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Iran issues official response to 'largest US seizure of Iranian fuel'
2020-08-17
[ALMASDARNEWS] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man...
said onSaturday, that "the ships that the United States seized and claimed to be Iranian were not Iranian and did not carry Iran’s flag."

Rouhani said, during the meeting of the National Committee to Combat Coronavirus, "This lie was to cover up the shame inflicted on the United States in the Security Council after rejecting its draft resolution to extend the embargo on Iran," the Mehr News Agency
...And if you can't believe Mehr News Agency who can you believe?...
reported.

The Wall Street Journal quoted American officials as saying that "the U.S. government has seized for the first time ships that it said were transporting Iranian fuel in violation of the sanctions imposed by President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s administration."

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice said that the United States had seized four Iranian fuel shipments en route to Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
and confiscated them, describing it as the largest U.S. seizure of Iranian fuel ever.

However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
an unnamed Iranian government official told the Islamic Theocratic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that no Iranian tanker or cargo has been seized.

They added, "The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has announced several times that it will respond to any hostile steps aimed at restricting its legitimate and legal rights, and it has not allowed any country to undertake such acts."
Posted by:Fred

#3   I hear the Navy has some great gaming stuff, but they refuse to share for some reason.

Possibly they’re supposed to put all the gaming aside until they can drive their ships without running into things?
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-08-17 21:55  

#2   I think 24 B-1 Lancers, each with 80,000 pounds of ordinance would do a sufficient job.

That'd be fun! Pity someone doesn't reboot the game Harpoon so we could all share in the excitement. I hear the Navy has some great gaming stuff, but they refuse to share for some reason.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-08-17 20:44  

#1  I long to do the BDA of the ARCLIGHT strike against Bandar Abbas ordered by the newly-re-elected President Donald Trump. I think 24 B-1 Lancers, each with 80,000 pounds of ordinance would do a sufficient job.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2020-08-17 19:52  

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