(Reuters) - The U.S. Fifth Fleet said on Wednesday it will not allow any disruption of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran threatened to stop ships moving through the strategic oil route.
"The free flow of goods and services through the Strait of Hormuz is vital to regional and global prosperity," a spokesperson for the Bahrain-based fleet said in a written response to queries from Reuters about the possibility of Iran trying to close the waterway.
"Anyone who threatens to disrupt freedom of navigation in an international strait is clearly outside the community of nations; any disruption will not be tolerated."
Asked whether it was taking specific measures in response to the threat to close the Strait, the fleet said it "maintains a robust presence in the region to deter or counter destabilizing activities," without providing further detail.
(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk and Andrew Hammond; Writing by Joseph Logan; Editing by Louise Ireland)
U.S. Fifth Fleet says won't allow disruption in Hormuz
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Re: U.S. Fifth Fleet says won't allow disruption in Hormuz
We are provoking Iran with sanctions...just like we did Japan..
Were doing the very same thing to Iran..to provoke a war...
Read about false flag crisis' that our gov has done in order to get involved in all these wars this last century..Its disgusting how dishonest our gov has been..
I have been reading alot of stuff..I have gone as far back as the early 1990's so far in regards to Iran..
We have been provoking them since the 90's..and probably before..as well..
the Patriot Act was written 15 or more years before 9/11..Whats that tell ya!
America funds the global gov with our tax dollars..and shopping at their big box stores they used to destory private enterprise of the common man and using their banks..only helps them destory us from within..
AMERICA SADLY SO....IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER...WE ARE THE ENGINE THAT MAKES IT ALL POSSIBLE..USING OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS TO FIGHT THEIR WARS FOR CORPORATIONS AND OIL AND GAS PIPELINES...USING OUR TAX DOLLARS TO FUND THEIR AMBITIONS...THEIR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND WAR..TO DESTROY ANY NATION THAT HAPPENS TO BE RICH IN RESOURCES AND GOLD...
THOSE WHO CONTROL OUR MONEY..OUR GOVERNMENT ARE THE NEW PIRATES OF THE WORLD...
The reason they make war with Iran..IS BECAUSE OF ITS GEOLOGICAL LOCATION...THEY WANT TO BUILD A PIPELINE THROUGH IRAN TO THE CASPIAN SEA...AND IRAN WONT LET THEM...THEY WANT TO BUILD THEIR OWN PIPELINE...
But were told tales and fables of nukes..and terrorists...lmao..and I find it fascinating that so many believe that bullcrap..I knew the minute I saw the WTC collapse..that this was an inside job..
Tell me you wouldn't notice turbaned Arabs setting explosives in those three buildings..Oh yea..the PRESSTITUTES in the media..never seem to see fit to mention the Solomon building that just ....collapsed...for no apparant reason...
Im amazed at the crap people will swallow..10 years later...wow.
...Not many years ago..most people owned their own small business..but they have been destroyed by BIG BOX STORES..owned by corporations.
Early in the century..2% of the population lived in cities...98% in the country.
TODAY...2% are farmers..and 98% live in the city..Most the small farms and dairies have been replaced with large corporation farms...
Its easier to control people when they are all grouped up in one place..its easier to kill them to...
This was all done by design..through manipulating the self employed segment of our population..putting them out of business..so they would migrate to cities for work..
Shop local..dont shop the BIG BOX STORES.
...We are our own enemy...and the enemy of the world...Not us..the people..but the nefarious gov..but its our duty to stop this insanity...and destroy this psychopathic system of gov as soon as possible..
The Ron Paul revolution will make this possible..God willing.
Were doing the very same thing to Iran..to provoke a war...
Read about false flag crisis' that our gov has done in order to get involved in all these wars this last century..Its disgusting how dishonest our gov has been..
I have been reading alot of stuff..I have gone as far back as the early 1990's so far in regards to Iran..
We have been provoking them since the 90's..and probably before..as well..
the Patriot Act was written 15 or more years before 9/11..Whats that tell ya!
America funds the global gov with our tax dollars..and shopping at their big box stores they used to destory private enterprise of the common man and using their banks..only helps them destory us from within..
