The accidental sinking or capsizing of two other Iranian ships over the past decade—the Damavand in 2018 and the Talayieh in 2021—indicates serious deficiencies in the Iranian Navy.

In another embarrassing incident for Iran's Navy, the frigate Sahand capsized on Sunday before completely sinking on Tuesday in the shallow waters of the port of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.

The head of Iran's Navy, Shahram Irani, was quoted in Iranian media on Dec. 2 saying that the Alborz was carrying out missions in the Red Sea. Iran's Defence Minister, Mohammad Reza Ashtiani ...

The arrival of the Iranian vessel, the frigate Alborz, in the Red Sea comes amid ... such as missiles and drones, US Navy helicopters on Sunday fired on and destroyed three Houthi attack boats ...

The Iranian navy's Moudge-class frigate the Sahand was under repairs at a dock in Bandar Abbas, on Iran's south coast, when the incident took place, according to the state-run Islamic Republic ...

On January 1, the Alborz frigate went through the critical Bab el-Mandeb Strait into the Red Sea. The Iranian Navy has dispatched the Alvand destroyer to the Red Sea as part of a flotilla that ...

The IRIS Alborz, pride of the Iranian navy, isn’t much of a warship. Commissioned in 1971, the frigate is both long in tooth and lacking in teeth: Decades of sanctions have obliged Iran to jerry ...

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The Sahand is the most recent ship to carry that name for the Iranian navy. The previous Sahand was sunk by the US Navy in 1988 during Operation Praying Mantis, which launched after a US frigate ...

An Iranian Navy frigate sank two days after capsizing in port. The latest incident suggests a lack of training and a design flaw with the Iran-built ship. Iran's Navy is losing clout and budget to ...

The head of Iran's Navy, Shahram Irani, was quoted in Iranian media on Dec. 2 saying that the Alborz was carrying out missions in the Red Sea. Iran's Defence Minister, Mohammad Reza Ashtiani ...