This Friday, Iran announced the dispatch of two warships to international waters in what it described as a training mission in the context of the Red Sea crisis.
“It is a matter of pride that the (Iranian) Strategic Fleet is actively operating in international and ocean waters, despite the conspiracies of enemies,” Iranian Navy Commander Admiral Shahrami Irani said during a ceremony marking the start of the operation. mission in the city of Bandar Abbas.
Irani said it was about “transferring naval experience and training to Navy cadets so that they can ceremoniously carry out Navy missions in the near future,” Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, reported.
We are talking about the Tonb landing ship and the Bushehr support ship.
The specific purpose of the two ships is not specified.
The mission comes in the context of tensions in the Red Sea, where Yemen’s Houthi militants are attacking merchant ships in retaliation for Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip.
The US and UK responded by bombing Yemen but were unable to end the attacks in the Red Sea.
Iran, an ally of the Houthis, already sent the Alborz warship, built in 1969, to the Red Sea earlier this month.
In the middle of the month, the Iranian Navy seized the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker St Nikolas, owned by the Greek shipping company Empire Navigation, in the Sea of Oman.
The ship, still sailing under the name Suez Rajan, was involved in a lawsuit with the US Department of Justice, which ordered the seizure of one million barrels of Iranian crude oil it was carrying.
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Source: CM Jornal
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