Post by Benjamin on Feb 9, 2014 1:26:57 GMT
While this seems on the surface to be potentially HUGE news, take it with at least some grain of salt - the only outlet currently verifying this news is the Fars News agency (which is the Iranian state-run news agency), so exactly how credible it is, I don't know. I've read some wacky things from there.
With that said though, other agencies have picked up on this story and run with it (e.g. JPOST, which I'll link below), so perhaps they've been able to verify it where I haven't.
If it IS true, though, it's alarming at the very least.
source: www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/Khamenei-US-has-controlling-meddlesome-attitude-toward-Iran-340770
With that said though, other agencies have picked up on this story and run with it (e.g. JPOST, which I'll link below), so perhaps they've been able to verify it where I haven't.
If it IS true, though, it's alarming at the very least.
Iranian naval fleets were on their way across the Atlantic Ocean and headed toward the US, the Fars news agency reported on Saturday.
“Iran’s military fleet is approaching the United States’ maritime borders, and this move has a message,” Adm. Afshin Rezayee Haddad of Iran’s Northern Navy Fleet was quoted as saying.
Khamenei added: “Our [hostile] stance toward the United States is due to its controlling and meddlesome attitude.”
Khamenei’s comments about hostility reflect his long-standing animosity towards the United States, seen as the arch-enemy by Iranian authorities. The US and Iran have had no official ties since 1980 after Iranian students occupied the US embassy in Tehran, taking 52 diplomats hostage in protest against Washington’s admission of the former Shah after he was toppled by the Islamic Revolution.
“Iran’s military fleet is approaching the United States’ maritime borders, and this move has a message,” Adm. Afshin Rezayee Haddad of Iran’s Northern Navy Fleet was quoted as saying.
Khamenei added: “Our [hostile] stance toward the United States is due to its controlling and meddlesome attitude.”
Khamenei’s comments about hostility reflect his long-standing animosity towards the United States, seen as the arch-enemy by Iranian authorities. The US and Iran have had no official ties since 1980 after Iranian students occupied the US embassy in Tehran, taking 52 diplomats hostage in protest against Washington’s admission of the former Shah after he was toppled by the Islamic Revolution.
source: www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/Khamenei-US-has-controlling-meddlesome-attitude-toward-Iran-340770
