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| 'Iranian warships arrive at Syrian port' |
| 2012-02-19 |
| Ships from Iran's 18th fleet cross Suez Canal, dock in Syria for second time in a year, Mehr reports. Two Iranian warships that passed through the Suez Canal earlier this week docked in Syria on Saturday, Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency reported. The ships from Iran's 18th fleet - which is comprised of a Khark supplier and Shahid Naqdi destroyers - had stopped in Jedda, Soddy Arabia earlier this month, according to Iran's state Press TV. Earlier Saturday, Iranian Admiral Habibollah Sayari told a crowd of military leaders and naval personnel that the ships had crossed the Canal for the "second time since the Islamic revolution," according to the Iran's official IRNA. Iran and Syria agreed to cooperate on naval training a year ago, and Tehran has no naval agreement with any other country in the region. Two Iranian warships sailed along the strategic waterway on February 17 last year, in a move that Israel called a "provocation". |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN, RUSSIAN NAVAL PRESENCE IN SYRIAN WATERS MESSAGE [warning] TO THE US: MP [Senior Iran Masjlis]. 'Tis warning to the US-West not to underestimate Iran's willingness to intervene in Syria on behalf of its BFF Baby Assad + Regime. * TOPIX > HEZBOLLAH: NO MARCH 14 [inter-Govt Coalition] EVEN IFF ASSAD FALLS. ASSAD/SYRIA = AIR-SEA PORTS ON MEDITERR SIDE = IRANO-PERSIAN NAVAL, [etc.] PRESENCE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-19 22:21 |
| #5 Motorboats. They have fleets of motorboats. With some row-boats as support vessels. |
| Posted by: Charles 2012-02-19 22:20 |
| #4 18th Fleet? LOL. Iran has 18 fleets of what? |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2012-02-19 19:52 |
| #3 The Iranian navy is irrelevant. If their ships are to be sunk, sink them while they are underway so that nobody is ashore. Whatever you do, don't have the Seals board the Iranian ships. I expect that then smell really funky. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2012-02-19 14:14 |
| #2 What a golden opportunity. If there was any possible way for anybody to sink one of these ships while at dock, attributing it to the rebels, it would be the intelligence coup of the decade. It would humiliate Assad, piss off and hurt the Iranians, upset the Russians, and there are so many ways to enhance the effect for "extra points" that it would take a day just to figure them out. It wouldn't matter who did it, the Israelis, US Navy SEALs, the Brits, the French, or even private contractors. As long as the rebels were Johnny-on-the-spot to claim responsibility, the efforts to blame Israel and the Jews, the automatic response, would be seen as laughable throughout the Mideast. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-19 08:48 |
| #1 Iff Iran's Navy hopes to achieve its dream of a formal Mediterranean + Atlantic presence, then it has a stake in Baby Assad in Syria + Hezbollah in Lebanon staying put, + of course 'Arab Spring" = destabilz taking place in Saudi Arabia. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-19 01:31 |