Iranian report: Israeli submarine enters Red Sea via Suez Canal
Iranian news portal Nournews, a mouthpiece of the ayatollah regime in Tehran, reported on Monday that an Israeli Dolphin-class submarine secretly entered the Red Sea last Wednesday, August 4, through the Suez Canal.
Reports on the movements and whereabouts of Israeli
submarines are typically uncommon.
According to Nournews, two Israeli Navy destroyers also
crossed the Suez Canal at the same time, most likely as escorts for the
submarine.
The Iranian news site interpreted the alleged naval
deployment as being part of Israel's threat to respond militarily to Tehran's
belligerence in the Persian Gulf, and claimed that the purpose of the move was
to raise tensions in the region as a means of swaying public opinion in the US
against a nuclear deal with the Islamic republic.
Nournews quoted the former chief of the IDF's Military
Intelligence Directorate, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, who said last week that
Israel should not act militarily against Iran in the Persian Gulf, where the
Islamic republic holds an advantage, and should rather let the United States
and Great Britain take the lead in that arena.
In the situation that has unfolded, the report said,
"It seems that the new prime minister of the Zionist regime [Naftali
Bennett], by intensifying his hasty and stupid actions, is getting more and
more caught in a trap, the exit of which will certainly have very heavy costs
for him and the inhabitants of the occupied territories."
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