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Iran, Russia and China will hold joint naval drills off the Iranian coast this week to boost cooperation, Iranian media reported on March 9.
According to the Tasnim News Agency, the drills “will begin on Tuesday [March 11] in the port of Chabahar”, located in southeast Iran on the Gulf of Oman.
“Warships and combat and support vessels of the Chinese and Russian naval forces, as well as the warships of Iran’s naval forces of the army and the Revolutionary Guards”, the ideological arm of Iran’s military, are expected to participate, the semi-official news agency said.
The exercises will take place “in the northern Indian Ocean” and aim to “strengthen security in the region, and expand multilateral cooperation between participating countries”, it added.
Azerbaijan, South Africa, Oman, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Qatar, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Sri Lanka will attend the Iranian-Russian-Chinese drills as observers.
The Chinese Defense Ministry announced that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy will be sending a destroyer and a replenishment ship to the drills.
The drills will feature training courses including maritime target strike, VBSS [visit, board, search, and seizure], damage control as well as joint search and rescue operations, according to a statement from the ministry.
According to the statement, the drills are meant to deepen military mutual trust and pragmatic cooperation among the participating countries’ troops.
The upcoming drills, dubbed Security Belt-2025, will be the fifth Iranian-Russian-Chinese joint naval exercise in the Middle East since 2019.
The drills come amid heightened tensions between Iran and the United States. The administration of President Donlad Trump has already stepped up pressure on Tehran. In addition, the Israeli threat to the Islamic Republic has never been higher.
Iran, Russia and China all share a common desire to counter what they characterise as American hegemony in the Middle East and the rest of the world.
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putler and assad wanted syrian reconciliation. tulsi knows that with al-qaeda there can be no never reconciliation. china and iran should boycott military exercises.
another of my alias–in amerikunt cesspool my mental illness result frequent tantrums at south front
اطلقت القوات الامنية بمحافظة الانبار اليوم الاحد، تحذيراتها بعد رصد تجمعات مريبة لأعداد كبيرة من مجاميع عصابات الجولاني الارهابية استقرت بالقرب من الشريط الحدودي غربي الانبار .
why does israel want the world to be diverse when they are the least diverse?
نية المجاميع الارهابية القيام بعمليات اجرامية”.
واضاف ان” اقتراب المجاميع الارهابية من مناطق الشريط الحدودي مع سورية من جهة البو كمال يتطلب اعادة تقييم الوضع الامني لإحباط
d-i-v-e-r-s-i-t-y does not apply for the talmudic master race. that’s just for the stupid goyim, especially white countries. then when those societies start to fall apart through mass immigration, shlomo bankrolls clowns like wilders and “tommy robinson” to stir up hate against moslems and deflect attention from zionist genocide and ethnic cleansing.
divide and conquer eh ! it doesn’t work america tried it uk copied it and those three nations publicly announced they are not falling for western propaganda.
عصابات الجولاني تحشد عناصرها قرب الشريط الحدودي مع العراق
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المعلومة/ الانبار ..
is that news in the times of israel ??
the israeli divide and destroy policy is on full display . syria and all other boarders .
is denmark invited…
i am more interested in whether china and russia are really not ashamed of the treason committed by russia? all of this has elements of genocide based on religion. is it really so easy for the russians to throw away the people who fought with them against isis? won’t it be right for the chechens to split chechnya away from russia and turn it into somalia 2? the betrayal of syria is paid for with innocent blood and i all the blame on putin and assad.
مخطط ارهابي تديره قوات التحالف الدولي بقيادة امريكا باستخدام ورقة داعش الارهابي لتحقيق مآرب باتت معروفة لدى الجميع”، مبينا ان”
distract, divert, deceive. is russia committing massacres in syria? no, it’s the west’s/ israel’s pet cannibal head choppers and throat slitters, created, armed, bankrolled, and orchestrated by the uk/ us/ zio regime/ erdogan/ gulf dictatorships. don’t look here – look over there. syria used to be a diverse society where all faiths and communities could live in peace. no more – thanks to the regime change brigade.
