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February 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The deployment raised tensions with Israel at a dangerous time, with
speculation growing that air strikes are being prepared against Iran’s
nuclear programme before it reaches a point where it cannot be stopped.
Dan Fayutkin, an Israeli Defence Force officer and expert in military
strategy, said that the movement of Iranian vessels into the Mediterranean
risked starting a war.
“Any military move made now by either Israel or Iran would be hostile,” he
said.
Iranian spokesmen did not say how many vessels had passed through the canal,
or what missions they were planning, but said the flotilla had previously
docked in the Saudi port city of Jeddah. Two Iranian ships, the destroyer
Shahid Qandi and supply vessel Kharg, docked in the Red Sea port on February
4, according to Iranian media.
In February last year two Iranian vessels passed through the Suez Canal, soon
after Egypt’s revolution, for the first time since 1979.
Iran’s navy has been used for sabre rattling several times in recent months,
especially in the strategic Strait of Hormuz where it faces powerful
American naval forces.
A series of assassinations in Iran of nuclear scientists, and terrorist
attacks against Israeli diplomats in New Delhi and Bangkok in the past week,
have raised tensions between the two enemies to new levels.
Hours after the ships passed through the Suez Canal, the US National Security
Advisor, Tom Donilon, arrived in Israel for talks with senior officials
about Iran and the crisis in Syria. Senior US officials have warned in
recent weeks that Israeli opinion is starting to favour the air strike
option.
However, the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and Catherine Ashton, the
European Union’s foreign policy chief, voiced cautious optimism yesterday
about the prospect of Iran returning to nuclear talks with six world powers.
At a joint press conference they said they had received a promising new
overture from Tehran.
Mr Donilon’s visit came ahead of a visit to Washington by the Israeli prime
minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for White House talks with President Obama in
early March, where the leaders are likely to focus on Iran and the failure
to find a deal on resuming direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian
negotiators.
Meanwhile, on a visit to Tokyo, Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak said a
nuclear-armed Iran would trigger an arms race in the Middle East.
“Crippling” sanctions should be imposed on Tehran to force it to give up its
atomic programme, he said. In The Daily Telegraph yesterday the Foreign
Secretary, William Hague, also warned of the danger of a nuclear Cold War in
the Middle East because of Iran’s nuclear programme.
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