Iran The Righteous

The USS Abraham Lincoln, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier capable of deploying 90 aircraft, passed through the Strait of Hormuz and entered the Gulf without incident Sunday. Photograph by: Gabriel R. Piper, U.S. Navy Via Getty Images, The Daily Telegraph

Well, the Islamic Republic of Iran, its leading Ayatollahs, the grand Ayatollah, the Republican Guard, the head of the Navy and the Army must be steaming. After all, how often must they warn their detractors, their enemies, the belligerent nations that irritate the hell out of them that they are fed up and they just won't take this incessant carping and demanding any longer. And warn them to stay out of their territory.

Iran believes it has the right to conduct itself as it will, as a sovereign country, respected (and feared) throughout the Middle East and further afield as a leading power with an undoubted glorious history now being revisited courtesy of the Iranian Revolution and the legacy of the Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomenei, the man who changed the world, and put the Satanic America in its place.

How often must they revisit their warning to the enemy? Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, in command of the Iranian navy, gave fair and due warning that the Strait of Hormuz would be closed should the U.S. and their lackeys not cease and desist. It would be done, he said sagaciously, "As Iranians say, it will be easier than drinking a glass of water."

And did not General Ayatollah Salehi, commander of Iran's armed forces threaten "full force" should any of America's carriers return to the region's waters? "We don't have the intention of repeating our warning, and we warn only once", he said darkly. Impossible to misunderstand the sinister threat behind those words. Shudder-inducing.

But the nuclear-powered USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier passed through the channel entering the Gulf on Sunday, right on cue, with its 90-aircraft deployment capability. Accompanied by HMS Argyll, a British Royal Navy frigate, along with a warship from the French navy, an American guided missile cruiser, and two destroyers from the U.S. navy. Quite the flotilla.

They joined the American carrier USS Carl Vinson which has been in the region for months, so there are two such American aircraft carriers now in the American fleet present in the area. Double jeopardy, so to speak. For each one of those carriers holds a complement of fighter aircraft enjoying greater striking power than the entire Iranian air force.

Pause here for rational thought. Officials believe the balance of forces facing Iran would logically convince the country how rashly self-destructive it would be to tempt fate by launching attacks by warships or land-based anti-shipping missiles. Either of which would be handily countered with carrier-based aircraft.

Overlooking the fact that they are entirely rational in their thought processes, whereas the Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the finest tradition of obeying Islam's Koranic commands, and feeling rather proud of the Exercise Noble Prophet of the recently-held naval exercise in the Strait of Hormuz, believes implicitly that such an event would hasten the reappearance of the Hidden Imam to welcome the apocalypse in benefit of Iran The Righteous.