The combined maritime search and rescue exercise 2025 (AZIREX-2025) was held for four days on Boyuk Zira Island, off the coast of Baku, with the participation of a fleet from the Army and IRGC navies, consisting of the missile-launcher vessels named "Paykan (Arrow)" and "Separ (Shield)", IRGC’s “Shahid Basir” destroyer, and vessel units of the Republic of Azerbaijan Navy.
The military exercise was held to enhance security and sustainable maritime interactions in the Caspian Sea and relations between Iran’s Navy and the naval forces of the Caspian Sea littoral states, especially Republic of Azerbaijan, in designing and implementing combined maritime rescue and relief operations and creating convergence and coordination in joint actions between the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Republic of Azerbaijan.
Ensuring safety in the Caspian Sea for commercial ships and tankers, achieving a method acceptable between the two parties in designing and implementing joint exercises in future, and participation of the military forces of both countries in ensuring friendly relations were cited as the other goals of the naval exercise.
Iranian Navy personnel and vessels, which were in Azerbaijan to participate in AZIREX-2025 joint search and rescue exercise, left Baku port on Saturday.
On October 15, ships and personnel of the Naval Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran entered Azerbaijan’s territorial waters and reached the designated meeting point to participate in AZIREX-2025 joint search and rescue exercise.
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