Message to the U.S. government from a concerned U.S. citizen: GET THE F*** OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!!!!

Originally posted by YeshuaPiso
WASHINGTON — The latest round of American sanctions are aimed at shutting down Iran’s central bank, a senior U.S. official said Thursday, spelling out that intention directly for the first time. “We do need to close down the Central Bank of Iran (CBI),” the official told reporters on condition of anonymity, while adding that the United States is moving quickly to implement the sanctions, signed into law last month. The sanctions, broadly aimed at forcing Tehran to shift course on its nuclear program, targeted Iran’s crucial oil sector and required foreign firms to make a choice between doing business with Iran or the United States. Foreign central banks that deal with the Iranian central bank on oil transactions could also face similar restrictions under the new law, which has sparked fears of damage to U.S. ties with nations like Russia and China.

This is all you need to know about what's happening with regard to Iran. Surprising that someone is prepared to admit it.

Translation: Those people won't join in with our IMF-World Bank-Federal Reserve-Bank of England control system that allows us to dominate every country and use their economy for our own selfish purposes. Therefore, they will be punished.

Just so you're aware, the Central Bank of Iran is one of the few central banks in the world that issues debt free currency.

edit on 14-1-2012 by YeshuaPiso because: (no reason given)

You deserve more stars and attention on this post, so I'm quoting it.

This thread should be renamed "Come bash America". If the navy reports about the speedboats, they are lying. If they don't report it, then they are asked why they didn't say anything before about it when something does come of it. The SOH is an international shipping lane. The US has as much right to be there as anyone on the planet. They have allies in the area, they have the 5th fleet base in the area. I'm assuming ships from the 5th fleet patrol the Somalia coast from there helping protect all ships from every country on the planet. Obama didn't start this mess, Bush did. You want to tell me how great and wonderful Iran is, explain to me how they can allow their supreme ayatollah to send their wives and children out to clear mine fields and stone or hang a woman for having sex. What do you think would happen if you pis sed on a Koran in Tehran square? You think you would live to tell about it?

This is really getting unsettling, it really feels like the same bull# propaganda that lead to the Iraq invasion. Seems like every few days or weeks there some new breaking story trying to make it out like Iran is some pure evil dangerous nation who is provoking poor ole peaceful USA (who invaded 2 countries in the last 10 years as compared to Iran's... none. lol) for no reason. Meanwhile it was just a routine encounter that's is pretty typical and with no violence, what a laugh. We send spies at them, fly drones over their country, possibly play a roll in assassinating their scientists, and then try to make THEM out to be the bad guys. How do we get away with this #?

Imagine Iran got caught with a spy plane over the US and were even suspected of assassinating someone in the US govt and Iranian boats were patrolling 50 miles off the coast of Florida. All the brainwashed warhawk "patriots" here would be screaming for us to destroy Iran immediately and I'm sure we'd invade them within weeks yet we do it to them and it's perfectly fine? Our govt and media are pathetically hypocrtical, we can do things but any other country who does the same things we'd label as an "axis of evil" and destroy them. Bleh, tired of this propaganda.

The world needs peace. Even if Iran wants nukes to protect themselves like everyone else has, more power to em I say, who are we to tell any nation they can't protect themselves when we are the ONLY nation to ever actually drop nukes on innocent civilians... If anything, we're the only nation who has shown we are dangerous and irresponsible with nukes in our hands. But of course, the victors write the history books, so it's fine for us to nuke innocent civilians but not for other countries to even try to get nukes like everyone else for defensive purposes (Mutual Assured Destruction is probably the only thing that has kept meddling countries like us safe for nearly 100 years).

Originally posted by Dystopiaphiliac
Message to the U.S. government from a concerned U.S. citizen: GET THE F*** OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!!!!

Uh, you do know about something called, "Freedom of the Seas", right? It's only something that President Hoover pushed for after World War One.

Sorry, Ace, but the Straits are an international waterway. Iran doesn't have any right to close them.

Why didn't the OP also add the US Drone "being harassed by Iraqi air space?"

We've only got military activity on 4 of their borders, flyovers, and boats pushing into disputed waters. The Iraqis should just relax until such a time as the military might of a country that has had top level politicians joke about "nuking them", get's in a great position to pound them into the stone age with minimal expense.

/s

Originally posted by Ben81

A senior U.S. military official confirms the following to CNN:


On the same day the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Adak was also harassed by high-speed Iranian Navy boats while operating 75 miles east of Kuwait City. Iranian personnel in the small boats appeared to be holding AK-47 rifles and at least one video camera. U.S. personnel on the cutter also report seeing a forward gun that was manned on one of the Iranian boats. Eventually, communications with a larger Iranian vessel in the area were established and the speed boats stopped their harassment.

What is the US COAST Guard doing in the Persian Gulf? If Iranian patrol boats were near US coasts, the US would scream bloody murder. So anyway, what is protecting the US coastlines?

Originally posted by FoosM

Originally posted by Ben81

A senior U.S. military official confirms the following to CNN:


On the same day the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Adak was also harassed by high-speed Iranian Navy boats while operating 75 miles east of Kuwait City. Iranian personnel in the small boats appeared to be holding AK-47 rifles and at least one video camera. U.S. personnel on the cutter also report seeing a forward gun that was manned on one of the Iranian boats. Eventually, communications with a larger Iranian vessel in the area were established and the speed boats stopped their harassment.

What is the US COAST Guard doing in the Persian Gulf? If Iranian patrol boats were near US coasts, the US would scream bloody murder. So anyway, what is protecting the US coastlines?

edit on 15-1-2012 by FoosM because: (no reason given)

Untill the 1980s ships of the US Coast Guard were under the command of the Treasury Department except in times of war, then they were under command of the US Navy and its command structure. This changed in the early 1990s in part to make greater use of a shrinking number of ships, as a lot of destroyer-frigate class ships were old and way past their expiration date. Being assigned to the "Coast Guard" or "Navy" is really more about semantics.

A rough comparison (very loosely) can be made with Canada and it's combined forces military. Canada, has no separate "navy, army or air force" though they certainly have that kind of capability and equipment. They just don't have separate organizations for each. It's just the CAF, or Canadian Armed Forces. It's a combined service and given the size of Canada's total military it's controlled all under one command service. For them it's also very efficient, and highly cost effective. Duplication of support services in each military branch unless huge like the US, is quite wasteful of scarce resources. Very smart for Canada, and its tax paying citizens. The US Navy and Coast Guard now combine forces in most situations for just the same reason. It saves money.

Nothing more complicated, or conspiratorial then that.