{"id":13348,"date":"2016-03-20T06:41:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T11:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=13348"},"modified":"2016-03-20T06:41:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T11:41:11","slug":"crusader-corner-iran-building-statue-of-captured-u-s-sailors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/20\/crusader-corner-iran-building-statue-of-captured-u-s-sailors\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusader Corner: Iran building Statue of Captured U.S. Sailors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Peace in our Time, aye Kerry and Obama? Yeah right! Iran is mocking us just like any other enemy would do. Time to Wake Up and smell the passive-aggression. Cold War 2.0 is not just with Russia, and it always involves taunting your enemy, remember? -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13349\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/sailors.png\" alt=\"sailors\" width=\"620\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran to build a statue of captured US sailors,\u201d by Ahmed Vahdat, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/middleeast\/iran\/12197979\/Iran-to-build-a-statue-of-captured-US-sailors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telegraph<\/a>, March 18, 2016:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard is planning to build a statue of the US sailors who were captured in Iranian waters earlier this year, a senior officer said.<\/p>\n<p>The provocative proposal is likely to cause outrage in the US and be seized on by Republicans opposed to President Barack Obama\u2019s nuclear agreement with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Commander Ali Fadavi, the head of the Guard\u2019s naval forces, said the monument of the surrendering Americans would be a \u201ctourist attraction\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are very many photographs of the major incident of arresting US Marines in the Persian Gulf in the media and we intend to build a symbol out of them inside one of our naval monuments,\u201d he told Iran\u2019s Defense Press news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The capture of the 10 US sailors in January was hailed by hardliners in Tehran as a victory over the US and presented as proof that Iran was still resisting America despite the nuclear deal.<\/p>\n<p>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran\u2019s supreme leader, said the arrest of the sailors was \u201cGod\u2019s deed\u201d and presented medals to the Iranians involved\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2016\/03\/islamic-republic-of-iran-to-build-a-statue-of-captured-u-s-sailors\">Jihad Watch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"wpp_popup_post_end_element\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-post-navigation\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace in our Time, aye Kerry and Obama? Yeah right! Iran is mocking us just like any other enemy would do. Time to Wake Up and smell the passive-aggression. Cold War 2.0 is not just with Russia, and it always involves taunting your enemy, remember? -SF \u201cIran to build a statue of captured US sailors,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1704,5072,2574,74,2450,2726,2990],"tags":[10418,10419,1645],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}