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To: JimRed; Redcloak

If the Iranians were going to scuttle ships in the Suez or use a ship to deliver a nuclear warhead to an Israeli port, they wouldn’t be using warships. Tankers or container ships could do the same job, but would be much cheaper, more easily replaced, and would attract less attention before they accomplished their mission. Iran’s warships are too valuable to be needlessly sacrificed, and the Israelis would never let an Iranian warship put in to an Israeli port.

This is more likely either a political gesture or an attempt to provoke the Israelis into attacking their ships in international waters. They also may be delivering reactor parts or some other sort of sensitive cargo to Syria, believing that a civilian freighter would be boarded and searched by the Israelis.


71 posted on 02/16/2011 3:27:36 PM PST by The Pack Knight (Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and the world laughs at you.)
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To: The Pack Knight

Nope, just watch. they are just going up to Syria. And then will escort the next flotilla into Gaza. Nothing else makes sense. And the canal falling into the hands of the brotherhood was the perfect opportunity to pre-position them.


74 posted on 02/16/2011 3:41:23 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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