Iranian warships’ plan to use Suez Canal ‘cancelled’
Middle East • February 2011 • Views: 592
Interesting in the wake of the change in Egypt
Plans by two Iranian warships to pass through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean have been cancelled, says an Egyptian official.
The unnamed official was reported as saying the plans had been withdrawn, without giving a reason.
He said the ships were near the Saudi Red Sea port of Jeddah.
Israel had reacted angrily to the plans, with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warning that it could not “forever ignore these provocations”.