Owners and players in both professional football and basketball are digging in and letting the rhetoric fly as they posture and position for favorable terms in their impending labor showdowns.
Abraham Idrijani, a Philippine-based representative for the clansmen, said Kiram has ordered the group in Sabah to observe a unilateral ceasefire starting Thursday afternoon by holding their current position and taking a defensive posture.
As for Somalia - whose position along the Gulf of Aden provides it a similarly critical maritime posture - Iran has been exploiting its condition as a failed state for several years.