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| Iran Navy saves commercial ships |
| 2011-03-29 |
[Iran Press TV] The Islamic Theocratic Republicof Iran's Navy warship fleet has thwarted two separate attempts by pirates to seize two Iranian fat merchantmen in the Gulf of Aden. The VALHLH ship was attacked by three pirate boats in the Suez Canal, but was saved thanks to the timely measure taken by the Iranian Navy warships and continued on its way to Bandar Abbas without suffering any loss or dely. In another incident pirates attacked an Iranian commercial ship, Nabi, with four speedboats but were forced to retreat because of the heavy fire of the Iranian Navy's special operation team. Nabi had departed Kharg Island for Port of Ain Sukhna (Sokhna) in Egypt The Iranian Navy's 13th fleet of warships, comprised of Tonb and Delvar vessels, was deployed to the pirate-infested waters of the Gulf of Aden in 2011 in a bid to guard Iranian merchant containers and oil-tankers. The Iranian Navy has been conducting anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden since November 2008, when Somali raiders hijacked the Iranian-chartered fat merchantman MV Delight off the coast of Yemen. |
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