A 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 [...]

Somali pirates have seized a Singapore-flagged chemical tanker, and its 19 Chinese crew, as it was transiting the Gulf of Aden, the European Union’s naval force says. MV Golden Blessing, a 14,445-ton vessel, was on its way from Saudi Arabia to India when it was captured in the Gulf of Aden — an area highly [...]

The Iranian navy has stopped ransom-hunting pirates off the volatile coast of Somalia from hijacking a commercial vessel in the Gulf of Aden. Armed with guns and artillery, the Somali buccaneers attempted to take over an Iranian commercial vessel on Friday, but were immediately restrained by Iranian naval ships patrolling the area at the time. [...]

An Iranian naval vessel patrolling the volatile waters of the Gulf of Aden has managed to save a container ship from the clutches of Somali pirates. The ‘Atlantic’ containership was ambushed by more than 20 pirate boats while it was carrying a heavy load of minerals from Singapore to the Suez Canal. AS the pirates [...]

Iran’s anti-piracy naval forces have rescued an Iranian oil supertanker following a Somali pirate attack in the dangerous waters of the Gulf of Aden. The oil tanker was sailing from the southern Iranian Island of Khark to Egypt with a 300,000-ton cargo of crude oil worth USD 150 million, IRNA cited a navy statement. The [...]

Iran has sent a naval battle group to international waters, including the Gulf of Aden, to confront threats to the country’s shipping lanes. According to an announcement by the country’s naval forces, the group was dispatched to the Gulf of Aden and the North Indian Ocean to “combat the ominous phenomenon of piracy.” The Iranian [...]

The Iranian military has announced plans to dispatch a fifth fleet of warships to the Gulf of Aden to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia. “The fourth fleet, which included the destroyer Alborz and the Bushehr logistic support vessel, will soon reach the end of its mission in the Gulf of Aden,” said the [...]

Somali pirates have seized a Singapore-flagged tanker in the Gulf of Aden, a European Union counter-piracy force says. The MV Pramoni with a crew of 17 Indonesians, five Chinese, one Nigerian and one Vietnamese, was en route to Kandla in India, the European Union Naval Force Somalia (EUNAVFOR) said in a statement on Friday. The [...]

A senior commander says Iranian special forces have bee sent to the Gulf of Aden to preserve shipping security and go ahead with a plan to arrest Somali pirates. The Iranian navy sent a new fleet of warships last week to fight the Somali pirates off the Somalia’s coast. “We are in a struggle to [...]

In a bid to preserve shipping security in the pirate-ridden Gulf of Aden, the Iranian navy sends a new armada of warships to fight Somali buccaneers. A senior naval commander, Fariborz Qaderpanah, said Wednesday that the navy has decided to send more ships to the Gulf of Aden to protect Iranian merchant containers and oil [...]

Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Efthimios Mitropoulos lauded Iran’s role in fighting pirates in the Gulf of Aden. “The presence of the Iranian Navy in fighting pirates in the Gulf of Aden has been effective and we support this presence,” Mitropoulos said in a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Tuesday. [...]

Commander of the Iranian Navy’s second division Rear Admiral Hossein Ashrafi, in a special ceremony held in Bushehr, told reporters that Iran deployed its warships in the region after the start of piracy and repeated cases of insecurity in 2008. He pointed out that following insecurities in the region, the Iranian commander in chief commissioned [...]

In order to help secure vital shipping routes, Iran has dispatched a third naval mission to the Gulf of Aden for anti-piracy patrols. The mission, replacing the second naval mission, is scheduled to take two months and will be carried out by the frigate IRIS Sabalan, accompanied by the replenishment ship IRIS Kharg, with a [...]

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has returned form the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia, after successfully guarding Iranian commercial ships in the region. “Special tactics of the IRGC Navy in the Gulf of Aden foiled the pirates’ attacks on the Iranian ships,” Deputy Commander of the IRGC Navy, Brig. Gen. Ali Fadavi said [...]

The Commander of Iran’s Navy Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari says Iran has managed to halt the activity of pirates in the Indian Ocean. “The presence of the Iranian warships in the northern Indian Ocean has nearly abolished the phenomena of piracy in the region,” Fars news agency quoted Sayyari as saying. Earlier this month, the [...]