{"id":19891,"date":"2010-06-19T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=19891"},"modified":"2023-07-26T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:07:56","slug":"armada-of-u-s-and-israeli-warships-head-for-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/06\/19\/armada-of-u-s-and-israeli-warships-head-for-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Armada Of U.S. And Israeli Warships Head For Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kurt Nimmo<\/strong>
\nInfowars.com
\nJune 19, 2010<\/p>\n

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More than twelve U.S. and Israeli warships, including an aircraft carrier, passed through the Suez Canal on Friday and are headed for the Red Sea. \u201cAccording to eyewitnesses, the U.S. battleships were the largest to have crossed the Canal in many years,\u201d reported the London-based newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Israeli newspaperHaaretz reported Egyptian opposition members criticized the government for cooperating with the U.S. and Israeli forces and allowing the passage of the ships through Egyptian territorial waters. The Red Sea is the most direct route to the Persian Gulf from the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

Retired Egyptian General Amin Radi, chairman of the national security affairs committee, told the paper that \u201cthe decision to declare war on Iran is not easy, and Israel, due to its wild nature, may start a war just to remain the sole nuclear power in the region,\u201d according to\u00a0Yedioth Internet, an Israeli news site.<\/p>\n

The passage of a warship armada through the Suez Canal and headed for the Persian Gulf and Iran is apparently not deemed important enough to be reported by the corporate media in the United States.<\/p>\n

Egypt recently rejected an Israeli request to prevent Gaza aid ships from passing through the Suez Canal. According to a report by\u00a0al-Jazeera<\/span>, Israel appealed to Egyptians asking them to prevent the passage of Iranian ships through the Suez Canal. The Egyptians responded that due to international agreements on movement through the Suez Canal, Egypt cannot prevent ships from passing through the canal unless a ship belongs to a state that is at war with Egypt. Iran and Egypt are not at war.<\/p>\n

The United States and Israel, the sole nuclear-armed power in the Middle East, have not ruled out a military strike to destroy Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n

A number of Israeli politicians and scholars have admitted Israel has used its nuclear weapons for\u00a0\u201ccompellent purposes,\u201d<\/span> in short forcing others to accept Israeli political demands.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s threats to use nuclear weapons have increased significantly since it was discovered in 2002 that Iran was building uranium enrichment facilities. Israel\u2019s former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon \u201ccalled on the international community to target Iran as soon as the imminent conflict with Iraq is complete,\u201d the\u00a0Sunday Times<\/span> reported on November 5, 2002. The United States invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month Israel leaked to the press that they had permission from Saudi Arabia to use their air space to attack Iran. \u201cIn the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran,\u201d the\u00a0Sunday Times<\/span> reported on June 12. On June 14, the ambassador of Saudi Arabia to UK Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf issued a\u00a0categorical denial of the report<\/span>.<\/p>\n

On June 17, Iran\u2019s parliament warned it will respond in kind to inspection of its ships under a fourth round of sanctions imposed on the country by the UN Security Council. \u201cEven if one Iranian ship is stopped for security-check, we will act likewise and thoroughly inspect any (western) ship passing through the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d member of the Iranian parliament\u2019s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission\u00a0Hossein Ebrahimi said.<\/p>\n

Also on Saturday, Iran accused the United States of \u201cdeception\u201d and insisted its missile program is for self-defense after a top U.S. official claimed that Iran had the capacity to attack Europe. \u201cThe Islamic Republic\u2019s missile capability has been designed and implemented to defend against any military aggression and it does not threaten any nation,\u201d Defense MinisterAhmad Vahidi<\/span> said in a statement carried by state media.<\/p>\n

Vahidi announced on April 10 that Iran will use all available options to defend itself if the country comes under a military attack. \u201cAmericans have said they will use all options against Iran, we announce that we will use all options to defend ourselves,\u201d Vahidi told the\u00a0Tehran Times<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Info Wars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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