{"id":259033,"date":"2022-09-23T06:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T06:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259033"},"modified":"2022-09-24T07:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T07:25:58","slug":"russia-iran-china-to-hold-joint-navy-drills-in-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259033","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Iran, China to Hold Joint Navy Drills in Indian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Patrick Sykes \u2013 Bloomberg Sept 22, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Iran, Russia and China will hold joint naval exercises in the northern Indian Ocean \u201cthis autumn,\u201d Iran\u2019s semi-official Mehr news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Other countries including Oman and Pakistan may also join the drills, Mehr cited Iranian Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri as saying, without giving further details.<\/p>\n<p>The northern Indian Ocean extends to the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for the export of oil to world markets.<\/p>\n<p>The three nations started joint exercises in December 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irna.ir\/subject\/83610068\/%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4-%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%AA%D8%B1%DA%A9-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%DA%86%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%88-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%87\">according<\/a> to Iranian state media, to deal with unspecified \u201cthreats in the region.\u201d China\u2019s military spokesman at the time described the exercises as a \u201cnormal military exchange.\u201d The most recent round was in January.<\/p>\n<p>They have also expanded diplomatic and economic relations as Iran remains under sweeping US sanctions over its nuclear program, and Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has severed much of Moscow\u2019s trade with Western nations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-09-22\/russia-iran-china-to-hold-joint-navy-drills-in-indian-ocean\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A military alliance between Russia, China and Iran is beginning to take shape<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":199979,"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-259033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-Iran","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259033","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=259033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259034,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259033\/revisions\/259034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}