Joint naval maneuvers between Iran, Russia and China begin not far from where the US fleet is located
Chinese and Russian warships entered Iranian territorial waters for a joint naval exercise with Iran, state media reported on Tuesday. The exercises will begin on March 16th.
This year's maneuvers take place at a time when tensions in the Middle East have risen due to the war between Israel and Hamas, which has drawn in Iranian allies across the region, including Yemen's Houthi rebels who have launched a campaign of attacks against commercial shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, attracting Western reprisals.
Practically a few hundred kilometers away from the joint Russian-Iranian-Chinese maneuvers, a notable British, American and European military force is concentrated, with the aim of defending maritime traffic and, the first component, even engaged in direct military actions.
“Naval units of China and Russia entered our country's territorial waters to participate in the combined maritime exercise,” Iran's official IRNA news agency reported.
The maneuvers, aimed at "jointly maintaining regional maritime security", will begin in the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday evening, IRNA said, citing their spokesman, Rear Admiral Mostafa Tajoddini.
The Chinese destroyer Urumqi
China's Defense Ministry said it sent a destroyer Urumqi, guided-missile frigate Linyi and squadron supply ship Dongpinghu to participate in these joint exercises.
Varyag, when it was still called “Red Ukraine”
Russian state media reported that a detachment of ships from the country's Pacific Fleet, led by the cruiser Varyag, docked in the Iranian port of Chabahar on Monday ahead of the drills. The Varyag is an important ship of the Pacific Fleet and belongs to the same class as the Maskva which sank in the Black Sea
“The practical part of the exercise will take place in the waters of the Gulf of Oman, in the Arabian Sea,” the Defense Ministry said, quoted by Russian news agencies.
“The main purpose of the maneuvers is to verify the safety of maritime economic activity.”
The three countries, which have all had difficult relations with the West in recent years, held joint maneuvers in the same waters in March last year under the name “Security Bond 2023”.
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