[caption id="attachment_140677" align="alignright" width="182"] File photo shows an Iranian military boat firing a rocket during a naval exercise.[/caption] Tehran, Feb 3, IRNA The 33rd Fleet of the Navy has saved two Iranian oil tankers from pirates seize, it was reported on Tuesday. The encounter with the pirates occurred during the first day ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Mehrdad Moarefian and Marie Donovan, with contributors Chris Rawlins, Diana Timmerman and Warren Marshall. To receive this daily newsletter, please subscribe online Key takeaway: President Hassan Rouhani stated ...

Tehran, Dec 8, IRNA A senior military attache in Iran said that Iran's Navy operations in free waters against pirates are valuable and praiseworthy. General Vahid Momtaz of pakistan, who attended a meeting with Iran's Navy Commander with 29 other military attaches, said that Iran's Navy took big steps in 2008 and now is undertaking a valuable task....

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TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iranian Navy's 29th fleet of warships foiled attacks on the country's cargo ship which had been besieged by pirates in the Red Sea, a senior navy commander said Saturday. Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Navy for Operations Admiral Siavash Jarehannounced on Saturday that the countrys naval forces foiled pirate attacks against ...

Commander of the Iranian Navy says the countrys naval forces have thwarted over 150 pirate attacks on Iranian merchant vessels and oil tankers in the past four years. Over the past four years, the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy warships have escorted some 2,000 merchant vessels and freightersand provided full security for the passage of Iranian ...