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Iran Bags Plan to Send Aid Ship to Gaza

Suddenly doesn't want to 'politicize humanitarian act'

By Guvner, Newser User

Posted Jun 25, 2010 11:35 PM CDT | Promoted on Newser Jun 26, 2010 6:40 AM CDT

(User Submitted) – Iran has canceled plans to send aid ships to Gaza, according to the Iranian state news agency, thus avoiding any confrontation with the Israeli naval blockade on the territory. Israel had recently notified the UN that it would consider the presence of Iranian ships in the region as "a declaration of war." Iran plans to send relief materials and supplies already collected by other routes directly to Gaza. "The Zionist regime has made the blockade a political issue and we do not wish to politicize this kind of humanitarian aid," said an Iranian official, as reported by the AFP.

Abdolraouf Adibzadeh, spokesman for the planned Iranian humanitarian aid ship to Gaza carrying 1,100 tons of relief supplies, speaks in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Palestinians walk at the Gaza City port, Monday June 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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Spudsy

Jun 26, 2010 5:45 PM CDT

A rare smart move by the religious idiots in Iran.

Xzekiel

Jun 26, 2010 11:19 AM CDT

I hope Aryana (Iran) sends there whole fleet to die.

finkster

Jun 26, 2010 10:47 AM CDT

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturing, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light." --Carl Sagan

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