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US Navy In April 1988, the US attacked Iran in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for the mining of a US ship. Operation Praying Mantis, the largest US naval action since World War II, was brief but deadly. Thirty-three years later, the weapons each side would use have only gotten more destructive. Just before 8:00 a.m. on April 18, 1988, members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) stationed on the Sassan and Sirri oil platforms in the Persian Gulf received a warning from US Navy ships several thousand yards away. "You have five minutes to aband...

US Navy Iranian frigate IS Sahan after being hit with three Harpoon missiles and cluster bombs by aircraft from USS Enterprise, April 19, 1988. In April 1988, the US attacked Iran in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for the mining of a US ship. Operation Praying Mantis, the largest US naval action since World War II, was brief but deadly. Thirty-three years later, the weapons each side would use have only gotten more destructive. Just before 8:00 a.m. on April 18, 1988, members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) stationed on the Sassan and Sirri oil platforms in the Per...

by DAVE SCHWAB San Diego Community News Group Published - 04/06/21 - 07:05 AM | 331 views | 0   | 6   |  Paul Backus is the longtime owner of Green Gardens Nursery in Pacific Beach. PHOTO BY DAVE SCHWABslideshow Forty-four years ago Paul Backus started out at Green Gardens Nursery in Pacific Beach as a water boy. Now he not only owns the place, but his regional business continues to successfully serve coastal clients in the Pacific Beach and La Jolla areas. Backus claims there’s no mystery to having a green thumb. Instead, he insists you succeed ...

Hamilton’s Best of British Strong Style in PROGRESS Report (01.23.21)   A reminder: these are old reviews, and while I’ve not updated any names from what they were announced as on the night, I’ve done my best to remove mentions of people here who are on that suspected persona non-grata list… Pete Dunne, Trent Seven & Tyler Bate vs. WALTER, Timothy Thatcher & Axel Dieter Jr – from PROGRESS Chapter 47: Complicated Simplicity (April 23, 2017) The stipulation going in was that whomever got pinned or submitted from British Strong Style would lose their PROGRESS title… so if Pe...

Did you know that Iran’s navy has always defeated the United States? Did you know that Iran’s army is so invincible that no country can win a ground war against it? Welcome to the megalomaniacal world of Iranian media, where the impossible is still impossible —but makes for great propaganda. “Americans have always been the ultimate and full-scale losers in all their encounters with the IRGCN [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy], and the most notable cases of their defeats were on April 14, 1988, and January 12, 2016 before their drone was shot down on June 20,” said IRGCN comman...