{"id":115492,"date":"2024-01-02T05:35:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T10:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=115492"},"modified":"2024-01-02T05:39:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T10:39:02","slug":"iranian-warship-alborz-enters-the-red-sea-tasnim-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2024\/01\/02\/iranian-warship-alborz-enters-the-red-sea-tasnim-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Warship Alborz Enters the Red Sea, Tasnim Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 DUBAI \u2014 <\/span>Iran’s\u00a0Alborz\u00a0<\/em>warship has entered the Red Sea, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Monday, at a time of soaring tensions on the key shipping route amid the Israel-Hamas war and attacks on vessels by forces allied to Tehran.<\/p>\n

Tasnim did not give details of the\u00a0Alborz’s<\/em>\u00a0mission but said Iranian warships had been operating in open waters to secure shipping routes, combat piracy and carry out other tasks since 2009.<\/p>\n

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have been targeting vessels in the Red Sea since November to show their support for the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in its war with Israel.<\/p>\n

In response, many major shipping companies have switched to the longer and more costly route around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope rather than pass through the Suez Canal, which handles about 12% of global trade.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Alborz\u00a0<\/em>warship entered the Red Sea via the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Tasnim said, without saying when. There were unconfirmed reports on social media that it arrived late Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Alvand class destroyer had been a part of the Iranian navy’s 34th fleet, alongside the Bushehr support vessel, and patrolled the Gulf of Aden, the north of the Indian Ocean and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait as far back as 2015, according to Iran’s Press TV.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Fifth Fleet said it could not speak for the Iranian navy or comment on the unconfirmed reports of the Iranian vessel’s movements.<\/p>\n

Houthi militants attacked a Maersk container vessel with missiles and small boats on Saturday and Sunday, prompting the company to pause all sailing through the Red Sea for 48 hours.<\/p>\n

The head of Iran’s navy, Shahram Irani, was quoted in Iranian media on December 2 saying that the\u00a0Alborz\u00a0<\/em>was carrying out missions in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

Iran’s Defense Minister, Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, said on December 14 in reference to the Red Sea that “nobody can make a move in a region where we have predominance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 DUBAI \u2014 Iran’s\u00a0Alborz\u00a0warship has entered the Red Sea, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Monday, at a time of soaring tensions on the key shipping route amid the Israel-Hamas war and attacks on vessels by forces allied to Tehran. Tasnim did not give details of the\u00a0Alborz’s\u00a0mission but said Iranian warships had been operating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recposts"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115495,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115492\/revisions\/115495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}