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Source: AFP

Iran airs own video of US ship incident
37 minutes ago

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian state television on Thursday aired a video taken by Iranian forces of an incident in the Strait of Hormuz with US warships, in a bid to counter footage issued by the Pentagon.

The four-minute video broadcast by English-language channel Press-TV showed an Iranian commander in a speedboat contacting an American sailor via radio, asking him to identify the US vessels and state their purpose.

"Coalition warship number 773 this is an Iranian patrol," the Iranian commander is heard to say in good English.

"This is coalition warship number 73. I am operating in international waters," comes the reply.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080110/wl ... _afp/ira...


Video from Iranian PressTV

http://217.218.67.244/presstv/080110/OU ... 10-00-Te...

PressTV report: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=38 ... ionid=35...

More US propaganda on Iran

I wont be suprised if Iran got attacked this year before Bush leaves off.


http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=38 ... =351020101

You know what; I don't believe a goddamned thing the bUsh administration says anymore. Imagine if the Iranians had a battle group or three permanently cruising international waters off the coast of California, the US Navy wouldn't go out there and wave the finger at them would they......of course Iranians have every right to operate close to their waters.

Pentagon Backtracks On Naval Confrontation With Iran, Says Threat May Not Have Come From Iranians



http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/10/iran-gunboats /

Gulf of Tonkin. This stuff happened before.

The Bush Administration is looking for a reason to attack Iran thats all, americans will buy anything,

Funny thing is that the Pentagon cannot distinguish between Arabic and Persian when doctoring tapes. Whata embarrassment!! loooolll

^^^ Sometimes it's ridiculous :-)

[quote="*jr"]Funny thing is that the Pentagon cannot distinguish between Arabic and Persian when doctoring tapes. Whata embarrassment!! loooolll[/quote]



this is disgusting lmfao

one thing that i have learn about politics is never to believe super powers. I personally believed the video was manipulated By the US so as to accumulate pretext for the war they will wage against IRAN in year to come. Its all about sensetizing the western population and moreover the US people for the war they will wage to ensure the balance of power in middleast will not tilted far from Israel. Hence tghe nuclear issue is a major factor for any war that will be waged.

LOOOOL @ you will explode!!!!!! who the fcuk says that?

The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility

By Glenn Greenwald

It seems increasingly clear that the U.S. military's initial claims about its interaction with those five Iranian speed boats in the Strait of Hormuz was exaggerated in significant ways, approaching Jessica Lynch/Pat Tillman/Iraq-is-going-great territory. It's impossible to resolve all of the conflicting details of each side's self-serving version, but the most inflammatory facts which the Navy originally asserted, and which the American news media uncritically regurgitated, are quite dubious, if not demonstrably false.

Here, for instance, was the first paragraph of Tuesday's Washington Post story by Robin Wright and Ann Scott Tyson, highlighting the most dramatic and scariest part of the U.S. military's narrative:

We're coming at you, the Iranian radio transmission warned. Your ships will explode in a couple of minutes.

The next paragraph summarized the Navy's version that "five Iranian patrol boats sped toward the USS Port Royal and two accompanying ships as they crossed the Strait of Hormuz" and then "'maneuvered aggressively' on both sides of the U.S. ships." The next paragraph recounted:

After the radio transmission, two of the Iranian boats dropped "white box-like objects" into the water, Cosgriff said.

Those are the two "facts" that infused the story with such a sinister tone -- explicit threats from the Iranian boats to destroy the American ships, followed by their dropping of unidentifiable boxes, which, one was supposed to infer, could easily have been explosive devices.

But the first "fact" seems almost certainly false, and the second one is highly questionable. Iranian Hooman Majd at The Huffington Post noted that the voices on the tapes issuing the melodramatic threats were unquestionably not Persian. As he put it: "the person speaking doesn't have an Iranian accent and moreover, sounds more like Boris Karloff in a horror movie than a sailor in the elite branch of Iran's military." A regular Iranian commenter at Cernig's blog made the same point. Listen for yourself to the audio and see how credible the threats sound.

Since then, additional facts have emerged strongly negating the claim that that message came from those Iranian boats. The audio of the threats is crystal clear in sound quality, with no ambient noise -- something highly unlikely to be the case if delivered from a small, speeding boat. Moreover, as the New York Times' Mike Nizza reports today, quoting a reader claiming to be a former Naval officer, the channel that was used to convey the transmission is easily accessible to all sorts of private parties and is often the venue for hoaxes, pranks, and false messages.

more...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/01/10/iran/

How can speeding boats destroy a war ship.


It must be intimidating for Irans to watch those war ships right under their nose!!!!!!!!!!