Reuters Jerusalem Bureau Editor-in-Charge, 
Jeffrey Heller, 
reports on public remarks by Israel's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister with regard to Iran's plan to send ships through the Suez Canal:
(Reuters) - Iran's plan to send two  naval ships through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean is an attempt  to expand its regional influence, and Israel takes a grave view of the  move, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
"We can see what an unstable  region we live in, an area in which Iran is trying to take advantage of  the situation that has arisen and broaden its influence by transferring  two warships via the Suez Canal," he said in public remarks to his  cabinet.
"Israel takes a grave view  of this Iranian step," Netanyahu said, adding the Jewish state would  need to boost defense spending as a result of Tehran's move and recent  regional upheaval. [...]
Last week, the prospect of the Suez crossing  was described by Israel's far-right foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman,  as a provocation by Iran.
Heller is not as attentive however, to the official 
reply by Iran's "
conservative" Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:
 "The fake Zionist government is a cancerous tumor and the cause of  different diseases and political, economic calamity in the region," the  commander-in-chief of Iran told officials while marking the anniversary  of the birth of the Prophet Mohammed which in the Shiite calendar fell  on Monday.
 "The arrogance (Iran's standard term of abuse for the United States) is  doing its best to preserve this warmongering tumor, but today the hatred  of regional nations towards this cancerous tumor is more evident,"  state television quoted him as saying.
The above statement by Khamenei has gone completely unreported by Reuters.  Perhaps Editor-in-Chief 
David Schlesinger will look into the reasons why.
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