Iranian warship Damavand pictured during a visit to southern Russia in 2019
Press TV – March 12, 2024
Naval forces of Iran, Russia and China have started a joint exercise in the Sea of Oman amid heightened tensions in the region over the Israeli campaign of death and destruction in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The “Marine Security Belt 2024” drills kicked off on Tuesday and will reportedly involve more than 20 ships, support vessels, combat boats, and naval helicopters from the three countries.
The media headquarters of the joint drills announced in a statement that Russia’s Varyag missile cruiser and the Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate will participate in the joint drills along with China’s guided-missile destroyer Urumqi and the guided-missile frigate Linyi as well as 10 warships from Iran.
Admiral Mostafa Tajaddini, the drill’s spokesperson, also noted that the exercise will take place in 17,000 square kilometers (6,600 square miles) of water.
He went on to say that the maneuver’s goal is to strengthen “the security of international maritime trade, combating piracy and maritime terrorism,” among others, according to a report by Iranian state media.
Russia’s Defense Ministry also said the exercises, which will run through Friday, would focus on the protection of “maritime economic activity” as well.
China’s Defense Ministry, for its part, said the drills are aimed at “jointly maintaining regional maritime security.”
“China will send … guided-missile destroyer Urumqi, guided-missile frigate Linyi and comprehensive supply ship Dongpinghu to participate in the exercise,” the ministry said in a statement.
Iranian naval forces, together with their Chinese and Russian counterparts, have held several military drills in recent years to enhance the security and stability of international maritime trade.
They have also been involved in joint efforts aimed at countering piracy and maritime terrorism, exchanging information in naval rescue and relief operations as well as sharing operational and tactical experience.
The latest drills — the fifth joint military exercise by the three nations in recent years — comes amid Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza.
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Oman, Pakistan and South Africa are observers of the drills.
ZWOGs scripted NATO vs. BRICS scenario is progressing. If you haven’t figured it out yet:
Thesis: Israel/NATO
Antithesis: BRICS/OIC/Hamas
Synthesis: WEF Agenda 2030/WWIII/Third Temple/Whiteocide
LOL…
The Russians have lost 20% of their Black Sea Fleet..yes that’s right..
… because they didn’t bother to put any mitigation processes in place to protect them from the latest supposedly greatest and very very cheap object of warfare, now described as a high technology…radio controlled toys… piloted by men in khaki dresses, ugly bearded women sat on love balls or obese sedants…
on a couch in a filthy apartment…
And so..we now have the theatricals..the brick brothers showing solidarity in a theatrical production..for the muggles..(hint: they are all in on it)..
…Z anoners and those who have a thing for Asian despots and bio security tyranny headed up by hook nosed swizzlers..should ask the Russians why are are all your besties nailing you balls to the mast and ripping you off on your commodities.. and selling to the anal Satanists in the West… who have never had it so good.. (how multipolar of them).
and paying you in fucking rupees.. oops! is that another ship gurgling its way to the bottom of the Black Sea?.. must pop out and grab my snorkel…
Try to think..if at all possible, because of course Ukraine’s now supposedly losing in the ‘theatre’..which means they are about to convince you that..(including the not so alt media who work the other side)..
‘More needs to be done’.. yet again, unsurprisingly.
After this exercise is over China and Russia should leave at least some ships behind to guard their interests in this vital shipping area for energy supplies in which the US would like to dominate and hinder.
In 1954, in an apparent act of unprecedented generosity, Nikita Krushchev gifted Crimea to the Ukraine.
Hostility toward the Soviet Union had been fomenting in the Ukraine and Hungary throughout the early 50’s.
Krushchev sought to pre-empt a counter-revolution in the Ukraine by ceding Crimea to the fractious nation, with all the riches of the Black Sea that it would avail. Krushchev, effectively, bribed the Ukraine to pacify her and keep her on side.
From the time of Catherine the Great, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been stationed at the Crimean port of Sevastopol.
Since 1954, Russia has had to lease the naval docks at Sevastopol from the Ukraine.
Nuland’s plan was for the Ukraine to be co-opted into NATO and then to deploy NATO forces alongside the Ukrainian army, to recapture Crimea. Russia’s leasehold over Sevastopol would be made void and a sea war would ensue, with the purpose of cutting off Russia’s access to the Mediterranean.
Western treachery over the Minsk agreement; the rejection of Putin’s peace proposals at the Munich Conference; the deaths of as many as 80,000 native Russians in Eastern Donbass; Zelenski’s declaration that the Ukraine intended to acquire a nuclear arsenal, all factored into Putin’s thinking when he decided to go to war but it was the threat to the Black Sea Fleet that was the decisive factor, compelling him to send Russia’s armies against Ukraine, during the chilling midwinter of December 2022.
Erratum: Russia went to war in February, not December of 2022.