US-Iranian naval clash: Radio trolls probably to blame
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'Filipino Monkey' strikes again Analysis Those readers who follow the non-IT'n'Paris news will be aware that in recent days a group of US warships almost fired on fast boats operated by Iranian Revolutionary Guards. This was after hearing radio transmissions in which the Iranians appeared to threaten some form of attack.â¦
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I watched the 60 Minutes interview of Iranian president Ahmandinejad with amazement. At the end of the interview he reminded the interviewer, Scott Pelley, that he was the president of a sovereign country. He wondered if the interviewer was an agent of the American government. Amazingly his question made sense. I wondered too. Transcript of interview: Part 1, Part 2. I tried to imagine CBS interviewing the President of the United States this way. I couldn't imagine that our President would sit for the full interview as the interviewer reminded him repeatedly that he hadn't directly answered the question as to whether Iran was producing a nuclear weapon or whether Iran was supplying arms to people fighting the US in Iraq. Ask once or twice, accept an incomplete even evasive answer, because that's how they interview politicians on American television. To hold Iran's president to a higher standard is hypocritical. I wouldn't have blamed Ahmadinejad if he had asked why Iranian weapons are any worse than US weapons. Wouldn't he have the right to object that the US had troops in Iraq, a country that borders his, with people who share his culture, religion, even his sect, but he didn't. There's no question that American soldiers are killing Shi'ites in Iraq, and perhaps there's no question that Iran is arming our enemies in Iraq, but so what? I don't see how what we're doing is any better, and when you consider that Iraq borders Iran, it's as if a foreign country were occupying Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. His interest in peace in Iraq is clearly greater than ours. He was much less adversarial than the interviewer, who was supposed to be disinterested. The president of a sovereign country, even one our country isn't friendly with, has no obligation to be disinterested.  The moment of greatest shame was when he asked Ahmadinejad if he admired anything about President Bush personally. I don't understand where the question came from, and why it wasn't edited out of the interview when Ahmadinejad declined (gracefully, I thought) to answer it. Is this somehow relevant to the conversation between our countries? Is this how a strong and respectful country learns about an adversary? Perhaps CBS should find out first first if Americans admire the man before we ask if others do.
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Iran dismissed on Sunday U.S. naval war games on its doorstep as a morale-boosting exercise for American soldiers, days after a large flotilla of U.S. ships entered the Gulf in a show of military muscle.
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In a military simulation, small speedboats like those used by Iran in an incident last weekend were able to inflict devastating damage on more powerful warships.
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American officials claim 'serious provocation' from Iranian warships at sea
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The top U.S. military commander in the Mideast said Friday that Iran runs the risk of triggering an unintended conflict if its boats continue to harass U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.
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The U.S. military reported Monday on a "significant" confrontation involving five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats that "harrassed and provoked" three U.S. naval ships in international waters over the weekend.
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Five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route off the Iranian coast, during the weekend, Pentagon officials said on Monday.
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Iran's parliament speaker has dismissed U.S. accusations that Iranian boats aggressively approached three U.S. Naval ships in the Gulf this week as part of a "propaganda campaign" against the Islamic state.
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Iranian state TV shows video of what it says is a controversial standoff between Iranian and US naval forces.
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Iran on Monday slammed the US for its alleged phone tapping on the conversations between the UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed El Baradei and Iranian officials, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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The United States protested formally to the Iranian government on Thursday over an incident in which Iranian speedboats confronted U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department said.
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A briefing war erupted in Washington yesterday over the threat posed by Iran&#39;s nuclear ambitions and how to counter them - a debate reminiscent of the countdown to the invasion of Iraq.
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Five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route off the Iranian coast, over the weekend, CNN reported on Monday.
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North Korea has accused the South&#39;s navy of staging a serious provocation that could lead to a maritime conflict. Pyongyang&#39;s warning came after South Korean patrol boats fired
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The Bush administrationâs evidence of Iranian meddling in Iraq has received a healthy dose of skepticism.
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In the wake of the Iraq invasion, there has been a faint but growing drumbeat sounded in Washington by officials who believe the Bush administration should now confront another member of its so-called &quot;axis of evil&quot; -- Iran.