The Iranian navy said Wednesday, August 10 to have intervened to save an Iranian ship victim the day before of "
attacking boats
" in the Red Sea.
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The Iranian naval forces ... arrived immediately after receiving the call for help from an Iranian boat in the Red Sea last night
," the number two told state television. of naval operations, Admiral Moustafa Tajeddini.
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Thanks to the effective presence (of the navy) and after intense exchanges, the attacking boats fled
", he added, without further details on the modus operandi or the identity of the perpetrators of this attack. .
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In the fall of 2021, Iranian media reported on pirate attacks on three Iranian tankers in the Gulf of Aden.
Already, the Islamic Republic had reinforced its presence in the Gulf of Aden after a wave of attacks by pirates based in Somalia on ships transiting through the Red Sea and then the Suez Canal.
The number of attacks has fallen sharply in recent years.
