
{"id":4867,"date":"2019-08-13T04:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T04:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2019-08-13T04:48:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T04:48:14","slug":"iran-israel-may-spark-war-if-it-joins-us-led-flotilla-in-persian-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/08\/13\/iran-israel-may-spark-war-if-it-joins-us-led-flotilla-in-persian-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"IRAN: ISRAEL MAY \u201cSPARK WAR\u201d IF IT JOINS US-LED FLOTILLA IN PERSIAN GULF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4868\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/EILAT-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/EILAT.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/EILAT-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/EILAT-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/EILAT-560x350.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/EILAT-260x163.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/08\/EILAT-160x100.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: RT<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has advised Israel to stay clear of the Persian Gulf, where the US has been struggling to amass an anti-Iranian armada, noting that every vessel illegally present in the region increases the risk of an all-out conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny illegitimate presence by the Zionists in the waters of the Persian Gulf could spark a war,\u201d commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard\u2019s Navy, Alireza Tangsiri, warned on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Israel reportedly volunteered to provide intelligence and assistance to the US-led coalition against Iran, as the pressure in the Persian Gulf mounts, after a series of mysterious tanker attacks and reciprocal vessel seizures by Iran and the UK. Israel warned last month that it is ready to strike Iran in the case of any \u201cmistaken calculations,\u201d piling on the pressure after Tehran said a US attack would mean \u201conly half an hour will remain of Israel\u2019s lifespan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image Source: The Times of Israel<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/466287-iran-warns-israel-gulf-war\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: RT Tehran has advised Israel to stay clear of the Persian Gulf, where the US has been struggling to amass an anti-Iranian armada, noting that every vessel illegally present in the region increases the risk of an all-out conflict. \u201cAny illegitimate presence by the Zionists in the waters of the Persian Gulf could spark&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/08\/13\/iran-israel-may-spark-war-if-it-joins-us-led-flotilla-in-persian-gulf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IRAN: ISRAEL MAY \u201cSPARK WAR\u201d IF IT JOINS US-LED FLOTILLA IN PERSIAN GULF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}