Against Iranian warships in Syria

Iranian warships have docked at Tartus, the Syrian port, Iranian media said on Sunday (02/19/2012). Mehr news agency quoted as saying l Al Jazeera television reported, causing concern that the deployment of Israeli forces. Iranian officials used to call Israel as the Zionist regime.

Iran's English-language television station, Press TV, said two Iranian warships arrive in the port, which is the only Russian naval base in the Mediterranean, on February 17. The report quoted Hossein Ebrahimi, the deputy chairman of the Commission on National Security and Foreign Policy of the Iranian Parliament, said that the presence of Iranian naval forces in the waters of Syria is a clear warning to the United States to refrain from military intervention in Syria.

Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayari, on Saturday announced that the "strategic naval" it passed through the Suez Canal for the second time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Sayari did not say how many ships are being commissioned.

Violence in Syria continues throughout the weekend. On Saturday, troops fired on mourners at funerals of Damascus, killing at least one person. Earlier, on Sunday, Egypt withdrew its ambassador to Syria and Damascus reported to have responded well.

Human rights groups said the 11-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad has killed more than 7,000 people. The government says about 2,000 members of the security forces have been killed in fighting "armed gangs and terrorists" who screwed Syrian security