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Iran says it's 'completely ready for war' after US official confirms it shot down American drone
In a major provocation, Iran shot down an unarmed and unmanned U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton drone while it was flying in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz Thursday, a U.S. official told ABC News.
The incident is sure to trigger serious discussions within the Trump administration about how to respond to a direct attack on a U.S. military asset that goes beyond recent attacks in the Middle East that the U.S. has blamed on Iran.
Gulf crisis: US confirms drone was shot down by Iranian missile
A US military surveillance drone has been shot down by Iranian forces while flying over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said the drone had violated Iranian airspace. But US military said it had been over international waters. IRGC commander-in-chief Maj-Gen Hossein Salami said the downing of the drone sent a "clear message to America" that Iran's borders were its "red line".
It comes at a time of escalating tension between the US and Iran. On Monday, the US defence department said it was deploying 1,000 extra troops to the region in response to "hostile behaviour" by Iranian forces. The US has also accused Iran of attacking two oil tankers with mines last Thursday just outside the Strait of Hormuz, in the Gulf of Oman. Iran rejects the allegation.
Previously: Two Oil Tankers Attacked, US Blames Iran
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 20 2019, @05:10PM (5 children)
It's not because the U.S. wants the war.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 20 2019, @05:15PM
It's just that Game of Thrones ended at you have nothing better to do?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday June 20 2019, @05:41PM (3 children)
The claim that the US doesn't want a war with Iran is ludicrous.
The US has been signalling a desire to attack Iran for at least 2 years now, when one of Trump's first acts as president was to break an agreement between the US and Iran over Iran's attempts to get nuclear weapons and the US basically stealing billions of dollars worth of assets from Iran. And of course the US's BFF Israel has been specifically calling for attacks on Iran for about a decade, and there have been covert actions that killed Iranian scientists and caused the Stuxnet worm. Oh, and National Security Advisor John Bolton was the same guy who lied the US into war with Iraq over nothing at all officially, and appointing him made the intent pretty clear.
I hope they're at least paying you decently.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 20 2019, @09:46PM (1 child)
The NeoCons have wanted to go to war with Iran for a long time. Project for a New American Century used to have it up on the front page of their web site. Dick Cheney and Wolfowitz and Perle and the schmuck who was the Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, were all members of PNAC. When they ginned up the pretext to invade Iraq, the butch saying making the rounds in DC at the time was, "Everyone wants to go to Bagdad. Real men want to go to Tehran."
I think we should carpet bomb the place with members of PNAC and the MIC in place of actual munitions. Let their splatting upon that soil send a message down through the ages through future members of organizations like PNAC and the MIC.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday June 21 2019, @02:45AM
Given the Muslim aversion to pork, that might be more effective than you think.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday June 21 2019, @05:58AM
Iran has been trying to go Nuclear, that's so true. And the One Sided Deal wasn't slowing them down at all. So I got very tough with them.
And, John. I'll tell you about John. I have John Bolton and other people that are a little more dovish than him. John, unfortunately, is always trying to get me into a war. But, he's not the boss. I am!!!!