Xlucine Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-32503660 US military 'monitoring' Iran ship seizurePentagon officials say the US is monitoring the seizure by Iran of a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship. The MV Maersk Tigris was moving through Iranian waters in the Straits of Hormuz, according to the Pentagon. Hopefully this doesn't mess up the nuclear treaty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 What could possibly go wrong? Does anyone know what the MV Maersk Tigris was shipping? What are the bets the Iranians say it was shipping something different? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 You would think someone up top would tell them to stand down and avoid making a fuss until the ink is dried on their nuclear agreement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaustianQ Posted May 2, 2015 Report Share Posted May 2, 2015 You would think someone up top would tell them to stand down and avoid making a fuss until the ink is dried on their nuclear agreement. The issue is that the moderate elements in Iran want the deal, but the hardliners do not, so they'll be constantly pulling shit to derail the deal and hopefully discredit the moderate stance of rapproachment with the West. It's the same reason why the US constantly doesn't say anything about the Armenian genocide; despite Turkey being an awful actual ally, they're a mighty fine airbase and it's an airbase we really need so don't piss off and feed the hardliners in Turkey who want to break from the US. Belesarius and Virdea 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virdea Posted May 3, 2015 Report Share Posted May 3, 2015 The issue is that the moderate elements in Iran want the deal, but the hardliners do not, so they'll be constantly pulling shit to derail the deal and hopefully discredit the moderate stance of rapproachment with the West. It's the same reason why the US constantly doesn't say anything about the Armenian genocide; despite Turkey being an awful actual ally, they're a mighty fine airbase and it's an airbase we really need so don't piss off and feed the hardliners in Turkey who want to break from the US. It is funny that Turkey has a pretty strong majority in favor of western ties - but to get to the psych of the new Islamic ruling class in Turkey one has to watch the TV shows and movies. I mentioned it in a another thread but in one movie a Turkish team is captured by US and bags placed on their heads (a real event) so the team leader and I think (the narrative was iffy - maybe just the leader) every member of the special operations team commits bloody suicide in shame over their humiliation. In retaliation a Turkish team goes to capture the general who ordered the bags and proceeds to be present when British and Americans massacre a Palestinian wedding, along the way they stop a Jewish doctor from harvesting organs from babies to sell in the US, and they are present when an Islamic Mullah of a conservative guerrilla faction (ISIS / Al Qaeda) rescues Daniel Pearl from getting his head chopped off although he really deserved to have it done. Thankfully those conservative Mullahs running freedom fighting groups know right from wrong. In one of the sequels the team goes and kicks serious Armenian ass to head off a planned Armenian genocide of innocent Turkish peoples, and in another they go to Palestine and do something that involves kicking more ass. I thought I was lost in episodes of The Unit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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