Monday, June 21, 2010

MIDEAST: GAZA,DEPARTURE IRANIAN SHIP POSTPONED TO LATER DATE

Good news that Iran is postponing it's attempt to run the Israeli blockade of the Gaza strip.  However, there is a note in the article that indicates that Iran is planning to send a "hospital" ship to Gaza which would be a major escalation of the propaganda war.  Israel would have no choice but to turn away the ship which would be a major propaganda victory for Iran and Hamas.  The political ramifications would be horrific.

Israel must find some way to stop this ship before it ever gets to the Mediterranean sea.


FROM ANSAMED.INFO:

MIDEAST: GAZA,DEPARTURE IRANIAN SHIP POSTPONED TO LATER DATE


(ANSAmed) - TEHRAN, JUNE 21 -

The departure of the first Iranian ship that will carry humanitarian aid to Gaza, defying the Israeli blockade, has been postponed to an unspecified date, the head of the juvenile organisation of the Iranian Red Crescent, Javad Jafarian, told press agency ISNA. Early in June, after the bloody Israeli raid on an international flotilla headed for the Gaza Strip, in which nine people were killed, the Iranian Red Crescent announced that it was ready to send two ship to the Palestinian territory. One ship with basic needs and one with volunteers, and the organisation also announced to send a hospital ship at some point in the future. On Monday last week, Iran said that this week one of its ships would weigh anchor, and that the country would send more aid to Turkey, to load it in Istanbul. The departure of the ship, according to Jafarian, has been postponed by "problems with international coordination and a change of the cargo to send" to Gaza. (ANSAmed).
2010-06-21 14:52