link on USS Ponce - retrofitted commando "mother ship".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-wants-commando-mother-ship/2012/01/27/gIQA66rGWQ_story.html

Click on the Photo "Gallery" link on the left of the article, cool pics there.

Been many many moons since I've been in that area, strait is 20 miles wide, but the primary shipping lanes (I think there are 2, inbound & outbound) are narrow, for traffic safety reasons, obviously smaller craft involved in any Iranian action can zip in and around so countering mine laying and such makes sense.

Here are maps that gives a picture of the immediate area -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Strait_of_hormuz_full.jpg

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/docs/ir655-chart-2888-1580px.html

Realtime shipping traffic -

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

[Libertas]

Where's the vid of it busting buried Iranian nuclear facilities?

A link -

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203363504577187420287098692.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

Video coming soon.

 

[John Florida]

 

[charlesoakwood]

I'm thinking big bulls eye paint job.

[charlesoakwood]

Nice links.

http://photos3.marinetraffic.com/ais/showphoto.aspx?photoid=127361&size=full
                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                   

[Libertas]

Whoa!  Is there a lot of tanker traffic in the strait today!  Everybody must be loading up like demons in case some stuff goes down.

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

[charlesoakwood]

They can't stuff many more in that channel.

I bookmarked this site last night, it's a winnner.

[Libertas]

Yeah, it's a pretty cool site.

Far as I know Lincoln is still in Gulf and Vinson in Arabian Sea, with the "commando" platform in process, several Brit and other allied warships in the area.  Place is buzzing.