MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Message to Iran: UK ready to use military force to keep Strait of Hormuz open
Britain on Thursday signalled its readiness to use military force if necessary to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, warning Iran not to miscalculate over the West's determination to prevent disruption to the key shipping route. Read full article
Comments
Disclaimer & comment rulesGood old UK.Any question same answer.The bully will cry the longest and of course they are the bully.
Jan 06th, 2012 - 09:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not really, we just not scared to stand up to idots and dictators.
Jan 06th, 2012 - 12:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Iran is stupid threatening to close international waterways is a crime. Having said that I hope Iran has more sense than to go for conflict.
Jan 06th, 2012 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0more bluff from Iran but a dangerous game to play. Who will blink first?
Jan 06th, 2012 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0if the oil stops, it will hit china harder,
Jan 06th, 2012 - 01:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yuleno , will china be a cry baby if she sends forces,
but no buts .
“Message to Iran: UK ready to use military force”
Jan 06th, 2012 - 03:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Message to Iran: US ready to use military force, their puppy UK will do all the talking.
PS Don't forget to ask the French for the carrier.
I suppose that the echo of the closing of the Suez Canal reminds the British that to deploy the fighting forces against the desires of our US 'brothers' is to welcome defeat by the locals.
Jan 06th, 2012 - 04:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lucky that the UK and the US are talking with one voice over this Hormuz issue.
Sooner or later Iran, unless the people get rid of the Mullas, et al, will get what it deserves.
Jan 06th, 2012 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can you see the rest of the Arab world coming to their aid? Of course not, they would suffer just as badly as the rest of us will if the Straits are closed. That is not to say they will come to aid us or the US, even if it gets to a devasting war.
Perhaps it would be better to bomb these muslim neandetals back to the stone age now than allow another 10 years of uncontrolled arming themselves further.
Anybody remember the conflict 10 years ago, the one involving rubber boats? This bunch have proper ships now with mid-range missiles that would have to be neutralized before any further action could be taken on the ground.
Like Argentina, I feel sorry for the ordinary people being held in the Dark Ages by their 'leaders'.
We are all here with the UK /USA friendship for spreading the responsibility for gunboat talk.It's if sanctions are applied they will close the straits.Not for no reason.Let UK/USA get rid of all nuclear weapons totally and just leave the country they armed with them,Israel,and the problem will be a middle eastern affair.But no,the capitalist system cannot risk the consequences of that.So this is a direct cost of that wonderful system of capitalism which is portrayed as such a beneficial form of organising human economic activity.
Jan 06th, 2012 - 06:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I suppose that the echo of the closing of the Suez Canal reminds the British that to deploy the fighting forces against the desires of our US 'brothers' is to welcome defeat by the locals.
Jan 06th, 2012 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lucky that the UK and the US are talking with one voice over this Hormuz issue.
what brothers, the US isn't your brother. They are your master (US: Jump UK, UK; how high master). Back to the topic, that was then. Now, both are financially in trouble, love to deny it, they are desperate for a war (Only way to get chumps like you behind them) and China and russia made it clear, an attack (include on pakistan) on Iran is an attack on China and russia soil. Now do you really believe the US is ready for another lost war? Answer is no, neither the UK, except blowhards here and never served in the army.
Marcos Alejandro (#)
Jan 06th, 2012 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Message to Iran:”
: US ready to use military force, their puppy UK will do all the talking.
Here speak the voice of the argentine bloggers who will no doubt be hiding behind the skirt of brazil, while the liberators once again free democracy from the mad mullahs,
For if you really knew what freedom was, you would be supporting us, rather than the nutters .
9 Yuleno (#) Jan 06th, 2012 - 06:44 pm Report abuse
of that. So this is a direct cost of that wonderful system of capitalism which
If they close the straits it will effect everybody, so all democracies should back this,
// just leave ,Israel, and the problem will be a middle eastern affair. But no, the capitalist system cannot risk the consequences/////
Sadly very wrong, if the Israelis are allowed to whack Iran or any other Arab country, it will engulf the whole Arab world, as the Arabs do not like the Jews, [sadly a fact]
And the who Arab world would rise against the Israelis, and this would again drag the Europeans and the Americans into it,
One little sparks can alight the whole box of fireworks,
And South America would NOT be immune,
Just a thought .
.
(#) 10 Amigo
Jan 06th, 2012 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I know you are very wise man, all you said is true #10 but not enough
becouse that the current Molla regime is from US where has been on panic why of the fearing about the likely fragmentation of Iran ,for this reason why Americans like hornets and their servants English ( I am not saying British ) who like worker bees turning ,turning turning around Iran to protect it.
If yanqui hadn't armed Israel, wouldn't the middle east be peaceful and the Jewish state would be a democracy of the kind that the USA/UK axis of evil wants to install in the Arab spring phenomen.Good relations with other countries is the best way to secure peace,not imposing your will through violence.
Jan 06th, 2012 - 09:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(#) 13 Amigo
Jan 06th, 2012 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did you ever the name of XeService ?
Just reminding ,
Prince Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al-Nahayyun
who is from UK militay academy Sandhurst.
12 ed
Jan 06th, 2012 - 09:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And their servants English ( I am not saying British
In that case they don’t exist,
There is no English army,
And the British are no mans lackey
Unlike Argentina, who hides behind others countries skirts, as she has no guts to do her own dirty work?
13 Yuleno
There are no evil axes,
The day you guys stop supporting the dictators of this world, will be the day, Argentina just might climb another rung.
