Israel Warns It Might Act on Iranian Warships Passing Through Suez Canal

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[jhpigott]

Israel is monitoring two Iranian warships about to pass through the Suez Canal for Syria and warn they might act.

Israeli's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says that "Israel cannot ignore these provocations," according to ynetnews.com.

"Unfortunately, the international community is not ready to deal with Iran's repeated provocations," Lieberman said, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Lieberman added that the warships was "a provocation that proves Iran's nerve and self-esteem is growing from day to day."

Iran announced plans to deploy warships near Israel and dock at a Syrian port for a year, IsraelNationalNews.com reports.

A senior Israeli official tells the site that "Israel will know how to deal with it."

[aces]

I am sorry that hman beings can be consumed with such hatred in the name of God, fortunately, their God is not ours..
very sad, send them back..but it won’t happen unless there is a reset of our government..

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks jhpigott. As long as Israel shows restraint and only nukes Iran off the map, then sprinkles the ashes with piss, I'm okay with it. There's nothing to be gained by a disproportional response.

[Candor7]

The Iranian fleet sunk in the Suez canal? The canal will be blocked for years.

Actually, that might not be a bad idea, the Suez canal will be used to hold Europes oil supply hostage anyway.This way there is no ransom, and the work around will begin right away.We can just skip the ransom bit.

I support the Israelis.

[Servant of the Cross]

Thank you for sharing that. Awesome. God is good.

[Drill Thrawl]

The image of Fred Thompson saying that was burned in my mind for some reason. Not a day has gone by these last two years where I don’t think of that quote.

[FARS]

In case you missed these. Specially the Texas one.

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/02/texas-stupid-senators-honor-intensely.html

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/02/british-reporter-rejoices-in-young.html

Great reference of photos of top Isalmic Iran Suppression officers and officials.

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/02/photos-of-senior-islamic-iraniand.html

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/02/frenzy-in-islamic-iranian-parliament.html

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/02/which-abdullah-ally-will-oba-hussein.html

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/02/finally-someone-speaks-out-for-shah.html

[Yet_Again]

Why would Egyptian military let them thru?

The "people's revolution" may be less friendly to the west than the MSM may have thought. This really is the first concrete test of which way Egypt will go. Let them pass, Islamic Republic. Turn them away, continue on the current path.

[Yet_Again]

Other than trying to goad the Israelis into sinking their boats in the canal, is there anything else they can possibly do?

I'm not sure, but I remember one of the talking heads discussing the possibility of another Gaza flotilla last year. The presence of Iranian warships in Syrian ports and a friendly port to receive the flotilla in Egypt increases the ante significantly.

[omega4179]

The F-15i has conformal tanks

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/f15i.jpg

[bitt]

while looking us ‘SSBN’, I found this interesting article..

http://www.dodbuzz.com/2011/02/07/us-got-little-from-chinese-visit/

[The Theophilus]

The Iranian ships will be “escorts” for the next effort to run the Gaza blockaid

That is what I was thinking. The Iranian warships were scheduled to go through the canal a month ago. With Egypt "busy" with internal affairs, it is less likely that the Egyptian authorities will participate as vigorously in the Gaza blockade as they have in the past. With that weakened part, the insertion of Iranian warships just amps up the intensity.

One nice side-effect of having an Antisemite in Chief is that Israel knows that the U.S. will not intervene, now they are immune from the US State department's attempts to manipulate Israeli security through empty promises.

[M. Espinola]

The Iranian Islamic dictatorship knows their deliberate rash provocations directed against Israel (and the West) could directly lead to war, and they want war, the sick Mahdi-crazed jihadists!

Israel's conservative leadership is more than cognizant the Obama crowd will not assist Israel but the enemies of Israel, once war breaks out, instigated by the radical Islamists.

[FreedomPoster]

There is some Kipling that applies there.

“When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.”

http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2003/01/young-british-soldier-rudyard-kipling.html

God bless all y’all. I’m ready for everyone to come home, and apply W88s if we have any problems from that neck of the woods and be done with it.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[sheik yerbouty]

Maybe the oleogenous effendis greased their palms..

[sheik yerbouty]

Gitmo? Hell no! Once they get frisky, they need to go to Perdition! Allahu fubar!

[AdmSmith]

The two Iranian ships are the corvette Alvand and supply ship Kharg
...

The supply ship Kharg is much more interesting. The Kharg is the largest ship in the Iranian Navy displacing around 33,000 tons and is a modified Olwen class fast fleet tanker. This is a big ship, and with the current tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel is likely very concerned about what the ship is carrying. As a Navy ship rather than a commercial ship, the ship will not be searched for cargo so the concern by the Israeli's is that the ship could carry weapons to Syria where weapons can be unloaded and sent to Lebanon. There are rumors that go back several years that the Kharg has been often been observed in the Gulf of Aden delivering weapons from Iran to destinations like Eritrea and the Sudan.

...

How can the US Navy address this? Well, if I was given 5-star rank for a day I would sail my Arleigh Burke class destroyer along side the Iranian Navy flagship for a “wave and hello” and take a photograph of the two ships side by side while underway. I realize that strategic communication is a forgotten, and perhaps lost art in the US Navy, but if you put a photograph on Navy.mil with the two warships in near proximity that illustrates the sheer size difference between the flagship of the Iranian Navy and a US Navy Arleigh Burke class destroyer, I will predict that the unofficial PASSEX is worth several thousand words to a great many reporters and Americans while also being a photograph worth about $14 million in savings to the US energy economy a day.

http://www.informationdissemination.net/2011/02/iranian-navy-exposes-us-navy-weakness.html#disqus_thread

[AdmSmith]

ping for 97

[taildragger]

Thanks for the reminder, wow, those are the same as our F15E.

[bert]

——Exocet or Harpoon them——

The North Koreans taught the lesson.

Torpedo, do not admit the action, it shall be an unknown cause