{"id":198573,"date":"2019-11-29T08:35:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T08:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198573"},"modified":"2019-12-01T08:52:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T08:52:06","slug":"iran-china-and-russia-will-send-a-message-to-the-world-with-first-ever-joint-war-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198573","title":{"rendered":"Iran, China and Russia will ‘send a message to the world’ with first ever joint war drills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Stickings \u2013 Mail Online Nov 28, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Iranian Navy vessel fires missile during Velayat 94 drills in Jan 2016. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Iran<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Russia<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and China<\/span><\/strong><\/a> are set to hold their first-ever joint military drills in a show of power to the West.<\/span><\/p>\n

Admiral\u00a0Hussein Khanzadi revealed yesterday that the three navies would hold military exercises in the northern Indian Ocean in the ‘near future’.<\/span><\/p>\n

Design and planning for the drills took place last month and troops are already preparing for the exercise, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The joint operation will ‘send a message to the world’, Khanzadi was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran’s co-operation with Russia and China would ensure ‘collective security’ in the sea, Khanzadi said, after a summer of maritime tensions in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘A joint wargame between several countries, whether on land, at sea or in the air, indicates a remarkable expansion of cooperation,’ he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘[The drills] carry the same message to the world, that these three countries have reached a meaningful strategic point in their relations.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘The wargame seeks to deliver this message to the world that any kind of security at sea must include the interests of all concerned countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘We do not condone the kind of security that only caters to the benefits of one specific country at a specific time and which disregards the security of others.’<\/span><\/p>\n

Khanzadi made the announcement on the country’s Navy Day, which celebrates an Iranian naval success during the Iran-Iraq War in 1980.<\/span><\/p>\n

The naval drills come after a tense summer in which Gulf tankers and Saudi oil facilities were hit by a series of mysterious attacks that the US blamed on Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, Tehran seized a British-flagged vessel in apparent retaliation for the capture of an Iranian tanker off Gibraltar.<\/span><\/p>\n

It sent Middle East tensions escalating alarmingly as both Britain and America beefed up their military presence in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

Experts have warned that a crisis in the critical Strait of Hormuz could endanger the world’s oil supply.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump called off air strikes against Iran at the last minute in June after the Islamic Republic downed a US drown.<\/span><\/p>\n

On top of that,\u00a0Iran has moved ever further away from its nuclear pact with the West in recent months after Donald Trump abandoned the deal last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last month\u00a0the head of Iran’s nuclear programme announced that the country was now running 60 banned\u00a0IR-6 centrifuges, twice as many as before.<\/span><\/p>\n

The centrifuges can enrich uranium 10 times faster than the first-generation technology which Iran is permitted under the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition,\u00a0President Hassan Rouhani said Tehran would start injecting uranium gas into more than 1,000 centrifuges at a secretive plant in another violation of the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Experts fear the technology could allow Iran to produce nuclear weapons within less than a year if it chose to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington last year reimposed sanctions against Iran which had been suspended under the agreement, crippling Iran’s economy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran has pleaded for help from Europe to dodge the sanctions but efforts by Britain, France and Germany have largely proved unsuccessful.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tehran has retaliated with a series of provocative steps to tear up the nuclear deal in the hope of forcing Europe to help.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran has denied ever seeking nuclear weapons, insisting its atomic programme is for entirely peaceful purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a clear signal to Washington, the navies of Iran, China and Russia will hold joint drills in the Indian Ocean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,51,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-Iran","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198592,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198573\/revisions\/198592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}