0537 GMT January 21, 2021
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Iran’s Navy will resume its missions in the Red Sea, said Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri on Wednesday.
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Deputy head of Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran in southern Hormuzgan Province said on Monday that the body of one of seven missing crew members of a capsized Iranian vessel was found in the Persian Gulf waters on Monday.
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Friday that a group of 29 Iranians, rescued from a wrecked vessel in Mediterranean Sea, are in good condition and Tehran is in contact with Cairo to help them.
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Iran’s Army Commander Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi said four teams of military experts have launched an investigation into a deadly naval incident that took place in the country’s southern waters on Sunday.
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Turkish Navy ships intercepted an Israeli research vessel in Cypriot waters, over which Ankara claims jurisdiction, forcing it to leave the area in a move that could negatively impact an Israeli project to pipe natural gas to Europe.
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Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has seized a ship carrying some 250,000 liters of smuggled diesel fuel in the Persian Gulf, detaining all crew members on board.
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An Iranian vessel was wrecked near Azerbaijan’s Lankaran port in the Caspian Sea on Friday, the Azerbaijani State Maritime Agency told Trend on July 26.
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National Desk
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Iran’s Defense Ministry started delivering domestically-built Haidar-class patrol boats to the country’s police force operating in the Persian Gulf region.
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Seoul has reportedly impounded a South Korean vessel for the first time on the suspicion that it violated United Nations economic sanctions on North Korea.
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Political Desk
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The Navy of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) seized a Saudi vessel after trespassing on the Islamic Republic’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf.
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Pirates have seized control of a Somali fishing boat to use as a base from which to attack larger ships, police said on Friday, a week after Somali pirates hijacked their first commercial vessel since 2012.
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Iran’s naval forces thwarted an attack by Somali pirates on an Iranian trade vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
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Political Desk
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