Russian warships in place to defend Iran.
STRAIT OF HORMUZ, Iran (PNN) - January 9, 2012 - British air and naval forces streamed to the Syrian and Iranian coasts over the weekend on guard for fresh developments at the two Middle East flashpoints.
The Russian carrier Admiral Kuznetsov anchored earlier than planned at Syria's Tartus port on the Mediterranean Sunday, Jan. 8, arriving together with the destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and frigate Yaroslav Mudry.
To counter this movement, France consigned an air defense destroyer Forbin to the waters off Tartus.
Debkafile's unnamed military sources report a buildup in the last 48 hours of Western naval forces opposite Iran in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea in readiness for Teheran to carry out its threat to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Britain has dispatched the HMS Daring - a Type 45 destroyer armed with new technology for shooting down missiles - to the Sea of Oman, due to arrive at the same time as the French Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier.
There are also reports that Saturday, the giant RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV took off from the USS Stenning aircraft carrier for surveillance over the coasts of Iran. The Stennis and its strike group are cruising in the Sea of Oman at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz after Teheran announced it would not be allowed to cross through its waters.
This was the first time the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) has deployed unmanned aerial vehicles over Iran since its RQ-170 stealth drone was shot down by Iran on Dec. 4. It was also the first time the huge drone was ordered to take off from an aircraft carrier for a Broad Area Maritime Surveillance mission
On Sunday, Iranian media issued divergent statements about the situation at Iran's underground uranium enrichment plant at Fordo, near Qom: In English, the site was described as going on stream soon, while Farsi media reported it was already operational.
The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Fereydoun Abbasi Davani declared, "…the Islamic Republic is capable of exporting services related to nuclear energy to other countries."
This statement showed that Teheran has no fear of raising the level of its threats to the West up to the point of offering to market its nuclear technology to other countries, just like the FPSA, Russia, China, and other nuclear powers.
