US warships box in Iranian flotilla, delay Suez passage Comments Off
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February 21, 2011 by
Sharon K. Gilbert
(DEBKAfile) — The repeated delays and contradictory statements about the two Iranian warships’ transit of the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean is accounted for by a standoff between the Iranian flotilla and five US warships deployed in recent days at the waterway’s southern entrance and along its course, DEBKAfile’s sources disclose.
via DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security.
