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| Iranian navy ships return from Syria through Suez |
| 2012-02-22 |
| CAIRO: Two Iranian naval ships returned from Syria through the Suez Canal on Tuesday, a Suez Canal source said. The ships entered the canal from the Mediterranean Sea early in the morning, heading south towards the Red Sea, and were expected to leave the canal on Tuesday afternoon, the source said. The ships had docked at the Syrian port of Tartous, in a show of support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a regional ally of Iran. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 Regulation "Blue Water"; no doubt about it. |
| Posted by: Elmising Poodle6592 2012-02-22 23:42 |
| #5 Surface delivery vessels would had been picked up by US-NATO SATWAR overhead unless one or both of the Iranian ships' hulls were modified to covertly receive Submarines directly underneath, in this case prolly Mini-Subs. * ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN INTENDS TO [continue to] BOOST [Naval]PRESENCE IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS: DM VAHIDI. D *** NG IT, VAHIDI = IRAN'S INTENT IS "UNSTOPPABLE"! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-22 21:23 |
| #4 Anybody actually SEE them make port? |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-02-22 14:56 |
| #3 In that case, expect more port calls in the near future. The Kharg supply ship is rather ideal for this sort of thing, and the |
| Posted by: Steve White 2012-02-22 10:48 |
| #2 Possibly, although probably on-loaded lots of Russian packaged Iraqi chemical-bio stuff too. The Russkis wouldn't want themselves directly involved with the transfer of this material, but will receive these little items (less a case or two for 'handling fees') from the Persians at some undisclosed 'friendly' location as payment for some former, current or future action(s) on Iran's behalf. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2012-02-22 10:39 |
| #1 picked up Saddam's uranium? |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-02-22 01:37 |