Iran to Crash Blockade

Well, why not.  It’s not as if the US recognizes Israel’s right to defend herself.  Our current administration would like you to believe there are actual sides in this conflict.

By Obamalogic, if an intruder forces his way into my home and I have to shoot him, we must consider the intruder’s side of the story.

CNN reports on the Trojan Horse flotillas of fools:

 Iran’s Red Crescent Society will try to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza by sending food and medical supplies to the besieged Palestinian territory, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday.

 Red Crescent official Abdul Rauf Adibzadeh said one shipment of relief goods will arrive in Gaza via Egypt by the end of the week, Iranian media reported.

The aid group is also preparing to send two relief ships to the coast of Gaza, including a hospital ship with doctors, nurses and operating rooms and another vessel with more relief goods like food and medication, the IRNA and Mehr news agencies reported.

Just to keep it “fair”, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is ready to provide military escorts for cargo ships planning to break the Israeli/Egyptian blockade:

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards are ready to provide a military escort to cargo ships trying to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday.

‘Iran’s Revolutionary Guards naval forces are fully prepared to escort the peace and freedom convoys to Gaza with all their powers and capabilities,’ Ali Shirazi, Khamenei’s representative inside the Revolutionary Guards, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency.

 Any intervention by the Iranian military would be considered highly provocative by Israel which accuses Iran of supplying weapons to Hamas, the Islamist movement which rules Gaza.

 Iran does not recognize the Israeli state and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has often predicted its imminent demise.

 Last Monday Israeli troops killed nine activists on board one ship in a convoy trying to deliver aid to Gaza, sparking international outrage, especially in Muslim countries.

 Another ship was boarded on Saturday and pro-Palestinian activists have promised more as they challenge the blockade imposed four years ago with the stated aim of stopping arms getting to Hamas.

 Shirazi said Iran should encourage more international efforts to break the blockade.  ’We should expose our enemies to a spontaneous global action and not let them achieve their heinous goals,’ he said.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will continue to prevent ships from reaching the shore and creating ‘an Iranian port in Gaza,’ a reference to Iran’s support for Hamas.

 The Revolutionary Guards, with their own navy, air force and command structure separate from the regular armed forces, are seen as fiercely loyal to the Supreme Leader.

 ’If the Supreme Leader issues an order for this then the Revolutionary Guard naval forces will do their best to secure the ships,’ Shirazi said. ‘It is Iran’s duty to defend the innocent people of Gaza.’

 Jihadwatch is reading it exactly right:

This escalation of rhetoric further demonstrates that entire Fraud Flotilla affair has ultimately been a power play masquerading as a mission of mercy, and the main beneficiary, by far, is Hamas.