Turkey stops suspicious shipment from Iran to Venezuala

[Comrade Tovya]

Malachi said:

Err, maybe I need to brush up my geography but why would a shipment bound to Venezuela from Iran would need to go through Turkey exacly? If they really wanted to hide whatever it was they just would have send it directly by ship.

Second, people really need to stop believing everything they read. One would have though they would learn what with Iraq and Georgia.

 

A quicker route to Venezuela would be to take first through another nation's port, and then the northern route through the Bosphorus and into the Mediteranean.  If the ship were to leave directly from Iran and through the Straits of Hormuz, then as it headed east, it would eventually have to go through the Panama Canal (which is under U.S. influence) and would thereby increase its chances of the illegal cargo being detected.  It could head south and wrap around the Arabian penensula, and make it's way to the Suez Canal, but then it would have to go through the pirate infested waters of Somalia.

So, in my opinion, it would have been the safest and easiest route to take to reduce the chance of detection or hijacking.  Of course, the plan still didn't work, but you get the idea.