Iran: U.S. faked conflict video (CNN)

[NightWatcher]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/09/iran.boats/index.html

CNN) -- Iran has denounced video and audio recordings released by the United States of the two nations' confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz as "fabricated," according to statements carried by state-run television station.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman downplayed the incident Wednesday, calling it "normal," state-run news agency IRNA reported. "The case ... was similar to the past ones and it was a regular and natural issue," Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said, IRNA reported.

And the state-run Press TV quoted a spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Navy as saying that the video "had been compiled using file pictures and the audio had been fabricated."

The Pentagon Tuesday released a four-minute, 20-second video of Sunday's incident, including video showing small Iranian boats swarming around U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf. In the audio recording, a man speaking in heavily accented English threatened, "I am coming to you. ...You will explode after ... minutes."
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Gulf of Tonkin attempt, swing and a miss strike one....

[1corona4u]

1. What a surprise....

[Dhalgren]

2. These damn Bushite goons along with their Likud counterparts

are going to get their war-on regardless of what anyone thinks, says or does. As long as they have soldiers, sailors, and airmen willing to do anything they are told we are all in danger...

[spanone]

3. with the history of bu$hco it's hard to know who or what to believe

[Blue_Roses]

6. so true

nt

[I work for workers]

4. I trust the Iranian media slightly less then I trust the ATF.

My guess: this was an incident similar to that Chinese fighter pilot who thought it was a good idea to touch wings with the spy plane back in 2001. I'm sure someone is getting chewed out in Iran about it right now.

[Blue_Roses]

5. I don't get this video

:wtf:

[danalytical]

7. I certainly don't like Bush

But I don't buy Iranian propaganda either. No thanks on the BS. The Gulf of Tonkin pretty much immediately resulted in war, but this incident was no where near big enough to use as justification for war with Iran. It barely even got any real attention, we'll all forget about it by Monday.