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Yemen update 12/07\2015.. Yemen peace talks to start on December 15

Monday, December 7, 2015 19:43
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Navy Commander Stresses Iran’s Resolve to Continue Deployment in Gulf of Aden

Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari underlined Tehran’s firm decision to continue deployment in the Gulf of Aden, and further cautioned the Persian Gulf Arab littoral states that increasing arms purchase from the West will not reinvigorate their might and power.

“When all the regional states’ cargo ships or oil tankers sail through the Gulf of Aden and their security is endangered, every country then bears the responsibility to provide security for their voyage,” Sayyari said in an interview with Iran-based Arabic-language al-Alam news channel on Monday.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Navy is also present in that region mightily and our 37th flotilla of warships is now in the Gulf of Aden and provides security to the country’s ships,” he added.

Sayyari also referred to the huge financial resources spent by the Persian Gulf Arab littoral states, specially Saudi Arabia, to purchase weapons from the US and Europe, and said “such arms purchases are never a source of might and power”.

“No one becomes powerful this way.”

Stressing that might and power is acquired through reliance on internal capabilities and home-made weapons and equipment, he said, “Today, thanks God, the Islamic Republic of Iran is the only state (in the region) which enjoys such capability to produce all military equipment inside the country.”

The Iranian Navy has been conducting anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden since November 2008, when Somali raiders hijacked the Iranian-chartered cargo ship, MV Delight, off the coast of Yemen.

According to UN Security Council resolutions, different countries can send their warships to the Gulf of Aden and coastal waters of Somalia against the pirates and even with prior notice to Somali government enter the territorial waters of that country in pursuit of Somali sea pirates.

The Gulf of Aden – which links the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea – is an important energy corridor, particularly because Persian Gulf oil is shipped to the West via the Suez Canal.

Also, in recent years, Iran has made great achievements in the defense sector and gained self-sufficiency in manufacturing essential military hardware and defense systems.

Yet, Iranian officials have always stressed that the country’s military and arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived as a threat to any other country.

In recent remarks in November, Sayyari announced that the country’s submarines have been equipped with the capability to fire home-made long-range Qadir cruise missiles.

“The missiles that we are using today are good and proper missiles to fulfill different missions, including coast-to-sea or surface-to-surface missions, or to be fired from a vessel or by submarines,” Sayyari said, addressing a ceremony to mark delivery of a large number of high-precision and long-range Qadir cruise missiles from the defense ministry to the Navy.



Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/12/yemen-update-12072015-yemen-peace-talks.html

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