Iranian Ships Headed for Gaza

I promise, I will blog about other topics this month. But this will bear watching over the next week. Potential for fireworks: 60%.

Iran is sending aid ships to blockaded Gaza, state radio said on Monday -- a move likely to be considered provocative by Israel which accuses Tehran of arming the Palestinian enclave's Islamist rulers, Hamas.

One ship left port on Sunday and another will depart by Friday, loaded with food, construction material and toys, the report said. The boats would be part of international efforts to break Israel's isolation of the Gaza Strip.

"Until the end of the Gaza blockade, Iran will continue to ship aid," said an official at Iran's Society for the Defence of the Palestinian Nation.

For now, it appears that the Iranian Republican Guard is staying on the sidelines, despite some preliminary noise to the contrary. It's going to be a long, hot summer.