(Irna)Tehran, March 17, IRNA – The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Navy sent Wednesday a vessel (the 7th one) to the Gulf of Aden to fight pirates and protect the country’s shipping lines from piracy. A number of Iran’s Navy commanders as well as country’s officials were in the southern Iranian region of Bandar-Abbas to attend the event. The Gulf of Aden is located in the Arabian Sea between Yemen on the south coast of the Arabian Peninsula and Somaliland in the Horn of Africa. In the northwest, it connects with the Red Sea through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, which is about 20 miles wide.
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