Middle East
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Author: Aisa Times - Kaveh L Afrasiabi
8 Jun 2010
Iran convoy bid ups ante as UN votes
NEW YORK - As the United States and its allies, including Israel, push for a United Nations vote this week to extend sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, Tehran has upped the ante, saying it might send its elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as military escorts to humanitarian aid flotillas trying to beat the Jewish state's blockade of Gaza.