Nasser Karimi – MilitaryTimes.com Dec 25, 2019
The Iran Navy’s Damavand during a visit to southern Russia. The Damavand is currently being overhauled refitted with a VLS system, which will significantly add to its firepower. Click to enlarge
Iran’s armed forces will hold a joint, four-day naval exercise with Russia and China in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, a spokesman said Wednesday.
The drill, which is to start on Saturday, will be the first such trilateral exercise as Tehran seeks to boost military cooperation with Beijing and Moscow amid unprecedented economic sanctions from Washington.
Visits to Iran by Russian and Chinese naval representatives have also stepped up in recent years.
Iranian military spokesman Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi said the joint maneuvers, which are aimed at promoting regional security, will extend as far as the Gulf of Oman.
The drill is seen as a response to recent U.S. maneuvers with its regional ally Saudi Arabia, in which China also participated.
In the wake of recent escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf, including attacks on oil vessels and a missile-and-drone assault on the Saudi oil industry, the U.S. has sent a number of American troops to the region and additional missile defense systems to Saudi Arabia.
Washington alleges that Iran carried out the September attack on the world’s largest oil processor in the kingdom and an oil field, which caused oil prices to spike by the biggest percentage since the 1991 Gulf War.
While Yemen’s Iranian-allied Houthi rebels claimed credit for the assault, Saudi Arabia said it was “unquestionably sponsored by Iran.”
Iran has denied this and warned that any retaliatory attack targeting it would result in an “all-out war.”
Tehran, meanwhile, has also begun enriching uranium beyond the terms of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from over a year ago.
In 2017, Iran conducted a joint naval exercise with China near the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, a passageway for nearly a third of all oil traded by sea.
Trump himself does not want war, but he is surrounded by DLJs
and it is these Dirty Little Jewboys who will send stupid americans to their deaths
Ellis, you may already know this, but many of the Americans, who are “christian” volunteers, would consider it a great privilege to die for the pagan Zionist state! I know this sounds insane, but they believe this will assist in bringing about the “battle of Armageddon” >> Isn’t it Interesting how one word in one verse in one chapter in one book of the Bible has spawned such a crazy range of interpretations! I pray mightily that these folks will keep their death wishes to themselves!
Isn’t it Interesting how one word in one verse in one chapter in one book of the Bible has spawned such a crazy range of interpretations!
Chad,
The whole concept of Judeo-Christianity is hypnosis in action. This sort of hypnotic pall on the mind of man is funded by usury flows. Our Jewish friends are agents of mammon and usurers.
Darby and Scofield were Judaizer apostates, who emphasized old testament religion, to then create false construct of Judeo-Christianity, which has since morphed into Zionist Christianity. (Zionism merged with Rothschild at first Zionist congress in late 19’th century.)
Footnotes are prominent in the Scofield bible, and said footnotes are what lead the more simple minded Christian sheeple down false pathways. Evangelical preachers don’t want to lose their tax exempt status, and hence are not free thinkers. They either believe the non biblical crap they are spewing, or are weaklings unable to stand against the propagandists lies.