https://twitter.com/ArianeTabatabai/status/857322356976611328
Yesterday a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer fired a warning flare toward an Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel that had come to close during a patrol in the Persian Gulf:
US Navy fires warning flare at Iran vessel in Persian Gulf. https://t.co/Ze1srUFsQ0 pic.twitter.com/9anhSAtq6m
— Military Times (@MilitaryTimes) April 26, 2017
And here’s the response of Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif:
Breaking: Our Navy operates in —yes, correct— the Persian Gulf, not the Gulf of Mexico. Question is what US Navy doing 7,500 miles from home pic.twitter.com/XfDicbWr5s
— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) April 26, 2017
Snicker. He literally Googled “How far is it from the Persian Gulf to Miami?”
Anyway, there’s a reason the U.S. Navy is there, but he knows that:
Answer: Responding to the tremendous instability your regime has caused in the Middle East, leaving thousands dead→ https://t.co/PaKPDH4JI1 https://t.co/SfmnmUEhCK
— UANI (@UANI) April 26, 2017
Providing some semblance of order to the global energy market. Turns out when we leave it to you it gets messy. https://t.co/XWuzKWVeh3
— Dan Murphy (@bungdan) April 27, 2017
And Iran is welcome to come patrol the international waters of the Gulf of Mexico if it so chooses, but it might not go so well:
Iran would love to operate in the Gulf of Mexico. They just have no capability, capacity, or ability to do so. https://t.co/CybkzKOh4r
— John Noonan (@noonanjo) April 27, 2017
Exit question:
Is this really a fight you wanna pick @JZarif? https://t.co/ya8voPbGXM
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) April 27, 2017
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