Iran: Controversial attempt to break Israeli blockade of Gaza called off

Borzou Daragahi
Los Angeles Times
June 25, 2010

• A d v e r t i s e m e n t

OK, people, relax. World War III is not going to break out this weekend over a high-seas confrontation between Iranian aid ships headed to the Gaza Strip and Israeli gunboats aiming to stop them.

International observers (including certain overworked Middle East correspondents) breathed a deep sigh of relief Friday after Iran called off its plan to try to break through Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian enclave.

Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship late last month in an incident that practically reconfigured the diplomatic topography of the Middle East.

According to a Persian-language report by Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency, an Iranian foreign ministry official told reporters that an Iranian aid flotilla destined for Gaza this weekend has been called off.

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This article was posted: Friday, June 25, 2010 at 11:05 am

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