US U-turn on last weeks Hormuz naval incident

[WyldeChylde]

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=38370&sectionid=351020101

Had a quick scout through the big news sites and this hasn't appeared yet!

[outsider]

I'm just off to work, but it would be a good idea if posters email this article to as many newspapers as possible, nationals and locals, with brief info about the 'Gulf of Tonkin Incident' used by LBJ to massively escalate the Vietnam war, which has been shown by declassified documents to have not occurred.

[xmasdale]

Strait Facts

by Daniel M. Pourkesali, CASMII, 11 January 2008


Iran's release of the video taken on the morning of Sunday January 6th
in the Strait of Hormuz, clearly debunks Pentagon's hype of depicting
a routine patrolling operation by the Iranian Navy as an act of
unfathomable aggression against the United States.

Timing of this so called 'provocation' incident in the Persian Gulf
just before Mr. Bush's trip to the region was also very convenient as
he went on reminding the world and all the client Arab states in the
region during a press conference in Israel yesterday that they must
fear this menacing "threat to the world peace" and prepare for a joint
U.S./Israeli action to deal with Iran.

Some have rightfully compared it with another eerily similar
'incident' in the Gulf of Tonkin on August 2, 1964 when another
government lie started a war leading to over 50,000 American deaths
and millions of Vietnamese casualties.

But several gigantic errors and miscalculations severely undercut this
latest concoction. First, this is not 1964 and thanks to internet
people no longer have to rely on radio, television, and newspapers
version of the events which often report such official claims as
absolute truths.

Second, Iranians unlike their American counterparts do remember and
have learned quiet a bit from their history with the United States
especially in the aftermath of the 1953 CIA coup which put an end to
their budding democratic government.

The amateurish video audio hodgepodge released by DoD to bolster U.S.
claims has instead raised more questions and exposed the U.S.'s
hostile intent rather than portraying it as victim of the Iranian
mischief. According to a report published in the New York Times,
unnamed Pentagon officials are saying that the threatening voice heard
in the audio clip which was recorded separately from the video images
and merged together later by the Navy, "is not traceable to the
Iranian military".

That voice spoken in an unfamiliar accent was the dead giveaway for
many Iranians including this writer that the video was a hoax. To the
contrary, the Iranian version appears realistic with audio and video
perfectly synchronized in what appears to have been shot with an
ordinary camcorder most of us are familiar with. The Navy men speak in
a very familiar accent while going about their business of patrolling
and identifying ships sailing in or near Iranian territorial waters.

Here is the text of the conversation that took place between the two
patrolmen on the Iranian Navy speed boat as translated from Persian:



0:07 #1: "Announce its position"

0:30 (Patrolman #2 calls the other by name with a reference to need
for safety procedures)

0:45 #1: "Slowly get a little closer… can't make out the ship number"

0:50 #2: "Did you get it?"

0:51 #1: "Yeah, it is not clear"

0:56 #1: "Wait just a moment"

0:57 #2: "It is better now"

1:16 #1: "Is it 73?" (Boat proceeds to pull a little closer)

1:32 #1: "I hear something being announced from its loudspeakers, what
is it saying?"

1:50 #1: "I think they're talking to us"

2:35 #2: "Channel?" (Getting ready to establish radio communication)

2:36 #1: "16"

2:37 #2: "What was the ship number?"

2:38 #1: "73"

2:40 (Then patrolman #2 starts the radio communication in English)



Wouldn't the U.S. Coast Guard be doing exactly the same if a Russian
or Chinese war ship sailed into the Gulf of Mexico just off the
Florida coastline?

At the very end of this 5 minute video one of the Iranian patrolmen is
heard reciting the ship's position: "26 and 30 minutes north and 0 and
56 minutes east" and the American ships are shown sailing away west
without incident.

Welcome to the Persian Gulf.


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Links:

[1] http://www.politube.org/show/341

[2] http://www.politube.org/show/340

[3] http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/

[4] http://www.politube.org/show/339

[5] http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/degrees-of-confidence-on-u s-iran-naval-incident/?hp

[6] http://www.politube.org/show/341

[TonyGosling]

And in the m.o. of fascist news editors it may never appear.

[zennon]

What exactly is Press TV? The Iranian BBC?

[Thermate911]

[TonyGosling]

Last weeks major 'war provocation' is proved a hoax so the caught-lying news editors have suddenly lost interest in the story!?!!

[WyldeChylde]

Indeed, considerin the furore that was made about it, it has disappeared from the front pages of big news stations - fox, cnn, bbc, sky in the space of a few days.