IRAN OFFERS MILITARY ESCORT FOR FUTURE GAZA FLOTILLA SHIPS
6 June 2010
Hojjatoleslam Ali Shirazi, an aide to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
pledged Tehran would send Revolutionary Guard units to escort Gaza aid convoys
Iran would be willing to send its Revolutionary Guard members to accompany further aid ships to Gaza, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday in an interview cited by Reuters.
“The naval wing of the Revolutionary Guard is ready to assist the peace flotilla to Gaza with all its effort and capabilities,” Khamenei’s Revolutionary Guard spokesman Ali Shirazi stated.
“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.”
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Last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad termed the IDF raid on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara as “barbaric” and called for dismantling of “the Zionist regime.”
Ahmadinejad was speaking to a crowd of tens of thousands, many of them chanting anti-Israeli slogans, gathered at the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for a ceremony marking the 21st anniversary of his death.
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