Iran Sends Warships to Gulf in Anti-Piracy Ops
This is really getting messy now…
Iran to send third fleet to Gulf of Aden, TEHRAN, Aug. 30 (MNA) – Iran will dispatch the third fleet of its warships to the Gulf of Aden on Monday to protect the cargo ships against the pirates, Iranian Student News Agency reported on Sunday.
So far the Army and the IRGC have sent two fleets of warships to the Gulf of Aden to protect Iranian oil tankers and trade vessels. The third fleet of the Navy will leave Bandar Abbas port at 8:00 local time on Monday.
Shortly after its first fleet of warships returned home in July, Iran dispatched a second group of warships to the region that came back to the country on Aug. 28.
(Hat tip, Eagle Speak, the place to go for maritime news.)
Meanwhile back in Sana’a, Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi warned Sunday the Iranian government of negative impact on the Yemeni-Iranian relations in case the Iranian media outlets continued in adopting stands of sabotage elements in Saada through publishing lies and fomenting against Yemen, waving in this regard of Yemen’s taking of hard decisions.
Update: United States Actions To Counter Piracy Off the Horn of Africa , Fact Sheet, 9/1/09
