Massive US Naval Armada Heads For Iran Yellow_Flash_Colorz_PDT_23

There has been a virtual media blackout regarding this naval deployment. The Western media, including the printed press and network TV have failed to meaningfully address these war preparations.


http://www.iran.mojahedin.org/pagesen/d ... ewsid=3031

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.h ... index.html

Kuwait on alert for war in Persian Gulf

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=6 ... =351020101

http://www.centurychina.com/plaboard/po ... 3181.shtml


Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint US/UK/French naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean preparing for a naval blockade of Iran and the likely resulting war in the Persian Gulf area. The massive war games included a US Navy supercarrier battle group, an US Navy expeditionary carrier battle group, a Royal Navy carrier battle group, a French nuclear hunter-killer submarine plus a large number of US Navy cruisers, destroyers and friGates playing the 'enemy force'.
The lead American ship in these war games, the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN71) and its Carrier Strike Group Two (CCSG-2) are now headed towards Iran along with the USS Ronald Reagon (CVN76) and its Carrier Strike Group Seven (CCSG-7) coming from Japan.
They are joining two existing USN battle groups in the Gulf area: the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN72) with its Carrier Strike Group Nine (CCSG-9); and the USS Peleliu (LHA-5) with its expeditionary strike group.
Likely also under way towards the Persian Gulf is the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) and its expeditionary strike group, the UK Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal (R07) carrier battle group, assorted French naval assets including the nuclear hunter-killer submarine Amethyste and French Naval Rafale fighter jets on-board the USS Theodore Roosevelt. These ships took part in the just completed Operation Brimstone.
The build up of naval forces in the Gulf will be one of the largest multi-national naval armadas since the First and Second Gulf Wars. The intent is to create a US/EU naval blockade (which is an Act of War under international law) around Iran (with supporting air and land elements) to prevent the shipment of benzene and certain other refined oil products headed to Iranian ports. Iran has limited domestic oil refining capacity and imports 40% of its benzene. Cutting off benzene and other key products would cripple the Iranian economy. The neo-cons are counting on such a blockade launching a war with Iran.
The USS Iwo Jima and USS Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Groups have USMC Harrier jump jets and an assortment of assault and attack helicopters. The Expeditionary Strike Groups have powerful USMC Expeditionary Units with amphibious armor and ground forces trained for operating in shallow waters and in seizures of land assets, such as Qeshm Island (a 50 mile long island off of Bandar Abbas in the Gulf of Hormuz and headquarters of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps).
The large and very advanced nature of the US Naval warships is not only directed at Iran. There is a great fear that Russia and China may oppose the naval and air/land blockade of Iran.

If Russian and perhaps Chinese naval warships escort commercial tankers to Iran in violation of the blockade it could be the most dangerous at-sea confrontation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The US and allied Navies, by front loading a Naval blockade force with very powerful guided missile warships and strike carriers is attempting to have a force so powerful that Russia and China will not be tempted to mess with. This is a most serious game of military brinkmanship with major nuclear armed powers that have profound objections to the neo-con grand strategy and to western control of all of the Middle East’s oil supply

Well...not yet they're not, considering that's my carrier and I'm still here.
YAY! I'm going to war again! I was already a part of the very first bombing missions over Baghdad (my jets escorted a Stealth bomber over-head)...time to do it again!

Holy Crap!

And Joe you were apart of one the first bombing missions! That's awesome!

Not me, personally...but my jets were. I don't fly...just fix.

Well I'll be the dick and contradict the whole thread. First off the links and new provided are from Iranian new agencies, hell the link to one of them is a sever located in Iran itself. Iranian media, and Iran in general tends to bloat if not make up everything that do or say, that has been noted in the facts with even exaggerating the extent of missile test/launches. Secondly if it is true and it's just "war games" operations in that are are just a show of strength and nothing more along with the fact are nation forces have been and already there in great numbers as it is. I just think the severity of this isn't shit and the fact its from Iranian new agencies just bloat and make up shit to cause a buzz and get attention.

Well it's still pretty cool.

The fact is: CCSG-2 (my strike group) still leaves on deployment in a matter of weeks.

Hope we bomb the sh*t out of someone!

