Including conflicting sources and narratives of news as well as often compromised human rights organizations.  Please feel free to weigh in with suggestions further questions.  It’s longish, but needs must; it’s a large puzzle with many pieces.

First up: ‘An Outrageous Proposal: Peace Boats to Iran’, REZA FIYOUZAT, Dec. 13, 2019, counterpunch.org

One might have imagined from the title his suggestion might have been akin to ‘Flotillas to aid Gaza’, but no; a few bits and bobs: