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Conflicting reports on Iranian warships' mission
Two warships that Iran sent last week to the Mediterranean, arrived in the Syrian port of Tartus for a mission of "training" with the Syrian navy, reported Monday an Iranian TV channel. These two ships, the destroyer Naghdi and tanker Kharg , "should participate training with Syrian navy under the agreement [of military cooperation] " between Tehran and Damascus, said the report. It gave no details on the nature of this "training" .However, Egyptian security sources and members of the Syrian opposition are claiming that the two ships docked off the Syrian coast are equipped with "military communications jamming devices that are disrupting communications made by the Syrian opposition via satellite," the London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported Monday. Posted by: Pappy 2012-02-21 |
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