Wanna know what is even wierder is every other time I search on US British Naval armada or Massive US Naval Armada Heads For Iran, I find several links to what would appear to be reputible news outlets, but the link has been removed and page not found. (mainly UK sites it seems)

http://europebusines.blogspot.com/2008/ ... -iran.html

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=9120

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9815


This artical goes a little further than the others

http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/Mass ... 8-541.html

Says we (US) already knew Russia and Georgia where about to throw down... That it is actually a diversion while we take out Iran. And that Iran has a nasty ABW arsonal after hiring the top soviet biowar specialists after the fall of the USSR and Syria is also involved. interesting... and Russians insist that they have developed a plasma based system that allows them to stealth any aircraft and a recent incident where Russian fighters were able to appear unannounced over a US Navy carrier battle group tends to confirm their claims



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And

http://www.opednews.com/articles/World- ... 2-632.html

http://www.metimes.com/Security/2008/08 ... _air/ca8a/

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0620/p07s ... tml?page=1

http://digg.com/world_news/Massive_US_N ... s_For_Iran

and

This is four years old, but still relevant:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/articles/A55414-2004Nov16.html

Iran's New Alliance With China Could Cost U.S. Leverage

By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 17, 2004; Page A21

TEHRAN -- A major new alliance is emerging between Iran and China that threatens to undermine U.S. ability to pressure Tehran on its nuclear program, support for extremist groups and refusal to back Arab-Israeli peace efforts.

The relationship has grown out of China's soaring energy needs -- crude oil imports surged nearly 40 percent in the first eight months of this year, according to state media -- and Iran's growing appetite for consumer goods for a population that has doubled since the 1979 revolution, Iranian officials and analysts say.

An oil exporter until 1993, China now produces only for domestic use. Its proven oil reserves could be depleted in 14 years, oil analysts say, so the country is aggressively trying to secure future suppliers. Iran is now China's second-largest source of imported oil.

The economic ties between two of Asia's oldest civilizations, which were both stops on the ancient Silk Road trade route, have broad political implications.

Holding a veto at the U.N. Security Council, China has become the key obstacle to putting international pressure on Iran. During a visit to Tehran this month, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing signaled that China did not want the Bush administration to press the council to debate Iran's nuclear program. U.S. officials have expressed fear that China's veto power could make Iran more stubborn in the face of U.S. pressure.

The burgeoning relationship is reflected in two huge new oil and gas deals between the two countries that will deepen the relationship for at least the next 25 years, analysts here say.

Last month, the two countries signed a preliminary accord worth $70 billion to $100 billion by which China will purchase Iranian oil and gas and help develop Iran's Yadavaran oil field, near the Iraqi border. Earlier this year, China agreed to buy $20 billion in liquefied natural gas from Iran over a quarter-century.

Iran wants trade to grow even further. "Japan is our number one energy importer for historical reasons . . . but we would like to give preference to exports to China," Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said this month, according to China Business Weekly.

In turn, China has become a major exporter of manufactured goods to Iran, including computer systems, household appliances and cars. "We mutually complement each other. They have industry and we have energy resources," said Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's former representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

China's trade with Iran is weakening the impact on Iranian policy of various U.S. economic embargoes, analysts here say. "Sanctions are not effective nowadays because we have many options in secondary markets, like China," said Hossein Shariatmadari, a leading conservative theorist and editor of the Kayhan newspapers.

Accurate trade figures are difficult to get, in part because trade is increasing so rapidly and partly because China's large arms sales to Iran are not included or publicized. But at the second annual Iran-China trade fair here in May, Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng said trade had increased by 50 percent in 2003 over the previous year, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.

Beijing has also provided Iran with advanced military technology, including missile technology, U.S. officials say. In April, the Bush administration imposed sanctions on Chinese manufacturers of equipment that can be used to develop weapons of mass destruction.

The Iran-China ties may be partly a response to the United States, analysts here say. President Bush's strategy has been to contain both China and the Islamic republic, said Siamak Namazi, a political and economic analyst, "so that's created natural allies."

The growing presence of U.S. and other Western troops in Central and South Asia and the Middle East is another joint concern. In the English-language Kayhan International, Ali Sabzevari wrote in an editorial: "Politically, the two countries share a common interest in checking the inroads being made by NATO in Asia. . . . The presence of outsiders does not bode well for peace and security."

