Iran isn’t just trying to send “humanitarian” supplies to Gaza. Iran is trying to create in Gaza the same infrastructure it has in Iraq—the one that led to the highest American casualties due to Iranian agents supplying EFPs and bomb technology. And it looks like Iran wants to spread the Shi’ite word among Palestinians as well.
An Iranian Red Crescent vessel due to set sail for Gaza this week carries a “hidden agenda,” providing cover for an attempt by Teheran’s al-Quds Force to spread its influence and possibly ferrying intelligence agents, an American expert warned on Saturday.
[…] “The Iranian Red Crescent ship sailing to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip is an example of Teheran’s effort to gain political influence through social aid programs, subvert societies with intelligence agents acting as charitable officials, and encourage the Sunni Muslim street to believe that the Iranian regime is on their side, despite its Shi’ite face,” Prof. Raymond Tanter, president of the Washington-based Iran Policy Committee, told The Jerusalem Post.
“The hidden agenda of the Red Crescent is to spread the Iranian conception of Islam to the Sunni Arab heartland, including Gaza,” Tanter said. “Teheran spends millions of dollars per month on ‘charities,’ coordinated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force.”
Not that it really matters who’s on the ship. There’s no way the IDF is going to allow an Iranian ship to dock in Gaza, no more than it allowed a Libyan ship to dock.
But it’s interesting to know what they Iranians were trying to export.
On a tangent, there’s this report in the JPost that I don’t know whether to believe or not, but one can surely dream:
Teheran may reduce its oil production by as much as 25 percent by 2015 and cease exports because of aging fields and a lack of foreign investment, the international oil and gas consultancy company Facts Global Energy reported last week.
[…] The report suggested the sharp decline in oil output would not only be caused by lack of investment, but also by Western sanctions and a tight international credit market.
The flip side, of course, would be a hike in world oil prices. But at the cost of seeing the mullahs fall? It will be worth it.