MNA The Iranian Navy has dispatched its 61st flotilla to Bab-el-Mandab Strait to safeguard maritime routes used by Iranian vessels, Commander of the Iranian Navy's Southern Fleet Rear Admiral Afshin Tashk said on Sunday. The navy chief added that the fleet, which consists of Sabalan destroyer and a logistic warship named Bandar Abbas, set off on ...

MNA A deputy official at Iran's Navy, Rear Admiral Hossein Ghahramani, said Fri. that 53 Iranian naval squadrons comprising warships and destroyers have constant presence in the Gulf of Aden and the Strait of Bab al-Mandab. Deputy Coordinator of Iranian Army Navys Engineering and Passive Defense Department Rear Admiral Hossein Ghahramani ...

IRNA - The Naval force Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran considers the presence of pirates in the Gulf of Aden and the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb as political- economic game saying the pirates are provided information and equipment for their activities. In an exclusive interview with the Islamic Republic News Agency, Admiral Hossein Khanzadi ...

RT - While everyone has been watching the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tension between the US and Iran, a chokepoint on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula is now at the center of the action. Saudi Arabia temporarily halted all oil shipments through the Bab al-Mandeb strait after Saudi Aramcoreportedattacks from Houthi rebels on two oil tankers....

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Saturday, July 28, 2018, and picked headlines from 19 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story in all papers today was the harsh response by IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani to US ...

IFP - Riyadh has temporarily suspended all oil shipments through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait after Yemens Houthi Ansarullah movement launched retaliatory attacks on a Saudi warship and a vessel operated by the Riyadh-led coalition waging war the Arabian Peninsula state. On Wednesday morning, the Houthi-run al-Masirah television network reported that ...

Alwaght- Yemens political and military leaders argue that the Israeli regime is directly engaged in Saudi-led Arab coalitions' aggression on the impoverished nation, with the Israeli navy ships and boats having massive presence in the Red Sea and pounding targets inside Yemen along with the Saudi warships. The 2011 popular Arab uprisings that ...

Tasnim Military forces on board the Iranian Navys 48th flotilla rescued one of the countrys merchant vessels from a pirate attack near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Monday. The pirates, sailing seven boats equipped with light and semi-heavy assault weapons, launched an attack on the Iranian trade vessel near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Monday morning....

Yemeni naval forces, backed by fighters from Popular Committees, have reportedly targeted an Emirati military vessel in a missile attack off the coast of the countrys southwesternprovince of Ta'izz. A military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that the frigate was targeted with a guided ...

MNA The Iranian Navys 44th flotilla of warships returned home on Saturday morning after a five-month mission and foiling pirate attacks in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The 44th fleet of Iran's Navy, comprising Alvand and Bushehr logistical destroyers, ended its 150-day mission one Saturday morning by berthing at the coast of Iran's Bandar Abbas were ...

Tasnim Irans naval forces saved one of the countrys trade vessels from a massive pirate attack in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, which links the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea. The Navys 44th flotilla of warships, which patrols the Gulf of Aden waters in an overseas mission, saved the trade vessel when Somalian pirates tried to hijack it. The pirates,...

Press TV- Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari says the Iranian naval forces are making efforts to improve security in the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb?, considering security of those regions as a top priority. Today the most important issue on the agenda of [Irans] Navy is to providesecurity in the Gulf of ...

Press TV- The president of Yemens Supreme Political Council says all attempts by Saudi-backed militants to advance in Yemens southwestern coastal areas near the Bab-al-Mandeb Strait have been thwarted. Speaking to the Beirut-based al-Mayadeen television, Saleh al-Samad said the mercenaries are fighting with the support of Riyadh and on behalf ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian naval fleet on Saturday managed to rescue one of the countrys oil tankers from a pirate attack around the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, a chokepoint between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. Early on Saturday, the Navys 41st flotilla of warships rushed to save the Iranian tanker when 115 armed pirates on board 12 ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 15 (MNA) NITCs commercial director has dismissed any probable disruption in the passage of Iranian tankers through Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb due to the countrys severed ties with Djibouti. Nasrollah Sardashti, Commercial Director of the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), told Mehr News on Friday that the passage of oil tankers through ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian Navy's Deputy Commander Rear Admiral Gholam-Reza Khadem Bigham said nobody is allowed to close the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. Khadem Bigham reiterated that Bab-el-Mandeb Strait is an international waterway and Iranian ships, like those of other countries, have the right to pass through ...

Tehran, April 25, IRNA Iran Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said the Navy's 34th flotilla are currently patrolling in the waters of Gulf of Aden in the mouth of Bab-el-Mandeb Strait. The commander rejected certain reports by a US official that Iranian flotilla have left the area. Sayyari said one of the strategic goals of Iran's ...

Addressing the powerful presence of Iranian naval group in the Gulf of Aden, the Islamic Republics Navy says its naval presence in the area stands within international laws. Our presence and measures in the area are within the framework of international laws, Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said on Saturday. He also rejected that ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The Iranian naval forces managed to foil a pirate attack on one of the country's oil tankers in the northeast of the Bab-el-Mandeb, a strait between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. According to a statement released by the public relations office of the Iranian Navy, 32 pirates on board four boats and a fishing ship ...

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