وفي تصريح لوكالة / المعلومة/ ، قال مصدر امني ان ” اقتراب مجاميع عصابات الجولاني وتحشيد عناصره في منطقة البو كمال السورية القريبة من منفذ القائم الحدودي مع سوريا غربي الانبار ، امر مقلق وخطير خشية ان يكون هذا التوجه يحمل في طياته مخطط يهدف الى
tulsi gabbard knows there is no reconciliation with al qaeda. iran and china should boycott naval exercises. syria gets new cash shipment from russia in sign of warming ties
the assad regime began paying russia to print its currency under a multi-million dollar contract agreed during the country’s 13-year civil war.
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06 march, 2025
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you are as transparent as a sheet of glass. cancel naval exercises to serve ihe interests of the jewsa.
syria received a new shipment of its local currency printed in russia on wednesday with more consignments expected in the future, a syrian government official said, in a new sign of improving ties between moscow and syria’s new rulers.
the cash arrived via plane at damascus airport on wednesday and was taken by a convoy of several trucks to the central bank, according to a separate source familiar with the matter.
sounds like the suitcases of cash israel gave to hamas in gaza to de-throne the palestianian authority ?
syria began paying russia to print its currency under a multi-million dollar contract during the 13-year-old syrian civil war, after damascus’ previous contract with a subsidiary of the austrian central bank was terminated due to european sanctions.
it is unclear if the arrangement is now continuing under the same terms. one source familiar with the contract said it was.
russia backed syrian autocrat bashar al-assad during the war, swaying the conflict with its bombardment of rebels including the islamist group hayat tahrir al-sham that ousted assad in a lightning offensive last year.
but russia quickly moved to maintain its ties with damascus in the weeks after assad fled to moscow, with an eye on keeping its two key bases in the country’s coastal region.
a senior russian diplomat visited damascus in january and syrian president ahmed sharaa held a phone call with russian president vladimir putin on 12 february.
two days later, syria received its first shipment of local currency from russia.
the cash shipments are critical: syria’s war-ravaged economy has slid further in the past months amid a shortage of currency that syrian officials have attributed in part to delays in the russian cash shipments, as well as to hoarding of syrian pounds.
i agree the sanctions on syria caused great suffering to the syrian people . but can cash recover an economy that hes been destroyed ? band aids .
iran and china would have to cancel their participation in the naval drills. let turkey and qatar participate, which have been supporting wahhabism terrorism since gaddafi’s death and mubarak’s imprisonment. the massive floods in libya in september 2023 and the ban of gaddafi’s son to run for president revealed all the dimensions of turkish malice.russians will pay for everything and karelia will be finland again.
why does israel want the world to be diverse when they are the least diverse? double standards?
oh golly!… gee whiz!… another set of navy “drills” while damascus and kursk still burn?… where are your boots china in kursk, securing donetsk and in damascus???
inform about the kursk victory and not some cucumber news, intel slava z is only place telling about it but they dont tell so much yet.
putin and assad betrayed the syrian people and the people who defended the country from isis. the rat is the fairer of the two, the showcase doll has more emotions than these two… can we even call such a thing a man? i hope a french nuclear bomb finds them somewhere in rusland
just more sh** talk serving zio interests. the arrogance and mendacity of your kind is beyond belief. the proxy head chopper savages were trained by western special forces. not russia. the raf, usaf, zio air forces provided air support for this scum – not russia.
hezbollah sacrifice its life for fellow brother but were betrayed and nasrallah killed by israel.were did israel get that information.china never likes arab or muslim.
why the arab muslum comment ? a hasbara talking point ?
progozin were shoot out from sky during ukraine war no investigations.rather wagner were immediately disband and destroy.heroes that won the battle of bakmut.iran were sold s300 turkeys400 that putin.
i always thought people’s liberation army navy was very wordy sounding. why not just call it the people’s liberation navy?
syria benefitted so greatly from having russia & iran as “allies”…heheheh…
they did for nearly 10 years till december. they were protected from the zionist barbarism of your kind for that period.
the brics alliance begins joint drills . once the us had many allies . but it traded for allies like blackrock , aipac , mossad and mi6 . many dc think tanks can’t comprehend the change . the old typical play book is to call the military and spend more . enemies of all .
they’re doing these games while al nusra terrorist monsters are massacring thousands of civilians in western syria!? also sf, can you ban that spammer “mia” please? it’s cluttering up the comment section with it’s degeneracy.