Huff Po Reporting on Iranian Boat Incident Eerily Similar to the Mullahs Version......

Below are two stories on the incident involving Iranian Guard boats harassing three US ships in the Strait of Hormuz.  The first is from Huff Po and the second is via the Fars News Agency (a mouthpiece of the Mullahs).  The similarities are striking to say the least.....

Hooman Majd: It's a Fake- Huffington Post

The audio tape is even less convincing, mainly because the person speaking doesn't have an Iranian accent and moreover, sounds more like Boris Karloff in a horror movie than a sailor in the elite branch of Iran's military. (The tape is also separate from any video.) Any Iranian can immediately identify Persian-accented English, particularly if the speaker has had little contact with the West, as is the case with Revolutionary Guardsmen and sailors. Iranians, you see, have difficulty with two consonants such as "p" and "l" next to each other; even Iranians who have lived in America for years will often pronounce "please" as "peh-leeze", or in this case, "explode" as "exp-eh-lode". On the tape, "explode" is pronounced perfectly, albeit as if the speaker was a villain addressing a superhero. Further, it is unimaginable, given what is known about the Revolutionary Guards and I have met many, (why am I not surprised? -ed) that one of its corps would speak in a such a manner, even if the accent were correctly Persian.

Mr. Bush can try to use the Persian Gulf incident to his advantage in his meetings with Arab leaders this week, and domestically it will play well, but the Arabs will unlikely be fooled by what appears to be a poorly concocted scenario. They, too, have hard-to-mimic accents when they speak English.

Pentagon Video on Iran-US Confrontation a Clumsy Fake- Fars News Agency

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) dismissed Pentagon's so-called documented footages claiming to show Iranian speedboats swarming US ships in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, describing it as a "clumsy fabrication".

"The pictures that the Pentagon broadcast of the naval incident are file pictures and voices have all been fabricated," the IRGC commander told FNA.

"The voices and pictures broadcast by the Pentagon about the latest incident have been fabricated so clumsily that the pictures and voices in the video are not even synchronized," added the source.

The liberal/Islamist axis remains as strong as ever...

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