According to Press TV, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said on Thursday: “Over the past four years, the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy warships have escorted some 2,000 merchant vessels and freighters…and provided full security for the passage of Iranian vessels in a way that pirates have been unable to mount an attack on our ships.”
He added that Iranian naval forces arrested a number of pirates in four occasions.
Sayyari stated that most of the pirates operating in the Gulf of Aden come from Somalia, noting that parts of the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden are so unsafe that any vessel sailing these waters on its own and without the support of naval forces will be targeted by pirates.
On January 9, Iran’s naval forces rescued an Iranian merchant vessel that had come under attack by pirates. The development came a day after the Iranian Navy saved an Iranian-owned oil tanker from pirates in the Indian Ocean.
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