Posted on 06/15/2010 1:09:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
TEHRAN, June 14 - Iran is sending aid ships to blockaded Gaza, state radio said on Monday -- a move likely to be considered provocative by Israel which accuses Tehran of arming the Palestinian enclave's Islamist rulers, Hamas.
One ship left port on Sunday and another will depart by Friday, loaded with food, construction material and toys, the report said. The boats would be part of international efforts to break Israel's isolation of the Gaza Strip.
"Until the end of the Gaza blockade, Iran will continue to ship aid," said an official at Iran's Society for the Defence of the Palestinian Nation.
While Israel has long suspected Iran, which rejects the Jewish state's right to exist, of supplying weapons to Hamas, Tehran says it only provides moral support to the group.
Israeli troops two weeks ago boarded a flotilla of Turkish aid ships heading to Gaza on May 31 and killed nine pro-Palestinian activists, most of them Turks.
Public opinion in Muslim countries was outraged by the killings. An official of the Iranian Red Crescent Society's youth organisation said some 100,000 Iranians had volunteered as potential crew for aid ships, Iran daily reported.(continued)
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Consider the possibility that Iran would take on board a number of peace activist including a former congresswoman and then torpedo the ship themselves as it approached Israel’s waters. After all, their objective is to mobilize world opinion against Israel and to isolate her from her few remaining supporters. They have no concern for the lives of a the few useful idiots on board and who would believe a denial of responsibility by Israel.
I wouldn't put it past them do do such a thing.
To them the end justifies the means.
Sink it and all Iranian ships..no wait scuttle the boat first then sink it and let the jerkwads swim back to Iran.
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