[caption id="attachment_153996" align="alignright" width="207"] Iranian Navy's 33rd flotilla of warships leaves Indonesian port for India[/caption]

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's 33rd fleet of warships left the port city of Tanjung Priok, Indonesia, for Indian coastal waters on Tuesday morning.

The Iranian Navy's 33rd flotilla of warships, comprised of martyr vice-admiral Naqdi destroyer and Bandar Abbas logistic warship, berthed in Tanjung Priok on Friday morning.


The flotilla which left the port city of Colombo in Sri Lanka's territorial waters on February 10 towards Indonesia in the Southern hemisphere.



The Iranian flotilla has several missions, including cadet training, and Commodore Ahmadi Kermanshahi said that the Navy cadets are undergoing practical training during the several-thousand-kilometer-long voyage.
The Iranian Navy's 24th and 28th fleet of warships had also earlier docked in Sri Lanka.


The 33rd fleet of warships left Bandar Abbas port in Southern Iran for the Gulf of Aden late last month to protect the country's cargo ships and oil tankers against pirates.


The Iranian Navy's 32nd flotilla of warships ended its mission in the Gulf of Aden, and returned home mid January after thwarting 5 pirate attacks on the country's oil tankers and cargo ships.


The 32nd flotilla, consisting of Jamaran and Bushehr destroyers, returned to Iran after 80 days of missions in the Sea of Oman, North of the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Aden, Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Red Sea.


The Iranian Navy has been conducting anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden since November 2008, when Somali raiders hijacked the Iranian-chartered cargo ship, MV Delight, off the coast of Yemen.


According to UN Security Council resolutions, different countries can send their warships to the Gulf of Aden and coastal waters of Somalia against the pirates and even with prior notice to Somali government enter the territorial waters of that country in pursuit of Somali sea pirates.


The Gulf of Aden - which links the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea - is an important energy corridor, particularly because Persian Gulf oil is shipped to the West via the Suez Canal.


By Fars News Agency