Without oil, the whole world will suffer, but you are right, it was the Americans who fully aided the Israelis, and others followed,
But the future is of more concern, the west should have stopped Iran years ago, and removed their big weapons, but that is the price you pay, for waiting, hoping for peace, sooner or later,
It happens, just like the Argies to be fair, if the brits had dealt with you, the first time you sabre rattled, we to would not be waiting for the evitable to happen,
Waiting may be good for the sole, but no good for the living,
As the dead have all the time in the world .
??
.
Same colonial imperial military solution from you.Others don't rely on the USA to make our decision and soon your masters will be another declining power that will be dreaming about it's past.
Jan 07th, 2012 - 09:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is an idle threat.
Jan 07th, 2012 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Worth bearing in mind that the shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz are not in Iranian waters. Therefore, Iran would be in breach of UNCLOS and interfering in the waters of another sovereign state.
Jan 07th, 2012 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Much like Argentina really.
Iran would be interfering in the legitimate trade of Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman.
Much like Argentine interferes in the legitimate trade of South American countries such as Chile and Uruguay. And British Overseas Territories.
but as all you guys think in anti british colonial reteric,
Jan 07th, 2012 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0is it any wonder you just dont under stand,
but no doubt when the wind blows, the argies will be behind the sofa .
still, better then the skirt in such weather ??
You are the wind Briton,hot air,that's it.
Jan 07th, 2012 - 09:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You may well be right,
Jan 07th, 2012 - 11:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But passing it, is the least of your problems,
You see,
Their British, we have them, you do not,
And as long as they wish to be British, then that is that,
And if that is windy my friend
Then may I advise you stay out of the draught,
As for hot air,
We have listened to over 30 years of hot air from your glorious leader.
[hot air] we use hair dryers, unlike you Argies,
Talk talk .
When the wind blows Briton you'll be pumping the keys of your keyboard je je je
Jan 08th, 2012 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And when the wind stops, all you cowards and thieves would have been taught on very good lesson,
Jan 08th, 2012 - 07:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You cant steal and be a coward,, and expect to be a democracy,
You return our politeness with insults,, ok,,
It proves you are just the same as your deluded leader,
A thief and a yellow coward,
I don’t talk to idiots.
Sod off .
And again briton
Jan 08th, 2012 - 10:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0did someone utter
Jan 08th, 2012 - 10:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 024 Who are you?
Jan 09th, 2012 - 09:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0'When the wind blows' there will be no sofa-protection and certainly no keyboard use.
Jan 09th, 2012 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Really don't think anybody would wish this on anybody else.
Who set the dogs on my mate Yul?
27 GeoffWard2
Jan 09th, 2012 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I suggested it for going over the bounds of even Argentino abuse of a number of us including Briton and Isolde.
Some of us, certainly me, are ignoring his posts.
I just don't need the stupity that Yuleno is sometimes capable of, yet at other times he can be very lucid. He is certainly going through a despicable phase at the moment.
GEOFF, if he is your friend, so be it,
Jan 09th, 2012 - 06:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but i dont have totalk to a ignorent child,
.......................
6 briton (#)
Capitalists
Socialist
Communism
Can you name the others..
The point is, some condemn, but cannot come up with a better alternative,
Do you or anyone else have a better alternative
[my post]
AND his reply
7 Yuleno (#) Jan 07th, 2012 - 09:52 pm Report abuse
I and others do
Are you also a criminal or a coward.
No no not a coward,anything but a coward bah bah
8 briton (#) Jan 07th, 2012 - 11:49 pm Report abuse
are you calling me a crininal and a coward
do you want to go down that road,
think
9 Yuleno (#) Jan 08th, 2012 - 12:17 am Report abuse
Yes I do on this lovely summer's evening
Just a thought young man
Yes, I agree Yul 'does a Forgetit' when pushed into a corner,
Jan 09th, 2012 - 08:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but - like Forgetit - he presents some of the most cogent arguments on the site when we give him the opportunity and the time to present his argument.
And, for god's sake, we need input from intelligent continentals. This site would wither and die without some well-presented points and counter-points.
And yes, I count him as a web-friend, even though his politics are a million miles away from my own.
we need input from intelligent continentals
Jan 09th, 2012 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0sound like the goverment over the euro loonys .
Thank you Geoff.I do try to be expansive but I get into situations at times and that is unfortunate.Thanks for your intervention :-)
Jan 09th, 2012 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0no exuses
Jan 09th, 2012 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Briton speaks for me.
Jan 10th, 2012 - 01:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So now boys,can we move on all believing we were correct.
Jan 10th, 2012 - 05:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You publicly insulted
Jan 10th, 2012 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now publicly apologise .
.
36 Briton
Jan 10th, 2012 - 08:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think you are being very reasonable here, but I would not hold your breath!
Who is it anyway? :o)
no idea ?
Jan 10th, 2012 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Quiet right imbeciles.your position is that you must depend on each other.I could exploit that if I was bothered about it
Jan 10th, 2012 - 11:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0two unwarrented insults .
Jan 10th, 2012 - 11:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well, there are two of us! :o)
Jan 11th, 2012 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0IM sure if we were wrong, we would apologise,
Jan 11th, 2012 - 07:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but just like his mother country, he looks for moral support to defend what we all knew was wrong, again getting others to believe he is right and the brits are wrong,
Reminds me of someone,
But I just cant remember .
42 Briton
Jan 11th, 2012 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Absolutely correct, we would correct any slight that was not true or ill founded.
But he whose name cannot be mentioned thinks he can exploit it, but can't be bothered. Ha, ha, ha (sorry for thye Argie moment there) :o)
thats ok .
Jan 11th, 2012 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page!