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Monday, February 06, 2012

Iranian warships make second port call in Saudi Arabia


An Iranian destroyer and supply ship docked in the Red Sea port of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Saturday, marking the second such deployment of an Iranian naval task force in a year.

In early February 2011, the first such task force made a stop in Jeddah on the way to an equally unprecedented visit to the Mediterranean.

While in the Med – as anti-regime fervor caught fire in the Arab nations – the Iranian warships visited Latakia, Syria.

According to disclosures from a Syrian who recently fled his post with the defense ministry, the Iranian warships in 2011 delivered arms to the Assad regime.

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