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| Iran Says Yemen Aid Ship to Be Inspected in Djibouti |
| 2015-05-21 |
| [AnNahar] Iran said on Wednesday its aid ship bound for war-torn Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... is to dock in Djibouti for inspection, heading off a potential confrontation with the United States. The aid "will be inspected in Djibouti. The ship will dock in Djibouti and the protocol laid down by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... will be implemented," Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said, quoted by the ISNA news agency. Iran had said the ship was expected to reach the Yemeni port of Hodeida on Thursday without stopping in Djibouti, in defiance of warnings from Washington and a Saudi-led coalition conducting air strikes on Shiite Houthis in Yemen. The vessel, renamed Nejat (Rescue), is carrying 2,500 tonnes of aid including flour, rice, canned food, medical supplies and bottled water, all urgently needed in the conflict-wracked and impoverished state. Its passengers include doctors, anti-war activists from the United States, La Belle France and Germany, and journalists, according to Tasnim, a news agency associated with Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. But the ship's mission had been overshadowed by U.S. calls for it to head to the U.N. emergency relief hub in Djibouti instead of docking directly in Hodeida. The Pentagon said the U.S. Navy was tracking the ship, angering Tehran which insisted it had U.N. approval for the humanitarian mission and warned against any attempt to inspect its cargo. Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , meanwhile, accuses Tehran of arming the Huthis, a charge repeatedly denied by Iran which supports the rebels. In another sign of easing tensions over the humanitarian efforts, U.N. aid chief Valerie Amos met Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran on Wednesday to discuss speeding up relief to Yemen. And Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the U.N. envoy for Yemen, is also expected to arrive in the Iranian capital on Wednesday night. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 And this crate, inspector, is full of grease. *wink*wink* Now if you would excuse me, I must go check the blinker fluid. Should take me exactly one hour. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-05-21 16:52 |
| #3 urgently needed in the conflict-wracked and impoverished state. So how much aid are the Persians sending to conflict-wracked and impoverished Gaza state? Oh, sorry, wrong kind of poverty! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-05-21 13:39 |
| #2 The theory is that this ship does have just humanitarian aid, and intended to make later arms shipments easier to get through. I doubt they will alow more than a cursoury inspection in Djibouti. |
| Posted by: phil-b 2015-05-21 04:22 |
| #1 Don't believe it; Waffles actually got somebody to blink before he did. Unless its all for show, knowing the end game has a much bigger prize than one puny cargo ship. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2015-05-21 01:20 |