Alwaght- Iranian navy dispatched a flotilla of its warships to protect commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden.
The flotilla includes Alvand destroyer and Bushehr logistic warship and will be in waters off the southern Yemeni coasts on its new mission.
The Iranian navy vessels will continue on their mission to the waters near Somalia and Tanzania afterwards through the Indian Ocean.
After making a port call in Tanzania, the 44th fleet will sail along the eastern coasts of Africa if the weather holds out, and is scheduled to sail even for the western coasts of South Africa, in the South Atlantic Ocean.
The presence of the Iranian fleet in the Gulf of Aden coincides with the US decision to directly get involved in a Saudi-led war against Yemen.
On Thursday, the US military launched cruise missile strikes to destroy coastal radar sites in Yemen in retaliation for an alleged missile attacks on a US Navy destroyer.
The Pentagon announced late on Wednesday that it struck and destroyed three radar sites controlled by the Ansarullah resistance movement in Yemen. The sites were described as being involved in two missile attacks over the past four days on the destroyer USS Mason, operating out of the Bab al-Mandeb waterway between Yemen and east Africa.
