Israel Navy seizes Iranian ship carrying missiles bound for Gaza

Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 (Flotilla 13) early Wednesday, March 5, boarded an Iranian Panama-registered cargo vessel KLOS C. Concealed in its hold were dozens of 302mm rockets with a range of 200 kms, manufactured in Syria and destined by Iran for the Gaza Strip, after being offloaded at Port Sudan. The missiles were described by a military source as game-changing weapons for the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip. They would have put Israel’s international airport and main cities within range. The Israeli commandos seized the vessel on the high sea on the maritime border of Sudan and Eritrea, 1500 km south of Israel, and is being towed it to Eilat.

http://www.debka.com/newsupdatepopup/7464/

Another "peacemakers" leaded by a turkish captain with "humanitarian" help. Mentally degraded supporters of arab terrorists are invited to whine.

 

Another version with an interesting VIDEO.

Israel Intercepts Iranian Arms Boat
MARCH 5, 2014 12:11BY PESACH BENSON

http://honestreporting.com/israel-daily-news-stream-03052014/


1. BREAKING NEWS: After this roundup was published, Israel announced that it has intercepted an Iranian arms shipment in the Red Sea destined for Gaza. The boat, carrying M-302 rockets, is now being towed to Eilat. YNet reports:

Elite troops from the Israel Navy’s Shayetet 13 unit boarded the ship in open waters on the maritime border of Sudan and Eritrea, some 1,500 km south of Israel. The Klos C Iranian 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 ship was supposed to reach port in Sudan on Thursday, some 10 days after it left Iran.An initial inventory by Israel revealed a large supply of rockets, including the Iranian-made 302m, which hit Haifa during the 2006 Second Lebanon War.

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 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.

“There is clear evidence from the ship that these are rockets for which Iran is responsible,” a senior IDF source said Wednesday. “The rockets were . . . intended for terror groups in Gaza.”

See the IDF video below and the IDF blog for more coverage.
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March 5, 2014

“Iran”

Truth be told, I had expected Prime Minister Netanyahu to focus on Iran in his AIPAC talk yesterday. I had been planning to use his speech as a kick-off point for a discussion about Iran. Instead, yesterday, I went in various other directions. And today, there is a different, decidedly more ominous kick-off point for focus on Iran.

I am going to make this brief because, not knowing how broadly this information will be broadcast outside of Israel, I want this out:

The information has surfaced that early this morning Israeli naval commandos from the elite unit Shayetet 13 seized a ship in the Red Sea that was carrying dozens of advanced Iranian rockets intended for delivery to terrorists in Gaza.

The cargo ship, the Klos C, was sailing under a Panamanian flag. Its 17-man crew did not resist when their ship – which is now being brought to Eilat – was boarded in international waters. The crew was comprised of several nationalities (none Iranian) who were apparently oblivious to the nature of the cargo the ship was carrying.

According to Israeli military spokesman Lt.-Col. Peter Lerner, dozens of M302 rockets – hidden behind bags of cement that were labeled in English “Made in Iran” - were found on-board. They would have had the capacity to strike deep into Israel.



Credit: IDF

The blood runs cold when one considers what might have happened, had the ship not have been intercepted. All credit is due the IDF, which carried out what Lerner referred to as a “complex, covert operation.” It met with success because of a “combination of in-depth intelligence and enhanced operational capabilities.”

IDF Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, who supervised the operation, gave the order to Major General Ram Rothberg, head of the Israeli navy, to seize the ship.

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If the IDF tracking of the weapon cache was “complex,” it is because the route of the rockets covered a great deal of ground: The rockets were flown from Syria - where they had been assembled according to Iranian technology - to Iran, where they were loaded on the ship. From there they were went first to Iraq (why, is not clear) and when intercepted were headed towards Sudan, which was still 1,500 miles away. It is anticipated that, had they reached Sudan, the rockets would have been smuggled overland through Egypt to Gaza. This route from Sudan to Gaza is hardly a new one.

Brigadier General Moti Almoz, spokesman for the Israeli Navy,made it clear at a special press conference today: “Iran was behind the shipment.”
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Netanyahu, who is currently in LA, made a brief, clear statement following the release of this information (emphasis added):

“As it conducts talks with [world] powers, as Iran smiles and utters pleasantries, the same Iran is sending lethal weapons to terror organizations…via an intricate network of clandestine global operations…in order to hurt innocent civilians.”

“This is the real Iran and this country must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons. We will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect Israeli citizens.”

Take the time to see this brief video of Netanyahu in a similar expression of concern: it is in his tone of voice that the seriousness and import of the issue is conveyed;

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Netany...p-interdiction-shows-true-face-of-Iran-344375

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Somebody should make that idiot Kerry unload that ship, by hand; maybe then it will sink into his empty skull how the real world operates in Islamo-Land.

 

He is smarter than you think... he knows how the evil Islamo world operates..
It's just that he recieces orders from Hussain Obama. The same person who kissed the Saudi's king hand.

 

This is an act of piracy according to all maritime laws .
Spanish did the same to a ship from north Korea with missile parts, they were forced to return it and pay for company's bills .

I am into sailing and often cross international waters, what the law says is that you can not board a ship with a flag different than yours.

Thank you for the information but we already knew that Israel is a rogue country.

 

And yet Iran dnied the existence of that ship.

 

Don't worry. It is perfectly lawfully.

