Sat Apr 18, 2015 1:49
Navy Commander: Iran to Continue Deployment in Aden
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940129000765

TEHRAN (FNA - FARS news agency)- No country dares to issue warning to
Iranian warships in the Gulf of Aden, Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral
Habibollah Sayyari said reacting to some recent Arab media allegations that
Egyptian warships have shooed away an Iranian fleet in the international
waterway, underlining Iran's firm decision to continue presence in the Gulf.


"This presence (of the Iranian flotilla of warships) continues in the free
waters, including the Gulf of Aden, to fight against piracy according to the
plan which was drawn at the request of the International Maritime
Organization and no one can warn the Iranian warships (to move away) and
this has not happened yet," Sayyari told reporters on the sidelines of
military parades held in Tehran on Saturday morning to mark the Army Day.

Asked about the possibility of the Iranian warships' deployment near Yemen,
he said, "There is no need for our flotilla of warships to dock in Yemen,
but we are present in the Gulf of Aden powerfully and at present, our 34th
fleet has been sent to the region."

"We don’t have such a plan (for leaving the waterway) and we hope that
security will be established in the Gulf of Aden with the help of all
countries."

Sayyari also dismissed news reports claiming that Iranian warships have
received warnings by Saudi Arabia, and said, "No threat has been made
against us; we also don’t allow others to threaten or warn us since we can
be present in the free and international waters based on the international
laws. We haven’t entered the territorial waters of any country without
permission."

Also in March, Rear Admiral Sayyari categorically rejected some media
reports alleging that Iranian warships had been driven out of the Gulf of
Aden by Egyptian warships.

Rear Admiral Sayyari's remarks came after a news website of a Persian Gulf
Arab state claimed that the Iranian warships were forced to leave the region
after receiving a warning from Egyptian warships.

"The Iranian Navy warships are patrolling in the Northern Indian Ocean and
fulfilling their missions with full force and observing the international
laws … and they do not allow any foreign warship to warn them and shoo them
away …"

Earlier this month, the Iranian Navy's 34th flotilla of warships left Bandar
Abbas port, in Southern Hormozgan province, for the Gulf of Aden to protect
the country's cargo ships and oil tankers against pirates.

The Navy's 34th Fleet, comprising Alborz destroyer and Bushehr
helicopter-carrier warship, will conduct anti-piracy patrols in the high
seas and Gulf of Aden.

The mission of the 34th fleet will last about three months in the Gulf of
Aden and the Red Sea.





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