Iran Threatens to Send Navy near US Borders

December 1, 2011

Design of the new warship
of the Iranian Navy
www.wikipedia.org/Jimderkaisser Iran in recent months sent naval vessels into the Mediterranean Sea through the Egyptian Suez Canal. However, sending ships or submarines thousands of miles away to the US maritime borders would be a significant escalation in Iran’s projection of naval power. Fars noted that Sayyari did not clarify what that presence would look like or when it could begin. The Iranian news service did recall Sayyari’s comments in July regarding plans to send “a flotilla into the Atlantic.”

At the same time, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for everyone in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict to “go home” as part of the ongoing denial of the Jews’ historic right to Israel. He said the “Zionist occupiers” should leave Israel, which he termed “Palestine.”

Admiral Sayyari Fars quoted Ahmadinejad as saying, “Some poor people were brought to Palestine on the promise of security and jobs while they turned the Palestinian people into refugees…So now Palestinians should go home [to “Palestine”], and those brought to Palestine [the Jews] should go to theirs.” Ahmadinejad followed up on those “go home” comments by calling for efforts to “free every span” of Israel from the Israeli “regime.”