Iran Unveils Strategy to Destroy US Navy with Desire for Martyrdom and Speedboats

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How did that plan work out for Iran last time? Let’s flash back to 1988.

Iranian Boghammar speedboats attack the Scan Bay, a Panamanian jack-up barge with 15 American workers in the Mubarak oil field off the United Arab Emirates. Through a lengthy commo hookup, President Reagan himself authorizes a strike against the boats — the first time U.S. forces had intervened to stop an attack on a non-U.S. flagged vessel in the Gulf, and a harbinger of a formal policy to come. Two A-6E Intruders and an F-14 Tomcat are dispatched to attack; SAG Bravo provides a vector.

The A-6s sink the lead Boghammar with Rockeye cluster bombs. Four other boats flee to the Iranian-controlled Abu Musa island and beach themselves.

Now Iran is vowing suicide attacks, presumably by boat, and drones.

Iranian naval commander said that he is prepared to order suicide attacks, drone strikes, and missile technology to “destroy the U.S. Navy” in any upcoming confrontation, according to an interview printed in Iran’s state-run media.

Iranian Naval Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, a member of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said that Iran is constantly training and preparing for a clash with the United States, according to a recounting of his remarks provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

Fadavi revealed that Iran “compensates for its technological inferiority to the United States with a strategy of asymmetrical warfare, including suicide attacks and the use of speedboat and its missile capability,” according to MEMRI.

Fadavi additionally revealed in another interview earlier this month that the IRGC is preparing to use drones to perform suicide attacks and also arming drones to fire missiles.

While the United States possesses advanced military equipment, “these weapons are ineffective against a new [Iranian] strategy relying on faith, on a desire for martyrdom, and on [Iran's] unique speedboats,” Fadavi said.

Iran’s Navy didn’t seem to eager for martyrdom last time around. And Iran’s religious sector is inspiring a lot less devotion these days.

During the 2006 Lebanon War, Hezbollah working with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard successfully used a missile against an Israeli ship killing four. The vessel didn’t sink and the anti-missile system was not activated. Later Iran used Hezbollah to test a drone over Israel. Neither of these were especially great achievements and they tell us what Iran’s strategy will be.

  • truebearing

    Yeah, but it’s enough to scare the mom jeans off Obama.

    • William_Bradford

      Nothing will scare Obama, he’s too unqualified to know, he thinks he knows everything, except, of course, what he reads in the papers.

  • liz

    And they think these people aren’t working on a nuclear bomb?!

  • SoCalMike

    When Iran hands off a nuke to Hizbullah to launch on NY, just blame Obama and Kerry for appeasing Iran. You can blame Bush too for wasting the one shot he had on Iraq when he should have taken out Iran.
    Either way, though, big ear boy waif bimbo Obama would have turned any victory into defeat the way he has in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    What a POS.

    • 5DollarFootlong

      Hey SoCal Shlomo, tell me, why would Iran do such a silly thing as to Nuke New York? This is absurd and just the typical garbage talk you Zioinist Jews have been saying for the past 25 years. First Iraq has WMD and now this nonsense?

      You Zionist Jews living and stealing in the United States need to be deported back to Israel

    • Karl Pershing

      Don’t forget, Israel may do that in NY as a false flag.

  • SCREW SOCIALISM

    DEATH to Fascist Iran!

    HANG the ayatollahs!

    LONG LIVE PERSIA!

  • CaoMoo

    And these are the people you negotiate over nuclear weapons with in good faith. Political office must come with mandatory lombotomy

  • bob smith

    very little doubt on iran’s backing of all things terrorist and in the essence of this article, one need look no further than the USS Cole attack in 2000 and the failed attack on the USS Sullivans also in 2000 (claimed by al queda no doubt sponsored by iran).

    iran may bluster about direct actions but they are definitely going to farm it out once again to their terrorist brethren in attacks on the US navy…and why?

    because odumbo castrated the armed forces engagement rules to essentially ‘do nothing’ against my relatives.

    hence, iran is emboldened to bring America to her knees as they see odumbo retreat….jarret should be so proud of her homeland.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      The USS Cole will be in NYC this week for Fleet Week 2014.

      http://nypost.com/2014/05/21/its-fleet-week-in-new-york/

      • bob smith

        thx for the link…wish i could be there to see it.

        Have a great memorial day weekend and fondly remember the brave men and women lost as those still fighting and standing for our country.

  • Ban Liberals

    Actually this is a GOOD plan, given what happened when Mooslims tried to wreck the USS Cole and found that Slick Willie Clinton DID NOTHING.

  • antisharia

    The only danger our fleet is in is from Obama’s budget cuts that will reduce the greatest fleet in the history of the world into a coast guard.

  • Sharps Rifle

    Two major differences between now and 1988: Then we had a real Navy which had capable air wings assigned to our carriers, and we had a president who was a proud American. Now we have a politically correct sea-going joke instead of a Navy, and its carrier air wings are reduced to one type of combat aircraft (the F-18 may well be a fine aircraft, but in many ways it is not as capable in the all-weather strike role as the A-6 was). Also, we have a president who despises the United States. I’ve heard it said by some Democrats that 0bama “loves his country,” and that may be true…but which country does he love, since it obviously isn’t the United States.

  • Drakken

    Never ever underestimate your enemy, and your missive above violates the 11th Commandment, Thou shall know thy enemy as well as thy know thyself. If the Iranians send enough suicide boats and planes and fire anti-ship missiles, they can overwhelm a defensive system. Uncle Joe said something interesting when fighting the Germans and their technological superiority, “Quanitity has a quality all its own”.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      The US could send Fascist Iran back to the 7th century in minutes.

      And no 12th imam/caliph/sack of SHlT.

  • Gee

    The US should have kept one of their battleships active. None of those weapons would be of any use against one of those

  • wileyvet

    Bring it on Weird Beards. Attack with flying carpets, and flying camels and whatever else you got. These wack jobs need to be taught a lesson they will never forget. The only thing Muslims understand is force. Let’s see if their forces are as formidable as Iraq’s. ( Sarcasm) Unrestricted rules of engagement until the Mullahs cry, Allah. Bury these turds once and for all.

  • http://www.twitter.com/changeirannow ChangeIranNow

    Once again Iran is waving the flag of its military and technological prowess. It goes up there with building a mock US aircraft carrier, ICBMs and its own spy satellite network. What is worth noting is not so much the boasting, as much as the fact that all of its past and current boasts all relate to military endeavors. You never hear Iran’s mullahs tout expansion of the Internet. Creation of more educational and vocational opportunities for women. The growth of new industries or the creation of new innovative consumer products. While Israel spits out SodaStream and tech start-ups, Iran gives us model drones, model carriers and old fashioned cranes to hang 700 of its citizens in public squares since Rouhani came to power.