Iran’s Alborz warship enters Red Sea through strategic Bab al-Mandeb strait @Mohammed11Saleh brings you this report
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This is how the intensity of the route in the Red Sea area has changed since the Houthi blockade: pic.twitter.com/X6fsWskOIj
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We need to start bookmarking the Andrew Anglin articles where he suggests what will happen next.
He called it on Yemen as a flashpoint and the next step of the American-Jewish game.
(Editor’s Note: During the break, Americans went to murder Houthis for defending Palestine. -AA)
Iran wasted no time sending a warship into the Red Sea on Monday, just a day after the US killed 10 Houthi fighters attacking commercial vessels in the contentious waters that separate Africa from the Middle East.
Tehran’s Alborz destroyer crossed the Bab-el-Mandeb strait and into the sea the same day Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian lauded the Houthis’ “strong and vigorous stance … in supporting the oppressed people of Palestine,” according to state-run media.
The Houthis, an Islamist military group backed by Iran, have been lobbing drones and missiles at foreign vessels in the Red Sea from their home of Yemen since November in response to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.
On Sunday, the US Navy closed out 2023 by sinking three Houthi ships in the Red Sea in a strike that marked the first time the US had killed any of members of the Iran proxy group since the recent spate of attacks began.
(Editor’s Note: This is exactly what I said would happen, yet again. -AA)
Helicopters from the USS Eisenhower and USS Gravely warships opened fire on “four Iranian-backed Houthi small boats,” sinking three of them, while responding to an SOS from the Singapore-flagged vessel Maersk Hangzhou around 6:30 a.m. local time, according to the US Central Command.
Houthis have launched nearly 20 attacks on such vessels in the Red Sea so far, prompting some shipping companies to avoid the waterway altogether.
The major trade lane offers passage between the Mediterranean Sea to the Arabian Sea, enabling vessels to bypass Africa with the Suez Canal.
Iran’s decision to send a warship into the Red Sea was an apparent answer to Washington’s calls for Tehran to condemn the Houthi attacks and encourage peace in the region.
The US demanding that Iran “encourage peace in the region” is quite possibly the most hilariously surreal thing that has ever happened in all of human history.
Iran’s Alborz warship
To be clear: the US is continuing to offer “unconditional support” for the slaughter of tens of thousands of kids in Gaza.
The idea that they could demand someone else “encourage peace” is so far beyond parody that it’s difficult to grasp the fact it actually happened.
It’s a major shipping route. look at a map. The distance is greatly increased if the world can’t access that route. That means increase in cost in shipping. It’s an economic thing.
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