An Iranian 150-ton freighter has reportedly departed the Bandar Abbas port, with a cargo of 220 short-range missiles, and 50 improved long-range Fajr-5 rockets bound for the Gaza Strip. According to news agencies, the ship has turned towards the Bab al-Mandeb Straits, and the Red Sea.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, refused to comment on the allegations, but stressed the importance of the Palestinian being able to ‘defend themselves’, and that all countries should defend the rights of the Palestinian people.

If the cache arrives successfully, it will signal a radical upshift in arms capability, as the Fajr-5s have a 200-kilo warheads, a sizeable increase on the 175 kilos delivered by the rockets in current use by the Palestinian terrorists of the Gaza Strip. Any such rocket landing in an urban area, would cause wide-scale devastation.

[link to jn1.tv]