Iran is worried that Turkey is stealing the limelight on an issue Tehran has championed since 1979: the Palestinian cause. So its Revolutionary Guard has offered to escort an Iranian Gaza flotilla.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today decried the “brutal and barbaric … Zionist regime,” as if trying to catch up with Turkey’s fierce criticism of Israel’s raid on the “Freedom Flotilla” last week. In Istanbul for a regional security summit, he heralded the international outcry against Israel as a “reawakening of nations” in a fight of good versus evil.