AMERICA SADLY SO....IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER...WE ARE THE ENGINE THAT MAKES IT ALL POSSIBLE..USING OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS TO FIGHT THEIR WARS FOR CORPORATIONS AND OIL AND GAS PIPELINES...USING OUR TAX DOLLARS TO FUND THEIR AMBITIONS...THEIR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND WAR..TO DESTROY ANY NATION THAT HAPPENS TO BE RICH IN RESOURCES AND GOLD...
THOSE WHO CONTROL OUR MONEY..OUR GOVERNMENT ARE THE NEW PIRATES OF THE WORLD...
The reason they make war with Iran..IS BECAUSE OF ITS GEOLOGICAL LOCATION...THEY WANT TO BUILD A PIPELINE THROUGH IRAN TO THE CASPIAN SEA...AND IRAN WONT LET THEM...THEY WANT TO BUILD THEIR OWN PIPELINE...
But were told tales and fables of nukes..and terrorists...lmao..and I find it fascinating that so many believe that bullcrap..I knew the minute I saw the WTC collapse..that this was an inside job..
Tell me you wouldn't notice turbaned Arabs setting explosives in those three buildings..Oh yea..the PRESSTITUTES in the media..never seem to see fit to mention the Solomon building that just ....collapsed...for no apparant reason...
Im amazed at the crap people will swallow..10 years later...wow.
...Not many years ago..most people owned their own small business..but they have been destroyed by BIG BOX STORES..owned by corporations.
Early in the century..2% of the population lived in cities...98% in the country.
TODAY...2% are farmers..and 98% live in the city..Most the small farms and dairies have been replaced with large corporation farms...
Its easier to control people when they are all grouped up in one place..its easier to kill them to...
This was all done by design..through manipulating the self employed segment of our population..putting them out of business..so they would migrate to cities for work..
Shop local..dont shop the BIG BOX STORES.
...We are our own enemy...and the enemy of the world...Not us..the people..but the nefarious gov..but its our duty to stop this insanity...and destroy this psychopathic system of gov as soon as possible..
The Ron Paul revolution will make this possible..God willing.
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Re: U.S. Fifth Fleet says won't allow disruption in Hormuz
I wonder, did they have a funky good time?
Iran to test-fire missiles in key oil waterway
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Tehran said it will test-fire missiles in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, a move likely to stoke tensions with Washington already running high over Iran's threats to close the strategic oil waterway if sanctions are enforced.
"Shorter- and longer-range, ground-to-sea, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles will be tested on Saturday," the ISNA news agency quoted Iran's navy spokesman, Commodore Mahmoud Mousavi, as saying on Friday.
Iran, which has been carrying out war games in the Strait of Hormuz over the past week, has said that "not a drop of oil" would pass through the strait if Western governments follow through with planned additional sanctions over its nuclear programme.
The US State Department said on Thursday that Iran's threat to close the waterway, through which more than a third of the world's tanker-borne oil passes, exhibited "irrational behavior" and "will not be tolerated."
The naval manoeuvres launched by Iran in the strait on December 24 have so far included mine-laying and the use of aerial drones, according to Iranian media.
Analysts and oil market traders have been watching developments in and around the Strait of Hormuz carefully, fearing that the intensifying war of words between arch foes Tehran and Washington could spark open confrontation.
With tensions over the straight simmering, Iran-rival Saudi Arabia announced that it had signed a deal to buy 84 new US fighter jets in order maximise defence capabilities in the oil-rich kingdom.
On Thursday, the US said the $30 billion (23 billion euro) deal sent a "strong message" to the Gulf region, where Riyadh has voiced concerns about Tehran's efforts to boost its influence.
In addition to buying the new aircraft, Saudi Arabia will be able to modernize 70 existing planes while procuring munitions, spare parts, training and maintenance contracts, US officials said.
Two US warships had entered a zone where Iran was conducting its war games, but a US naval spokeswoman said the ships were travelling as part of a pre-planned, routine operation and were not deployed as a show of strength.
"Our interaction with the regular Iranian Navy continues to be within the standards of maritime practice, well-known, routine and professional," Fifth Fleet spokeswoman Lieutenant Rebecca Rebarich said on Thursday.
Iran has dismissed all US threats regarding potential consequences over the strait's closure.
Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, told the Fars news agency on Thursday that Tehran has "no doubt about our being able to carry out defensive strategies to protect our vital interests."
