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Iran is Helping Out
By Micah Halpern

Friday May 15, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

Iran sent two naval warships to the Gulf of Aden yesterday.
Their job is to protect ships traveling with Iranian oil.
An Iranian spokesman put it this way: "The aim of sending these ships is to protect Iranian commercial vessels and oil tankers or those ships which carry Iranian commodities or nationals."

Iran is the 5th largest exporter of crude oil in the world.
Iranian exports have been attacked by the Somali pirates and Iran wants to make it more difficult for the pirates to strike again.
A NATO armada already operates in the gulf but these additional Iranian ships will help spread the security blanket and more completely cover the region.
There is already one Iranian warship in the area and it was unclear from the announcement whether there will now be three ships or if the original was included in the count of two.

Iran understands the danger of piracy.
Iran will be cooperating with the other ships in the gulf.
This is a very important move. It signals a willingness by Iran to participate in international activities for mutual gain and illustrates that Iran can cooperate when Iranian self interest is the motivating force.

The only question is whether new information can be applied to other issues.

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