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BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 07:59 PM Jan 2017

Are the Iranians prodding for a drumph (over)reaction?


Washington Post
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Navy destroyer opens fire after 'harassing' behavior by Iranian patrol boats
Washington Post - ?4 hours ago?
A Navy destroyer opened fire Sunday in the Strait of Hormuz after four Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps patrol boats acted in a way that a U.S.

Link was from Google News

https://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&ei=AqZzWMaWK8-yjwPVp5jADg&ved=0EKkuCAkoBA&ar=1484005351

A drumph overreaction is an oxymoron of course.
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Are the Iranians prodding for a drumph (over)reaction? (Original Post) BSdetect Jan 2017 OP
And how's that anti ISIS plan coming along? BSdetect Jan 2017 #1
If anything happens, watch oil futures skyrocket. cloudbase Jan 2017 #2
i imagine someone is going to try to provoke him....early on. god help us spanone Jan 2017 #3

cloudbase

(5,519 posts)
2. If anything happens, watch oil futures skyrocket.
Mon Jan 9, 2017, 09:08 PM
Jan 2017

Trump wins, the Iranians win, everybody who uses petroleum products loses.

Two out of three ain't bad.

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