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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Iran anti-piracy force guarded 400 ships

Alvand classA top Iranian army commander says the Islamic Republic's anti-piracy mission in the dangerous Gulf of Aden has escorted hundreds of trade ships since 2009.

"The main reason for dispatching this fleet of warships to the Gulf of Aden was to combat piracy and to spread the Islamic Republic's message of peace to neighboring states and other countries in the Gulf of Aden," Commander of the Iranian Army's naval forces Abdul-Rahim Mousavi said Monday.

"Over the past 18 months, the Islamic Republic has dispatched warship and support frigates to the Gulf of Aden which have escorted 400 trade ships and tankers," he added without elaborating on whether all the vessels were Iranian.

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