America’s provocative deployment of advanced F-22 higher jets to the United Arab Emirates endangers the region, Iran said on Tuesday.
“We do not in any way approve the presence of foreign forces in the region. We advise the regional countries against providing a basis for their presence,” the Islamic republic’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast said.
Just as tensions between Iran on the one side and the UAE and its Sunni allies in the Gulf on the other peaked last week, the U.S. decided to station a squadron of F-22s, the most advanced warplane in the world, at Al-Dhafra airbase in the UAE, joining the spy planes and aerial tankers of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing already based there.
Iran’s condemnation of the provocative militarism followed comments on Monday by the defence minister, Ahmad Vahid, who said, “Such deployments in the region are both harmful and useless. They are mostly done to create a psychological trend and a sense of insecurity in the region.”
And he’s just about right on that. As BBC reporter Jonathan Beale explained onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf’s Strait of Hormuz, “This carrier and these [fighter] jets are more than just a show of force, they’re here to send a clear message to Iran as to who really controls these waters.”
Many see the deployment as explicitly timed to signal to Iran ahead of a second round of nuclear talks on May 23 that if Iran isn’t compliant, there will be consequences.
In response Iran’s objections to the F-22 deployments, Pentagon spokesman Capt John Kirby described it as “a very normal deployment,” apparently unaware of the irony he was injecting into the dispute.
Endless US aggression and wars…US arrogance reached nearly to some level like of that Israel….
There is a war after all, if is that president or this is the war after all. Winding down the Afghanistan or Iraq, but giving billions of weapons to Azarbijan and now this, is just another way continuing with US war policies.
the US goverment just can not stand causing trouble all over the world…
I dont think these people will be happy until they have another world war going and they can kill everyone in the ME save one country….
I believe that is the PNAC plan all along
United Arab Emirates has the f22 because the price of oil is dropping. They need a good false flag to get the price up a $1 by the summer driving season. I sure hope they correct that minor defect that the f22 was killing the pilot.
"I sure hope they correct that minor defect that the f22 was killing the pilot"
I don't.
Empire axiom — “There is security only in expansion
Pentagon
“…a very normal deployment”
For what can be more normal for an Empire dedicated since 1945 to a one-world government ruled by a military that has all of our enemies paralyzed in fear. All but those darn terrorists, so you just wait and see, for our Drone Technology is “…a very normal deployment.”
This is intended only as a show of force about which Iran probably has no worries since in the event of war breaking out Iran has ample targets in the Persian Gulf to shoot at. Besides, only the forces terra firma can control an area, not planes.
The Idea of aerial tankers is also stupid since one can just hop over from Iran to UAE and vice versa.
And US politicians have the gall to whine about the Iranian leader merely *visiting* Venezuela and Ecuador!
Emergency! Help! the Iranians are going to take over the world because one guy flew to South America for a visit!
Just makes Arabs / Muslims look like ineffectual corrupt tools that love to be told what to do. They don't care if its letting US bomb their own civilians (Pakistan), or slaughter their children (Afghanistan), or head-off their march towards self-government (Egypt), or just flat out turn traitor on your countrymen (Libya, maybe Syria too?)
Meanwhile, Americans are quietly and not-so-quietly dying from deprivation. The police state here is getting worse, and we can't vote the bums out even if we tried.
some punk flexing in front of intended prey
I hope Obama is just appeasing these stinking Israelis by making them think the US is ready to assist Israel in a war with Iran, long enough to get elected. When he becomes a lame duck president he wont have to kiss their asses! With out the backing of the US Israel will never attack Iran . And just maybe they will learn to behave. With out big brother they are nothing.