TEHRAN —
An
Iranian naval flotilla thwarted an overnight attack on an Iranian vessel in
the Red Sea, a senior commander said Wednesday.
اضافة اعلان
“The escort
flotilla of the naval arm of Iran’s armed forces, headed by the destroyer
Jamaran ... promptly deployed to the scene last night after receiving a request
for help from an Iranian ship in the
Red Sea, and engaged with the attacking
boats,” said the navy’s deputy head of operations, Rear Admiral Mustafa
Tajeddini.
“Thanks to the
effective (naval) presence and after heavy exchanges, the attacking boats made
off,” he told state television.
Tajeddini did not
give details of the ship which was targeted or of who was suspected of mounting
the attack.
In November 2021,
pirates attempted to seize an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden, ISNA news
agency said at the time.
Two weeks earlier,
an Iranian warship repelled an attack by pirates against two oil tankers that
it was escorting in the Gulf of Aden.
Like other
countries dependent on the shipping lane through the Red Sea and Suez Canal,
Iran stepped up its naval presence in the Gulf of Aden after a wave of attacks
by Somalia-based pirates between 2000 and 2011.
But the number of
attacks has fallen sharply in recent years.
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