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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/iran-ships-sail-through-suez-canal.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The Iranian navy frigate IS Alvand passes through the Suez Canal at Ismailia, Egypt" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-iran-ships-sail-through-suez-canal.jpg" alt="The Iranian navy frigate IS Alvand passes through the Suez Canal at Ismailia, Egypt"/></a></p>
<p>Two Iranian naval ships entered the Suez Canal on Tuesday, the first time in 30 years that Tehran has sent military ships through the strategic waterway.</p>
<p>The frigate and a supply vessel are expected to reach the Mediterranean later en route to Syria.</p>
<p>Israel views the passage as a provocation but refused to comment.</p>
<p>The canal linking the Red Sea and the Mediterranean enables ships to avoid a lengthy voyage around Africa.</p>
<p>The Iranian ships are headed for a training mission in Syria, a close ally of Iran&#8217;s hard-line Islamic rulers and an enemy of Israel.</p>
<p>The ships paid about 300,000 dollars in fees for the passage.</p>
<p>Iran&#8217;s request to send them through the Suez Canal came as Egypt&#8217;s new military rulers try to focus on pressing domestic issues, including restoring security.</p>
<p>The military rulers apparently had no choice but to grant the ships passage because an international convention says the canal must be open &#8220;to every vessel of commerce or of war.&#8221; Egypt also cannot search naval ships passing through.</p>
<p>Iranian warships have not passed through the Suez Canal since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.</p>
<p>Egyptian-Iranian ties broke down following the Islamic Revolution and the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty the same year. Later, the relationship improved slightly, with contacts currently channelled through interest sections in the two capitals.</p>
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