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Iran Warns Against US ‘Adventurism’ After Parking Cruise Missile-Armed Warship In Red Sea<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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The Red Sea continues to grow busy with the presence of naval assets, as the West and its allies attempt to keep international shipping lanes open despite the threat of Houthi missiles and drones launched from Yemen. This has lately\u00a0included<\/a>\u00a0nations such as Denmark, Pakistan and Sri Lanka sending military ships to regional waters as well.<\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken while meeting with Arab leaders over the weekend before he arrived in Israel Monday evening said, “These attacks are having a real effect on the prices that people have to pay for food, for medicine, for energy. Ships have to get diverted to other places. Insurance rates go up.”<\/p>\n

Maritime and industry analyst Sam Chambers has\u00a0observed<\/a>, “Over the weekend, the number of transits through the Suez Canal\u00a0fell to the lowest since the waterway was blocked by the Ever Given containership in early 2021<\/strong>, according to Inchcape Shipping Services.”<\/p>\n

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Iranian warship Alborz, file image, Fars News Agency\/AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But amid the heavy presence Western coalition military ships, there is now\u00a0an Iranian frigate parked in the Red Sea<\/strong>\u00a0after its arrival starting nearly a week ago. “2024 was only a few hours old when Iran dispatched a warship, the frigate\u00a0Alborz<\/em>, to the Red Sea,” FP recently\u00a0noted<\/a>. “Its arrival was yet more bad news for shipping, already facing a crisis from the Iran-backed Houthi attacks on merchant vessels.”<\/p>\n

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has\u00a0issued<\/a>\u00a0a new statement\u00a0<\/strong>warning Israel and America against ‘adventurism’ which will expand war in\u00a0the region<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Iran issues a stern warning against\u00a0any US adventurism that could endanger regional peace<\/strong>,\u201d Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday in a letter directed to the US and its allies, a week after Iran\u2019s Navy deployed\u00a0a cruise missile-armed warship in the region<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Iran Warns Against US ‘Adventurism’ After Parking Cruise Missile-Armed Warship In Red Sea The Red Sea continues to grow busy with the presence of naval assets, as the West and its allies attempt to keep international shipping lanes open despite the threat of Houthi missiles and drones launched from Yemen. This has lately\u00a0included\u00a0nations such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[441,522,14494,4856,805,820,2080,827,834,4318],"class_list":["post-66439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-red-sea","tag-shipping","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66440,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66439\/revisions\/66440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}