The countries also share concerns over radical Sunni Muslims. Most Iranians follow the rival Shiite strain of Islam; China has more than 20 million Muslims, and the government has been facing Muslim unrest in some of its western cities. The dissidents receive support from Islamic groups in Afghanistan and the countries of former Soviet Central Asia -- the region that straddles both Iran and China.

Islam has historically been a link between the two civilizations. It made its way to China via Persia, the ancient state that was based in present-day Iran, Iranians note. Many Chinese Muslims pray in Persian, not Arabic. Their everyday language is Turkic, but their alphabet is Persian.

But in recent times, ties between China and Iran have not always prospered. In the midst of the unrest that led to Iran's revolution, one of the last foreign leaders to visit Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi before he was overthrown in 1979 was Chinese Communist Party chief Hua Kuo-feng. "The visit left a very strong negative feeling about China among Iranians," said Abbas Maleki, director of the Caspian Institute, a Tehran research organization.

But today, China with its one-party political system appears to feel fewer restraints than do Western nations in dealing with the world's only theocracy. "For China, issues like human rights don't affect your relations with Iran," Namazi said.

It's just Iranian propaganda. We're not going to attack Iran. It's not going to happen. We can't afford a war with China and Russia.

You want to win a war against those 3? End the oil addiction and stop shopping at Walmart.

Ron Paul knows

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/57497

Media blackout on US, UK French military buildup off Iran
Posted August 9th, 2008 by treber
We are about to invade Iran, and no one will know until it is too late. Investigate yourself.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 2FShowFull


Shortly after this article was released on August 13, US military sources as well as Stratfor (a Strategic Studies Think Tank) stated that the various press reports (UPI, Middle East Times, Kuwait Times, Debka) regarding the naval deployment to the Middle East were incorrect.

According to the press reports (see UPI, August 11, 2008), the war ships involved in the "Operation Brimstone" war games off the US North Atlantic coast, had set sail for the Middle East. This information is apparently incorrect, according to the US Navy and Stratfor.

It is worth noting that the Kuwaiti government had activated emergency procedures based on the information pertaining to a major naval deployment in the Persian Gulf.

Based on the movement and location of USS carrier and expeditionary strike forces, the Bush administration has not decided to carry out a naval surge directed against Iran immediately following the conduct of the North Atlantic War Games,

The eventuality of a naval blockade directed against Iran is nonetheless being considered by the Pentagon. In fact, the naval blockade initiative is supported by a bill which was launched in the US Congress in late May. (See below for details).

We have checked the most recent information regarding the movements and location of the various USS Carrier and Expeditionary Strike Groups.

The text first released on August 13 has been revised. Corrections, and updates to the text are indicated.

We will provide further updates and analysis as more information becomes available.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... a&aid=9817

In the course of the last four years, Global Research has documented in detail the various war plans directed against Iran. Operation TIRANNT (Theater Iran Near Term) was initially formulated in July 2003, in the wake of the US led Iraq invasion.

We have done our utmost to reverse the tide of media disinformation, to inform our readers and the broader public on the impending dangers underlying the US military adventure.

This is the most serious crisis in modern history which in a very real sense threatens the future of humanity.

We refer our readers to an extensive archive of articles and documents. See our War on Iran Dossier

Listen to this man

Also whats with the constant posting of all this propaganda as well a obviously shooped photo? Are you just creating lulz Durango lol.

Unfortunately, we can go to war with Iraq, because it is China that cannot afford war with us. China needs us just as much as we need them. Without america's billions of dollars of debt, China would collapse. Check into it, China pays for our debt, because we go into debt putting our money into the base of their economy.

By the way, Joe mamma. What ship did you serve on and what is your rate? I am a CS3, that just finished my tour of duty with the USS Enterprise. Shit F*CKING sucked :P

I've been in 9 years now...been an AT2 for half of my career so far (too f*cking long....need to make E-6 this time around). I'm on the aviation side of the Navy...attached to VAQ-141 (EA-6B RADAR/Comms Jammer jet) and attached to the USS Theodore Roosevelt battlegroup.

True that, do you know any of the cooks on that boat? I have a few buddies on there.

Not really, no. The only times I see any of them is when I'm sitting in line waiting to stuff my face before heading back up to deck.

True that, I understand the life. I would much rather kick it on the deck then in the Galley though. That shit sucked, probably the most ill-advised decision I have ever made in my life. Especially, when I dropped a 92 on my asvab. Lol.