CAIRO (Reuters) – Two Iranian naval ships will sail through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean tomorrow, a Suez Canal official said, in what will be the first passage of Iranian naval ships through the canal since 1979.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has described Iran’s plan to send the ships through the canal en route to Syria as a “provocation”.
The official said the vessels would arrive at the southern mouth of the canal in the Red Sea’s Gulf of Suez today. They would enter the canal in the northern convoy on Monday morning
