{"id":18145,"date":"2019-12-30T05:59:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T05:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=18145"},"modified":"2019-12-30T05:59:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T05:59:16","slug":"navy-commander-us-tops-list-of-naval-threats-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/navy-commander-us-tops-list-of-naval-threats-against-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Commander: US Tops List of Naval Threats against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ntDesc\">TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi blasted the US forces\u2019 presence in the regional waterways, and said that the recent joint naval drills were conducted for preparing to confront such potential threats.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ntText\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\u201cAll three countries of Iran, China, and Russia, which are major naval powers, have common threats and enemies, and the recent drill was a serious rallying against the threats that each of these countries could possibly face at sea,\u201d the Iranian Navy commander said in a televised interview on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">He reiterated that the US is on top of the list of threats facing these three countries, and said, \u201cThe US, by meddling in the regional countries\u2019 affairs, is definitely our priority. They will for sure be expelled from various naval zones of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">On Friday, Iran, Russia, and China kicked off a four-day joint naval drill dubbed the \u2018Marine Security Belt\u2019 in an area of 17,000 square kilometers which consists of various tactical exercises,&#8221; such as target practicing and rescuing ships from assault and incidents such as fires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The naval drills, the first of their kind, aim to secure international trade routes in strategic waterways and boost preparedness among participants against piracy and marine terrorism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The three countries have sent some of their most advanced vessels to take part in the exercises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi blasted the US forces\u2019 presence in the regional waterways, and said that the recent joint naval drills were conducted for preparing to confront such potential threats. \u201cAll three countries of Iran, China, and Russia, which are major naval powers, have common threats and enemies, and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18147,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145\/revisions\/18147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}