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    Britain has joined the United States and France in sending a flotilla of warships through the sensitive Strait of Hormuz in a pointed message to the Iranian regime.

    The Ministry of Defence confirmed that a Royal Navy Type 23 frigate, HMS Argyll, was part of the US-led carrier group to pass through the waterway, as tensions continued to escalate over Tehran's nuclear programme.

    The strait, a 34-mile-wide sea passage, connects the petroleum-producing Persian Gulf states to the ocean, making it a strategic choke point on the world's economy.

    The EU gave preliminary approval to new sanctions against Iranian oil on Monday. On the table is a total ban on European purchases of Iranian oil - a sanction that would not just hit Iran but key EU buyers including Greece Italy and Spain.

    Sanctions are already expected against Iran's central bank.

    The full implementation of the sanctions would be delayed until 1 July, due to concerns about their impact on the European economy.

    The UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands had been leading calls for nothing more than a three-month delay before the sanctions bite, but Greece, which fears its economic woes will worsen if it cannot find alternative suppliers at Iran-style preferential rates - has urged a much longer phase-in to ease the pain.

    The embargo is yet to be formally approved by the EU nations' foreign ministers, who are meeting in Brussels.

    In response to the expected sanctions the Iranians have threatened to close the strait - through which 35% of the world's tanker-borne oil exports pass - in retaliation.

    It came as Foreign Secretary William Hague urged Iran to "come to its senses" and resume negotiations on its nuclear programme.

    Any bid by Iran to block the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Gulf, through which 20% of the world's oil exports pass would be "illegal" and "unsuccessful", Hague warned.

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    There goes the oil prices, up the roof ... AGAIN!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flintlocke View Post
    There goes the oil prices, up the roof ... AGAIN!
    Yep, the gas prices around here have already went up by 20 cent. Fun!


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    World War 3

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    Quote Originally Posted by Siberyak View Post
    World War 3
    Iran's air force and navy are a joke dating from the 50s. They will get pounded ridiculously easily by our superior technology. Just wait until the Ford-class carriers are built and then we'll literally become kings of the world.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dušan View Post
    Iran's air force and navy are a joke dating from the 50s. They will get pounded ridiculously easily by our superior technology. Just wait until the Ford-class carriers are built and then we'll literally become kings of the world.
    I wish that was the case. But in reality America is headed for the same ending as the Roman Empire. Read " Day of Reckoning" by Pat Buchanan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Siberyak View Post
    I wish that was the case. But in reality America is headed for the same ending as the Roman Empire. Read " Day of Reckoning" by Pat Buchanan.
    I don't really agree. The national debt might make America look weak but in reality? America is still much stronger than 90% of the world. China, the EU and Russia will have to ally to even have a fighting chance against us. Iran alone? Our carriers can bomb them back to the stone age and not lose a plane. The US is far stronger than the Roman Empire ever was. We've eclipsed the military might of every single nation in history combined.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dušan View Post
    I don't really agree. The national debt might make America look weak but in reality? America is still much stronger than 90% of the world. China, the EU and Russia will have to ally to even have a fighting chance against us. Iran alone? Our carriers can bomb them back to the stone age and not lose a plane. The US is far stronger than the Roman Empire ever was. We've eclipsed the military might of every single nation in history combined.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Siberyak View Post
    He's a rather fringe politician. His opinions are rather unconventional and the day they come true is the day hell freezes over.


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    He is fringe because he Speaks the truth. Funny how things work. The jew media labels him as an extremist.

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