For the second time in less than a week, a US ship has rescued Iranians at sea, this time six Iranians were picked up from a cargo dhow in the northern Persian Gulf, including one who had suffered burn injuries. The Iranian vessel apparently had engine trouble.
Last Thursday a US Navy ship rescued 13 Iranian fishermen who had been held captive aboard their ship by pirates.
Photo: An Iranian mariner greets a US Coast Guardsmen onboard the US Coast Guard cutter Monomoy. 10 January 2012. CENTCOM/Defense Department Photo
11 comments:
This is clearly some sort of new strategy by the military to offset the bad will caused by the AIPAC sanctions.
You will soon learn why we are allowing the west to rescue these people!
Guys there is no mystery surrounding this ! The facts are that the Islamic regime
is to incompetent to manage affairs in the Arabian sea while showing off their floating junk in the straights of the Persian gulf and claiming they can defeat the West in a major sea battle.You people will soon learn the error of your ways and learn the bitter truth that the regime hasn't got a chance in hell to win this economic and military adventure.
"Semper Paratus", way to go US Coast Guard Cutter Monomoy!
The most welcome sight to any mariner in distress is a white hull with a red racing stripe.
Big deal..Elsewhere in the news...A fish was found swimming in water...
I read your blog pretty regularly and receive the daily email, and do so because the blog is consistently ahead of many other Western news/sites on issues related to Iran. One major frustration I've had with the site though, is you often do not provide links to the original news stories, which can be really frustrating and time consuming to try to find the original stories (especially if it's from an Iranian source). Please consider doing so because it would greatly help us regular viewers of the site be able to go to the original sources. Thanks.
When the rescued sailors go home to Iran will they have to say bad things about us navy and call the americans evil?
Will they go to prison if they do not call US bad people?
How will the regimes use them?
the sea can be cruel and we're all but human. helping each other when we can is the way.
Propaganda B.S.
Kill Iranian scientists on the one side and print this on the other.
'No barking'! It is all humanitarian gesture. Well, it is only a normal procedure and nothing special about that.
@ mat
A normal procedure that wouldn't of occured had the U.S listened to the Iranian threat of leaving the gulf... Though it seems too late for this now, these procedures could of been a basis to constructive relations with Iran. The post on how the international community should help Iran's emergency response services seems like a much better way for western powers to pressure Iran then the present sanctions and military threats. A way for the U.S to try and discredit the present regime without hurting Iranians... Who knows, the States might of found an actually reasonable partner and created common grounds with Iran's naval forces. Sadly NATO has a purely militaristic and imperialist approach to what they consider threats, and Iran seems to be taking this road to (relying more and more on threats and drills rather then R&D to counter-balance sanctions).
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