{"id":82491,"date":"2020-12-09T17:05:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=82491"},"modified":"2020-12-03T10:51:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T08:51:17","slug":"09-05-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=82491","title":{"rendered":"Israel Receives Its Most Advanced Warship Amid Heightened Iran Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Israel Receives Its Most Advanced Warship Amid Heightened Iran Tensions<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Reuters <\/strong>and Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Israeli sailors walk on a pier, near a Saar-6 corvette, during a ceremony attended by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, marking its arrival, at the Israeli naval base in Haifa, Dec. 2, 2020. Photo: Heidi Levine \/ Pool via Reuters.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Israel\u00a0<\/span>received its most advanced warship on Wednesday, describing the German-made vessel dubbed \u201cShield\u201d as a bulwark for vulnerable Mediterranean gas rigs as tensions with Tehran soar over the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Saar-6 corvette that docked in Haifa port, and three of the same model to follow next year, will bring to 15 the number of missile boats deployed by an\u00a0Israel<\/span>i navy which, while small, carries out missions as far away as the Red Sea and the Gulf.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel\u00a0<\/span>also wants to protect off-shore natural gas fields close to Lebanon, an old foe with which it has held so far fruitless US-mediated maritime border talks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe welcome discovery of the gas fields off\u00a0Israel<\/span>\u2018s shore made it necessary to create a plan that will provide a protective envelope,\u201d\u00a0Israel<\/span>i President Reuven Rivlin said at ceremony at the port.<\/span><\/p>\n

The navy sees a threat to the gas rigs from Lebanon\u2019s Iran-backed Hezbollah guerrillas, especially after Tehran vowed to retaliate for Friday\u2019s killing of nuclear mastermind Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, which it blamed on\u00a0Israel<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iranians are looking for \u2018prestige\u2019 targets like these, that can be hit with low casualties, meaning \u2014 they may hope \u2014 less chance of escalation,\u201d an\u00a0Israel<\/span>i security official told\u00a0Reuters<\/em>. \u201cThe question is whether Hezbollah would strike now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Though Hezbollah has previously threatened the gas rigs, it said responding to Fakhrizadeh\u2019s death was in Iran\u2019s hands. Beirut has urged \u201call parties\u201d to show restraint.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel\u00a0<\/span>has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the assassination, which came as the region weighs Iran\u2019s changing fortunes with next month\u2019s US presidential handover from Donald Trump to the more diplomacy-minded Joe Biden.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Fakhrizadeh hit may have been \u201ctimed to narrow the risk of a significant Iranian offensive response in the near term, given the fears in Tehran of a severe offensive overreaction on the part of the Trump administration, and an Iranian desire to facilitate the resumption of contact with the Biden administration,\u201d wrote Amos Yadlin and Assaf Orion of Tel Aviv University\u2019s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike earlier models of\u00a0Israel<\/span>i missile boats, the Saar-6 will be fitted with both electronic countermeasures for cruise missiles, which have a flat trajectory, and a maritime version of the Iron Dome system for shooting down high-angle rockets.<\/span><\/p>\n

These, a senior naval officer said, are precautions against Soviet-designed Yakhont cruise missiles and Iran-made Khalij Fars rockets that\u00a0Israel\u00a0<\/span>believes are in Hezbollah\u2019s arsenal.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Israel Receives Its Most Advanced Warship Amid Heightened Iran Tensions Reuters and Algemeiner Staff Israeli sailors walk on a pier, near a Saar-6 corvette, during a ceremony attended by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, marking its arrival, at the Israeli naval base in Haifa, Dec. 2, 2020. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82510,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82491\/revisions\/82510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}