{"id":8915,"date":"2023-12-23T13:40:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T13:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8915"},"modified":"2023-12-23T13:40:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T13:40:22","slug":"iran-threatens-mediterranean-sea-closure-over-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/iran-threatens-mediterranean-sea-closure-over-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Threatens Mediterranean Sea Closure Over Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said the Mediterranean Sea could be closed if the United States and its allies continued to commit \u201ccrimes\u201d in Gaza, Iranian media reported on Saturday, without explaining how that would happen.<\/p>\n<p>Iran backs Hamas against Israel and it accuses the United States of backing what it calls Israeli crimes in Gaza, where weeks of bombardment have killed thousands of people and driven most of the population from their homes.<br \/>\n\u201cThey shall soon await the closure of the Mediterranean Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar and other waterways,\u201d Tasnim quoted Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, coordinating commander of the Guards, as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen\u2019s Iran-backed Houthi militia has over the past month attacked merchant vessels sailing through the Red Sea in retaliation for Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza, leading some shipping companies to switch routes.<\/p>\n<p>The White House on Friday said Iran was \u201cdeeply involved\u201d in planning operations against commercial vessels in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has no direct access to the Mediterranean itself and it was not clear how the Guards could attempt to close it off, although Naqdi talked of \u201cthe birth of new powers of resistance and the closure of other waterways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday, the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz became a nightmare for them, and today they are trapped&#8230; in the Red Sea,\u201d Naqdi was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The only groups backed by Iran on the Mediterranean are Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah and allied militia in Syria, at the far end of the sea from Gibraltar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said the Mediterranean Sea could be closed if the United States and its allies continued to commit \u201ccrimes\u201d in Gaza, Iranian media reported on Saturday, without explaining how that would happen. Iran backs Hamas against Israel and it accuses the United States of backing what &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8917,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions\/8917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}