Israel/Iran: On Ground Updates
Israel watching Iranian Warships Syria-bound vie Suez Canal
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday Tehran is sending two warships through the Suez Canal for the first time in so many years, calling the move a recurring Iranian “provocation.” His statement suggests that Israel would not ignore these actions by Iran..........
* NationalPost.com has the best read I’ve come across so far on this bit of troubling news out of the Middle East and their report starts off like this... Two Iranian warships planned to sail through the Suez Canal en route to Syria on Wednesday, Israel’s foreign minister said, calling it a “provocation”, but the vessels were seen as posing no serious military threat... Israel’s state-funded Channel One television said Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, a vociferously far-right partner in the conservative coalition, had spoken out of turn as the Defence Ministry “had preferred to ignore” the ships’ approach... Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Israel was tracking them and had alerted “friendly nations in the region” accordingly...
Read the rest at link below...
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* The Australian has the following report that’s all over the place and their report starts like this... Israel has warned Iran and its ally Hezbollah not to test it, charging that Tehran was preparing to send warships into the Mediterranean as the Lebanese militia threatened to occupy northern Israel in the event of a new war...
Read this report in full at link below...
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Above Iranian Warship file photo from Wikimedia Commons
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