Iran To Send Fleet Of Warships To Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea -- Fars News Agency
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Navy plans to send a fleet of warships, including a home-made destroyer, to the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea in the near future.
"During the mission, the fleet of warships will enter the waters of the Red Sea and then will be dispatched to the Mediterranean Sea," The Iranian Navy Lieutenant Commander Rear Admiral Gholam-Reza Khadem Biqam told FNA on Sunday.
Elaborating on the important features of the mission, Khadem explained that the fleet would pass through the Suez Canal and would move on a very good route.
He said the mission would last for one year.
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Update #1: Iran: Warships to sail to Mediterranean -- Ynet News
Update #2: Iran to deploy destroyer in Mediterranean -- Press TV
Update #3: Iranian warships coming to Mediterranean and Red Seas -- Debka File
My Comment: I can only imagine what Israeli military planners and strategists must be thinking now.
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"...Parts of the fleet will in fact be deployed in the three waters around Israel's southern and western shores.
Tehran is taking advantage of the lack of military and diplomatic momentum on the part of US and Israel for a naval thrust to expand its range of operations and encroach on their areas of control.
It is also a rapid response to the arrival of the USS Enterprise carrier with a strike group carrying 6,000 sailors and marines and 80 warplanes in the Mediterranean at the end of last week on its way to the Arabian Sea opposite Iran. British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's call on the West to stop apologizing and react to Iran with force was not lost on the rulers of the Islamic Republic.
The Navy Commander, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari spoke of three or four vessels including Iran's first home-made destroyer, Jamaran, with back-up operational units standing by for urgent support missions.
His deputy, Rear-Admiral Gholam Reza Bi-Gham said the deployment would last about a year and at some future time, long-distance submarines would join the fleet.
Since Nov. 2008, the Iranian Navy has been conducting anti-piracy patrols between the Gulf of Aden Straits of Bab al-Mandeb off Yemen so some of its units are not far away.
Both admirals reported that a flotilla of Iranian naval officer cadets would soon be dispatched to the Mediterranean and Red Seas to gain experience in these new areas and gather intelligence."
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