Iranians "unable to take Australians"

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Iranian naval forces in the Gulf tried to capture an Australian Navy boarding team but were vigorously repelled, the BBC has learned.
The incident took place before Iran successfully seized 15 British sailors and Marines in March.
The lessons from the earlier attempt do not appear to have been applied in time by British maritime patrols.
The 15 Britons were searching a cargo boat in the Gulf when they were captured over a boundary dispute.

'Having none of it'

When Iranian Revolutionary Guards captured the British sailors and Royal Marines in March, it was not exactly their first attempt.
It turns out that Iranian forces made an earlier concerted attempt to seize a boarding party from the Royal Australian Navy.
The Australians, though, to quote one military source, "were having none of it".

The BBC has been told the Australians re-boarded the vessel they had just searched, aimed their machine guns at the approaching Iranians and warned them to back off, using what was said to be "highly colourful language".


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6228342.stm
 
Australians are doing some great work here and there....

Btw, this is another evidence to prove the evil nature of the Iranian regime.
 
Wow, I would've thought for sure that it would've come down to a shootout if they resisted the Iranians.

Aussies know how to do it right!
 
Wow, I would've thought for sure that it would've come down to a shootout if they resisted the Iranians.

These were most likely just simple probes.

There was an Iraqi/US Army combined patrol that was tested by an Iranian incursion across the border some time ago as well. That one did end up with a shootout. Some Iranians dead, a couple Iraqi either captured or run off.

The usual purpose of such operations isn't necessarily to draw fire or start a shoot em up, but to "test the waters" and see who's gonna stand and who's gonna fold.

Then again, these may, each and all of them, been operations planned and conducted by local leaders with little or no command and control from above.

It's not always possible to judge and/or predict an enemy according to our own systems. Sometimes, in armies where strength of personality or perceived purity of belief are viewed as important, weirdness can spark up all on it's own.

Think of it as the same type of issue as anthropomorphizing the behavior of animals.
 
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