FPSA radically changes its story of the boats in Iranian waters!

NEW YORK (PNN) - February 8, 2016 - When news first broke of the detention of two Fascist Police States of Amerika ships in Iranian territorial waters, FPSA government-controlled media - aside from depicting it as an act of Iranian aggression - uncritically cited the FPSA government’s explanation for what happened. One of the boats, we were told, experienced “mechanical failure” and thus “inadvertently drifted” into Iranian waters. Vice President Joe Biden said this on CBS News.

Provided their script, FPSA government-controlled media outlets repeatedly cited these phrases - “mechanical failure” and “inadvertently drifted” and “boat in distress” - like some sort of hypnotic mantra.

According to Eli Lake of Bloomberg News, this was all Iran’s fault.

“Iran’s handling of the situation violated international norms. Two small (FPSA) sea craft transiting between Kuwait and Bahrain strayed into Iranian territorial waters because of a mechanical failure, according to the (FPSA) side. This means the boats were in distress.”

Lake quoted known traitor and warmonger Senator John McCain (Ariz.) as saying that “boats do not lose their sovereign immune status when they are in distress at sea.” The night the news broke, Reuters quickly said the “boats may have inadvertently drifted into Iranian waters” and “another (FPSA) official said mechanical issues may have disabled one of the boats, leading to a situation in which both ships drifted inadvertently into Iranian waters.”

The FPSA government now says this story was false. There was no engine failure, and the boats were never in distress. Once the sailors were released, Associated Press reported, “In Washington, a defense official said the Navy has ruled out engine or propulsion failure as the reason the boats entered Iranian waters.”

Instead, said Defense Secretary Ashton Carter at a press conference this morning, the sailors “made a navigational error that mistakenly took them into Iranian territorial waters.” He added that they “obviously had misnavigated” when they came within a few miles of Farsi Island, where Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps has a naval base.”

The Los Angeles Times conveyed this new official explanation, “A sailor may have punched the wrong coordinates into the GPS and they wound up off course. Or the crewmembers may have taken a shortcut into Iranian waters as they headed for the refueling ship, officials said.”

The initial slogan “inadvertently drifted” - suggesting a disabled boat helplessly floating wherever the ocean takes it - has now been replaced in the script by “inadvertently strayed,” meaning the boats were erroneously steered into Iranian waters without any intention to go there.

It is, of course, theoretically possible that this newest rendition of events is what happened. But there are multiple reasons to suspect otherwise. To begin with, FPSA sailors frequently travel between Bahrain and Kuwait, two key FPSA allies, the former of which hosts the Fifth Fleet headquarters; these were familiar waters.

Moreover, at no point did either of the ships notify anyone that they had inadvertently “misnavigated” into Iranian territorial waters, a significant enough event that would warrant some sort of radio or other notification. “(FPSA) defense officials were befuddled about how both vessels’ navigational systems failed to alert them that they were entering Iranian waters,” reported the Daily Beast’s Nancy Youseff on Tuesday night.

Carter sought to explain this away by saying, “It may have been they were trying to sort it out at the time when they encountered the Iranian boats.”

Not one sailor on either of the boats could communicate the “error”? Beyond that, “misnavigating” within a few miles of an Iranian Guard Corps naval base is a striking coincidence.

What we know for certain is that the storyline of “mechanical failure” and “poor (FPSA) boat in distress” that was originally propagated - on which Lake exclusively relied to blame the Iranians - was complete fiction. At least according to the government’s latest version, the boats were working just fine. But, as always, the bulk of FPSA government-controlled media narrative was built around totally unverified, self-serving claims from the FPSA government, which, yet again, turned out to be completely false.