{"id":53243,"date":"2024-01-05T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53243"},"modified":"2024-01-05T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:21:34","slug":"things-are-heating-up-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53243","title":{"rendered":"Things Are Heating Up In The Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 1st, Breitbart<\/a> reported that Iran is sending a warship to the Red Sea as a result of other nations sending ships there to protect shipping lanes from Houthi terrorists.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The semi-official Tasnim news agency\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0Iran\u2019s frigate\u00a0Alborz,\u00a0<\/em>launched in 1969 on completion by Vickers in the UK,\u00a0<\/em>will fly the country\u2019s flag\u00a0across the key shipping lanes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In its report, Tasnim did not specify the details of the\u00a0Alborz\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0mission but highlighted what it claimed were the regional implications of Israel\u2019s war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing rising tensions in the Gaza war, there has been an acceleration in developments in the Gulf of Aden and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait,\u201d it said,\u00a0repeating<\/a>\u00a0words of action long pronounced by Tehran in its war with the west.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note that the mission of the ship was not specified.<\/p>\n

The article notes”<\/p>\n

On Sunday, U.S. Navy helicopters sank three Houthi-operated vessels that had attacked a container ship in the Red Sea, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement, as Breitbart News\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The UK defense minister warned on Monday that London is \u201cwilling to take direct action\u201d against the Houthis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthis have been targeting vessels in the Red Sea since November to show their support for the Palestinian Islamist terrorist group Hamas in its war with Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In response, many major shipping companies have switched to longer and more costly routes which avoid the area altogether.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The civilized world can either fight back or it can simply accept the fact that terrorists are going to be in control of the Red Sea.,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On January 1st, Breitbart reported that Iran is sending a warship to the Red Sea as a result of other nations sending ships there to protect shipping lanes from Houthi terrorists. The article reports: The semi-official Tasnim news agency\u00a0reported\u00a0Iran\u2019s frigate\u00a0Alborz,\u00a0launched … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10348,6252,8950,90,13403,245,1441,9872,9291],"class_list":["post-53243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breitbart","tag-breitbart-com","tag-container-ship","tag-hamas","tag-houthis","tag-middle-east","tag-tehran","tag-terrorists","tag-warship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53244,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53243\/revisions\/53244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}