"The Americans are not qualified to give us permission" to carry out military strategy, he was quoted as saying.
Iran's navy chief, Admiral Habibollah Sayari, backed that up by saying it would be "really easy" to close the strait.
Iran to test-fire missiles in key oil waterway
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Dec 30 12:26 PM US/Eastern
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Tehran said it will test-fire missiles in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, a move likely to stoke tensions with Washington already running high over Iran's threats to close the strategic oil waterway if sanctions are enforced.
"Shorter- and longer-range, ground-to-sea, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles will be tested on Saturday," the ISNA news agency quoted Iran's navy spokesman, Commodore Mahmoud Mousavi, as saying on Friday.
Iran, which has been carrying out war games in the Strait of Hormuz over the past week, has said that "not a drop of oil" would pass through the strait if Western governments follow through with planned additional sanctions over its nuclear programme.
The US State Department said on Thursday that Iran's threat to close the waterway, through which more than a third of the world's tanker-borne oil passes, exhibited "irrational behavior" and "will not be tolerated."
The naval manoeuvres launched by Iran in the strait on December 24 have so far included mine-laying and the use of aerial drones, according to Iranian media.
Analysts and oil market traders have been watching developments in and around the Strait of Hormuz carefully, fearing that the intensifying war of words between arch foes Tehran and Washington could spark open confrontation.
With tensions over the straight simmering, Iran-rival Saudi Arabia announced that it had signed a deal to buy 84 new US fighter jets in order maximise defence capabilities in the oil-rich kingdom.
On Thursday, the US said the $30 billion (23 billion euro) deal sent a "strong message" to the Gulf region, where Riyadh has voiced concerns about Tehran's efforts to boost its influence.
In addition to buying the new aircraft, Saudi Arabia will be able to modernize 70 existing planes while procuring munitions, spare parts, training and maintenance contracts, US officials said.
Two US warships had entered a zone where Iran was conducting its war games, but a US naval spokeswoman said the ships were travelling as part of a pre-planned, routine operation and were not deployed as a show of strength.
"Our interaction with the regular Iranian Navy continues to be within the standards of maritime practice, well-known, routine and professional," Fifth Fleet spokeswoman Lieutenant Rebecca Rebarich said on Thursday.
Iran has dismissed all US threats regarding potential consequences over the strait's closure.
Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, told the Fars news agency on Thursday that Tehran has "no doubt about our being able to carry out defensive strategies to protect our vital interests."
"The Americans are not qualified to give us permission" to carry out military strategy, he was quoted as saying.
Iran's navy chief, Admiral Habibollah Sayari, backed that up by saying it would be "really easy" to close the strait.
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opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a
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change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic
plan of reducing [a people] to slavery."
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"Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely. The more power a government has, the more it can arbitrarily make war on others and murder foreign and domestic subjects. The more that government is constrained and diffused, the less tendency there is for them to commit genocide."
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It's not just for breakfast any more.
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental
opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a
distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every
change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic
plan of reducing [a people] to slavery."
~~ Thomas Jefferson
"Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely. The more power a government has, the more it can arbitrarily make war on others and murder foreign and domestic subjects. The more that government is constrained and diffused, the less tendency there is for them to commit genocide."
~~ Art Crino
When they put you in the internment camp, if you're really, really good, they might let you watch Dancing With The Stars.
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Re: U.S. Fifth Fleet says won't allow disruption in Hormuz
We need to mind our own business...and work peacefully with all the nations...
The Israelis control over our government...Pentagon.. and their hatemongering is ruining our reputation around the world.
George Washington taught us:
Never to get involved with foreign entanglements....Never to be allies with any nation..but to be friendly and trade with all..
This is Ron Pauls motto and mine as well..
I see no reason to be the police of the world...and push off what we think is right onto other nations...its none of our business..and if the MIC would quit arming the tyrants and despots of the world..there could be peace...
FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL...
The Israelis control over our government...Pentagon.. and their hatemongering is ruining our reputation around the world.
George Washington taught us:
Never to get involved with foreign entanglements....Never to be allies with any nation..but to be friendly and trade with all..
This is Ron Pauls motto and mine as well..
I see no reason to be the police of the world...and push off what we think is right onto other nations...its none of our business..and if the MIC would quit arming the tyrants and despots of the world..there could be peace...
FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL...