{"id":68432,"date":"2016-10-14T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68432"},"modified":"2016-10-14T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:39:19","slug":"iran-sends-ships-to-gulf-of-aden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68432","title":{"rendered":"Iran sends ships to Gulf of Aden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/iran-sends-ships-yemeni-coast-205735984.html\">Foreign Policy<\/a> reports that Iran has deployed two ships to the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Yemen, where US vessels have been the target of shore batteries in recent days.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the Iranian Tasnim news site, which has links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, the frigate Alvand and logistics ship Bushehr are heading to the Yemeni coast \u201cto protect the country\u2019s trade vessels against piracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian warship heading to the Gulf of Aden \u2014 the 45 year-old Alvand, which carries anti-ship missiles, a Mark 8 gun as well as various machine guns \u2014 already has a checkered history with the U.S. Navy. In July 2015, the ship trained its guns on a U.S. Navy helicopter and an allied supply ship operating with the USS Farragut in the waterway, but the incident was contained before any violence broke out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Iran&#8217;s announcement of the deployment comes after the news that USS Nitze took out some radar emplacements with cruise missiles &#8211; an act that the Pentagon characterizes as self-defense. Foreign Policy says the deployment of Iranian warships to the area is contributing to an &#8220;increasingly complex situation&#8221;. It&#8217;s not complex at all &#8211; Iranian-backed Houthi rebels fired anti-ship missiles at US ships in international waters and now Iranians are deploying war ships to confront US ships. Iran has been at war with the US since 1979, whether we want to admit it or not.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to take out the trash &#8211; not complex at all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Policy reports that Iran has deployed two ships to the Gulf of Aden, off the &hellip; <a title=\"Iran sends ships to Gulf of Aden\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68432\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran sends ships to Gulf of Aden<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}