TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian lawmaker announced that Tehran plans to change the route for sending humanitarian aids to Gaza after it was obliged to postpone the dispatch of its first aid ship due to Israel’s tighter restrictions and increased threats against Iranian aid convoys.
Member of the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mahmoud Ahmadi Biqash told FNA on Sunday that Tehran plans to send its aid cargo through the Caspian sea in northern Iran, adding that the ship called “Khazar” would leave Iran’s northern port city of Bandar Anzali in the near future.
“The ship will carry aids from Iran’s Red Crescent Society and Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation, including foods and medicine” for the besieged Palestinians in Gaza, Biqash added.
He announced that four members of his commission as well as delegations from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of Iran’s northern provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan and also a number of foreign students will be aboard the ship.
The legislator said that the ship will reach the Mediterranean Sea and Gaza through the Caspian Sea and the Volga if Russia issues the required permission, adding that Moscow has unofficially Okayed the passage.
