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| US, UK Urge UN Probe Of Iranian Arms Ship Seizure | ||||
| 2014-03-21 | ||||
| [Ynet] UN officials say that if Klos C arms ship indeed originated in Iran, it would violate UN Security Council sanctions.. "This is not the first time that we have seen reports of potential arms transfers to Gazoo involving Iran," British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant noted. The envoys spoke after a council briefing on the sanctions committee's latest report. The report said Iran had still not replied to inquiries last year on two other incidents: Iran's launches of Shahab 1 and 3 missiles and an intercepted arms shipment in Yemen.
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin urged the committee to refrain from taking any actions that could compromise efforts by six world powers and Iran to reach an agreement on Tehran's nuclear program.
The Klos C was captured by the Israeli Navy earlier this month in open waters on the maritime border of Sudan and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... , some 1,500 km south of Israel. The vessel was sailing under a Panamanian flag, making its way to Sudan from Iran carrying a cargo of advanced rockets capable of reaching distances of up to 200 km. The IDF found 40 M-302 long-range missiles, as well as 181 22-milimeter mortar shells and 400,000 7.62 bullets on board the ship. The rockets originated in Syria, the IDF said, where Iran is known to store large arsenals. The rockets were flown from Syria to Iran, where they were loaded on the ship that then departed for Iraq where the arms were concealed in boxes of cement. From the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr it sailed into the Red Sea around the Port of Oman, bound for Sudan. The ship's progress was closely tracked by the IDF as it sailed.
Netanyahu has been highly critical of the US-backed efforts to negotiate a deal with Iran that would substantially scale back its nuclear program in exchange for ending international sanctions. | ||||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 I'm surprised they're not demanding a probe into the "legality" of IDF's actions. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-03-21 05:30 |