IRNA Iranian navy is after reinforcing Iran diplomacy, promoting the position of the country in the international community and safeguarding sea borders, deputy navy commander said. Addressing the Friday Prayers congregation, Rear Admiral Touraj Hassani Moghadam said Iranian navy has put on the agenda resistance and fight against enemies. Iran ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari reiterated Iran's continued presence in the international waters, and said the country has long-term plans for deployment in the high seas, including the Gulf of Aden. "Building different destroyers, missile-launching frigates and warships, logistic warships and submarines to continue ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Navy's 34th flotilla of warships arrived in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday. The Navy's 34th Fleet, comprising Alborz destroyer and Bushehr helicopter-carrier warship, will conduct anti-piracy patrols in the high seas and Gulf of Aden and will protect the country's cargo ships and oil tankers against pirates. The mission ...

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 (FNA)- Iran's 33rd fleet of warships exercised firing artillery shells at flying targets in the Sea of Oman last night in the last stage of its mission which took the flotilla to international waters. Since one of the main missions of the Iranian fleets sent to the free waters is safeguarding the cargo ships and shipping lines against threats,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of Iran's 33rd fleet of warships Commodore Ahmadi Kermanshahi categorically rejected an Arab media report alleging that his flotilla has been driven out of the Gulf of Aden by Egyptian warships. Commodore Kermnanshahi's remarks came after a news website belonging to a Persian Gulf Arab state claimed that the Iranian warships ...

Djibouti City, Nov 22, IRNA Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said the whole world has recognized the fact that Iran is a country which loves peace and helps create stability in the region. The president of the Iranian parliament made the remarks on Friday while inspecting the two Iranian warships here in the Gulf of Aden. He said the brave and prideful ...

TEHRAN, Nov. 19 (MNA) Lieutenant Captain Fat'hollah Rahimian has announced that since the first signs of threats from piracy against freighters and tankers, 30 countries have been dispatching warships to the Gulf of Aden. These 30 countries that have sent off their warships to the Gulf of Aden include Turkey, Greece, Denmark, Canada, Australia, India,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Navy warships rescued two cargo ships in Bab el-Mendeb and the Gulf of Aden after tough battles with pirates in the high seas. In the first battle, the timely presence and action of the Iranian Navy's 31st Flotilla thwarted an attack by eight pirate speed boats, equipped with various light and semi-heavy weapons, on a cargo ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Iranian Navy's 27th fleet of warships managed to save an Iranian oil tanker from pirates in the Gulf of Aden, a senior navy commander said. Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Navy for Operations Admiral Siavash Jareh announced on Sunday that the countrys naval forces foiled a pirate attack against an Iranian oil tanker in ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian fleets of warships deployed in the Gulf of Aden have escorted a total number of 1,538 cargo ships and oil tankers during their mission in the waterway, a senior Iranian Commander announced on Tuesday. "The Islamic Republic of Iran's Navy has escorted 1,538 cargo ships in the Gulf of Aden so far," Commander of the Iranian ...