TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 31 (UPI) — Israel’s dispatch of two corvettes to bolster its naval forces in the Red Sea and Iran’s deployment of a submarine and a warship in the same waters have heightened the tensions pervading the Middle East amid political upheaval and rivalries.
The Israelis said their warships were ordered south to patrol off Egypt in response to intelligence reports that more terrorist attacks from Egyptian territory were imminent.
Tehran said the deployment by its 15th Fleet was intended as a mission of “peace and friendship” to “display the capabilities of the Islamic republic of Iran.” It would also focus on “fighting piracy
