Bab el-Mandeb Strait
“Bab el-Mandeb Strait connects Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea and is a place where pirates stage attacks (on cargo ships and oil tankers),” Rear Admiral Sayyari told FNA in the Northern city of Rasht today.
The Iranian Navy has dispatched several fleets of warships to the Gulf of Aden and North of the Indian Ocean to protect the country's cargo ships and oil tankers against pirates.
The Navy has been conducting anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden since November 2008, when Somali raiders hijacked the Iranian-chartered cargo ship, MV Delight, off the coast of Yemen.
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