One Week
Until U.S. Has 3 Aircraft Carriers Facing Iran
truther October 19, 2012 1
Potential for ‘October Surprise’ as
tensions build
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars
Infowars
In just one week, the United States
will have three aircraft carriers
facing Iran, the number usually regarded as sufficient for a state of war.
The latest Stratfor naval update map
shows that the USS John C. Stennis has now arrived in the waters just outside
Iran, joining the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Although there were already two aircraft carriers
in the region prior to Stennis’ arrival, the USS Enterprise left for a
scheduled port visit in Naples, Italy.
“In a week or so, shore leave will
be over and CVN will be back to join everyone else, at which point the US will
finally have three aircraft carriers just off the Iranian coastline ready to
rumble,” reports Zero Hedge.
In response to this build-up, along
with exercises involving the US, UK and Middle Eastern countries focused around
clearing mines in the Strait of Hormuz,
Iran has launched a Tareq-901 submarine and a Sahand destroyer into the Gulf
from the port of Bandar Abbas.
“At the same time, as stated on
(Ayatollah) Khamenei’s official website, the Supreme Leader was visiting the
northern coastal city of Nowshahr to observe naval cadets practice planting
mines, rescuing hijacked ships, destroying enemy ships, and rapid deployment
via helicopters,” reports OilPrice.com.
Earlier this week, German newspaper
Der Spiegel reported that Iran may also be planning to disrupt shipping lanes
in the Strait, through which around 40 per cent of the world’s oil passes, by
intentionally causing a massive oil spill.
“The goal of the plan seems to be
that of contaminating the strait so as to temporarily close the important
shipping route for international oil tankers, thereby “punishing” the Arab
countries that are hostile to Iran and forcing the West to join Iran in a
large-scale cleanup operation — one that might require the temporary suspension
of sanctions against Tehran,” states the report.
Iran later denied the claims,
stating they illustrated how, “Western nations have been brought low and have
resorted to making any allegation against us.”
It seems abundantly clear that if
there is to be an “October surprise” which will decide the US presidential election
one way or the other, it will involve Iran and it will happen within the next
two weeks.
The likelihood of such an incident
involving Iran was raised by an ABC News piece earlier this month which
speculated that something could “occur in the days before the election” to
swing the outcome and that it would probably involve Iran in one way or
another, be it an attack on US interests or Obama or Romney cutting a deal with
Tehran.
Last month, lobbyist Patrick Clawson stoked controversy when
he urged the United States to stage or provoke an attack in order to create a
manufactured casus belli for striking Iran.
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