Thursday, February 17, 2011

Iran sends warships through the Suez Canal

Such action has not existed since 1979: According to Israeli media Iran wants to keep two warships through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean. The Israeli government sees this as a provocation. Jerusalem - Iran wants Israel to detail two warships on their way to Syria can pass through the Suez Canal.

The passage was planned for the night, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday. It was regrettable that the international community was not willing to do something against the "repeated Iranian provocations." Israel can not ignore this forever. The semi-official Iranian news agency Fars had reported in late January, Navy cadets have begun a one-year training, they will bring on the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean.


A White House spokesman said only that the United States observed the situation. More details, he did not. An Israeli newspaper report that it is the ships a frigate and a supply ship. Iran has sent since the Islamic revolution in 1979, no more war ships through the channel, reported the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

In Israel, it is assumed that the ships will be stationed for a year in a Syrian port. According to the Suez Canal Administration will receive all merchant ships a passage permission to take as long as Egypt is not at war. For the passage of military ships permission from the foreign and defense ministries is necessary.

These would often given very short notice. Why the Iranian vessels to hold exercises in the Mediterranean was not immediately clear. However, they came to the arch-enemy Israel and its ally Syria closer and Lebanon, where pro-Iranian Hezbollah has great influence. James Kraska of international law by the U.S.

Naval War College, said as long as the Iranians have no aggressive operations in the territory to carry them like any other country the right to use the canal. In response to Lieberman's remarks rose to world markets, oil prices.

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