Iran begins joint naval exercise with Russia in Indian Ocean

India will also join the defense maneuver, according to the Iranian navy.
A handout picture provided by the Iranian Army's official website on September 11, 2020, shows an Iranian Nasr missile being fired from a navy warship during the second day of a military exercise in the Gulf, near the strategic strait of Hormuz in southern Iran. - The Iranian navy began on September 10 a three-day exercise in the Sea of Oman near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, deploying an array of warships, drones and missiles. One of the exercise's objectives is to devise "tactical offensive and defensiv
A handout picture provided by the Iranian army's official website on Sept. 11, 2020, shows an Iranian Nasr missile being fired from a navy warship during the second day of a military exercise in the Gulf, near the strategic Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran. - Iranian Army office/AFP via Getty Images
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The Iranian military began a naval drill with Indian and Russian forces on Tuesday.

Iran sent a vessel each from the Islamic Republic of Iran navy and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the exercise. A Russian flotilla including a small warship and a refueling ship joined them in Iranian waters off the coast of Chabahar in southeast Iran, the state-run Press TV reported.

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