The Iranian Red Crescent organization has sent ships to the Gaza Strip in an effort to provoke the Israeli military and break the Jewish state's naval blockade of the terrorist-rich territory.
At the same time, America has been struggling without success to repair the breach between Israel and Turkey that followed Israel's killing of eight Turks and a Turkish-American on board the Mavi Marmara when it tried to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip in May last year.