Friday, June 25, 2010

Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew, Iran

Iran, and its “Wipe Israel off the face of the earth” blustering Ahmadinejad, have been loudly boasting that they will put an end not only to Israel, but the current blockade of the port of Gaza.  Last night, at 6:49 P.M., Fred Lapides posted the following header to a post on this subject.

ME war tensions mount over Gaza-bound “enemy ships.” Hizballah pledges reprisal

Within that post you can read the following.

Ominous clouds gathered over the Mediterranean Thursday, June 24 after Israel announced that ships bound for Gaza would be deemed “enemy vessels” and halted by its navy by whatever means were necessary. Hizballah shot back with a threat of violent retaliation, while Israel’s northern commander warned that the IDF was prepared to deal with threats from Lebanon by “appropriate means.”

With two ships, one Lebanese and one Iranian, already at sea,..

This morning, at 4:59 A.M., Fred posts this header regarding developments on the above news.

Iran blinks

Here’s what can be read from this post.

“The Zionist regime has sent a letter to the U.N. saying that the presence of Iranian and Lebanese ships in the Gaza area will be considered a declaration of war on that regime and it will react to it.” And apparently Iran doesn’t want war — yet.

“Iran will not send aid ship to Gaza,” from CNN, June 24…

Iran will not send a ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza as it had planned to do on Thursday, according to a report from the official news agency of Iran.

The Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Hossein Sheikholeslam, secretary-general of the International Conference for the Support of the Palestinian Intifada, as saying: “The Iranian ship carrying humanitarian aid will not go to Gaza.”

IRNA said that Sheikholeslam told reporters in the northern city of Rasht that the ship had originally been scheduled to depart for Gaza on Thursday, but that its departure was postponed until Sunday because of restrictions imposed by Israel.

He added that officials then decided instead to cancel the trip altogether, shipping to Gaza the goods by other means, IRNA said.

Though this Iranian backdown is a good thing, I still think that Iran and Ahmadinejad will bite off more than they can chew in regards to Israel in their hunger to be a power house in the Middle East.

Posted by John Venlet on 06/25 at 07:00 AM
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