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Iran welcomes 'humanitarian' rescue from pirates

www.abc.net.au

The Iranian government has welcomed a US Navy rescue of 13 of its nationals from pirates near the entrance to the Gulf, in a rare respite from months of rising tensions between Tehran and Washington.

But one Iranian media outlet, the Fars news agency, which is close to the hardline Revolutionary Guards, dismissed the incident as a suspect "Hollywood movie" meant "to justify the presence of a (US) aircraft carrier in Persian Gulf waters."

The rescue was carried out on Thursday by one of several warships escorting the carrier USS John C Stennis, which Iranian military chiefs early this

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Iran hates America and threatens them to stay away, now they want them to come and help them save their people from pirates? What if its a set up and Iran fires on the navy? One minute it feels like world war 3 is about to happen and now its like theirs nothing going on, its hard to believe anything the media is saying about the "tension" between the US and Iran at the moment.

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reply to post by Wrabbit2000

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Weren't the Iranians captive for 30 or 40 days or some massively long period like that??

reply to post by camouflaged

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This doesn't change anything. They didn't welcome them, I think the US took it upon themselves. I don't think they asked the US. It's a nice gesture, but it is paranoid thinking to think the Iranians are so snidely that they would fire on the US when they came in to help. They are trying to avoid a war that Israel is mongering for.

reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul

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From OP:

The US military announced on Friday that one of the vessels escorting the Stennis, the USS Kidd, rescued the Iranian fishermen from around 45 days of captivity at the hands of pirates thought to be Somalis.

It said the Iranian captain of the dhow had asked the Kidd for help.

It looks like you're right about the time they were being held. I would love to know what circumstances led to the Captain radioing a distress call for the U.S. task force to pick up on. Either way though, the Navy went and did what they've been doing in those waters for some years now. They responded when the opportunity presented itself to bag some pirates...and rescued some Iranians in the process.

I do like how it says we released them to their vessel and then refueled and provisioned it out of Navy stocks aboard the Kidd. That is classy. Although I'd honestly expect nothing less from the U.S. Navy.

I'd like to see the U.S. Navy do one more thing, actually.... How about handing the Pirates over to the Islamic Republic of Iran for trial in their courts. I have a feeling Iranian law is a little less forgiving of piracy against it's flagged vessels than we are.

reply to post by Fractured.Facade

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No one blames your soldiers (not all of them are blood thursty rapists, just a small percentage as in case of any nation) but your regime is just a warmongering one, sorry to say that and I repeat, no one blames your soldiers for anything! They're young adults like you and me doing their, unfortunately mostly bad, duties..

Local paper human interest story. Good read...

Stockton Record Local Boy makes good

STOCKTON - A 23-year-old Stockton man was at the center of an international incident last week when the U.S. Navy rescued Iranian fishermen held captive by Somali pirates.

Ensign Kendall Bolt, assigned to the destroyer USS Kidd, was a member of the boarding party that saved 13 fishermen in the northern Arabian Sea.

According to the New York Times:

The USS Kidd loomed alongside the hijacked dhow, the warship's loudspeaker issuing commands in Urdu. U.S. sailors, including Bolt, stood ready, weapons in hand.

If you have weapons aboard, the voice boomed, put them where we can see them.

The Somali pirates were crouched and cornered on the vessel they had seized in November to use as their mother ship. They had knives, a pistol and four assault rifles. But they did not speak Urdu. For a moment, the captors depended on their captives.

They asked their Iranian hostages what the U.S. sailors had just said.

One of the hostages, Khaled Abdulkhaled, answered without pause: "They said they are about to blow this ship up."

The pirates panicked. Their unity broke. Each man looked for cover or a place to hide. Discarding their weapons, nine of them crammed into a hold beneath the wheelhouse. Six huddled near the open bow. Soon Bolt and armed U.S. sailors climbed aboard.

reply to post by ShamilAbdullah

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Yup.

The government is not the people.

I have friends from Iran, and many other far away places. My friend Shapoor was in the US army.

Jgte]Originally posted by kawika
reply to post by ShamilAbdullah

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Yup.

The government is not the people.

I have friends from Iran, and many other far away places. My friend Shapoor was in the US army.

Indeed your correct. I too have friends in many places .. but never a "sworn enemie"

Originally posted by SpectreDC
You must be on some amazing drugs to think Iran would openly attack the US navy.

You must be missing a whole lotta' information on just what the leadership of Iran wants to do.
By attacking the US Navy it will set off a huge chain reaction of world war - which is EXACTLY
what Ahmadinejad has said that he wants to happen. Read why -

CBN - Iranian President Prepares For 12th Imam's Reappearance

President Ahmadinejad seems to think that the time is ripe for the 12th Imam’s reappearance and that, as president, he should play a role in opening the way for his return,” the journal said. “He is reported to have said in one of his cabinet sessions, ‘We have to turn Iran into a modern and divine country to be the model for all nations, and which will also serve as the basis for the return of the 12th Imam.’”

Like Bernard Lewis of Princeton, the Kairos authors said Ahmadinejad seems to believe “that the hand of God is guiding him to trigger a series of cataclysmic events which could precipitate the return of the 12th Imam. Only time will tell if this is his true conviction; but if he does hold such a view, his possession of nuclear weapons is a particularly scary prospect

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