Tehran – 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.
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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.
A senior Iranian official said earlier Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards were ready to provide a military escort to aid ships heading to Gaza if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei so commands.
But the Guards’ deputy head, Hossein Salami, said there were no plans to do so. “Such a thing is not on our agenda,” he was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency on Monday.
Any such military mobilisation would risk a major confrontation with Israel, which fears Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme is aimed at developing atomic bombs.
The Jewish state regards Iran’s nuclear ambitions as a mortal threat. Iran says its nuclear programme is meant solely to yield electricity or isotopes for medicine and agriculture.
Mine the waters of Gaza!
Torpedo the ship if it gets near Israel
These Iranians chickens won’t dare sending the Revolutionary Guards, they know very well what it awaits them. And if they lose a battle with the Israeli Navy, they will lose all hype they gained in the past few years from the big mouth ahmadinejad.
The Iranians can talk, but are far from battle ready.
Get ready for gog u mogog…ready or not here it comes!
ww3 has just begun
stop em and kill em
LOL. Mad Mahmoud photoshops pics of missiles. He is just a Baghdad Bob with a little more power.
Blow the propellers off.
does not sound good. i am realy scared. Israel botched up every raid they had the past few times.
Israel to regard enemy ships entering their waters as a declaration of war, will give them the excuse to bomb Iran’s nuclear reactors, besides torpedoing the ships.
Gog-Umogog according to the Rambam in hilchos Melochim is faught by Moshiach Ben Dovid, Moshiach will need to come this week for that, I guess we say ani mamin.
We need Tefilos & great rachmai shomayim, now.
The Iran are a bunch of cowards they know if they go to war when Israel they’ll get there *** kicked.
“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””
Stop calling them activists! They were Terrorists
“Such a thing is not on our agenda,” – Iran is not dumb, the last thing they want is to directly start a confrontation with Israel (they leave the dirty work for Hamas)
“Toys” – “toy” guns, “toy” grenades, “toy” strap-on bomb belts…
Sink ’em first, ask questions/”apologize” later.
I hope Israel learns from their botched operation, and is more prepared to handle this intelligently.
“But the Guards’ deputy head, Hossein Salami, said there were no plans to do so. “Such a thing is not on our agenda,” he was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency on Monday.”
So as i predicted two weeks ago when this original report surfaced, Iran doesn’t have any guts in general and definately not any against Israel.
This ship will be taken over just like the one form Ireland was w/o much excitement.
The Israeli government has to prepare militarily to respond to Iran’s provocation.If they attempt to break the blockade and Israel responds then obviously it’s war-a war that will draw-in Turkey as well.This actually is the type of provocation Iran / Turkey seek.The only chance for Turkey is if the secular military overthrows the current fundamentalist regime .Israel should then proceed by air and destroy Iran’s nuclear installations -or as many as possible.Will the West , Russia , China standby and watch or take sides militarily ?World War 3 is at the door step and it’s not the month of Av yet.Ain Breirah !
If your scared take out a Tehllim and say it! Hashem helps!
they are mad they all have to be killed the isreli army should get ready to do the job they were made for.
Warn them to turn back BEFORE they get into Israeli waters. If they proceed, then blow the ship away.
With radical liberal Obama president of the “west” you could forget about any “sides” on this “ww3” you could only rely on hashem !
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The holy Satmar Rebbe Zt”l cried numerous times.. “Had not the Zionist formed their state after the holocaust, Moshiach would have been here already!”