Deputy Chief of Naval Operations: The US Navy, if it dares, should approach the coast of Jask and the Strait of Hormuz. Admiral Farhad Fattahi, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations: A group of students from the Imam Khomeini University of Maritime Sc...
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...iences in Noshahr departed on January 24 for a training voyage with the destroyer Dena, the destroyer Lavan, and the supply and support vessel Bushehr. Before the start of the mission, we received an invitation from India for one of our naval combat units to participate in the peace and friendship exercise. Midway through, the Dena separated from the naval group and docked on February 15 at one of the Indian ports in the Bay of Bengal. On February 25, the Dena was returning from a training...
... exercise in India to the Iranian naval group south of Sri Lanka when the United States carried out a terrorist attack on the vessel. Sri Lanka cooperated well with us by sending its divers to recover the bodies of the martyrs. The principle of naval warfare is that if you want to fight on the surface, you must send a group to fight, not a single combat ship. The Dena destroyer was on a training mission; although armed, it cannot engage a group or naval group alone. This ship was very far ...