 

I don't think so; he's too much of a narcissist to bother with anything beyond himself.

 

No it is not , check maritime law .
If you wanna know more you can not even board a navy ship that passes through your national waters in a certain speed .

 

You mistake as was proved in other discussion:
http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=342594&page=10&p=1063632630#post1063632630

 

The Iranian ship was with the Panama flag and the company that owned the ship was from Marshall Islands , and the search that the navy seizes did on the ship was with full agreement from the people on the ship and according to international laws

 

Considering the mentality that only the U.S. and Israel are the only states anybody thinks 'International Law' applies to, don't expect either nation to care what a collection of hypocrites and terrorist fans think about anything.

Note the complete lack of criticism and moral outrage at Iran for shipping them to a bunch of gangster mass murderers.

 

Israeli Navy Intercepts Iranian Weapons VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAjF32g7s4E

If the Turks would be raining missiles on Greece that fellow would not be so fast to dismiss the Terrorist act of Iran.
Watch the Video.

 

Your mistake is that you didn't read the whole thing and Iranian ship was NOT running over a blockade

146 is a reference to 67 and a far as i know you are not at war with Iran

Let me make it clear how this works : I am in my sail boat with friends , illegal immigrants and a sack full of coke . We sail in international waters between Greece and Turkey and we are flying the Greek flag . A Turkish patrol appears and orders us to stop . We stop , they get on board and we are welcome them with our mirrors at hand, they search the ship , find our whores and our coke and then they say bye and leave because they cannot do (*)(*)(*)(*) for as long as we fly a different flag.

 

The Israeli navy did everything with the acceptnece of the ship's crew, and the Israeli Navy seized what the ship contained according to self-defence, coke and missiles with range of 200 km is not the same, coke will not kill any Turkish men/women/children, but misslies will.

 

What are you speaking about?
Again, this is your assertion:

I proved that there are situations when a ship with a flag different than yours can be boarded. What is not understandable?
Did you really read the news? Who is speaking about war with Iran? Gaza is a terrorist entity and Iran supplies it by weapon to use against civil population in Israel.
You also don't understand properly the content of 146. It is not a reference to 67, it includes a reference to 67 and lists other situations when a vessel can be checked and captured.

If they would found on your boat a weapon destined to kurdish rebels it would be a little bit other outcome..

 

The thing that has to be noticed Greece vs Israel is that Greece is shock full of unemployed canon fodder, that if bombed by Turkey they would absorb it figuring this will reduce the dole line of the unemployed... and I ask timidly, why did Greece not intervene when Cyprus lost half the Island to the Turks?

And Monitors do not say I am straying out of the subject matter.
I am giving a realistic scenario that no one can deny and is an analogy to the present Iran - Israel problem... Israel wants to save its people from <decimation> while others find all kind of excuses to commemorate <MURDER>!!!!!!!!!

 

Iran denies the story of Israel.
They call it Zionistic lies / propaganda.

And how many days after Israel mentioned this, did they meet with Obama to talk about Iran?
Was it 2 or 3 days? What a huge... huge coincidence.

 

I posted several Video clips on this subject and one is being prepared for the public with the Missiles found on board hidden under cement bags.

If Iran <that is bound to lose a ship> because of their regular terrorist acts calls Israel a liar the next Video would change their attitude from one end to the other.

 

So .... your the extention of the Israeli propaganda lies on this forum. Good for you. It still is a fact that this "news" was published just 2 or 3 days before the head of the apartheid nation of Israel had a meeting with Obama about Iran.

 

Well Israel is a Democracy and apartheid is probably akin to Iran that has thousands of imprisoned fighters for freedom, where gays are hanged on a regular basis, a country that denies the holocaust, a mentally backward nation that still lives under the aegis of the Seventh Century, where women are beaten and stoned to death publicly for not covering their hair and you dare point the finger of indignation towards the sole Democracy in the Middle East where liberty, freedom of Speech and assembly is a daily occurrence? You and your country are hopeless until the Iranian will bring down this government of yours and pass all its members through a Roman gauntlet...

Watch and listen to the P.M. Israel B. Natanyahu telling the truth about Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twaD8Stv1t0#t=307

 

Israel is a democracy as well as an apartheid state, while Iran isn't on both accounts.
Nothing odd. The US and South Africa were considered democracies as when they applied apartheid.

Me and my country? My country has nothing to do with Iran.
While you're on the wrong side of history by favouring Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing.
Them are some f*cked up norms and you know it.



And in no way do you deny that the "homeland of the Jews" published their propaganda just 1 or 2 days before talking with Obama about Iran.

 

No I do not know it... for I live here, my parents were born here and my great grand parents were born here... Jews come in different colors, there are Chinese Jews, Japanese Jews, Indian Jews, Ethiopian Jews, Black Jews, one Million Jews thrown out of all the Arab countries, European Jews, and even red Indian Jews... To come with an anti Semitic slogan to put Jews on the defensive will not work darling for this is the only country in the Middle East. that has a mixed lot living in harmony.

Ask yourself why 21 Arab countries do not have ONE Jewish Representative in their respective Governments whilst Israel has Eleven... and you have the unmitigated gall to call Israel... apartheid state?
BTW I know the name of an international shrink if you need one.

 

Give us a break.
The world is fed up by men wearing black dresses and women with Burkas.
Europe's borders soon will be closed to Islam and Arabs.