Rapid Fire for Sunday, Feb. 20th
- Time to open up a can? Suez Canal Authority: Iranian warships to pass through Canal on Monday. Iranian News: They already passed through.
- Where'd the "Peacekeeping" troops go? Oh, right! They bugged out at the first sign of trouble! Israel allows more Egyptian troops into Sinai
- Wait, what? Who said: "...we reject in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity" Hint: not the PLO/Fatah. Answer: the U.S. Ambassador to the UN?!
- Where are Iran's supposed "anti-pirate" patrols? Americans Believed Kidnapped by Somali Pirates
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It means nothing, we are talking about two ships, hardly an aggressive maneuver. American naval forces in the area make the two ships irrelevant. Symbolic it is, importance in the Great Game is none at all.
ReplyDeleteIt's always reassuring when an expert in anti proliferation and middle eastern affairs provides such a well supported hypothesis.
ReplyDeleteAtlanta Roofing is now on my must read list for middle east analysis.
It's about the force projection and influence that Iran is claiming by sending those ships where no Iranian ship has gone since 1979. Israel has to decide whether to let Iran act with impunity and indirectly threaten Israel by actively supporting our sworn enemies (Hizbollah and Hamas).
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