Israel’s Navy has seized a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Sudan today, in the Red Sea. The ship was found to have “advanced weapons” on board, and Israeli officials immediately dubbed it an Iranian shipment to the Gaza Strip.
The ship also contained bags of cement which had printed, in English, “Made in Iran” on them. The Israeli assumption is the weapons, which were apparently Syrian made, were smuggled to Iran somehow, put on the ship to be sent to Port Sudan, and that they would somehow then be smuggled from Sudan through Egypt and into the Gaza Strip for Hamas.
The how behind any of this is vague, but Israeli officials have played up the ship’s capture as proof that Iran can’t be trusted diplomatically, and claimed the several dozen rockets were a “threat to millions.”
Iran says they had nothing to do with the ship, and that the Israeli allegations are “totally without foundation.” Hamas likewise denied the claim, saying Israel was just looking for an excuse to prolong their blockade of the strip.
The Obama Administration backed Israel’s allegations, predictably, and claimed US intelligence sharing with Israel on the seizure.
yes yes our plan is perfect, there is nothing that could go wrong, we just secretly ship weapons out of syria send them to iran then ship them to gaza, no one will know! we have complete denyablity.
oh wait!
did you forget to print in big English letters made in iran on everything?
quick get on it, before this perfect secret plan is ruined!
yes yes our plan is perfect, there is nothing that could go wrong, we just secretly ship weapons out of syria send them to iran then ship them to gaza, no one will know! we have complete denyablity.
oh wait!
did you forget to print in big English letters "made in iran" on everything?
quick get on it, before this perfect secret plan is ruined!
It's as if the British colonists were exterminating the Native Americans, and they found a stash of Native weapons, and said "Look! They're trying to resist being exterminated and having their land stolen by us! See how bad they are! We told you! Their resistance to our violent ethnic cleansing justifies our violent ethnic cleansing!"
Man… Shut up, Israeli and US government.
They were shipped by Saudis for their terrorist groups in Sudan, as they are continue arming their affiliated terrorists in that region and rest of the world, but blaming it on Iran is that they cannot blame it on America which supply's arms to Saudis and Saudis to……. So much of weapons are sold to Saudis, by French, English, Germans, Swedish, Danish, USA and others, do they have place so large to keep all that weapons shipped to Saudi Arabia in last 5-10 years?
Sure, Gaza is choked of even basic food and they can smuggle a SHIP full of weapons. How can they dream this stuff up.
Then again, I commend Iran if they tried to help defenseless people against the most criminal regime the world has ever known.
Thanks, Jason, for providing some humour in these dark times. I used to think Mossad were incompetent but now I realize I was entirely wrong. They're a bunch of comedians, but failed ones because people laugh at them rather than with them.
Thanks, Jason, for providing some humour in these dark times. I used to think Mossad were incompetent but now I realize I was entirely wrong. They're a bunch of comedians, but failed ones because people laugh at them rather than with them.
“Made in Iran” I smell a rat here, why would Iran shipped weapons to Hamas with their fingerprints all over it?
If "Made in Iran" was in Hebrew then I'd believe it….;-p
Well lets see now: Israel caught a ship maybe off the Sudanese coast that maybe had Iranian cement bags on it with maybe weapons made in Syria that were maybe being sent to Hamas. Also, those few dozen rockets will maybe be a threat to millions of people. Wow! who needs nuclear weapons when millions can be killed by a dozen rockets? Do I have this right so far?
You forgot to accurately describe the "moral outrage" and hair-pulling by the Israelis who say Iran supplies weapons to basically every part of the world – without providing any proof, of course. Without the moral outrage, this is a boring piece of fluff and fails to rile the "believers" in the American heartland.
It is well-known that Iran is biggest arms supplier in the world, dwarfing the US, Russia, France, UK, combined. Devilish Persians.
The only thing that ties Iran to this "plot" are bags of cement, and Israeli / US allegations. Unfortunately, those who use deception as a way of war (Israel) and those who have been caught lying repeatedly to create excuses for war (US) have long since lost any shred of credibility. Israel and its US supporters want the USG to press Iran on conventional missile capabilities at P5+1 nuclear talks. Israel and US supporters want to show Palestinians are the unreasonable partner in failing peace talks. This little charade conveniently supports both efforts just when both efforts needed support. It has "Made in US/Israel" all over it.
How convenient. It just so happens that the Israeli PM is in the US and is trying to make a case of additional sanctions against Iran, the seize a ship on the high seas with weapons on it.
Furthermore, they claim to have been tracking these weapons ever since they left Syria via plane to Iran and then on to various other ports. QUESTION: Why would Syrian (neighbor of Israel) need to airlifted these arms to Iran (not even close to Israel) to be smuggled back to Gaza? while Israel has been bombing places inside Syria claiming these are arm cache FROM Iran to Hizbollah via Syria.
I think its time for Israel to changed the world map to make people believe their stories.
Isn't it against international law to seize a ship in international waters?